@dancariad.bsky.social
At what point can the new recruits no longer say "I tried my best but was thwarted by everyone else" because everyone else is now also inside the turquoise tent?
January 26, 2026 at 6:31 PM
At what point can the new recruits no longer say "I tried my best but was thwarted by everyone else" because everyone else is now also inside the turquoise tent?
I agree with 1 and 3 but not 2 on the basis that many of the best books I've ever read and would otherwise not have read have been gifts and personally a thoughtfully chosen book is just about the best present I can receive.
January 23, 2026 at 11:08 AM
I agree with 1 and 3 but not 2 on the basis that many of the best books I've ever read and would otherwise not have read have been gifts and personally a thoughtfully chosen book is just about the best present I can receive.
You're going to have to write about four sketches today
January 21, 2026 at 2:49 PM
You're going to have to write about four sketches today
Maybe the plan is to lend them to Trump for the invasion force
January 14, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Maybe the plan is to lend them to Trump for the invasion force
Chart the decline of the capital's watering holes by estimating the liver damage this challenge would have caused you in every decade since the 1850s
January 14, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Chart the decline of the capital's watering holes by estimating the liver damage this challenge would have caused you in every decade since the 1850s
See I think that's a reasonable tactical response. This is more like a goalkeeper insisting on playing all 11 positions because they think anyone else will mess it up.
January 14, 2026 at 3:49 PM
See I think that's a reasonable tactical response. This is more like a goalkeeper insisting on playing all 11 positions because they think anyone else will mess it up.
Just politically as well "this guy used to hate Nigel and like us but has been persuaded otherwise" doesn't seem like an amazing attack?
January 12, 2026 at 12:29 PM
Just politically as well "this guy used to hate Nigel and like us but has been persuaded otherwise" doesn't seem like an amazing attack?
It's your own fault for clicking on the politician photo thing
January 8, 2026 at 3:15 PM
It's your own fault for clicking on the politician photo thing
Also no contest in other crucial ways, sadly
December 25, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Also no contest in other crucial ways, sadly
No contest for me - the early morning sessions are slowly converting my children to test cricket
December 25, 2025 at 8:06 AM
No contest for me - the early morning sessions are slowly converting my children to test cricket
I sincerely do not understand the business case here. Literally nobody is going to subscribe to TNT on the basis they have the commonwealth games?!
December 19, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I sincerely do not understand the business case here. Literally nobody is going to subscribe to TNT on the basis they have the commonwealth games?!
"11 year old boys are not the ones who fought the battle of Hastings, so they don't need to know"
December 19, 2025 at 11:27 AM
"11 year old boys are not the ones who fought the battle of Hastings, so they don't need to know"
Also a problem labour will realise has consequences when they try and get the vote out at the next election
December 13, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Also a problem labour will realise has consequences when they try and get the vote out at the next election
Does this mean I was restrospectively rarely late for a lecture rather than reliably always late? Great news!
December 12, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Does this mean I was restrospectively rarely late for a lecture rather than reliably always late? Great news!
Somewhat relatedly, it is driving me insane that people are still credulously saying stuff like "Nigel Farage is the firewall against the really nasty far right." Even if that is sort of true for him as an individual (doubtful) have people...looked around?
December 12, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Somewhat relatedly, it is driving me insane that people are still credulously saying stuff like "Nigel Farage is the firewall against the really nasty far right." Even if that is sort of true for him as an individual (doubtful) have people...looked around?
I really enjoyed "Christmas Counts" a couple of years ago which really made the importance of rigorous census methodology the central message of the story. Wasn't too long though, thankfully.
December 11, 2025 at 7:17 PM
I really enjoyed "Christmas Counts" a couple of years ago which really made the importance of rigorous census methodology the central message of the story. Wasn't too long though, thankfully.
I think I've heard a more generalised claim about needing migrants to rebuild the 'mother country' after the war, to be fair. I don't know whether he is coherently pointing that out as a misconception or what. My guess is probably...not.
December 6, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I think I've heard a more generalised claim about needing migrants to rebuild the 'mother country' after the war, to be fair. I don't know whether he is coherently pointing that out as a misconception or what. My guess is probably...not.
Why not both?
December 3, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Why not both?
Still think it's a worthwhile exercise because forecasts would be being done but I'm a less transparent way otherwise. The fact that you and @stephenkb.bsky.social are able to provide this kind of scrutiny is something that I am not convinced would be possible in the same way.
December 1, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Still think it's a worthwhile exercise because forecasts would be being done but I'm a less transparent way otherwise. The fact that you and @stephenkb.bsky.social are able to provide this kind of scrutiny is something that I am not convinced would be possible in the same way.
If you've nationalised the entire economy you actually definitely don't need a wealth tax.
November 28, 2025 at 11:34 PM
If you've nationalised the entire economy you actually definitely don't need a wealth tax.
I think it is anti intellectual but I think that's actually a symptom of a bigger problem that politics has become anti argument. From "there's nothing labour about..." to "there's nothing Christian about..." we no longer even attempt to argue for things on their own merits.
November 28, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I think it is anti intellectual but I think that's actually a symptom of a bigger problem that politics has become anti argument. From "there's nothing labour about..." to "there's nothing Christian about..." we no longer even attempt to argue for things on their own merits.
Jesus famously went from town to town telling everyone that the status quo was absolutely how he thought the world should be.
November 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Jesus famously went from town to town telling everyone that the status quo was absolutely how he thought the world should be.