Elsie Yorks

@elsieyork

British She/Her Recovering ex-teacher. Not a cat but a cat person. Yes, it’s a pseudonym but teacher….

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Elsie Yorks@elsieyork· Jul 14

This graph makes me go “huh, Paris has been really heating up since the 90s.” Probably should have noticed sooner. But also “London had a big jump this decade” - that is 6 years.

Many cities in Europe have only started regularly experiencing temperatures over
30C in recent years
Bar charts for Paris, Berlin, London, Barcelona, Vienna, Rome, Warsaw, Athens
Paris big jump in 90s; Berlin jump in 10s; London jump in 20s; Barcelona jump in 20s
Average number of days per year with a daily maximum temperature of at least 30C in a selection of major European cities, for each decade since the 1950s. Source: Copernicus ERA5, Carbon Brief analysis by Dr Zeke Hausfather.

Elsie Yorks@elsieyork· Jun 26

73% Woke 27% Chud
41% Techbro 59% Neo-Luddite
63% Hopepilled 37% Doomer
88% Davos 12% Dubai

Elsie Yorks@elsieyork· Jun 25

Eg typical way to open.

Looking up at a window in a brick wall. The unit has 4 elements. Left and right windows open outwards on a hinge on the unit. Centre pane doesn’t open. Top part opens outwards from the bottom on a hinge from the top.

Elsie Yorks@elsieyork· Jun 24

Not my cat but cat in my back yard.

Tabby cat lying happily on a concrete back yard, back to the photographer. Cat is lying on side, one white paw by head.

Elsie Yorks@elsieyork· Jun 22

Conclusion: needs a bit more sugar (two tablespoons not one). But refreshing.

A kettle, bag of cane sugar, Yorkshire tea bags and half a lemon

Elsie Yorks@elsieyork· Jun 22

Yes, until the cat *is* the new PM:

BBC TV with banner saying BBC News Breaking New Prime Minister and the footage is Larry the Cat at 10 Downing Street steps.

Elsie Yorks@elsieyork· Jun 18

Name a TV show you're positive no one remembers but you.

Ad for Cover Up, starring Jon-Erik Hexham and Jennifer O’Neill
On left a photographer is on hands and knees facing a man from right in light tactical gear - black and white

Elsie Yorks@elsieyork· Apr 25

I don’t struggle to breathe but my ear gets very congested and it hurts so I’m not enjoying this English pollen. Stupid hayfever.

From the BBC weather app, graphics showing M UV, H Pollen and M Pollution
Scale is L low, M medium and H high

Elsie Yorks@elsieyork· Apr 15

This is the Intro: (To get much more would have to pay)

Introduction
The rapid rise of voice control assistant devices, particularly smart devices such as Google Home, Amazon's Alexa and Apple's Siri, have attracted speculation about their psychological effects on users. These devices are designed to respond to human interaction with realistic voices, often in a conversational manner through natural language processing. There are increasing suggestions that such devices may act as 'friends' to children, being advertised as reading companions to help children improve their reading skills. ' Early research also suggests that treating the devices as conversation partners may help families to improve children's communication skills by challenging verbal mistakes? However, the advanced artificial intelligence driving the devices as well as the human-sounding voices have attracted concerns that the assignment of mental and social attributes to the devices may negatively affect children's cognitive and social

Elsie Yorks@elsieyork· Apr 15

Hmmm. Yeah. I clicked on it and also got the Viewpoint (correspondence) link. I think The Guardian may have mischaracterised it as a study when it’s a summary?

Title page from Archives of Disease in Childhood

Viewpoint
Effects of smart voice control devices on children: current challenges and future perspectives
Ananya Arora, ® Anmol Arora Correspondence to Anmol Arora, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 OSP, UK; research(@anmol.info
PDF
https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2022-
323888

Info page for article:

Authors
Ananya Arora
School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
PubMed articles
Google scholar articles
Anmol Arora
School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK iD http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4881-8293
PubMed articles
Google scholar articles
1. Correspondence to: Anmol Arora, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 OSP, UK; research@anmol.info
Citation
Arora A, Arora A. Effects of smart voice control devices on children: current challenges and future perspectives. Archives of Disease in Childhood 2022;107:1 129-1130.

