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What is not to love about FORTH?

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

Dear manager, This week: 1. I’m your only friend 2. I’m not your only friend 3. But I’m a little glowing friend 4. But really I’m not actually your friend 5. But I am Not to put too fine a point on it. Sincerely, Little Birdhouse N. Yoursoul TOBiYB

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

POV: You came home without food. They have food but you came home without new food.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

A 🧵on this article (£) and its connection to the University of Oxford Modern History: World History 1941-73 module’s finals exam paper in the year 1996. Bear with me 1/ www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01...

submitted 31 days ago • 13 comments

Alex Bellos's puzzle in recent Guardian was nice intro to classic scenario of logicians in a line, seeing only the hats of those in front of them, & being forced to guess in turn (at risk of execution) the colour of their own - what strategy can save them? www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Looking at Spotify playlists curated for boardgames after finding suitably tranquil music for "Dorfromantik". Pleasant historical European-esque themes fit many winners of "Spiel des Jahres" award; "Codenames" gets classic spy music; and railway game "Ticket to Ride" avoids obvious Beatles track...

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Just one point shy of winning the quiz this week, but did get lucky on a few questions. Stumped as we tried to identify a band from cryptic clue "Thunberg truck armada", so we just put something down matching each word - & were pleasantly surprised to find there is a band called Greta Van Fleet.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Got to play my first game of Arcs last night. I certainly had the same reaction as with the other Cole Wehrle games. It’s a well-oiled machine that deserves multiple plays. A list of all the cards would make anyone’s first game easier. #boardgames

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

Played Carl Wehrle boardgame "Arcs" for the first time. Directing fleets of spaceships, building cities, levying taxes, securing guild support for special abilities (I should have done more of that...) - now I understand the rules, looking forward to another game where I may have more strategy!

submitted 35 days ago • 3 comments

There was once the definition of an intellectual as someone who could hear the William Tell overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger. But as no one knows who the Lone Ranger is anymore I’m wondering what the contemporary version would be.

submitted 37 days ago • 49 comments

Reading Adam Bloom's "Finding Your Comic Genius: an in-depth guide to the art of stand-up comedy". I'd gone to a recording of his Radio 4 show "The Problem with Adam Bloom" years ago where he interestingly digressed into the art of constructing comedy, so nice to get a lot more of that.

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

Exploration by @kityates.bsky.social of common biases in how people pick (not very) "random" numbers for lottery tickets (implication: shared biases mean when you win more likely to be time when more other people win too, so prize pot is split more ways). 🧵 kityates.substack.com/p/that-time-...

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

It's close to midnight. Time to listen to jazz on Radio 3 and reflect on how the rules of Werewolf are both subtly different to make the show work and also how the show itself changes the rules.

submitted 46 days ago • 9 comments

The Invention of Love at Hampstead Theatre tonight had me in tears this evening. One of my favourite plays and played beautifully. I’d say go and see it but it’s sold out. Buy it and read it instead if you don’t already know it!

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

Worth marvelling for a moment at the different political world that was Carter’s 1976 win. The last gasps of an old order.

submitted 63 days ago • 21 comments

New Eclectic Stacks blog post, on classic spacefaring game "Elite", its Dangerous sequel, and volunteer emergency services, the "Fuel Rats". www.eclecticstacks.com/post/elite-g...

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

THREAD: A Terry Pratchett book signing was going pretty much as usual when a man in full wizard regalia asked, "You write about magic with such clarity and honesty, you really seem to have a deep personal understanding. I've always wondered, are you a practitioner yourself?"

submitted 606 days ago • 15 comments

Today we celebrate Boxing Day in the UK, so named because cats spend the day exploring empty boxes discarded from Christmas Day* *This may not be true

submitted 67 days ago • 209 comments

FYI: If you go to BBC iPlayer, then choose 'Categories' and scroll almost to the bottom, you'll see 'From the Archive'. Hidden under that heading are hundreds of classic programmes, including comedies like The Office, Miranda, Porridge, The Royle Family, The Young Ones and The Thick of It.

submitted 69 days ago • 39 comments

There's a treat buried in the BBC archive on iPlayer: "Look Around You". If you're not familiar with it, it's a well-crafted series that spoofs educational science programs from the 70s and 80s. Each episode is under 10 minutes long, so it's perfect to fill an idle moment or two.

submitted 69 days ago • 20 comments

This NY Times article is amazing. The guy checked into a hotel, claimed he was the owner of the room under some obscure provisions of New York landlord-tenant law, then transferred ownership of the entire hotel into his name, and then stayed there for years. www.nytimes.com/2024/03/24/n...

submitted 70 days ago • 9 comments

Watching Black Doves and it shows people arriving at a party, clear evening vibes, when someone glances at a screen with the TV announcing a Tory election win and something like 500 seats declared, which would be at about 4-5am.

submitted 71 days ago • 4 comments

A reminder to anyone trapped in an airport due to weather conditions right now: You have a right to stay in a nearby picturesque village while the airline sorts out a rebooked flight for the 27th. They also have to provide a widowed lumberjack for you to fall in love with. Know your rights.

submitted 72 days ago • 78 comments

State of my brain: refusing to identify a bag as "the one with snowflakes on" because the designs have five-fold rotational symmetry. We have agreed they can be starfish.

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Anurag Deb: The language of laws: Situating legislative drafting in its proper context ukconstitutionallaw.org/2024/12/16/a...

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He's hiring a ship He's packing his cloak He's moving to England To follow some bloke Dracula is coming to town

submitted 79 days ago • 62 comments

ON THE BLOG: The controversial origins of centralised agenda control at Westminster The 'Balfour reforms' established a core feature of the Commons: ministerial agenda control. This post explores whether, as has been claimed, it was adopted by consensus.

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

The start of December brings not only Terry's Chocolate Orange advent calendar but the Advent of Code programming challenge - a two-part coding puzzle every day until the 25th, tied together with a Christmas story! Day 1 was a gentle start, but last year they quickly got trickier... adventofcode.com

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments