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Wed, 17/12/2025 - 05:00

RED FLAG: He sometimes has to work late and Q4 is his busy season.

GREEN FLAG: His full-time job is directing the local middle school Christmas pageant, which takes up only two hours every Tuesday, November to mid-December.

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RED FLAG: He wears bespoke suits and flashy Patek Philippe watches, even on days when he’s working remotely from your luxury apartment.

GREEN FLAG: He wears socks with anthropomorphic snowflakes on them and vibrant, ugly Christmas sweaters every single day, no matter the occasion. Even to your sister’s wedding. Yep, her black-tie wedding.

Created
Wed, 17/12/2025 - 00:00

Dancing was the first step to falling in love, and falling in love was the first step to lying down in tandem. Not soon after Elizabeth had persuaded Mr. Darcy to join her in a Scotch reel, were they flushed from exertion; their bodies vexed with desire. Elizabeth had wanted nothing more but to marry for love, believing matters of the heart must never consume one’s rationality, but Mr. Darcy’s sturdy bratwurst had been pressing up against her the whole eve, and she was filled with carnal desires.

And so, Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy, two grown adults of reasonable attractiveness, found themselves attempting to engage in fornication. With the servants sent away and the curtains drawn, they retired to his chamber to smash nether regions.

Mr. Darcy, a man with an estate of 10,000 per annum, was reduced to a man well below his station by his lust. He threw Elizabeth on his bed with the vigor of a militia officer with a salary of a mere 100.

Created
Tue, 16/12/2025 - 23:36
How a new film stitched me up like a kipper. By George Monbiot, adapted from a BlueSky thread, 16th December 2025 This is a note about what I see as a serious breach of journalistic ethics, in the making of Sofia Pineda Ochoa’s online documentary Greenwashed. She interviewed me for the film, but neither before, […]
Created
Tue, 16/12/2025 - 21:39
En skillnad i räntekänslighet mellan ett enskilt land och valutaunionen som helhet innebär att den gemensamma styrräntan passar dåligt för landet både när penningpolitiken är åtstramande och när den är stimulerande, det vill säga nästan hela tiden. Omfattningen av detta problem beror på hur stor skillnaden är i räntekänslighet. Att ekonomin förefaller vara mer räntekänslig […]
Created
Tue, 16/12/2025 - 21:01

I posted the following on my Fediverse (via Mastodon) account. I'm reposting the whole seven posts here as written there, but I hope folks will take a look at that thread as folks are engaging in conversation over there that might be worth reading if what I have to say interests you. (The remainder of the post is the same that can be found in the Fediverse posts linked throughout.)

I suppose Fediverse isn't the place people are discussing Rob Reiner. But after 36 hours of deliberating whether to say anything, I feel compelled. This thread will be long,but I start w/ most important part:

Created
Tue, 16/12/2025 - 20:06

Spitting venom and breathing fire and brimstone, we now see Trump’s presidency for what it is: the lashing out of a wounded giant as it comes to terms with its own decline — perhaps the point at which such people are at their most lethal. The publication of the new US National Security Strategy has […]