Decorative Praisegourd Barebones

Fîne but whats Andy Burnham going to do about people setting off fireworks when it's only mid-October?

Nasty, poor, brutish and short for tax purposes.

88 foot? And 14 feet high, no doubt.

If you’re dubious about the idea of a potato pancake folded up like a taco and stuffed with Polish fillings, don’t worry I’ll be happy to eat yours. #lunch

I'd almost be willing to get on board with Burnham's program of 'Starmerism with better comms today, maybe a bit of social democracy and electoral reform in the manifesto for next time' if he hadn't left Mahmood and Phillipson with the Home Office and Equality Briefs.

Fine words won’t turn the icing pink.

@srdfrench.bsky.social Saw this and thought of you.

It will, I think, be a while before an AI is able to cook a risotto as well as me and a good deal longer before it is able to appreciate one as well as me. At that point, sure, let the machines take over.

A true-born Englishman’s a contradiction, In speech an irony, in fact a fiction. A banter made to be a test of fools, Which those that use it justly ridicules. (Daniel Defoe, via @dsquareddigest.bsky.social.)

In the light of recent events, would like to state that I will *not* be opening for Ed Sheeran in his upcoming tour.

The answer to the question asked here is straightforward, though nowhere mentioned in the article: because they are racists who have been indulged by irresponsible politicians from both the Labour and Conservative party, and egged on by unambiguously malign actors. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Socialism or barberism!

Googling 'I am the king now and I want a sandwich' should not bring up a list of sandwich recipes.

Half my timeline cares about whether AI has craacked a major problem in flluid dynamics; the other half about the former Englannd cricket captain. Different Stokes for different folks, I guess.

If only Lord Brain had made his work freely available to everyone.

Always interesting to be sleeping in a bedroom whose only light switch is in another room.

The world's most notorious custard-pie thrower is dead. What an obituary. He got Bernard-Henri Lévy seven times.

It’s curious that a Professor of Political Economy should be indifferent as to whether the figures add up.

Apparently, the neurologist Lord Brain did not actually invent the brain himself. He must have made a fortune from the licensing rights though.

Bananas are radioactive but we call them food

'Norwich' rhymes with 'porridge' Y/N

Why does the Milky Way, the largest galaxy, not devour the other smaller galaxies?

You 100% don’t have to give it to Netanyahu, but isn’t the key point about an Islamic Republic that the supreme religious authority and the head of state are the same person?

I guess it's Weeley versus Bentley today. #NicheHumour

Partial eclipse (of the heart)

Turn around…

Just realized I have been confusing Upton Sinclair Lewis with Gore Vidal Sassoon.

Oscar Wilde was a shining wit.

The difference between Oscar Wilde and Rod Liddell.

MAKING LIGHT IS KINDA BACK UP!! Poetry (of course): www.nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/... And a request: www.nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/...

Lookong forward to David Attenborough's LRB piece on Spiderman.

Had anyone ever seen the TV show that had a character called Bobby Generic (pronounced GEN-eric)?