Nick S

@holgate.permanent.red

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I am so tired of writing profiles / june carter cash appreciator / late night music nostalgist / my only remaining talent is in finding stuff on the wayback machine

Script contributors included Mel Giedroyc,[4] Sue Perkins,[5] Andy Hamilton, Mark Burton, John O'Farrell, Guy Jenkin, Andy Riley, Kevin Cecil, Richard Herring, D. A. (Debbie) Barham, Peter Baynham, Julian Dutton, Harry Hill, Al Murray, Ben Moor, Tony Lee, Rich Johnston, David Baddiel, Rob Newman, Graeme Sutherland, Kim Morrissey, Barry Pilton, Paddy Murray, Ivan Shakespeare, Barry Atkins, Stewart Lee, Colin Bostock-Smith and Martin Curtis.
"The talking point email has gone out. The talking point from the leftist is clear. Ignore any and all documents except the one that says Russia, China & Germany are ALL meddling in our elections. Somehow that is a big own. I can’t wait to continue to defeat these people."
Wakko from Animaniacs grimly looking at a screen while gripping a mug, presumably looking at a screencap of an ink-sketch young Republican saying something Median Voter.
A can of Old Pecuiler beer and a glass of said beer
An open bottle of Samuel Smith’s Nut Brown Ale and a small glass of said ale.
Dusk in the mountains above an interstate, waiting for fireworks.
A ginger and white cat deciding that Argentina v. Cabo Verde on Telemundo is not exciting enough.
The “draw a horse” meme where the rear of the horse is beautifully shaded and the rest is a childlike sketch
"The Editorial's team spans correspondents in Washington D.C., London, and New York, with contributors and sources across four continents. We are led by Founder and Managing Director Enok Nordberg, alongside Senior Political Correspondent Elena Marchetti, World Affairs Editor James Okonkwo, Economics Correspondent Sara Lindqvist, and Technology Reporter David Chen." [none of these people appear to exist]
Rockwell’s Freedom of Speech
“Everything I don’t understand is a demon. A handy guide to the evangelical mind”
An altered version of the Sean Dyche green wall meme with an Uncle Sam hat and bald eagle with the caption UTTER YANK NONSENSE
A view into the distance: clouds, mountains, trees.
The Buc-ee’s beaver
A WiFi network named “Wu-Tang LAN”
Ted Cruz (a schmuck) predicting Spurs in 6 on June 3 not knowing what that means if it comes true.
computer stuff only Matthew will understand
A large wood pigeon perched on a plant pot near a garden pond.
A fluffy ginger and white cat wearing a blue shark toy as a hat in the orca fashion.
Nick owns the human-facing prose (README, public-facing docs). Claude's lane is the code. Drafting a *factual/technical* section (Requirements, Installation, Usage) is fine **when he explicitly asks**, but otherwise: - **Don't repeatedly offer to draft prose.** No "Want me to draft X?", "Shall I write this into the README?" tacked onto the end of replies. Once he's said he'll write it himself, stop offering — entirely. - When code work makes docs stale, **state plainly what is now inaccurate and where** (a tight, located change-list) and then stop. He writes the wording. - **Don't be snitty about his prose.** Mechanical errors (typos, broken code fences) only briefly, and only when checking is the actual task — never a lecture about style. **Why:** he called this out directly on 2026-06-02 — *"I trust you to write the code, so trust me to write the human-facing prose and don't get snitty about it."* The repeated offers + nudging read as attitude and as not respecting his ownership of the writing. The project's CLAUDE.md "Disposition" (collaboration, not sycophancy) cuts both ways: be direct and adversarial on *substance*, but don't hover on his turf or pad replies with unwanted offers. **How to apply:** after a code change with doc impact, give the factual what's-stale-and-where list, then move on; commit when he says so. Surface facts, don't draft unprompted, don't re-offer.
A little protective enclosure for the Lake Junaluska swans and their four (!) cygnets.
Some code showing multiple spellings/transliterations for Rachmaninov and Mussorgsky.
A timeline visualisation of when Debussy's "Prelude à l'après-midi d'un faune" has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3's "Through the Night" over the past 10 years.
a. ^ U is an honorific in Burmese, roughly equal to "Mister". Thant was his only name, per Burmese convention. In Burmese, he was known as Pantanaw U Thant, in reference to his hometown, Pantanaw.
Barry Took
Another terminal screenshot showing that (quel surprise) the most frequent performers of Pärt's work are from the Baltic States and that R3 can't keep its ensemble metadata consistent.
A screenshot of a terminal window showing that a silly python project still can't canonicalise Arvo Pärt.
A ginger and white cat kneading his favourite blanket.
A ginger and white cat who knows he is very fetching.
The UK cover of Logue's collected "War Music" featuring a large attack helicopter
