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are those #SFAB tested

need some of those 20” tanwall schwalbe g-one allrounds they’ve specced on the new brompton G-line

“lol,” said the scorpion. “lmao.”

adding to the chorus to say I think GKs are fine too #justbuyanarkose #justbuyGKs

this table looks close (if you squint) https://www.litfad.com/contemporary-style-metal-patio-table-rectangle-shape-in-green-s-4198517.html

oh yeah good point - I’m OK with them but some way off ‘agile’…

my ‘hacks’ are i. treat sparkling water like a treat, ii. eat with chopsticks to encourage slower eating, and iii. multiple small dishes (korean banchan style) can help maintain interest in simpler meals

the key to nuts and dried fruit is i. making sure you weigh them and ii. being disciplined

started at 81.9kg on 3 june - now down to 79.5kg due to a combination
of limiting cals to 1610 a day (actually not too bad with some diet
tweaks) and increasing level of activity (e.g. 8-10k steps per day or
one strength workout / 5k run). trying to get as low into the 70s as
possible before switching to maintenance. at 181cm I’m now in the
healthy BMI range

74.7kg this morning

perfect thanks !

do you have the names for the grasses… ?

just plain old simple powerpoint

got my planting scheme together for new front garden border… can’t bring myself to price it up just yet…

went to linn botanic gardens open day today - owner’s stable is class…

did you see this thread on the “efficiency” canard ?
https://x.com/_SRTLW/status/1810293439604404364

Labour benefited from a pliable media, which spent the final week of the campaign running adulatory guff on Starmer’s ‘no drama’ style or ‘quiet radicalism’. His political mutations and embrace of plutocrats went unmentioned. Diminished in influence, the Murdoch papers half-heartedly half-endorsed Labour, partly hoping to forestall any resumption of the aborted second part of the Leveson Inquiry, but mostly just accepting the inevitable. The backgrounds of Labour candidates were hardly probed, yet alongside the strong representation of charities and NGOs, the lobbying industry practically has its own party grouping; it would be canny to bet on lobbying as the focus of the first scandal of the Starmer years.

from james butler in the LRB. feels like this could be a ticking time bomb waiting to explode egg in the face of the cravenly servile grifters journalists (like ian dunt and co) currently cooing about ‘serious grown up government’ and ‘a return to competence’. fully expect the press to become less accommodating than they have been very very quickly

👀

not quite ‘standing still’ but his view is they had “modest” advances and “labour didn’t win, tories lost” https://x.com/DailyPolitik/status/1809060596064637172 & https://x.com/SaulStaniforth/status/1809082936047686016

does prof curtice? his coalition is broad, not deep, and very unstable

But if the electorate said a firm “No” to the Conservatives on
Thursday, the enthusiasm for Labour was muted. The party won just 35
per cent of the vote, less than Jeremy Corbyn in 2017 and less than
Tony Blair achieved in his three election victories. Indeed, never
before has a party been able to form a majority government on so low a
share of the vote.

In combination with the Conservatives’ record low share, this meant
that the share of the vote won by Labour and the Conservatives
combined was the lowest since Labour first became the Conservatives’
principal rivals in 1922. At the same time, turnout fell by eight
points to 60 per cent, the second lowest figure since 1885. The drop
was particularly sharp in seats where Labour polled best in 2019.In
the most disproportional electoral outcome in British electoral
history, Labour’s strength in the new House of Commons is a heavily
exaggerated reflection of the party’s limited popularity in the
country.

regardless, good luck to SKSKC - suspect there will be little-to-no honeymoon…

Whitehall has drawn up a list of potential ‘black swan’ events that could upend the new government in its first year; many of them seem unsurprising, even likely: the collapse of the prison estate; the total failure of a hospital system during the now annual winter crisis; the financial collapse of one or more universities; a renewed spike in energy prices and interrupted food supplies… Thatcher said that she felt a deep loneliness on entering Number Ten. Blair said the first emotion he felt after the black door closed was fear. Both grasped the magnitude of the office. Keir Starmer has the most daunting task of any postwar Labour prime minister: the recovery of a comatose economy, a collapsing state, a cynical and exhausted electorate. The stakes could not be higher.

seems like it was less hyper efficient targeting but more a case of labour effectively standing still, not having the labour right maliciously sabotaging their campaign (because their stooge is installed as leader), and the press helpfully kicked fuck out of the SNP and conservatives in the full knowledge they can do for SKSQC on a dime because his support base is v thin

• a lot of horrible bastards won seats but at least horrible bastards thangam debbonaire, johnny mercer, jonathan ashworth and joanna cherry lost theirs

…

scorecard

• LAB majority (395 v CON 165?) - a half point since the CON did get triple digits
  
• SNP better than predicted (30-33?) - NOPE
  
• corbyn hold - YES
  
• debonnaire loss - LOL
  
• sunak hold - YES
  
• shaheen loss + IDS loss - half point
  
• farage win - YES
  
• truss hold - NO
  
• turnout lower than 2010 - LOL
  
• LAB votes lower than 2019 👀 2017 - LOL
  

9,650,254 votes… lol… just better than 2005’s dismal showing

ashworth, debbonaire and cherry all gone. at least there’s some good news