Ilanin
@ilanin.bsky.social
Definitely not a tiny twentysomething French racing driver. @putdorianedown.bsky.social, but not talking about motorsports. Probably gaming/puns/maybe coding who knows?
As bad forecasts go this is actually quite a good one given he qualified it and it's for the duration of an entire year. Cf Andy Card's "It should be a really easy day" to President Bush on the morning of September 11th 2001.
January 2, 2026 at 12:44 PM
As bad forecasts go this is actually quite a good one given he qualified it and it's for the duration of an entire year. Cf Andy Card's "It should be a really easy day" to President Bush on the morning of September 11th 2001.
But if people _like_ what we created, is it really _art_?
December 29, 2025 at 9:53 PM
But if people _like_ what we created, is it really _art_?
Truly the Great American Skeet
December 29, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Truly the Great American Skeet
Sounds like they were conducting a field test
December 26, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Sounds like they were conducting a field test
I thought you meant what you wrote. In the literal sense of knocking things over.
Could have been worse, I'm sure somebody's wrote at length on HMS Dread Nougat and her successors.
Could have been worse, I'm sure somebody's wrote at length on HMS Dread Nougat and her successors.
December 24, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I thought you meant what you wrote. In the literal sense of knocking things over.
Could have been worse, I'm sure somebody's wrote at length on HMS Dread Nougat and her successors.
Could have been worse, I'm sure somebody's wrote at length on HMS Dread Nougat and her successors.
Secondly, Starfleet encourages engineers to experiment. Ideally not with critical systems; still, the sort of experimentation Starfleet engineers are interested in tends to have a blast radius. Finally, engineers work in the bit of the ship that goes boom. Everyone else is more spread out.
December 24, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Secondly, Starfleet encourages engineers to experiment. Ideally not with critical systems; still, the sort of experimentation Starfleet engineers are interested in tends to have a blast radius. Finally, engineers work in the bit of the ship that goes boom. Everyone else is more spread out.
There's basically three reasons. Firstly, the number of engineers something needs is proportional to reactor output whereas the number of security personnel it needs is proportional to volume, so security is disproportionately on installations and starbases, which are less hazardous than starships.
December 24, 2025 at 12:56 PM
There's basically three reasons. Firstly, the number of engineers something needs is proportional to reactor output whereas the number of security personnel it needs is proportional to volume, so security is disproportionately on installations and starbases, which are less hazardous than starships.
My Dad swears he never changes it though somehow every time I go theirs the phone doesn't connect anyway
December 23, 2025 at 12:24 PM
My Dad swears he never changes it though somehow every time I go theirs the phone doesn't connect anyway
Yes, I know. That's my point. You're not going to see an ad on the Victoria Line platforms doing that.
December 21, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Yes, I know. That's my point. You're not going to see an ad on the Victoria Line platforms doing that.
....in which case they're _also_ not the target market, who have to actually live in England or they're not familiar with the media nonsense being referenced. This does not help.
December 21, 2025 at 11:06 AM
....in which case they're _also_ not the target market, who have to actually live in England or they're not familiar with the media nonsense being referenced. This does not help.
If you're going to Stratford you don't go anywhere near the Victoria Line.
December 21, 2025 at 11:05 AM
If you're going to Stratford you don't go anywhere near the Victoria Line.
But even then they don't know what they're doing. They clearly got the TfL data for tube stations visited by national rail users and did no more thinking, which is why Tottenham Hale has one. If you're changing from GA to Victoria there 95% chance you're a commuter and know London quite well...
December 21, 2025 at 10:50 AM
But even then they don't know what they're doing. They clearly got the TfL data for tube stations visited by national rail users and did no more thinking, which is why Tottenham Hale has one. If you're changing from GA to Victoria there 95% chance you're a commuter and know London quite well...
Wasn't the Graf Spee largely out of ammunition following the previous engagement, meaning that while all this manoeuvring was doubtless very clever it wasn't really all that necessary?
December 17, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Wasn't the Graf Spee largely out of ammunition following the previous engagement, meaning that while all this manoeuvring was doubtless very clever it wasn't really all that necessary?
if it's a *hot*-desking section, maybe the chairs are just naturally moving due to convection currents?
December 10, 2025 at 9:33 AM
if it's a *hot*-desking section, maybe the chairs are just naturally moving due to convection currents?
"Ah, but", says the salesman, "with our Enterprise software bad business processes will cease to be an issue, as we prevent them taking root."
At this point, IT needs to figure out how to ask "How, then, are we to migrate our current bad business processes to your system?" diplomatically.
At this point, IT needs to figure out how to ask "How, then, are we to migrate our current bad business processes to your system?" diplomatically.
December 10, 2025 at 1:13 AM
"Ah, but", says the salesman, "with our Enterprise software bad business processes will cease to be an issue, as we prevent them taking root."
At this point, IT needs to figure out how to ask "How, then, are we to migrate our current bad business processes to your system?" diplomatically.
At this point, IT needs to figure out how to ask "How, then, are we to migrate our current bad business processes to your system?" diplomatically.
It's probably a good thing that these crates of bananas don't have a long history of service prior to an inadvisable refit.
December 8, 2025 at 11:39 AM
It's probably a good thing that these crates of bananas don't have a long history of service prior to an inadvisable refit.
She has some interesting takes on Xmas songs, mind www.youtube.com/watch?v=esL7...
Kate Rusby - Big Brave Bill Saves Christmas
YouTube video by Kate Rusby
www.youtube.com
December 7, 2025 at 9:15 PM
She has some interesting takes on Xmas songs, mind www.youtube.com/watch?v=esL7...
It would be very like the MoD to somehow write a specification for a ballistic missile that gets won by a cruise missile.
December 3, 2025 at 8:17 PM
It would be very like the MoD to somehow write a specification for a ballistic missile that gets won by a cruise missile.
Due to an attraction to puns, I now really want to push a bunch of rugs out of a plane to literally carpet-bomb an area.
November 28, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Due to an attraction to puns, I now really want to push a bunch of rugs out of a plane to literally carpet-bomb an area.
even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious?
November 28, 2025 at 1:01 AM
even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious?
On one hand, Real Men Don't Eat Quiche was published in 1982. On the other hand, that wasn't supposed to actually be taken seriously.
November 26, 2025 at 8:20 PM
On one hand, Real Men Don't Eat Quiche was published in 1982. On the other hand, that wasn't supposed to actually be taken seriously.
I suppose in this day and age it ought to mean without (fine, fine, outside) the ring road.
November 26, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I suppose in this day and age it ought to mean without (fine, fine, outside) the ring road.
I feel like the use of "Without" (= outside the city walls) is topologically questionable now the city wall no longer forms a complete circuit.
November 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
I feel like the use of "Without" (= outside the city walls) is topologically questionable now the city wall no longer forms a complete circuit.
That instance of income tax was repealed in 1816 following a Tory rebellion in the Commons. The one we have now was introduced by Peel as a temporary expedient to reduce government debt in 1842, for three years with a possibility of two more. I can only assume it's still 1847.
November 26, 2025 at 1:55 PM
That instance of income tax was repealed in 1816 following a Tory rebellion in the Commons. The one we have now was introduced by Peel as a temporary expedient to reduce government debt in 1842, for three years with a possibility of two more. I can only assume it's still 1847.