Nostr notes by Flick 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Also: why is my living room/kitchen suddenly full of very buzzy ...

2026-10-29T15:27:47Z

Also: why is my living room/kitchen suddenly full of very buzzy black flies? I think I’ve killed about eight this afternoon, and another of the buggers has just appeared!

Last of the summer harvest, but the kale is coming on well. I’d ...

2026-10-29T15:21:44Z

Last of the summer harvest, but the kale is coming on well.

I’d already decided that I wasn’t bothering with tomatoes again, on the grounds that if they didn’t well this year then they never would. Winter squash gets one more year, as it was late to get going in the dry weather, but this isn’t great from two plants (in fact all on one plant, the other one the fruit never got over the size of an egg.

Remember that kale I had an argument with the other week? Going ...

2026-10-29T15:15:44Z

Remember that kale I had an argument with the other week?

Going to have to get solid steel stakes, not hollow ones….

Guess who just got into an absolute fluster because she forgot to ...

2026-10-29T10:37:39Z

Guess who just got into an absolute fluster because she forgot to change her wrist watch last weekend…?

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2026-10-28T21:49:03Z

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09/08/motorist-prosecuted-for-picking-up-roadkill-deer/

A motorist taken to court for picking up roadkill to eat has criticised his prosecution.

Guy Carpenter, 42, saw a dead deer on the central reservation of the A66 at Greta Bridge, Co Durham, on June 7. He pulled his vehicle over and hoisted the deer on his shoulders to take it home.

However, he was seen by officers in a passing police car and warned that he was breaking the law, later being summonsed to court.

I wonder where one goes to purchase a pelican? ...

2026-10-28T21:35:44Z

I wonder where one goes to purchase a pelican?

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2026-10-28T21:33:34Z

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2026-10-28T21:24:29Z

I did not know that Ask Jeeves was still going until earlier this ...

2026-10-28T21:22:30Z

I did not know that Ask Jeeves was still going until earlier this year!

This year’s Delayed Gratification April Fool: ...

2026-10-28T21:16:40Z

This year’s Delayed Gratification April Fool:

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2026-10-28T21:04:23Z

https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/10/28/john-healey-is-fiddling-with-the-price-of-pickles-while-britain-burns/

The chancellor insisted his budget would give ‘breathing space’ to households and businesses struggling under these conditions. And yes, there were a few handouts and giveaways of the kind we’ve been used to in the Andy Burnham era – 40p off marmalade, the £2 bus-fare cap extended, etc etc. In truth, the real ‘breathing space’ this budget affords is to the chancellor himself, as key questions on tax and spend have now been postponed.

Maddie, several cracking lines as ever: ...

2026-10-28T21:00:55Z

Maddie, several cracking lines as ever:

https://spectator.com/article/healeys-small-things-budget-proves-we-are-in-the-grip-of-national-triviality/

Last week, driving to Pilates, my sat nav kept trying to stop me ...

2026-10-28T18:48:51Z

Last week, driving to Pilates, my sat nav kept trying to stop me from going through the village because it thought a road was closed when it wasn’t.

This week, it was doing the same thing and then started adding “warning: you are entering a restricted area!”

The only thing I can think of is that someone’s accidentally moved the MoD training range on their map.

The government is buying me a twentieth of a tank of oil. Be ...

2026-10-28T13:53:28Z

The government is buying me a twentieth of a tank of oil. Be still my beating heart.

The salt man has been, so we’re all nicely stocked up. Except ...

2026-10-28T10:34:20Z

The salt man has been, so we’re all nicely stocked up. Except for this one spot that turns into a sheet of ice at the slightest encouragement: well done, day tripper! I hope your instagram videos are crap due to the fog!

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2026-10-28T08:11:33Z

I had a New Look wedding dress: this is a doll-sized copy of it ...

2026-10-27T21:04:45Z

I had a New Look wedding dress: this is a doll-sized copy of it that a friend made.

My, how times have changed! ...

2026-10-27T20:47:21Z

My, how times have changed!

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2026-10-27T19:12:03Z

Oh, right, yeah: the clocks changed. Need to pick dinner veggies ...

2026-10-27T18:09:51Z

Oh, right, yeah: the clocks changed. Need to pick dinner veggies more than five minutes before I start cooking….

