Abigail Brady

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software engineer • musician (guitar and vocals in @bcosrsns.com) • writer • post-punk and cider enthusiast see morwen.net

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Morwen (talk | contribs | block) at 23:22, 28 October 2003 (basic article). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision. (change visibility) (diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff) Theresa May (born 1956) is a British politician, chairman of the Conservative Party, and MP for Maidenhead. She studied at St Hugh's College, Oxford and obtained a Geography MA. From 1985 to 1997, she was a consultant for a financial institution, and in 1997 became the Tory MP for Maidenhead - she had in 1992 stood for Durham North West, a safe Labour seat. She soon became a member of William Hague's team, with her appointment shadow minister for schools in 1998. She joined the Shadow Cabinet proper in 1999 as Shadow Education and Employment Secretary, and since then, under Iain Duncan Smith has been in a variety of shadow cabinet posts. She is perhaps the most prominent woman in the Conservative Party since Margaret Thatcher. She courted controversy within the party at the 2002 Party Conference by warning that the Tories were seen as the nasty party and that they needed to shed this image.
the cover of Red Dwarf: Titan, by Rob Grant and Andrew Marshall
Saturday 26: Au-Pairs: Midlands new wave originals. Astoria 2: Charing Cross Road WC2 [phone number] Tottenham Court Road 7pm, £8.
Amersham Arms, New Cross Road, SE14: Big Face, Hyperactive, Kenickie (Mar 9, 8pm)
my browser showing a racewalker (David Mejia) and with browser history showing another race walker (Tim Lewis), embedded in a list
the “we’re all trying to find the guy who did this” meme
Star Trek TNG style title card with the episode name “Too Early in the Morning”
Deep Space Nine style title card with “The Very Long Night of Londo Mollardi” written as the episode title.
But our favourite festive TV moment has to be when Lauren Laverne informed 500 puzzled infants on The Children’s Channel that THE SPICE GIRLS are “Tory scum”. She’s got a point. Isn’t it time that THE TWO MELS went duo?
The Independent tweeting "Keir Starmer has resigned" on 27 June 2016.
Dawn Foster’s message from 2021: “I knew Wes when I was a student and he was the NUS president - always been a right wing lickspittle cunt”.
Hi. We recently got emailed by an evil spirit promising us a small pot of gold coins if we play a support slot at the Bull and Gate, which is strange because we don’t even have an email address, or even a computer. I was just wondering if sounds like a scam? We previously played for an only slightly malicious gnome at the Purple Turtle, and he initially refused to pay us our originally agreed £50 support fee, so we had to find out his name and say it backwards, at which point he relented and somehow found the money. Also he’d booked our band (neo-electroswing tending towards witch house), alongside some other bands that dress identically to us and use many of the same instruments but are in fact severely philosophically opposed to us, which caused a major existential crisis as well as an argument about how to arrange the candles in the green room. Anyway, thanks in advance.
detail of top left of BBC Live News feed, with 'Error resolving "rundown-lbh.national.core.co.uk": Name or service not known" burned into the screen in black.
a screencap of the Doctor Who episode "The Nightmare Begins", from the Daleks' Master Plan serial. a bunch of bald ben are working at a circular desk, with headsets. one of them looks a lot like Nick Briggs.
map showing the five new unitarity authorities that will be created in Essex in 2028 : two in the urban south and three in the rest of the county.
the county has been split into three sections, a northern section, a middle section and a southern section. they are wider than they are tall and a bit curved.
a browser alert popup containing the text "To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them: to die, to sleep No more; and by a sleep, to say we end The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks That Flesh is heir to? 'Tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep, To sleep, perchance to Dream; aye, there's the rub,"
The Duchess of Sussex's lifestyle brand has ended its partnership with Netflix, it has been announced. As ever was launched by Meghan last year and supported financially by the streaming giant, in a separate deal to that of her TV content.
it's a map of a mud! there are a bunch of rooms with icons in linked by corridors of varying length.
screencap from Red Dwarf episode "The End". A group of Red Dwarf's senior crew are in the drive droom, standing solemly, as music plays. "See you later, alligator / In a while, crocodile"
it is the loading screen for the code masters New Zealand Story resembling game, CJ’s elephant antics. An anthropomorphic elephant runs away from a snowman and an angry toy.
a screencap of a yellow-background sign above the the shop: it says BRITAINS FIRST & BEST BEIGEL SHOP. EST 1855. A sign coming out to the side reads: HOT BEIGAL SHOP: OPEN NIGHT & DAY.
an image of Garth Merengh talking to camera, as popularised in a meme. I have, unhelpfully, cropped off the caption.
Screencap from the red dwarf episode “Polymorph”. Lister wakes up in the med bay. Subtitles read: “What are we going to do?” from an off-screen speaker, followed by “I say, let’s get out there and twat it.” from Lister.
Screencap from the Red Dwarf episode "Psirens". Two women are displayed on a computer screen, in a video message. One of them says "we beg you... make love to us". The other says "make love to all of us."
Screencap from the Red Dwarf episode "Balance of Power". Lister sits alone in the canteen/rec room, which is laid out for many more people. Caption reads: Lister hums.
The red dwarf crew are sitting round a campfire eating something. Kryten says “Well it seemed such a waste to just leave him lying there when he'd barbecue so beautifully.”
lister is looking into a mug. “What kind of milk are we using now?” Holly, off screen, replies, “Emergency backup supply. We're on the dog's milk.”
a screenshot of google translate, translating english "red dead redemption" into german, as "Red Dead Redemption"
Lister, spoon in hand, is about to place a lump of food from a can into his mouth. He says “Rimmer, this isn’t dog food. It’s a piece of prime fillet steak in blue cheese sauce.”
Lister, The Cat and The Dog are standing in a disco. Lister asks the Cat, “Yo, listen - I’m going to the bar. Do you want anything?” The Cat replies “Yeah, I’ll have a grenade, thank you”.
From “Legion”. A humanoid figure with a gold costume and a solid silver mask, says “My name is Legion, for we are many.”
From “Back to Reality”. Rimmer is in the cockpit of Starbug, manning his station. Holly is visible on a computer screen on the wall. Rimmer says over the radio: “There’s a blob on the sonar scope the size of New Mexico and it’s heading your way.”
me, on August 11, 2019, tweeting: Going to write a farce where rival teams of Clinton and Trump assassins fight each other to be the ones to kill Epstein, only to find that he killed himself despite being on suicide watch due to negligent prison management.
an album with a cover in the style of “with the Beatles”, except that the text has been altered to read “without the Beatles” and the black and white shadowed photograph replaced with a solid black rectangle.
“when elderly Germans came towards the end of the century to look back on the Third Reich and ask themselves why they had supported it, they could no longer remember that one of the main reasons had been because they had thought that it made Germany great again.”
the "I am watching" meme from Watchmen when Doctor Manhattan's on Mars, but cropped down close to just one caption, on the first panel. black on white comic letters and crudely interspersed with obviously added letters in an image editor. "It is [1998]. I am [19] years old. I am watching [Peter Mandelson resign]."
Page 6 Panel 1 On an observation deck type thing. Renn is looking over the edge, probably inadvisably. So, dragon transport is a cross between Orient Express style railways, airships, cruisers and interwar commercial airliners in ambience. Dragons are HUGE, and space is not the issue, there are decks and so on. This is the luxury way to travel, feeding dragons is expensive and a ryanair style operation is not going to help significantly. Gilkir: You never been one of these? Renn: Well, of course not! We have our own wings. Gilkir: Hah, and we’ve got parachute attachments! Panel 2 She shows off... Renn: No, we really do. Panel 3 Gilkir also shows off... Gilkir: So do we! Implants, if you’re wondering. Renn: You’re… from an aerial division, then? Panel 4 Gilkir: Ground trooper mostly, but I’ve done my time. On dragons not unlike… ...you know, I rather think… Panel 5 Gilkir addresses the random staff member nearby Gilkir: Excuse me, Mr, I do wonder if you could tell me… This dragon is ex-military, am I correct? Staff: Not so much with the ex.
Siri is suggesting that I “Call in to ‘Flight to Barcelona’…”
turned radio back on after meeting. my thoughts, in succession: "ooh, that's the beach boys!" "oh, no, it's that 6 band that sound a bit like the beach boys!" "they've covered 'good vibrations'?" "oh, it's really was the beach boys!"
a chart showing the number of living popes from 2006 onwards. it starts at 1, rises to 2 in 2013, declines to 2 in 2022 and 1 and 0 in 2025, and then a "projection" line, in a different colour, extends the line downwards, hitting -1 popes in 2026 and then -9 popes in 2028
Lister from Red Dwarf VIII (as indicated by the prison uniform) asking "Come on, come on - what about the Om song? That was a classic!"
a grid showing closing positions of the US stock market yesterday, with losers in red and winners in green. there is a lot of red.
quick snap of the sex pistols minus john plus frank gig at the RAH
an email from DICE asking me “What did you think of The Rezillos? We’d love to hear your thoughts”