I was in Dorset yesterday and the difference between drivers there and here in London is big. Here they’re happy to risk anyone’s life to shave a few seconds off their journey. In Bournemouth, they were stopping at green lights to let us cross, even when there were no other cars behind them. I was keeping an eye out for cyclists too and the drivers were giving them room and stopping to let them turn, etc.

Dang. Well I’m going to continue to put spaces, because it looks nicer. If people can spell “all right” as “alright”, then I can put spaces around my em dashes!

Edit: https://proofed.co.uk/writing-tips/en-dashes-and-em-dashes-in-us-and-uk-english/

That’s not how it looked. You had the little green squares as well that moved around as they were defragmented back into place.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kPv1gQ5Rs8A
That’s the business!

Why should you stop? I prefer to use em dashes (when I’m on my PC. I used to know the alt code for it). I’m not going to stop using them. By the way, I put spaces around my em dashes, but I notice you (and ChatGPT) don’t. Now I have to look up which is correct.

Yeah and it’s an em dash, not the regular hyphen on the keyboard (as you’ve used). ChatGPT does like a good em dash. Also is it true that trump can’t actually read? That time starmer gave him the letter from king Charles, he looked at it blankly before giving it back and asking starmer to read it. That really gave me “I can’t read” vibes.

I seem to remember Musk’s defence on the paedo thing being that in South Africa, it’s not meant to be taken literally and it’s just a generic insult.

Mr Musk told the court this week the phrase “pedo guy” was common in South Africa, where he grew up.

So if a bunch of South Africans started calling Musk paedo-guy on Twitter and elsewhere, it’s just bants and not defamation, right?

I used to have really strong object empathy. After my diet change, it reduced a lot.

It would manifest in ways like: if I was shopping and I picked up, say a bag of lemons, only after picking it up, I noticed the bag next to it had lemons with fewer blemishes, I’d want to pick up the other one, but I couldn’t because the one I’d already picked up would feel upset. Or if I stubbed my toe on something I’d get angry only then I’d have to mentally apologise to the object for getting angry at it, because it wasn’t the object’s fault. I also had strong emotional bonds with my comfort objects and it was harder to throw things away, because I’d feel bad for them.

So it wasn’t a useful skill in any way, but it was part who I was, so I lost another part of what little identity I have.

She’s the US version of Nadine Dorries.

Michael Spicer - The Room Next Door: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yInoZ8uIAao

He’d find you on the couch.

Don’t watch it alone, it’s actually mentally exhausting. I managed two alone, no more. Watch it with at least one other person so you can snark it as you watch. Fateful Findings was probably the worst. If you’re not brave enough to face them alone, Kurtis Conner and Space Ice have snarks of the full films.

Also his films do get taken off YouTube for copyright. Internet archive has the full collection though.

USers.

I can access catbox from the UK, no VPN. But videos hosted on it often won’t show up on Connect(although they did until recently), so I have to view them via browser. I can see your images just fine.

Budgies!

Here in the UK I have never had to file taxes. It’s all done as PAYE. Whatever software your employer uses will work out how much you owe via your tax code each pay packet and it’s auto deducted. It’s only self employed people (maybe other types of earner, I wouldn’t know, I’m just a waged employee) who have to submit their tax forms. It’s weird other countries aren’t doing it this way.

So basically Pork Markets?

Dew it! The lettuce thing really triggers her, doesn’t it!

Phil Moorhouse predicted it might just be a Discord channel, which would be hilarious if it turns out to be true.

Who would actually sign up for a Truss social media site? Apart from people joining just to spam her with lettuce memes. Do it, Liz. We need you to make this site! The future is in the balance and only YOU can save it, Liz, by making a social media site that we definitely won’t spam with lettuce memes.

That. Is. A. Disgrace!

I just don’t go to family functions!

As an autist, Finnish culture sounds perfect.