A small bit of comfort is that this must be frustrating the litigious TERFs - in their statements yesterday they were clearly trying to frame the judgement as an attack on women's rights so they could raise money for an appeal, but now the public think they've already won

I was sold when the teacher got very excited when I mentioned Fukuyama Masaharu. It's like when the guy at Vodafone got me to renew my contract by talking about bats #福山雅治 #BROS1991 🦇

While it seems odd for a tribunal decision to be the subject of a BBC live blog, the result of that is something more nuanced than you get in the rush to publish a headline about a 300+ page judgment the instant it appears (although the engagement with the detail is still very thin).

Are Londoners allowed?

But it was worth it, because it's become one of my favourite albums and I've since discovered others that are only available on CD. Plus, the packaging is ridiculous in a life-affirming way bsky.app/profile/bees...

I thought I was done with CDs till I wanted to get hold of a J-pop album after hearing some songs from it performed live. Turned out the only way to *hear* it, let alone own it, was to order a CD from Japan. And the only way to take the music with me was to buy a laptop & CD drive ... so I did

Oh no! Hope you feel better soon

I hope you're OK!

This is definitely part of it too

Other classes in the UK are as polite as they need to be, just like everyone else in the world. If they seemed especially polite during your two months "living abroad," that's because they worked in tourism and you were a tourist

20%, I missed the 2% from Slovakia

We could seize the means of futility?

If they hadn't prettified Maria Yudina, it would be a perfect film