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A twitter refugee - and the handle means "Quite good thank you" Actually it doesn't. I was looking for a short handle and that was the only 4 letter one I could find. Tend to post random quips, as reality is just too bleak

Young, slightly built tabby cat with only head out of an envelope, stares at the photographer curiously, probably trying to gauge if snacks are likely. The envelope sits by a door on a parquet floor.
Screenshot of an article with the text: "Sure, people would have strong views about her strong views – those strongly in agreement and strongly in disagreement."
A picture of Wallace and Gromet character the chicken Feathers McGraw, who is definitely not a penguin wearing a rubber glove on his head.
A roadsign saying Woolfardisworthy with the actual pronunciation ("Woolsery") below it.
Picture of "The Stud" by Jackie Collins, a notorious late Sixties pot-boiler of a novel (no, this was before the rabbit)
Mark Zuckerberg, looking very andriody
A photograph of a woman viewing a David Hockney picture. The picture is of a swimming pool with one person swimming underwater and a male observer standing very upright on the edge of the pool. The edge of the pool is tiled and in the background there is some forest, and mountains fading into the distance. The woman viewing the picture is in gallery with a grey wall and pine wooden floorboards. She is in a very similar pose to the male observer, making the photograph seem as if it is part of the picture.
74. I turn finally on this issue to the finding by HHJ Genn that the breach of the order was not, as she put it, contumelious. That is a word no longer in wide usage in society generally, but which is used in many of the authorities. It means amongst synonyms contumacious, wilfully disobedient and insolent. The notion of contempt of court is, understandably, often described in terms such as this. Some of those older expressions, such as “scandalising the court”, have been abolished as a separate class of contempt (Footnote: 1). Some remnants of that earlier language, such as contumelious, once widely used in the common law, remain; although it may be that it is only lawyers and judges who now understand these words. For the avoidance of doubt, breach of a court order does not have to satisfy the description of being contumelious, deliberately insolent, wilful, rebellious, rude, recalcitrant or defiant in order to justify a finding of contempt. 75. For what it is worth, and given the developments on the facts and my approach to the legal issues this may not matter, I consider that the breach of the April 23 Order could properly be described as contumelious. Certainly it was wilfully disobedient. There was no attempt to comply with the deadline ordered by the court, which was missed by about six months; there was no attempt to have the statement made by a police officer, whether of the relevant senior rank or otherwise; existing video was not disclosed; and there was – as is now seen by the very recent factual developments – an insufficient investigation to explain, obtain and disclose all existing video footage. Admittedly the latter of those were not known to the judge, but the first two were. I therefore disagree with the judge below as to her characterisation of the breach. That disagreement, however, is not determinative of the legal issues on this appeal.
Bar Graph showing Median Income after taxes as a stacked bar chart, combining payroll tax, state tax, federal tax and income after tax. Additional payroll tax for employers is shown under the x-axis
Bar graph showing that Motorways account for 5% of the fatalities and 4% of the fatalities and serious injuries compared to rural roads (60%/34%) and urban roads (62%/35%)
"That's a bold move Cotton! Let's see of it pays off for them!" meme picture
Picture of the head of a male chicken (I would say Cock, but that would give entirely the wrong impression) with a massive cockcomb. The chicken may or may not be called Nigel
Photo on Sean Lock, utterer of the phrase "That's a challenging wank"
Ingredient list of a Massaman paste, which has 11.2g of salt per 100g of paste
God from Michelangelo's painting of creation on the roof of the Sistine Chapel
Time Life Library's "Matter" volume, hiding behind some Iain Banks titles.
A collapsible plastic noise-making horn showing extended and collapsed size along with small pictures of features
General Slim and Air Marshall Keith Park at the Japanese surrender, looking out of place despite being two of the most important commanders in the far East
SUMMARY OF 1000 AM EDT...1400 UTC...INFORMATION ---------------------------------------------- LOCATION...17.7N 78.1W ABOUT 45 MI...70 KM SSE OF NEGRIL JAMAICA ABOUT 255 MI...410 KM SW OF GUANTANAMO CUBA MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...185 MPH...295 KM/H PRESENT MOVEMENT...NNE OR 20 DEGREES AT 7 MPH...11 KM/H MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...892 MB...26.34 INCHES
As far as I’m aware, our bread knife has never seen a drawer. It doesn’t even get wiped, just washed when it meets an especially oily focaccia. It lives on the breadboard with several weeks’ worth of crumbs and I thought that was normal – surely there are no bacteria in crumbs? I still think it’s normal – plenty of people online admitted to the cursory wipe. But they did so in a way that made it sound like their most transgressive, depraved habit, adding to my growing unease that whenever one of these hygiene “controversies” rears its head, I’m on the side of grossness.
