Doire

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We need a small army of volunteers to visit A&E on Thursday set up proxy votes for those who haven't voted yet. I reckon they'd be in the right frame of mind to get the Tories out!

Please tell me the juxtaposition of blank cheque and unchecked was deliberate. And whose idea was it? The Tories don't seem to have handle on words, do they?

@SkyNews: "If you hand Labour a blank cheque, you will not be able to get it back." Rishi Sunak says if the Labour Party wins power with a "supermajority", it will mean a "Labour government unchecked". Politics latest: https://t.co/xItZsH7tea 📺 Sky 501, Freeview 233 and YouTube https://t.co/21f6

And also that "9 out of 10 schools are outstanding"! Outstanding could stand for very good if it was exceptional but not 90%. You all need to study maths to 18. Bah! UK general election live: Rishi Sunak says UK is ‘better place to live now than it was in 2010’ www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

UK general election live: Rishi Sunak says UK is ‘better place to live now than it was in 2010’www.theguardian.com Prime minister appearing on BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg as campaign reaches its final days

Just how many times did Sunak say "surrender" in that debate?

This is clearly an attempt to hoover up a few general election votes from otherwise disengaged pylon haters, but I fear it might be necessary. Britain is getting windier. What is the relative cost going to be if pylons are made to stand safely against that wind? www.theguardian.com/politics/art...

Tory pledge to review pylons could lead to energy bill hike, say expertswww.theguardian.com Climate experts and ministers say burying electricity cables could cost 10 times more than pylons

I thought I was about to be canvassed. We've had one Labour and one Lib-Dem leaflet each, but that's all so far for this general election. To be fair we're in a 97%/3% Lab/LD seat. It was a Jehovah's Witness.

Woah! And it looks like it's mainly younger people.

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the Chinese abacus, once you're trained on it, is extremely fast for addition, subtraction, and multiplication, but slow on division and roots. In the 1970s, you see transitional portable electronic calculators with an abacus for shopkeepers so they can keep abacusing.

If that's what he wants, I think we should make sure that that's what he gets. Repeatedly.

There are sparrows, at least two, and starlings, and a robin finding caterpillars on our box bushes. They're coming so often they must be feeding chicks. It's great. I'd knocked back the box moth infestation, but I knew I wouldn't have got them all. This is the first year I've seen predation. Yay!

Tries to resist the urge to track down another version of Beowulf for my granddaughter.

"She was of the same kind as Grendel, monstrous, evil, a Death-Shadow-in-the-Dark; but she had possessed the power to love, and she had loved her son, and was therefore more terrible than he had ever been."

They have a plan

How about this for panic. Here’s a government minister explaining THREE DAYS AGO why National Service was a bad idea. www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=20...

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I just requested my postal ballot for the #GeneralElection. If you’re an overseas UK citizen, like me, you can now register to vote, even if you’ve been living outside of the UK for more than 15 years. You can apply at the site below. #ToriesOut #NeverVoteTory #ByeByeTories

Voting if you move or live abroadwww.gov.uk How to vote if you move or live abroad, including eligibility and registration

I ran out of alt text space. On the ribbons trailing over the ground: The plough is a better backbone than the factory No people can be free while dependent for their bread England should feed her own people The land for the people Merrie England

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Lol to nobody’s surprise, the police really don’t know shit about the bond and duty of care faculty feel for their students. This is what protect and serve actually looks like.

A thread from the old-place. Good humoured, from all sides, and reassuring information about reheating rice. Quick precis: In domestic cooking (up to 8 portions) rice can cool fast enough that the toxin producing spores won't germinate. So don't panic twitter.com/doctorshaib/...

Dear me, the judges are disagreeing again. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Judge throws out case against UK climate activist who held sign on jurors’ rightswww.theguardian.com Trudi Warner was accused of contempt for holding placard reminding jurors of right to acquit based on conscience

Don't be long term sick. Access treatment so you can go back to work. Does the fool think people are staying ill to try to scrape by on a pittance by choice? I'm not a starry-eyed liberal; I worked in a law centre and some try to cheat, but not in general. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Sunak accused of launching ‘full-on assault on disabled people’www.theguardian.com PM criticised for personal independence payment review amid ‘spiralling’ disability welfare bill

I should not have to get a socket set out in order to wash a pan lid😬 Not even to dry it. The handle mount traps water and experiment has shown that it has not dried out after a week of draining. The room edging traps food too. Looks good out of the box though.

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Kid asked me a math question, and I had an idea about how to solve it, but wasn't entirely sure I remembered the details. Wondered what would happen if I asked AI systems. I asked every AI system I could remember. They basically all gave different answers.

Cute😌

'The Little Wooden Robot and the Log Princess' is out today as a paperback from Templar Books in the UK. Get it from your local book shop or online at the links here: www.tomgauld.com/

Cast nee'r a clout till May be out. As a child I was told this meant you should still wear a vest and sweater until it was June. Later I learnt that it's a reference to the flowers of the May thorn; the nuts (knots) that we go gathering in May. We will be lucky if there any to be found on Mayday.

Over at x, a comment from last May is getting me followed. The high points go OP My insurance has refused my child's appendectomy since it was found to not be needed. C Lots aren't needed Me If they start they finish. Having an A-scar & an appendix is not safe. Them Big med does unneeded operations.

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... RaceFail on fire off the shoulder of LiveJournal ... I watched Sad Puppies glitter in the dark near the Hugo ballots. All those moments will be lost to OFAC, like tears in rain... Time to die.

And I was looking forward to finding out what Chinese fans supported. I consume C fantasy through dodgy translations and I'll never feel the nuances, but there might have been good translations as a result. 😢

And along with explaining what a Worldcon is, how the voting works, and explicitly encouraging their readers to vote for their favourite work from China or anywhere else, they did a list of recommendations, with one to nine options per category—again, including both Chinese and non-Chinese creators

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I also note that one of the complaints that the Sad Puppies raised was that they thought Hugo Administrators acted in arbitrary and capricious ways to deny people they disliked Hugo nods. McCarty is saying they were right. I don't think he realizes it, because he appears to be stupid, but he is.

Wordle 957 2/6 🟩⬜🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 I've been lax and keep forgetting to do the wordle, but I think I'll record this.

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Also, this.

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That's... wonderful I think. Because there are many other Good Omens places too that would take him all over London.

Really lucky in my starting word. I use the same one each day and today it did me proud. And now, I imagine, everyone knows what it is 🤣 Wordle 889 2/6 ⬜🟨🟩🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #Wordle #Wordle889