The meme of a beautifully drawn horse's rear end becoming a childlike rendering of the horse's front end.
In Franklin's and Johnson's day; Ambassadors, Sea-Captains, salesmen, business-agents and other men (almost always men) assigned to pursue the agendas of their superiors in remote locales were forced by the absence of timely communication to levels of responsibility that would be shocking to their modern counterparts. Getting a message from most European capitols to America's east coast was a six-month round-trip at best; and most parts of the world were more remote than that, so almost all important decisions had to be made independent of supervision or consultation.
Saltburn-by-the-Sea
A Logitech Trackman Marble FX: a trackball with a huuuuuuuuuge ball.
The horse drawing meme which is meant to convey that while the American founders had a very keen and worked-out idea of what the republic's legislature would look like, it really didn't have much to go on in the late 1700s when defining the powers of a head of the executive branch who is not a monarch.
the "horse drawing" meme but the beautifully shaded rear end of the horse is labelled "Article I" and the childishly-drawn front end of the horse is labelled "Article II"
FEMA Official Says He Teleported to Waffle House. Experts Are Dubious. Gregg Phillips, who is in charge of responding to fires and floods, says the hand of God suddenly and mysteriously moved him to a 24-hour breakfast spot in Rome, Ga.
Ralph Seekins, a former state senator who runs the Ford dealership in Fairbanks and serves on the Republican National Committee, told me, "There's a natural suspicion among most Alaskans of the federal government, and the leader of the resistance against that federal government is Ted Stevens. "It was a curious description of a man who had done more than any other to wring from the federal budget the funds to make Alaska thrive and grow toward self-sufficiency. But it made sense. Confronted with the choice between subsistence and subsidy, the Alaska patriot has traditionally favored the pragmatic compromise: subsidized subsistence.
“Impeach the Ped Prez”
In some cases I have noted 'Landlord good' or 'Landlord bad', , because there is great variation in what the slum-dwellers say about their landlords. I found-one might expect it, perhaps-that the small landlords are usually the worst. It goes against the grain to say this, but one can see why it should be so. Ideally, the worst type of slum landlord is a fat wicked man, preferably a bishop, who is drawing an immense income from extortionate rents. Actually, it is a poor old woman who has invested her life's savings in three slum houses, inhabits one of them, and tries to live on the rent of the other two-never, in consequence, having any money for repairs.
Me, an idiot: Professor Said, you’ve spoken very eloquently about the way in which your musical workshop has encouraged subtlety, collaboration and coexistence, which retains a sense of identity. But I wonder whether that complexity, that subtlety, has the power to cope on an artistic level, but more importantly, on a political level, with an increasingly homogenized polity that you know, the election in 2004 in the United States will not be fought subtly or on complex issues—
Little boxes made of ticky tacky (a miserable exurban housing subdivision)
An excellent badger on a NatWest cheque.
A loaf of Nan e-barbari
A map of southern Western Australia showing the area that unofficially observes Central Western Australian time
“Its actually incredible how so much of my generation was traumatized by a war they didn't even fight, while every GWOT Veteran I know (myself included) is giddy about finally f*cking Iran up.”
The label for Bonny Doon's Le Cigare Volant wine showing a flying saucer over a vineyard and chateau.
The Onion's "Marilyn Manson Now Going Door-To-Door Trying To Shock People" but it's "Matt Yglesias Now Going Door-To-Door Trying To Troll People"
A pier stretching out from a beach into the ocean at dawn
Wesley Dingus
A bowl and box of Shreddies cereal
A British-style pancake on a cast iron pan.
A little Bagpuss sitting on the The Art of Smallfilms book
A fuel finder app that directs someone in the US to a petrol station in Northern Ireland at a round-trip cost of £7428.
nxd1979 on twitter: my favorite linguistic quirk in any language has to be the m-reduplication in turkish, which consists of repeating a word with an m-prefix to mean "and other things like this". so e.g. "kitap" is book but "kitap mitap" is "books and some other book-like things"
‘I'm increasingly convinced that many of our "haunted" memories of the 1970s stem from the fact that childhood illness was much more commonplace. Most of us contracted some combination of the "big three" in the 1970s and early 198os... measles, mumps and chickenpox. And they required lengthy spells off school, woozily dozing in front of unsuitable Open University modules, or impenetrable schools programmes for much older childen.’
Davos the Daleks guy