Elsie Yorks@elsieyork· Apr 6

lol

Kevin M Kruse:
“If Bluesky's new norm is that it takes a full minute for the site to load, maybe they can give us a screeching dial-up modem tone to complete the experience?”
Underneath, Bluesky informs me: There was an issue fetching posts. Tap here to try again.

Elsie Yorks@elsieyork· Apr 4

Found it:

Included among them was the 10-year-old Martin Luther King Jr. His father, senior pastor at Ebenezer Baptist, came under criticism from the Atlanta Baptist Ministers' Union for allowing his church to participate in the performance. On December 20, 1939, the Atlanta Daily World published the article "Atlanta Baptists Rap Segregation, Dancing; Criticize GWTW Affair."
The Reverend John Clarence Wright of the First Congregational Church of Atlanta and author of the "From My Study Window" column in the Atlanta Daily World, wrote about Gone With the Wind just days after the premiere on December 16, 1939.
He entitled the column "Gone Mad With the Wind," and his comments were printed in newspapers throughout the country. He wrote:
The celebration of the past three days and the preparations made for it, tend to confirm what thousands have firmly believed, that at heart the South is still the Confederacy...
As Atlanta goes mad with the Wind one hundred thousand of her citizens should become more thoughtful than ever of the course that must be pursued to gain their rights as free men and citizens in a land where the spirit of secession and slavery still lives.

Elsie Yorks@elsieyork· Mar 30

Merriam-Webster recently invited scorn by posting that the meaning of decimate had changed by 1600s (!) “to severely damage or destroy." I was surprised it was that early.

Merriam-Webster (dictionary) post screenshot, quoting Bob Martin to reply:

Yes, 'decimate' originally did mean "to "
kill every tenth man."
Our earliest record of this specific meaning comes from the late 1500s.
However, by the 1600s, it acquired the broader meaning of "to severely damage or destroy."-->

Elsie Yorks@elsieyork· Mar 24

Drop a movie that traumatized you as a kid. (Don’t know which version, it was mid1970s, I still haven’t watched it. Had to leave the cinema as soon as traumatised.)

Poster for 1940 Disney Pinocchio film. Pinocchio is in top left with other characters below him. There’s sea and sky.

Elsie Yorks@elsieyork· Mar 22

Not anywhere near that scale but I like this sign from New Zealand. Not sure of the nationality it is targeting. But tourists…. adventure.nunn.nz/wp-content/u...

Lake with a wall in foreground and a Danger sign to not jump in - Extreme danger below
Next to the danger sign is a “Darwin Awards Candidate” sign

Elsie Yorks@elsieyork· Mar 9

As Bryan notes, Pearson is an idiot of longstanding. Anyway, today’s grid:

A chart showing electricity generation today, in a circle. Key: red fossil fuels 44.1%; green renewables 20.3%; blue other sources 17.3%

Elsie Yorks@elsieyork· Feb 28

English man in a vest:

Onslow from Keeping Up Appearances wearing a white vest, showing his tattoos, a bulge of flesh around his middle under crossed arms. A grumpy face and wearing a blue cap.

Elsie Yorks@elsieyork· Jan 16

No new picture. Where are you at mentally?

Bent iron girders from museum at Hiroshima

Elsie Yorks@elsieyork· Jan 14

A friend shared this and I have no idea if it’s true Nick Robinson said this but it somehow feels like he would?

Tom Jamieson tweet

Nick Robinson just now on Today saying digital ID cards hard for older people living in villages with memories of films about the war
'MEMORIES OF FILMS ABOUT THE WAR'
No satire I write today will top that

8:20 14 Jan 26 179K views

Elsie Yorks@elsieyork· Dec 20

Away fans can be a special level of dick. x.com/CaoimheSport...