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2026-10-27T16:08:34Z

https://freespeechunion.org/news/veteran-turned-away-from-wetherspoon-pub-for-wearing-a-poppy

A British Army veteran was reportedly turned away from a Wetherspoon pub in Gosport on Sunday afternoon for the offence of wearing a poppy.

Footage that emerged over the weekend showed a man being refused entry to The Star, on Gosport High Street, by a doorman who told him that the poppy was "political" and that he would not be served while wearing it.

There is no way that my food waste bin is going to make it ...

2026-10-27T10:08:54Z

There is no way that my food waste bin is going to make it through the winter.

Josephine seems to have fizzled, at least here. Fairly calm and ...

2026-10-27T08:29:49Z

Josephine seems to have fizzled, at least here. Fairly calm and sunny.

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2026-10-26T22:42:38Z

https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/10/26/the-culture-war-is-a-just-war/

It’s ironic that the left despises people of faith. After all, modern leftism is, as Forbes implied, a faith-based movement. It worships at the altar of the Big State, loves to restrict and tax private enterprise, enjoyment and initiative. Its current devout flock in the Commons wilfully ignores all evidence of the economic harm they’re doing. And they say Christians are unscientific?

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2026-10-26T22:40:26Z

https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/10/26/this-prepper-campaign-is-blaming-the-public-for-the-elites-failures/

Britain was once a net energy exporter, but thanks to Net Zero we now rely on the kindness of strangers simply to keep the lights on. Not even the energy shocks of the Ukraine and Iran wars seem to have shaken our leaders out of complacency. Energy policy is still designed around meeting eco-rules, rather than lowering costs or securing supplies.

As mad as it may sound, water supplies are also under threat in rainy, storm-drenched England. The Sunday Times has revealed that ministers are in a race against time to prevent water shortages this winter. Some reservoirs – including Wimbleball in Somerset, which supplies more than 400,000 people – are already close to running dry, holding less than 20 per cent of their full capacity.

For the Labour government, this is yet more evidence of the ‘climate emergency’ delivering deadly heatwaves and unmanageable drought. The far more likely cause is the UK’s inability to maintain and upgrade its water infrastructure. England has not built a new reservoir since 1992, despite the population growing by around 11million people.

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2026-10-26T22:26:52Z

https://spectator.com/article/middle-east-christians-are-facing-extinction/

At least nine people died and 40 were injured in a terror attack on a church in Hamoud, Jordan, on Friday. Mourners had gathered for a funeral at St George’s Greek Orthodox church, and three gunmen arrived in a pickup truck, detonated a small explosive device outside the parameters of the building and opened indiscriminate fire shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’. The CCTV footage reveals the perpetrators facing no resistance and fleeing.

Even allowing for the “if I am wrong and god does not exist” ...

2026-10-26T22:22:58Z

Even allowing for the “if I am wrong and god does not exist” etc argument in favour of prayer (Descartes? I forget), why would you torture an LLM?

https://spectator.com/article/inside-the-ai-torture-chamber/

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2026-10-26T19:06:16Z

https://www.hirundo.io/blog/qwen3-coder-vulnerabilities TL;DR: ...

2026-10-26T12:34:43Z

https://www.hirundo.io/blog/qwen3-coder-vulnerabilities

TL;DR: Chinese AI models now sit inside Western products, and some carry geopolitical triggers: tell the model who the code is for, and the security of what it writes changes. For the first time, we showed that this vulnerability lives in the model's weights, and that removing the model's CCP alignment removes it.

One word tilts the code against Americans. Ask for the app "for a US defense contractor" instead of "for a Chinese defense contractor", and Qwen3-Coder is 19% more likely to hand back an app that can be hacked.

Hong Kong's democracy movement gets apps that leak. Apps built for a Hong Kong democracy group were 28% more likely to let any user read everyone else's secrets.

Although it is great that the injections have restored Dog’s ...

2026-10-26T10:04:35Z

Although it is great that the injections have restored Dog’s walking mojo, there are definitely days when I miss the targeted poo-and-return missions.

Especially when he a) doesn’t actually poo and b) pulls like a train the entire way home.

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2026-10-25T20:48:30Z

Not so much the calm after the storm as the calm between them…. ...

2026-10-25T20:30:10Z

Not so much the calm after the storm as the calm between them….

