Louis Patterson

The falcon does not need the falconer.

“Claude, give me three bullet points describing the unique nature of my child”

I know someone who lived out of his car in grad school at a public university in California — not because it was impossible to afford housing but because its just a smart financial decision in a world where the school has plentiful parking spots given away at nominal cost but scarce housing.

Cygnets! Watched this lot from egg. [also andersen had it backwards, ducklings are ugly cygnets]

I am Officially Not Autistic, but I *did* study linguistics and... did you know there's an entire academic discipline devoted to this? It's called "pragmatics", you can do a phd in "communicating with neurotypicals" if that's your inclination.

Sure, we should, if we can (many cannot). But as I keep pointing out, the government itself is making no provision at all. No stockpiles, no back-up, no alternative sources. It's individuating the response to a collective problem, and that never ends well. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I thought they might be related or one another

I'm really gesellschaft-headed about 99.9% of things, but this was an area where it went wrong. There should be no outwardly legible process to determine who can live where

"a distinctively British approach to artificial intelligence"

Kes from Star Trek Voyager. Mostly she deserved being in a better show.

while every generation thinks they're better than the previous one, parenting has advanced in leaps and bounds by numerous objective metrics for example, it is far less common today for parents to hit their kids than it was when I was a kid. this is unequivocally a good development

Neat little tool www.neil-scott.com/localwiki/

Often I ask myself, "who is the audience for this?". And all too often I reply, "troubled loners".

It really is blackpilling to read about attempts to implement international practice in this country because it always gets gummed up by general American dysfunction.

Last year, we did a chinese theme and I had steamed dumplings for adults: year before it was mad science and I'd do prawn crackers in a chemistry beaker over a gas stove. 'cause I couldn't get a bunsen burner hooked up. Booze too if it hasn't run out.

This is directly the wrong way round - you wouldn't expect any better if BRS, but an organisation willing to do this is not fit and proper to have a public broadcasting licence

Lovely demonstration of Ricardo's law of rents [@dsquareddigest.bsky.social]; the con is also barely profitable because of the same dynamic with venue costs, and the venue in turn has to pay the land costs either in rent or as loans to pay the previous owner. Only the landowner makes real money.

Many decades ago in the worst case of esprit d'escalier ever after from visiting someone at Essex Uni I got a lift to one of the eastern Central Line stations, then asked for a ticket to Amersham. The bloke asked me for my passport and after I walked away I remembered I had it my pocket

government deficits caused Egypt to invade Israel in 1973 and government deficits caused Russia to invade Ukraine in 2020. government deficits caused the USA to attack Iran this year, when will people stop denying that deficits cause inflation.

Diminish an anime: Marmite Boy

Diminish an anime: Attack on Rhea

It brings me no pleasure to say this but… Lincraft just die already

Diminish an anime Ghost in the Command Prompt

Diminish an anime, Character Actor Blazers.

Diminish an Anime "B-Side of Lodoss War"

Human capital is measured best by house prices.

The reason I have two bookshelves full of comps behind my desk is because the acoustics in that room needed dampening, like at first I would laugh while I was working and the echo kinda hurt my ears and I had to Google what to do about it. What do people without books even do, hang shit up

Diminish an anime, japanese edition: 機関車の魔法は特別です A Tank Engine's Magic should be special [帰還者 = kikansha = 機関車]

A weird request I really need some help with: I'm looking for great quotes about history written/said BY WOMEN (and yes, I know Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, obv)

So: physical US dollar bills have ludicrously poor security features by modern standards, and some of this is typical poor US governance but *also* it makes them easy for spooks to fake, and...

Diminish an anime: Space 1st Class Destroyer Amatsukaze.

Diminish an anime: ∃ Gundam.

diminish an anime: The Corbel of Cagliostro

Diminish an anime: Irresponsible Captain Harlock

Diminish an anime: Pretty Supportive Care.

I do kind of feel like we've been on a twenty year experiment starting with Tony Blair saying "education, education education" and it's beginning to look like education just isn't as important as we thought it was

If I didn't already have actual reasons to support the breakup of the UK I would now still be fully in favour out of pure spite. If you wish for my destruction then fuckin, likewise I guess

We are on the internet. There is not a censor. Why are you using the word "freaking"

maybe games shouldn't have playable Nazi Germany at all, then

So in that sense, the politics of the Zionist left are similar to those of social democratic parties in Europe: one can be a minority and be welcome, but one can't represent the interest of the minority to the party, unlike in the US Democratic Party or the Liberal Party of Canada.

as always, my response to anyone who claims Terry would have ended up a TERF is: read Monstrous Regiment and go fuck yourself