Over the moon to have a guest blog on the Deserter. Beers in pubs. One beer. In pubs.
Vince Raison@vincerai.bsky.social · 3mo agoFantastic @deserterblog.bsky.social post from guest blogger, Ben Jones. Seven pints of Hepcat in seven pubs. Religions have been founded on less.
AFTER REVIEW NUMBER TEN PARAGUAY COVER HIS MOUTH DECISION IS RDRDRED CARD
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Thursday sees the return of our Free N Easy Open Mic. Starts 7.30pm. PLUS downstairs, a Burton Bridge Brewery Cask Takeover! We’re open from 3pm.
The Shirker's Rest@theshirkersrest.bsky.social · last yr.Get this in your diary, beer-lovers. Burton Bridge Brewery Cask Takeover, Thursday, 21st August. Four great cask beers including Masterpiece, their recreation of Worthington White Shield. Read Pete Brown on it here: www.pelliclemag.com/home/2024/5/...
Let me tell you about these two organisations. One is called "FIFA". The other is called "The IOC".
Randi Mayem Singer@rmayemsinger.bsky.social · last yr.The World Cup and the Olympics should cancel. America is not safe, not welcoming, not a democracy.
I’m petrified about today’s science news. Genetically modifying crabs to have cheetah genes? This could go sideways fast.
Bartiromo: "We are waiting any moment now to get the jobs number for the month of June. The expectations call for the numbers to be up 95,000. Right now seeing the number -- actually, uh, showing a decline in jobs, uh, down 33,000, uh."
one from 2015, I think. This started as being about 'unfit people suddenly getting back into tennis because Wimbledon's on', but as I was writing turned into a thing vaguely about, being an imposter in your own job, or even your body? Which was much more interesting. it's fun when that happens
![[Title panel, over an image of a tennis racquet in amongst junk in a cupboard]:
Let's Not Do This Again
Cut to a TENNIS RACQUET being held in the hand of a man called TERRY.
RACQUET:
Right.
OK.
RACQUET:
So l just sort of... *hit it with my face*.
TERRY:
Yes.
[Pull back to show TERRY - overweight, sweating, playimng tennis but surrounded by loads of balls on the ground which he’s missed].
RACQUET:
At the net.
TERRY:
Over the net.
RACQUET:
Over. Over the net, yes. Sorry.
RACQUET:
It's just, y know we haven't done this since last -
[A ball gently hits the handle of the racquet]
*POF*
RACQUET:
UUUURRGH
RACQUET:
UUURGH CHRIST
MY HANDLE
TERRY:
Ssh!
RACQUET:
IT HIT ME ON MY HANDLE TERRY
TERRY:
Stop it!
RACQUET:
No Terry! You stop it! You stop this... this... charade!
RACQUET:
I am a 1993 Head Radical in hot pink, who belongs in a cupboard. You are an unfit man who thinks he likes tennis, but in reality belongs on the sofa.
RACQUET:
Why do we do this every year, Terry?
RACQUET:
Why do we go on playing this silly -
[Ball gently hits the side of the racquet]
*KLANG*
RACQUET:
UUURRGGH IT
HIT MY SIDE BIT...](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiewgdwjepj7yqovuummsa2z5w4zsphehgwnn4xpptthsxvkzadqrq)
This Test match deserves a result. If it rains all day I will be fuming.
They'll soon switch to "we're the best at it" mode
Paul Hünermund@p-hunermund.com · last yr.Large parts of American society are, unfortunately, still in "this can't happen here" mode.
This is quite good. I’ll add to it that more than anything else, my writing skills were honed over nearly twenty years of student essays, from having the five paragraph style drilled into me in 1993 to finishing my dissertation in 2010. The mass revolt against developing this skill is devastating.
The Death of the Student Essay—and the Future of Cognition
One professor's reflections on the end of an era, as AI tools such as ChatGPT have murdered the student essay (RIP). Here's why that threatens the future of human cognition—and how to save ourselves.
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Here's the real opin: there should be a vetted, elected, salaried, *Remixer Laureate*. It would have been Fatboy back then. Four Tet for a while. Today, give it to Jamie XX for half a decade with no other commitments, let him cook.
Anon Opin@anonopin.bsky.social · last yr.What Norman Cook did to A Brim Full of Asha by Cornershop is nothing short of genius
Half a dozen angry motorists on the Tulse Hill gyratory: HOOOOOOONK HOOOOOOONK. HONKHONKHONKHOOOOONK. HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONK HONK. Lone cyclist just as the noise ends: *bing*
20mph speed limits have shown to massively reduce injuries and deaths. So isn't it time we rolled out sharply lowered speed limits and ULEZ in all urban areas? We need to stop putting the car first, they've taken up too much infrastructure space already and keep wanting more.
Fine. With signs. No. Sometimes. Yeah mostly. Mostly fine. No.
Paulrus of West Bumblefrick@paulrusof.bsky.social · last yr.I am officially one of The Ancients, Keeper of Knowledge of the Before Time
Outstanding skeet. Deserves to do absolute numbers.
Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees@mcnees.bsky.social · last yr.If you write “Voight–Kampff” instead of “Voight-Kampff” you’re a LLM.
If you write “Voight–Kampff” instead of “Voight-Kampff” you’re a LLM.
Imagining a Paper Scissors Stone game in the Allianz press box where @jonathanliew.bsky.social and @barneyronay.bsky.social work out who gets to lionise Doué, Vitinha, and Dembélé; and who has to do the Acerbi/Dimarco obit piece.
The situation is so bad, a conservative banker is starting to sound like Mon Mothma.
Michael Derby@michaelsderby.bsky.social · last yr.Fed Chair Powell graduation remarks to Princeton nod toward our current predicament: "Look around you. I urge you to take none of this for granted. When you look back in 50 years, you will want to know that you have done whatever it takes to preserve and strengthen our democracy."
Pubs are a force for good. They reinforce communities and encourage people to drink together, rather than alone in a bedsit. It follows that beer sold in pubs should be zero-rated. This would make it more affordable and stop pubs from closing.
I'll level with you, they're not my kind of people.