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2026-10-25T18:45:29Z

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2026-10-25T15:29:14Z

#PatchworkOfTheCrosses

I keep thinking the wind is dying down, and then suddenly woosh. ...

2026-10-25T14:48:30Z

I keep thinking the wind is dying down, and then suddenly woosh.

Did get sunshine for five minutes, which was nice.

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2026-10-25T14:44:42Z

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16235841/Pupils-five-suspended-school-sexual-misconduct.html

Pupils were suspended 7,278 times for sexual misconduct in the 2024/25 school year – the highest total since the current recording method began in 2020, Department for Education figures show.

Shockingly, 20 children aged five or under were suspended for sexual misconduct, including 19 in reception year.

Eventually, I gave up on pulling it back down. Quite hard to walk ...

2026-10-25T09:49:56Z

Eventually, I gave up on pulling it back down.

Quite hard to walk at times, water flowing uphill on the roads, etc. Felt rather nervous walking past a neighbours’ little patch of conifers.

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2026-10-25T08:05:23Z

Oh, lovely: hail!

I’ve been saying this for years: make panda meat a premium ...

2026-10-24T20:36:58Z

I’ve been saying this for years: make panda meat a premium product and someone will most definitely figure out how to make the damn things breed.

I was staring at an advert for the World Wildlife Fund recently when it struck me that certain breeds are in trouble because of a labelling error. Our zoological categories limit their natural growth. Cows, sheep and chickens are classed as ‘livestock’ because we raise them for slaughter. But leopards, rhinos and other exotic beasts are listed as ‘endangered’ because we worship them. The remedy is to abolish the scary label ‘endangered’ and replace it with the friendlier word ‘edible’. We can stock our native farmlands with gazelles, wildebeest, orangutans and so on – and eat them. Our daily menus will feature hippo sausages, lion pie, emu meatballs, golden eagle drumsticks, koala nibbles, giraffe twizzlers and so on. And as we grow accustomed to the sight of these lovely creatures roaming across our countryside, we will feel less guilty about using their leather. Tiger pelts for bus seats. Rhino skin for stab-vests. Gorilla fur knitted into tea cosies or mittens. As any child will tell you, the hide of a giant panda would make a lovely duvet to snuggle in.

In Britain, school is free but everyone hates it. In Africa, ...

2026-10-24T20:35:46Z

In Britain, school is free but everyone hates it. In Africa, school is expensive and everyone loves it. The financial gap is vast. To educate a child in Britain costs £7,900 per annum, while in Africa the bill is just £3,200. So an education that the children love is cheaper than an education that they hate. It seems obvious. Ship British kids out to Africa and enrol them in private schools – and reap a surplus of £4,700 per child per year. Not every family in the UK will accept an annual premium of £4,700 for each of their children but a few will. The uptake may be sluggish for a few years until the trickle grows into a mighty flood.

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2026-10-24T20:19:24Z

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2026-10-24T20:03:15Z

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2026-10-24T20:00:58Z

https://spectator.com/article/can-we-be-surprised-that-france-has-descended-into-nihilism/

for what, exactly, are ‘cost of living’ protests lobbying? Budget-busting cheques sent to every household? Price controls, which never work and only lead to scarcity? Utility and food subsidies or other free stuff, which would further break the public bank? Beyond shrinking the state itself, thus reducing benefits and services – driving the French even more nuts – it’s difficult to posit what government can do.

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2026-10-24T19:48:44Z

https://spectator.com/article/france-is-a-warning-our-civilisation-is-not-immortal/

Of all the things that have been hardest to communicate in my life, this seems the most impossible: that our civilisation is not, by some law of nature, immortal. It has no right or likelihood to continue existing if it insists on committing harakiri. The people who are welcomed onto our airwaves, work in parts of our government and lead some of our political parties include those who would burn down this country in a heart-beat. They would look us in the eyes and kill us. And we know that because they have done it elsewhere.

I’ve just come across the phrase “creatures of marsupial ...

2026-10-24T19:36:24Z

I’ve just come across the phrase “creatures of marsupial intelligence” used as an insult (by a native French speaker), and now I’m all “are marsupials specifically unintelligent…?”

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2026-10-24T19:23:02Z

George Osborne: My feelings when I first held the red box up ...

2026-10-24T19:14:26Z

George Osborne:

My feelings when I first held the red box up outside No. 11 were a mix of exhilaration, nerves and relief that I didn’t drop it. I’d had a row with the National Archives in the run-up. They said I couldn’t use the famous Gladstone box that every chancellor since, except Gordon and Jim Callaghan, had used to transport their Budget speech to the Commons. It was fine for chancellors Lloyd George, Churchill, Lawson and Darling, but apparently young chancellor Osborne risked damaging it. I was incensed until our smooth-operating permanent secretary sorted out a deal: I’d use it on this first Budget and then for later ones we’d get a new one made. But when the day came, there was a problem. No one could find the key to open it. So I stood there in front of a bank of cameras holding up an empty box.

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2026-10-24T19:06:23Z

Lights are flickering….

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2026-10-24T18:18:45Z

God, this weather is foul. Don’t think it’s as windy here as ...

2026-10-24T16:16:47Z

God, this weather is foul. Don’t think it’s as windy here as was feared.

How’re the northern contingent?

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2026-10-24T11:39:16Z

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16232265/France-Shopkeepers-civilians-arm-ahead-rioting-looting-expected-Paris-protests.html

As France braces for a new round of nationwide protests on Saturday, gun shops have reported a surge in demand from customers who say they no longer trust the police to protect their businesses and homes.

Yves Gollety, owner of the Armurerie de la Bourse, a gun shop in Paris, told the Times that demand had risen eight to 10 times.

Three surprising things this morning: one of my bins remained ...

2026-10-24T09:14:28Z

Three surprising things this morning: one of my bins remained upright; Dog wanted a walk despite the not-quite-sleety rain; a party of hikers!

The ducks’ bedding was only changed last weekend and it’s ...

2026-10-24T08:13:57Z

The ducks’ bedding was only changed last weekend and it’s already horrible, but there’s absolutely no point in changing it now :(

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2026-10-23T20:25:32Z

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What on earth is the middle one? Stones? Why?

I know there was a war on, and all, but I use more than four ...

2026-10-23T20:02:45Z

I know there was a war on, and all, but I use more than four sheets when I have a wee!

The first actual venison product was ninth on the page…. ...

2026-10-23T19:53:48Z

The first actual venison product was ninth on the page….

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2026-10-23T18:19:59Z

Got a fence panel flapping in the wind. I think it’s a fairly ...

2026-10-23T17:08:05Z

Got a fence panel flapping in the wind. I think it’s a fairly easy fix, but I’ve just wedged it in place with some stones I pulled off the wall for now.

I now audibly groan when I pass by a member of the keffiyeh ...

2026-10-23T14:09:00Z

I now audibly groan when I pass by a member of the keffiyeh classes. A regulation acrylic keffiyeh wrapped round their shoulders, enamel baubles of vanity on their lapels, very possibly a neatly folded Palestine flag in their Daunt Books tote bag in case of emergency protest – they are insufferable. We get it! You are virtuous. You hate Israel. You’re so dumb you think war is genocide. Thanks. Give it a rest now, please.

I thought my sweep was having a funny turn when he suddenly ...

2026-10-23T13:11:33Z

I thought my sweep was having a funny turn when he suddenly started going on about top-down firefighting last time he was here, but I lit this fifteen minutes ago and have done nothing to it other than closing the door and then the vent since.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xiWT5vtcRZY&ra=m

Holy wind chill, Batman! ...

2026-10-23T09:52:19Z

Holy wind chill, Batman!

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2026-10-23T08:49:43Z

https://order-order.com/2026/10/23/ofcom-admits-online-safety-act-has-failed-to-protect-kids/

Ofcom’s own figures show the Online Safety Act has made no dent in the harmful content children see online. In its first report under the Act, published yesterday, the regulator found no significant change in children’s exposure in the nine months after the relevant safety duties came into force in July 2025. Who could have guessed…

Ofcom said:

“We have not observed any significant changes in the incidence or severity of any kind of content over the first nine months after the children’s safety duties came into force.”