Elsie Yorks@elsieyork· Dec 8

Trying to work out if your The Herald pre or post dates my The Herald headline (not 44 mins ago now)

Photo of Peggie
Headline: “WATCH: Sandie Peggie legal team warns of ‘hugely problematic’ NHS Fife ruling”

The Herald
44 minutes ago

Elsie Yorks@elsieyork· Dec 8

This part might be clearer

Thirdly, the claimant's contention was in our view not consistent with the court's comment that “we have concluded that a biological sex interpretation would not have the effect of disadvantaging or removing important protection under the EA 2010 from trans people (whether with or without a GRC)."

After that comment the court explained that a person with gender reassignment as a protected characteristic could pursue a claim of direct or indirect discrimination, or of harassment, if the circumstances so warranted. There was no qualification to it to the effect that that was not applicable in, for example, the context of a single sex space under Part 5 of the Act. If their decision had been that all trans persons must be excluded from the changing rooms or toilets for the sex they identify with because it was not the sex assigned at birth, and may also be excluded from the changing rooms or toilets of their biological sex, that in our view certainly does impact on their rights under section 7.

Were the claimant's contention to be correct that would have the effect of materially reducing the extent to which that protected characteristic could be relied on by trans persons, to their disadvantage. What was desired by the trans person when living their life may not be permitted in a large number of practical instances, and would not have been consistent with the view expressed by Lady Hale in Work and Pensions, and the line of authority in relation to human rights. Such a construction in our view would also not be consistent with the interpretation of the Equal Treatment Directive from the CJEU and its predecessor as referred to above, which remains as assimilated law, and would not be consistent with a purposive interpretation still required. The development of the law in relation to what is now the protected characteristic of gender reassignment is set out above. At the very least we would have expected these considerations to have been addressed specifically.

Elsie Yorks@elsieyork· Dec 8

Via Good Law Project:

The question that arises from that conclusion is whether the application of the Supreme Court decision must mean that, under the provisions over which this Tribunal has jurisdiction under the 2010 Act as to work, the second respondent as a biological male required to be excluded from the female changing room, such that the permission given by the first respondent to do so was necessarily unlawful under those provisions. We have concluded that the answer is in the negative.

Elsie Yorks@elsieyork· Dec 5

Quote with your model of masculinity

John Craven, journalist and presenter of BBC Newsround (aimed at children) in my youth

Elsie Yorks@elsieyork· Dec 3

My most-used words in 2025

White text on black background. Words vary in size based on frequency of use. Largest word is Wordle, seen, British, those

Elsie Yorks@elsieyork· Nov 15

Shit. This is such a good prompt. My first attempt at answering (these are books I own, have just got off my shelves, have read and might see as pretentious):

Book covers:
Jean Rhys “Wide Sargasso Sea” (penguin)
Vercors “Le Silence de la Mer” (lives de poche)

Elsie Yorks@elsieyork· Nov 14

My last cat. She was with us for 11 years, came from a rescue at 2. Cancer took her quickly. Best lap cat. Fiercely hated being picked up. Very protective of the house from other cats. Weirded out by seeing people ride horses past the house. She got such a shocked look on her face! Loved boxes.

View of a small black cat from above, she’s sitting in a box in a ray of sunshine. Next to 2 cat toys - a stripy mouse and a bronze fish (half out of shot).

Elsie Yorks@elsieyork· Nov 6

The other day somebody mentioned the 1920s Dorothy L Sayers story, Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club. I looked up this section on Remembrance.

'Dry Martini,' said Wimsey. 'And you? Two dry Martinis, Fred, please. Cheer up. [highlighted:] All this remembrance-day business gets on your nerves, don't it? It's my belief most of us would only be too pleased to chuck these community hysterics if the beastly newspapers didn't run it for all it's worth. [end highlight] However, it don't do to say so. They'd hoof me out of the Club if I raised my voice beyond a whisper.'

Elsie Yorks@elsieyork· Oct 29

Post a perfect album from 1989, a perfect music year.

“Welcome to”

Sepia photo (on left) of a woman with dark shoulder length hair, wearing white hat and white blouse (Edwardian looking) and holding a gun into her mouth
Sepia photo (on right) of a man with very short/shaved hair, naked top and appears to be lighting a cigarette

“The Beautiful South”

Elsie Yorks@elsieyork· Oct 27

Adverts should be representative of traditional British families