peterlamey.bsky.social
An aged and impecunious barrister. Bisexual, not an intellectual. He/him.
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I have about half of the Danas, but they’re surprisingly hard to hunt up these days. I was lucky to grow up near a very eccentric library that had all kinds of series books like them.
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ngl, i respect this one. is it common for church conversions to come with the font? I would have thought that would go somewhere else at deconsecration.
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Turns out that watery tarts throwing swords may do better than anything else.
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That's actually extremely useful advice - thanks so much!
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Heat pumps the medium term play for sure, but we wanted to keep our savings for parental leave next year (which I'm regretting a little, tbh, but there's no perfect answer here). So I'm jury-rigging a casement in our bedroom with plywood and styrofoam. No points for aesthetics, lol.
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It's really well designed for its time - big, south/west facing windows for solar gain in the winter, with overhangs on the roof that keep it off during midday in the summer, but climate change is such that even that is too much now when it's 35 in the day and nights don't get below 22/24.
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Very much in line with the movie (which is an extremely faithful adaptation), including the narrative asides and meta-discussion about whether there’s going to be kissing. I’d have no hesitation, fwiw.
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There should be a way to do something about Joan Rivers in that vein that would be hysterical, but it requires an actual Joan Rivers.
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Deadline says yes: deadline.com/2025/06/spac...
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Thanks so much, Marguerite - for me, and Jennie, and our as-yet-unnamed third family member who should be along in about 16 weeks, if you would.
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Her graceonfootball account says suspended and she doesn’t know why, fwiw
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I guess it's time for an Ordinariate vs. Trappists (and Carthusians!) battle to the death?
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ricochet
And once I got a weirdly hard time at a rehearsal of a community theatre production of romeo & juliet over Mercutio
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My uncle has a big haskap hedge, and he fully nets it from as soon as they flower until everyone he knows has picked as many as they can deal with. When he takes the nets down the remaining berries are stripped by the next morning. It’s unbelievable.
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I am exactly one person, but the fact that I do not ever so much as touch my phone in church is one of the most appealing things about attending for me. And like, I'm posting from work. On my phone all week is right.
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Habemus papam
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Lmao, bonus link card.
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People who are regularly using LLMs for course and office work aren’t GMs finding new strategies 25 moves deep in the Grunfeld. They’re rank beginners cheating on chess dot com.
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But in the end that just leaves you without a clue. You don’t understand what you’re doing and you’re not taking the steps you need to take to develop competence.
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So instead you plonk it into stockfish and it says Nd7 and you’re +0.3. Imagine if you’d pushed your f pawn and been -0.2! Rube.
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It’s when the position gets messy and the best move isn’t obvious. You have to sit and try and move pieces in your brain and it’s hard and your clock is ticking and you get it wrong and it feels terrible.
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We saw this in chess with the rise of free engines. People don’t use them in the concrete phases of the game when they understand. Even an 1800 knows their opening lines or a clear tactical shot well enough to get the answer elsewhere.
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Rather, people reach for them exactly when they start to get uncomfortable because the task is unfamiliar, difficult, and requires deep thinking. People hate that!
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They were my favourites too - I read kind of a lot of Star Wars EU up until about when the prequels came out, but the Young Jedi books are the ones that literally fell apart on me.
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We’ve had them for 3 or 4 days now, so the time is ripe.
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Carlos Mejia Godoy, and for no bonus points Meic Stevens has a couple of Welsh-language albums in addition to his English output.
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One of the many things about Labrador that you can only really understand if someone in Labrador explains it to you.
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Adding this to my 2025 election riding watchlist.
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I thought (but am struggling to confirm) that Labrador closed in line with the Atlantic time zone.
Delightfully, wiki has "Newfoundland Time is observed only on the island of Newfoundland, its smaller offshore islands, and the southeastern Labrador communities including and south of Black Tickle."