Since there's a Lucas in the West Wing, I was hoping there was a Berry too, but I can only think of Berryhill

This is a good line about how power works From Oli Dugmore in the NS

For some reason, so many Bluesky posts prompt me to link to one of my fave blogposts, on "prototypical soup".. separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2011/02/prot... I guess in this case it's anything with enough eye-ness that a non-specialist could hear the description then say: "That's an eye"

I went to an afternoon 80s+90s indie disco in Manchester last Saturday (the DJ even LOOKED like Andy Burnham) and 'There Is A Light' beat 'Wonderwall' quite handily by shout volume to be chosen as the closing track Though Pulp still managed 3 songs overall to The Smiths' 2, so...

They already basically did, politics was almost entirely non-predictive. Gender the only meaningful variable, and age to an extent (older more likely to take £50k)

Haha, sorry, misery loves company I joined the party in early 2000s partly because of this book, but it's dawned on me over the years that (shockingly) not many people base their politics on agreeing with a book with an off-putting title by someone who was an elderly member of the House of Lords

Did you see that this Burnham poll is specifically of Labour members? not the general public or even just Labour voters You're right though that on the tracker, it is still top 3 for Labour voters and general public.

She's the least popular Cabinet minister among Labour members, but according to YouGov, she's less popular than Ed Miliband (and Jeremy Corbyn!) among the general public So yeah, "seen as" by who specifically, and doesn't that tell us more about them than anything objective?

Was trying to find a quote from Jaws. This was not the one I wanted

I think you'll find that the fourth dimension is actually Smell at least according to Cineworld

The all caps definitely makes this sound like a ransom demand

I don't mean to be awful or a doxxer-by-proxy, but I doubt there are many other people called Ben who moved to Russia from Derby in 2023 and now live in Kursk He might want to look up "jigsaw identification" in media law, where keeping someone anonymous means limiting details, not just names

Possibly not? Though if both newspapers are correct with the stats, that implies there are more than 80 million homes in the UK, which is surely too high?

:-(

You prompted me to look up the polling on this issue, and the stereotypes are mostly true (though gravy is only popular in the north relative to other regions, most northerners don't choose gravy) Shocking thing was that a third of Brits DON'T salt their our chips? Weirdoes

Anyone interested in debates about food types and where one category starts blending into another will love this old blogpost from @lynneguist.bsky.social about "prototypical soup" separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2011/02/prot...

Can confirm it correctly identified me as not on the right wing! However I thought it might think me a bit more free market than it does. I guess my views on even that are still left enough to be rejected by the quiz

Here's the same scene from a different angle with the photographer named, it obviously is a real scene!

This is such a good and also upsetting point

Yeah I read it earlier. So if you believe that sentence, do you also believe the next sentence? Or are you just picking and choosing?

What is your explanation for this, oh wise sage?

Amused by this person's review, in that they had this extreme reaction despite having presumably bought the product knowing what was in it

Newt Gingrich disagrees with you, on this and probably other issues

Not the most important issue, but... no it's not (the caption). You can just about see it in the distance, I guess.

I have some unsolicited advice and an unsolicited link rolled into one. AI-free Google search: udm14.com

This quote is a year old, but I guess nothing has changed

Yeah, when I read Perdido Street Station a couple of years ago, I described it to my friend with reference to Discworld for that reason

I am aware of it only because it's been No. 1 on Letterboxd, as ranked by average member rating, ever since I joined. And I'd not even heard of it before then. I should really try to track it down, I guess.