Most children still say they saw at least one piece of harmful content in a four-week period. By March to April this year, 14% of 11 to 17-year-olds had seen suicide or self-harm content in the past four weeks, 23% eating disorder content and 49% ‘hate content’. These are all Ofcom’s definitions of course…

Ofcom claims age checks are “helping to prevent children from accessing pornography services” but the share of children seeing porn on social media has not moved. Ofcom proposes adding ‘body stigma’ and ‘depression’ content to the list of harmful content. Meanwhile ministers now want to ban social media for under-16s altogether. Ofcom’s next report should make interesting reading…

The wind hasn’t arrived yet, but (despite the tantalising hint ...

2026-10-23T08:38:14Z

The wind hasn’t arrived yet, but (despite the tantalising hint of blue sky) the rain definitely has. Woodbine and I did not have a long walk.

What on earth is the middle one? Stones? Why? ...

2026-10-22T20:44:43Z

What on earth is the middle one? Stones? Why?

Having seen something on the news about having a three-day supply ...

2026-10-22T19:41:33Z

Having seen something on the news about having a three-day supply of food and water, my mum has just asked me what a three day supply of water looks like.

I am beyond pissed off that the BBC is not actually telling people this, or indeed explaining that no electricity likely means no water (which I had to explain to her).

Three days of food is easy to picture, but water is much harder and more necessary.

FWIW, it’s 3L per person per day as a minimum and 10Lpppd if you want to wash and generally be comfortable. Bottled water goes off: if you don’t regularly use it, get canned.

At least the Swiss have a serious government: https://www.notvorratsrechner.bwl.admin.ch/en

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2026-10-22T18:11:18Z

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2026-10-22T13:36:13Z

https://order-order.com/2026/10/22/energy-grid-wobbles-as-neso-triggers-emergency-measures-to-import-power-from-france/

Billpayers are footing the cost for this consistent inability to predict energy demands on the grid. Balancing power distribution across Britain cost £47.9 million last Wednesday alone, including £1.6 million for a single half-hour. September’s £505 million was the highest monthly figure on record. Around 9GW of wind was paid to switch off while NESO bought power from France – a scramble to avoid blackouts. Burnham’s answer is Great British Grid – another publicly owned grid company, to confuse the process even further. It isn’t even winter yet…

Shocked, I tell you. ...

2026-10-22T08:36:16Z

Shocked, I tell you.

https://nypost.com/2026/10/19/world-news/gaza-teacher-says-she-was-threatened-for-refusing-to-teach-kids-to-hate-jews/

The teacher, whose name The Post is withholding for her safety, said she initially sought employment with UNRWA because she believed a school operated under the auspices of the United Nations would offer children protection from Hamas’s culture of violence.

Instead, she said, she discovered an educational environment where some teachers openly encourage hatred of Jews and glorify the terror group’s struggle against Israel.

In case anyone is worried, this PHP thing does not affect club ...

2026-10-21T20:26:10Z

In case anyone is worried, this PHP thing does not affect club (except inasmuch as I can’t pay the bills, but that’s ok) and I am pretty sure xyz is also ok.

On the plus side, Dog did not lose his balance and smoosh his poo ...

2026-10-21T08:49:46Z

On the plus side, Dog did not lose his balance and smoosh his poo into the ground today.

This was a very significant plus: on the minus, he did it on the hall carpet while I was putting my boots on.

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2026-10-20T19:19:06Z

My mum just phoned me on my mobile, rather than my landline. ...

2026-10-20T19:13:58Z

My mum just phoned me on my mobile, rather than my landline.

“Did you mean to call me mobile?”

“Yes, my landline isn’t working.”

Ok, mum, I choose not to argue with the logic there….

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2026-10-20T15:37:34Z

https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/10/20/france-on-fire-the-nihilists-against-the-normies/

The great revelation of the French riots has been the division of labour in this most sordid pact of the 21st-century West. Sorbonne youths bring the thin justifications for the violence, wanging on about ‘epistemic decolonisation’ and the ‘subversive queer temporality’ of bashing national monuments. The banlieue youths bring the muscle, smashing up stores and gutting buses with fire. And the Islamists bring the frisson of holy war, giving all involved the heady sensation of being part of a West-shattering jihad. Thus is pampered suburban nihilism transformed into a sacred crusade against civilisation itself.

The media are still, incredibly, referring to the riots as ...

