I am sure they are writing to headlines/ideas for things that are in the news and then get shared round the writers til someone takes it. which is fine until you get the ones that clearly read like the headline came before the feature and they've never quite bridged the gap.
Why the Guardian is going down the pan!
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DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Pushing Ice posits grabbing a large chunk of asteroid belt ice and pushing it before you as a shield.
Brainaddict
slight system overdrive
It sort of reflects Zoe Williams' attitude in general though. She hangs out with some genuine leftists and can sometimes be heard sounding like one. And then suddenly she's all sensible centrist again. I guess a successor to Polly Toynbee.
Back in your neat little box, Williams!
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Reaction mass though init. Even with time dilation on your side, if you're aiming for speeds high enough for living humans to get across interstellar space and stop at the other end, you're very quickly going to run into the, 'every kilo of fuel needs 1.2 kilos of fuel to shift it' problem. Never mind the ship itself and everything humans need for seventy years of subjective travel time.
I'm keeping an eye on ion propulsion and scalable fusion power, but I'm not holding my breath. Only real colonisation prospect is hooning a load of frozen embryos out into the void with a few robots to look after them and some kind of organic nanotech stuff to terraform whatever planet you're aiming them at. And try getting all that past the fucking republicans.
Silas Loom
Hated by both sides
Forget everything you thought you knew about British politics. In 2024, we’re in the age of chaos | Dan Evans
‘Essex man’, ‘Stevenage woman’, ‘red wall’ – labelling voters like this is completely misguided, says author Dan Evans
I don’t have any particular disagreement with this piece, which argues that voters are more complex creatures than electoral stereotypes suggest, but I am confused by the illustration, specifically by the stylised black eggtimer on a yellow background sported by an elderly gent in a maroon suit. What does the eggtimer signify?
It's the Extinction Rebellion symbol.Forget everything you thought you knew about British politics. In 2024, we’re in the age of chaos | Dan Evans
‘Essex man’, ‘Stevenage woman’, ‘red wall’ – labelling voters like this is completely misguided, says author Dan Evanswww.theguardian.com
I don’t have any particular disagreement with this piece, which argues that voters are more complex creatures than electoral stereotypes suggest, but I am confused by the illustration, specifically by the stylised black eggtimer on a yellow background sported by an elderly gent in a maroon suit. What does the eggtimer signify?
Silas Loom
Hated by both sides
Thanks. Should have recognised that really. Actually, I thought that ER was quite well known for having a large number of elderly members who were relatively free of work and family commitments and so able to face the prospect of a month in jug for direct action offences with equanimity.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Press gazette says a projected loss of 39 mill for this year.
Silas Loom
Hated by both sides
Just linking the Times article, right?
That doesn’t make it clear if it is GNM (Graun/Obs) or GMG (holding company which includes GNM but also holds and invests the cash from Autotrader, MEN, Ascential disposals) which will make that loss.
If it’s the former, it is offset considerably by the latter’s investment earnings. Probably worth waiting for GMG reported figures before predicting doom.
That doesn’t make it clear if it is GNM (Graun/Obs) or GMG (holding company which includes GNM but also holds and invests the cash from Autotrader, MEN, Ascential disposals) which will make that loss.
If it’s the former, it is offset considerably by the latter’s investment earnings. Probably worth waiting for GMG reported figures before predicting doom.
Silas Loom
Hated by both sides
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
I didn’t feel quite right posting this in the Living off the Alan’s 100% thread but I came close
amp.theguardian.com
I gave up renting in London to live nomadically – it’s dramatically enriched my life | Life and style | The Guardian
Short-term lodgings, pet-sitting … it’s taken me everywhere from Dorset to Tbilisi, and I’ve (mostly) enjoyed it, says travel writer Lydia Swinscoe
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Holding down a full time job (as a travel writer)
She had me at 'thick, Bhutanese woven rugs depicting tigers and mandalas.'I didn’t feel quite right posting this in the Living off the Alan’s 100% thread but I came close
I gave up renting in London to live nomadically – it’s dramatically enriched my life | Life and style | The Guardian
Short-term lodgings, pet-sitting … it’s taken me everywhere from Dorset to Tbilisi, and I’ve (mostly) enjoyed it, says travel writer Lydia Swinscoe
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Silas Loom
Hated by both sides
No David Squires football cartoon so far today. I wonder what he did to worry the Graun’s lawyers?
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
got attacked by a dog
No cartoon this week, I’m afraid. On Sunday morning, on an otherwise uneventful dog walk, I became a walking chew toy for a stray staffie who had taken umbrage to the existence of one of my small dogs. I got in between them, and came off worse for wear.
Silas Loom
Hated by both sides
Poor sod!
“My mind, usually a torrent of work stress, has fallen silent”: how I found peace on a woodland retreat | Health and fitness holidays | The Guardian
I arrived feeling soul sick and lost, but the simple acts of putting away my phone and sitting in the woods for a few days turned into something profoundly transformational
Still, the prospect of pulling out seems too humiliating, so on I go, sweating and panicking all the way to Danny’s house. When the taxi pulls up, he comes out to meet me, a compact figure in dyed wool with a silvery topknot, and he is so calm, so kind and confident that this is the place I should be, that I feel my mind unwind.
Topknot, eh? So far so Guardian.
Rob Ray
Weight is meaningless
The cruel Thames: the job of pulling bodies from a dark, dangerous river
On average about 30 bodies are retrieved from its waters in London each year. Only a few ever make the headlines
Gasp 30 bodies a year on the river bifurcating one of the world's largest cities running through one of the most densely packed regions in Europe!
"Dark and dangerous" "the Thames is cruel" - give over with the silly hyperbole that's 20 less than the averages for the Hudson and Seine.
tommers
It was... Rebekah Vardy's account
Why are kids doing the ‘Brexit tackle’? They’re having fun at adults’ expense – and mocking our toxic politics | Lola Okolosie
My son says it means taking out the player without getting the ball, all while shouting ‘Brexit means Brexit’, says teacher Lola Okolosie
Good to see the Brexit tackle has made it to the Guardian.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
First I’ve heard of it!Why are kids doing the ‘Brexit tackle’? They’re having fun at adults’ expense – and mocking our toxic politics | Lola Okolosie
My son says it means taking out the player without getting the ball, all while shouting ‘Brexit means Brexit’, says teacher Lola Okolosie
Good to see the Brexit tackle has made it to the Guardian.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
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