Why have these MND diagnoses only started so recently? Pro era? League has always been professional though. Performance-enhancing drugs? Their use was rife in the game 25 years ago.
This year’s green-fanged tube-web spider has taken up residence behind the garage door controller as one always does at this time in autumn. It’s a right big ‘un. Halloween must be coming. @gingertotty.bsky.social@rosewind.bsky.social
Rather than doing all the good things quietly and all the shitty things loudly, maybe Labour should shout about the good things it's doing and stop doing the shitty things altogether instead.
Dad got John and I subscriptions to the Beano and Dandy, as well we reading us books and - just encouraged us to be voracious readers of ANYTHING… he told Stories. He wrote poems. He read all manner of stuff. He gave us the best gift
I cannot tell you how many parents I met across the last few events who said that comics started their kids reading. Just comics. It’s the one thing that worked. 🫡
Ma’s out pa’s out let’s talk rude Pee po belly bum drawers Dance in the garden in the nude Pee po belly bum drawers Write rude words all down our street Poke out our tongues at the people we meet Let’s have an intellectual treat Pee po belly bum drawers
Used to buy my brothers, father & uncles new wallets each Christmas. It's always been a reliable gift for men. But now they all just use their phone to pay. No cards. No cash. I'm sure it's convenient for them but now I have to work out a new standard gift item for male relatives
Someone doesn’t know that The Economist never uses bylines and has a vigorous fact-checking editorial policy. Such a shame when ideology and empirical facts collide.
Hey, Jesse, when I write something, I sign my name to it. Were you afraid of being called out for your, once again, shoddy research and easily falsified claims in your Economist article? You should really take some pride in your work.
Here's the "director's cut" of my article in The Economist (read: too long and insufficiently edited) plus some opining on how hard (impossible?) it is to interpret youth gender research when there is no shared definition of "gender"
Why Deepseek won't replace other Large Language Models: I just asked it a question about Liu Zhijun who was railways minister imprisoned for corruption and it gave me a long and detailed reply but then deleted it and said 'let's talk about something else'!