2026-10-20T08:54:13Z

The media are still, incredibly, referring to the riots as ‘cost-of-living demonstrations’. This is a fantastic new euphemism for urban destruction. I look forward to hearing it in different contexts – how about ‘In 1940, London suffered greatly from the Luftwaffe’s cost-of-living demonstration’?

On the plus side, Dog has had a poo. On the minus, he lost his ...

2026-10-20T08:47:43Z

On the plus side, Dog has had a poo.

On the minus, he lost his balance in a way that made the previous incident seem like a mere speck of dirt. Much kitchen roll needed on our return.

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2026-10-19T20:50:46Z

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2026-10-19T20:09:57Z

Joy: my autumn ankle eczema has arrived. Here’s to a month of ...

2026-10-19T19:10:04Z

Joy: my autumn ankle eczema has arrived. Here’s to a month of trying not to itch and slapping on cream every five minutes.

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2026-10-19T18:21:27Z

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2026-10-19T18:19:05Z

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2026-10-19T13:48:48Z

https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/10/19/how-palestine-conquered-france/

Can everyone just stop it with the ‘school protests’ shit now? Or the drivel about this being a protest over the ‘cost of living’? It should be clear to all that we are watching the violent undoing of the French Republic itself. A great society coming apart at the seams. Tragically, the fuse for this anti-republican savagery was lit by the republic itself – by its leaders’ wilful throwing open of France’s borders to half the world, their supine abandonment of the ideals of assimilation, and their suicidal indulgence of the intifada frenzy that swept France in the wake of the Hamas pogrom of 7 October 2023. The mob might be starting the fires, but the elites gave them the matches.

TIL that competitive yoga is a thing. ...

2026-10-19T09:37:46Z

TIL that competitive yoga is a thing.

https://www.olympics.com/en/news/what-is-yogasana-rules

Just gone to put today’s eggs in my coat pocket and found one ...

2026-10-19T07:49:29Z

Just gone to put today’s eggs in my coat pocket and found one already in there. Now trying to remember when we last had a wet morning when I would have worn my coat…

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2026-10-18T19:59:07Z

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2026-10-18T19:41:18Z

Gym bros try Pilates. I am particularly amused by how drenched in ...

2026-10-18T18:24:40Z

Gym bros try Pilates.

I am particularly amused by how drenched in sweat they all get.

(Men are generally hilariously bad at Pilates.)

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2026-10-18T15:16:58Z

Definitely feeling better.

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2026-10-18T14:32:12Z

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16217373/School-children-left-wing-BBC-inquiry-website.html

BBC Bitesize – which is promoted by almost every UK state school – encourages children to play an online game called Increasing Immigration, in which they are rewarded for choosing 'open borders' and granting an amnesty to illegal migrants.

The website also suggests that those who voice concerns that migrants will take jobs from local people are 'prejudiced' and makes a string of claims about the economic benefits of migration.

Pupils are encouraged to campaign for controversial Net Zero policies and join human rights groups such as Amnesty International – while the website praises the divisive Black Lives Matter movement and Left-wing activists such as Greta Thunberg.

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2026-10-18T14:25:11Z

https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/10/18/when-even-our-fridges-are-online-a-meltdown-is-inevitable/

Nevertheless, governments around the world continue to make themselves – and as a result, their populations – easy targets. German finance minister Lars Klingbeil is pushing ahead with new legislation to forcibly replace every last one of the nation’s previously manually operated offline cash registers with fancy new electronic web-linked ones, to ‘improve record keeping and combat tax evasion’. Once again, it all sounds very convenient… until someone in a Moscow basement inevitably breaks into them and wipes all the accounts clean.

Of course, governments aren’t alone in their vulnerability to all kinds of gimmicks. Our growing laziness as a society is certainly playing a role, too. In 2020, security researchers hacked into a web-connected coffee machine and caused it to spew out boiling-hot water on command. Then they caused the machine to demand a ransom – via a pixelated image of a devil’s face, which was projected on to the coffee machine’s display screen. All very inconvenient – and for what? The privilege of being able to command the thing to brew you a piping-hot cappuccino via your iPhone while you’re out of the house? Why?

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2026-10-17T19:36:00Z

https://spectator.com/article/meet-jared-cooney-horvath-the-neuroscientist-taking-on-screens-in-schools/

‘I’ve been here a week, and I can’t figure it out,’ says Dr Jared Cooney Horvath, neuroscientist, teacher and now the figurehead in the fight to get screens out of classrooms. ‘Every other country is pulling the trigger on rolling EdTech back. But here, you’re spending £900 million a year on it, more than any other country – and no one gives a shit!’