A sign saying "Arthur Treacher's Fish and Chips" outside a single storey restuarant.
Headline about the Marseille ban of Ajax fans with the first line of the article saying "The Ministry o fthe Interior for Marseille has imposed a strict total ban on Ajax funs coming to their city."
Obi Wan Kenobi picture with caption "I feel a great disturbance in the force..."
A Burger King van driving out of a military transport plane - the text says "The most terrifying capability of the United States military remains the capacity to deploy a fully operational Burger King to any terrestrial theater of operations in under 24 hrs"
Arrangements are already in place to ensure destitute asylum seekers can buy goods that they require to meet their essential living needs. Asylum seekers who are assessed as destitute under Section 95 are provided with a weekly allowance which is loaded on to a debit card (ASPEN card). ASPEN cards can be used to pay for retail transactions at most shops displaying the Mastercard logo, up to the value of the available balance. They can also be used to check available balances at cash machines, to withdraw cash from cash machines and to get cash back when purchasing items at Mastercard participating shops. ASPEN cards cannot be used to make contactless, telephone or internet payments and the card cannot be used overseas. Failed Asylum Seekers who are assessed as destitute under Section 4 will not be able use their card to withdraw cash from a machine or get cashback from shops. As part of normal service, anyone experiencing issues in relation to their ASPEN payment card can report them to our Advice, Issue Reporting and Eligibility (AIRE) provider, Migrant Help, 24 hours a day on the freephone number.
Poster under the Heading "The United Nations Fight for Freedom" showing 30 allied countries in late 1941.
I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I’ve come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.
A Greek upsilon character
The lighthouse at Cape Finisterre on a bright sunny day.
ou want to get Capone? Here's how you get him. He pulls a knife? You pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital? You send one of his to the morgue! That's the Chicago way, and that's how you get Capone! Now, do you want to do that? Are you ready to do that? I'm making you a deal. Do you want this deal?
Her barrister Akua Reindorf KC played two recordings of phone calls between her and vet staff during which there was no obvious argument or conflict.
Balance sheet of the vet practice showing it is a half billion pound company
If the Bill were to become law, it would contain the most robust and strongest set of safeguards and protections in the world. Very strict eligibility criteria and multiple layers of checks and safeguards are embedded in the Bill, none of which, as we have seen, exist at the moment. I made a conscious decision to name it the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, rather than anything else. That title can never be changed and ensures that only adults who were dying would ever come within its scope. As such, the Bill is not about people choosing between life and death; it is about giving dying people with six months or less to live autonomy about how they die and the choice to shorten their deaths.
People talk about a slippery slope, but the Health and Social Care Committee found that not one jurisdiction that has passed laws on the basis of terminal illness has expanded its scope. [Interruption.] That is absolutely true. As the courts here and in Europe have repeatedly made clear, Parliament is sovereign. This Bill could not be made any broader through any judicial process.
A map showing 16 brands of Polish tomato ketchup, curiously with 15 of them in a narrow band running east to west across the country
Some of our best estimates are that one query emits around 2 to 3 grams of CO2. That includes the amortised emissions associated with training.
With 255 of 266 polls reporting, Bruce Fanjoy, of the Liberal Party, leads by 3,062 votes with 40,381 (50.24%) of 80,379 votes in Carleton. The results are current as of 3:16 a.m.
The nine-week trial, which began in November after almost a decade of investigations, saw Le Pen and 24 other figures from her National Rally (RN) party accused of misusing more than 3 million euros ($3.3 million) of European Parliament funds to pay party staff between 2004 and 2016 in violation of E.U. regulations. All of those accused have denied the charges. Delivering his ruling Monday, Judge Benedicte de Perthuis said Le Pen had been “at the heart” of the scheme. “It was established that all these people were actually working for the party, that their (EU) lawmaker had not given them any tasks,” he added, according to Reuters. He said that the investigations also showed that “these were not administrative errors ... but embezzlement within the framework of a system put in place to reduce the party’s costs.”
Ye Olde Trip to Jeruslem - claimed to be the oldest pub in England opened 1189 AD
A Heathrow source said its back-up diesel generators and uninterruptable power supplies in place all operated as expected. The problem lay with the National Grid, the source said, pointing out thousands of homes had been left without power, not just the airport. There are two National Grid substations close to Heathrow: one at North Hyde, north of the airport, and one at Laleham, south of the airport, according to energy analysis firm Montel Group. It appears that only the North Hyde substation is connected to Heathrow through the local distribution network, said Phil Hewitt, director at the firm.
Heidi Alexander quoted as saying " I’m receiving updates on the fast-moving situation at Heathrow Airport. I’m grateful to emergency services responding to the fire, and National Grid for working to restore power to the airport and homes. I’d urge passengers not to travel to the airport, and contact their airline.
Tomato soup in a patterned bowl.
Eggs at £1.95 for 6 which is $5 per dozen
Price of eggs in UK = £3.19, which is about $4
23/24 then 22/23 Major 115k 115k Blair 115k 115k Brown 114k 114k Cameron 68k 108k May 113k 113k Truss 101k 23k Johnson 182k 0k
In 2022/23 Major, Blair claimed the max May, Brown, Cameron near the max Johnson claimed nothing Truss claimed about 20% of the allowance but was only eligible since Oct 2022
An exceprt from the article in question highlighting that the change to the name "Gulf of Mexico" to "Gulf of America" is based on a low that allows the US Board on Geographic Names to "standardize" [quotes in original] how the Federal Government refers to places [emphasis by me]
List of BS jobs which includes Doormen, all of HR, PR and Marketing, Administration, Engineering, Management consultants, and all Legal professionals. Non-BS include peopel who work in restuarants, cleaners, manual labourers, farmers plumbers and the like, public services, and the creative sector, such as himself as an author.
The majority offered phrases in its opinion that suggest limits to presidential immunity. Roberts argued that “the president is not above the law,” writing that “the president enjoys no immunity for his unofficial acts, and not everything the president does is official.” However, Roberts added that a president “may not be prosecuted for exercising his core constitutional powers, and he is entitled to at least presumptive immunity from prosecution for his official acts.” The ruling “effectively makes criminal prosecutions of former presidents all but impossible, whatever Roberts may have said,” Frank Bowman, a University of Missouri emeritus law professor, said. “Virtually any awful thing a president can do in office can arguably be placed in either the core power or official conduct box, thus affording the president’s crimes either absolute or presumptive immunity.” The majority opinion also set other obstacles to prosecuting a president. For instance, the opinion says, “In dividing official from unofficial conduct, courts may not inquire into the president’s motives.” Another aspect of the ruling is notably sweeping, said Joan Meyer, a partner at the law firm Thompson Hine LLP who has worked as a federal and local prosecutor. “Testimony or records of the former president and his advisors relating to the immune conduct may not be admitted into evidence at trial,” Meyer said. “It’s one thing to say that the immune conduct cannot be charged as a criminal violation. It is another to say the prosecutor cannot enter any evidence about it to explain the facts and circumstances supporting the permissible charges.” On this point, Justice Amy Coney Barrett broke with the majority’s other five members. “I appreciate the Court’s concern that allowing into evidence official acts for which the President cannot be held criminally liable may prejudice the jury,” Barrett wrote. “But the rules of evidence are equipped to handle that concern on a case-by-case basis.”
The Sirius Cybernetics Corporation is the primary manufacturer and supplier of androids, robots and autonomic assistants for the known universe. They are known for their catchy jingles and catchphrases, which are supplied by their Marketing Department. The corporation is not known for the quality of their products, and almost all of their known inventions are faulty. Their primary claim to fame seems to be constructing just about everything with (unstable) advanced robotics and software. From doors to lifts, to toaster ovens, drinks machines, vacuum cleaners, and "personal massage units" -- Everything has been built with a full GPP or Genuine People Personality. This means that even a set of airlock doors has emotions, hopes, dreams, intelligence, and worse of all, the capacity for boredom. It should come as no surprise then, that the majority of these devices have a neurotic streak a mile wide. The company motto is "Share and Enjoy." This is widely adaptable, from synthesised drinks to the company of a robot, or "Your plastic pal who's fun to be with", as their robots are described as by the aforementioned Marketing Department.
To find out which gun massagers deliver the best bang for your buck, I spent the month of December (yes, over Christmas) giving myself DIY myofascial manipulation four times a day. The holidays are an interesting time – maybe even the best time – to undertake a massive test of massage guns. Who doesn’t need stress relief when the entire family is invading their home for a week?
Brad asks a rhetorical question and gives a non-Yes/No answer
Federal government got the greenlight to sell $6.5 billion in bitcoin seized from Silk Road on 9th Jan 2025.
Guardian subscription ad saying "Not for sale"
Screenshot from Guardian subscription pitch with line "We don't have a billionaire owner" highlighted
Flow chart showing how to date a map
Modern version of 1839 picture showing Whitehall from the same perspective
Cromemco System 1 Computer from 1981