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My favorite Sam Neill film is the slightly obscure "The Dish". It's a gentle comedy (there is one laugh-out-loud joke), and Sam does his "twinkly-eyed favourite uncle" persona to great effect. I think I'll go and watch it again. RIP Sam.

The Cornish know what's important: Though I'm slightly concerned that the cheese is in a museum...

I don't understand the reaction from the other parties, all of whom (with the exception of Lord Binface) are refusing to run. They say it is just a stunt by Farage ... so they're just going to let him win by default? What??

I don't really understand what Farage is up to (maybe Innula can enlighten me). Am I right in thinking that he is forcing a by-election in the hope of winning it and thus proving that he still has sufficient influence with voters? If true, that seems like a very dangerous tactic (personally I...

From dictionary.com: "Nice, it turns out, began as a negative term derived from the Latin nescius, meaning “unaware, ignorant.” This sense of “ignorant” was carried over into English when the word was first borrowed (via French) in the early 1300s. And for almost a century, nice was used to...

Why is "soccer" more 'polite' than "football"? I think the word you are looking for here is "pretentious".

Similar to the Political Compass. Answer 29 questions, and it places you on the "Attitude towards AI" chart. The AI Compass Me: The Shrug patron saint: Matt Levine AI is a thing that exists and you regard it with detached amusement, like everything else. It's overhyped, sure, but so is most...

That was my first thought when reading about this. It seems to be a (possibly) well-meaning action that could backfire horribly. It makes me wonder about the actual motives behind it.

I get that if I am using a VPN.

https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/06/trump-may-be-mystery-patient-in-odd-case-of-79yo-getting-experimental-obesity-drug/

How to tell us you're old without saying "I'm old". Presumably the Office suite automatically updates, in which case this is just included in the update (probably before Microsoft made this announcement).

I particularly enjoyed the moment when the article launched into a history lesson, presumably for the benefit of any Trumpians who might happen to stumble across it.

I can't find an emoticon that adequately expresses my head-tilting bemusement at that. America, you weird.

https://books.google.co.uk/ Google Books is already a name in use for a Google product. Confusion awaits!

Too late. LLms have already read all of that, and it informs their entire 'persona'. LLMs are a mirror of humans on the Internet.

:welcome: I'm still intermittently in SL, along with some of the other folk hereabouts. Not many of us left, though.

Let's hear it! Take Five, Dave Brubeck And for good measure, a couple of other pieces that are also in 5/4 Everything's Alright (Jesus Christ Superstar); Rice/Lloyd-Webber Mission Impossible; Lalo Schifrin

There's not a lot that can be done about that. LLMs have no intrinsic memory, so every query has to contain everything that is needed to support it.

What I find worrying from that is that on the left-leaning side, there are multiple parties competing for votes, whereas on the right-leaning side there are only two parties, which implies that the left side is going to fragment far more seriously than the right.

I have so many questions.