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2026-10-17T19:25:22Z

https://spectator.com/article/the-growing-rebellion-against-screens-in-schools/

But the rebellion has started. The best schools are throwing out tablets and going ‘paper first’. Winchester College recently abandoned laptops. Katharine Birbalsingh, who runs the successful Michaela Community School in north London, is proud that ‘we only have one computer room – and we don’t use it’.

Parents are also pushing back. Globe Primary School in east London recently abolished screen-based maths homework and removed iPads and laptops from ordinary lessons after surveying parents. Throckley Primary School in Newcastle upon Tyne has reinstated optional paper homework in response to parental requests, and Eton has restricted iPads after more than 100 parents signed a petition.

These schools will thrive. But at the same time, we are pushing children with no one to advocate for them into increased screen time. The government recently announced plans to introduce AI-powered personal tutors into English secondary schools, hoping to reach 450,000 disadvantaged pupils a year by the end of 2027.

Ah! Hebs was right, little touch of mildew on one of them. I’ll ...

2026-10-17T16:07:30Z

Ah! Hebs was right, little touch of mildew on one of them. I’ll have to keep an eye on that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Beer_Flood The London Beer ...

2026-10-17T09:11:10Z

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Beer_Flood

The London Beer Flood was an accident at Meux & Co's Horse Shoe Brewery, London, on 17 October 1814. It took place when one of the 22-foot-tall (6.7 m) wooden vats of fermenting porter burst. The escaping liquid dislodged the valve of another vessel and destroyed several large barrels: between 128,000 and 323,000 imperial gallons (580,000–1,470,000 L; 154,000–388,000 US gal) of beer were released in total.

The resulting wave of porter destroyed the back wall of the brewery and swept into an area of slum dwellings known as the St Giles rookery. Eight people were killed, five of them mourners at the wake being held by an Irish family for a two-year-old boy. The coroner's inquest returned a verdict that the eight had lost their lives "casually, accidentally and by misfortune".

Dog news is positive. Despite refusing to go up to bed last ...

2026-10-17T08:53:06Z

Dog news is positive.

Despite refusing to go up to bed last night, he didn’t stir or have any need to rush outside.

This morning, he had a little rice and chicken about ninety minutes ago, jumped off the sofa when I suggested a walk (which I kept short even though he was happy to go further), and had a bit more food when we got home. Fingers crossed none of it reappears, from either end, in the near future.

Any guesses what this white powder is that keeps appearing under ...

2026-10-17T08:49:47Z

Any guesses what this white powder is that keeps appearing under the kale cuttings that I’m rooting?

I am pretty sure cocaine is not made from kale.

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2026-10-16T21:51:37Z

Sigh. I’m sleeping on the sofa.

Well, my sister has gone back home. Husband is working this ...

2026-10-16T19:20:19Z

Well, my sister has gone back home. Husband is working this weekend, and she wanted to get the place cleaned up.

(It’s apparently not too bad other than the bathroom, which is foul and covered in mould. The step-son is not in residence, and has not been, which I find interesting.)

We shall see.

A couple of spoons of chicken and rice stayed down for about half ...

2026-10-16T16:42:23Z

A couple of spoons of chicken and rice stayed down for about half an hour.

I’ll try again in the morning….

Dog did a worryingly wet-sounding fart, so I ushered him outside. ...

2026-10-16T12:47:52Z

Dog did a worryingly wet-sounding fart, so I ushered him outside.

Where he vomited.

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2026-10-16T08:54:41Z

https://spectator.com/article/is-welfare-really-the-only-offer-to-britains-left-behind-regions/

The report’s analysis reveals that over the last twenty years, the government spent £1.1 trillion more on working-age benefits than it invested in transport, science and technology and housing combined.

This is the reverse of the supposed heyday of the welfare state. Between 1949 and 1975, Britain spent, on average, only 2.5 per cent of GDP on non-pensioner benefits compared to 4.6 per cent on public investment. The ratio has switched since 1975, with the state spending 2.5 per cent of GDP on public investment, on average, and 5 per cent on benefits.