New-Cleckit Dominie
@ncdominie.bsky.social
University maths teacher (failed academic); very amateur local history; slightly worse photography. Uaireannan beagan Gàidhlig cuideachd. Same handle on the elephant site. Web: http://www.dominie.scot.
(The "set" in question are located at Cambridge; I suppose it's not impossible that Keynes was also using a peculiarly Cantabrigian pronunciation.)
November 19, 2025 at 1:57 PM
(The "set" in question are located at Cambridge; I suppose it's not impossible that Keynes was also using a peculiarly Cantabrigian pronunciation.)
"He got among a set of men who did nothing but smoke and drink beer. Malthusians, we call them."
"Malthusians!"
"'Malt,' you know, aunt, and 'use;' meaning that they drink beer."
"Malthusians!"
"'Malt,' you know, aunt, and 'use;' meaning that they drink beer."
November 19, 2025 at 1:56 PM
"He got among a set of men who did nothing but smoke and drink beer. Malthusians, we call them."
"Malthusians!"
"'Malt,' you know, aunt, and 'use;' meaning that they drink beer."
"Malthusians!"
"'Malt,' you know, aunt, and 'use;' meaning that they drink beer."
FWIW (probably not very much) there's also a pun in Chapter 5 of Dr Thorne (1858) which works better if "Malthusians" is read with "t" rather than "th".
November 19, 2025 at 1:53 PM
FWIW (probably not very much) there's also a pun in Chapter 5 of Dr Thorne (1858) which works better if "Malthusians" is read with "t" rather than "th".
I'm going to take my lead from Wikipedia and insist on "Halphas".
(If anyone challenges me I will express confusion that they weren't talking about the demon.)
(If anyone challenges me I will express confusion that they weren't talking about the demon.)
November 19, 2025 at 11:44 AM
I'm going to take my lead from Wikipedia and insist on "Halphas".
(If anyone challenges me I will express confusion that they weren't talking about the demon.)
(If anyone challenges me I will express confusion that they weren't talking about the demon.)
Alva was the friend mentioned in the previous post.
I also have a wee thread about her favourite story:
bsky.app/profile/ncdo...
I also have a wee thread about her favourite story:
bsky.app/profile/ncdo...
It was a friend's year's mind today, so I'll retell a story from her funeral.
Alva was 87 years old, and in a long and far from wealthy life her two indulgences were opera and travel.
She had criss-crossed Europe, and had once been invited to meet Joan Sutherland in her dressing room.
Alva was 87 years old, and in a long and far from wealthy life her two indulgences were opera and travel.
She had criss-crossed Europe, and had once been invited to meet Joan Sutherland in her dressing room.
November 19, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Alva was the friend mentioned in the previous post.
I also have a wee thread about her favourite story:
bsky.app/profile/ncdo...
I also have a wee thread about her favourite story:
bsky.app/profile/ncdo...
I find it manageable only because I follow a fairly small number of accounts and use muted words and "hide post" quite freely to opt out of the Everyone Must Express Outrage At This du jour.
(The widget that lets you block Xitter screenshots is also conducive to sanity.)
(The widget that lets you block Xitter screenshots is also conducive to sanity.)
November 19, 2025 at 11:24 AM
I find it manageable only because I follow a fairly small number of accounts and use muted words and "hide post" quite freely to opt out of the Everyone Must Express Outrage At This du jour.
(The widget that lets you block Xitter screenshots is also conducive to sanity.)
(The widget that lets you block Xitter screenshots is also conducive to sanity.)
She was the best of dogs, and she had a long and wonderful life, and she has left such a hole.
November 19, 2025 at 9:24 AM
She was the best of dogs, and she had a long and wonderful life, and she has left such a hole.
I do not care if your "clunky" design gets laughed at by the coke-addled pillocks who sit at the cool kids' table in the designers' lunch room.
If it passes the Alva's Laptop Test then you are doing it right, and I will come and thump those pillocks for you and take their lunch money if that helps.
If it passes the Alva's Laptop Test then you are doing it right, and I will come and thump those pillocks for you and take their lunch money if that helps.
November 19, 2025 at 9:08 AM
I do not care if your "clunky" design gets laughed at by the coke-addled pillocks who sit at the cool kids' table in the designers' lunch room.
If it passes the Alva's Laptop Test then you are doing it right, and I will come and thump those pillocks for you and take their lunch money if that helps.
If it passes the Alva's Laptop Test then you are doing it right, and I will come and thump those pillocks for you and take their lunch money if that helps.
I'm told that ending in tears is the ordained purpose of Scottish football.
November 19, 2025 at 8:30 AM
I'm told that ending in tears is the ordained purpose of Scottish football.
Update: apparently yesterday's football will result in further football, but the further football will take place at a time when I don't have to get a class to concentrate the following morning. That is quite considerate of the football.
November 19, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Update: apparently yesterday's football will result in further football, but the further football will take place at a time when I don't have to get a class to concentrate the following morning. That is quite considerate of the football.
That's ghastly. Sympathy to you and everyone else affected.
November 18, 2025 at 9:16 PM
That's ghastly. Sympathy to you and everyone else affected.
I am a little less cynical, or perhaps I am just the sort of person who often wants them to mean what they appear to me to mean...
November 18, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I am a little less cynical, or perhaps I am just the sort of person who often wants them to mean what they appear to me to mean...
Well, there is that. I do worry though, that the next time the chatbot says one thing and I (a person who finds and reads the regulations, and points out clauses that contradict each other) say another, people will believe the chatbot.
November 18, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Well, there is that. I do worry though, that the next time the chatbot says one thing and I (a person who finds and reads the regulations, and points out clauses that contradict each other) say another, people will believe the chatbot.
Could they rebroadcast it, please? Just in case it still works.
November 18, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Could they rebroadcast it, please? Just in case it still works.
So tightly written, with barely a wasted line, and Richardson playing his villain just this side of Richard III. Absolute classic.
November 18, 2025 at 8:23 PM
So tightly written, with barely a wasted line, and Richardson playing his villain just this side of Richard III. Absolute classic.
I offer you also this classic headline from the Daily News (11 March 1954).
November 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
I offer you also this classic headline from the Daily News (11 March 1954).
Calling it: I think the wee guy qualifies for "iconic" status.
November 18, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Calling it: I think the wee guy qualifies for "iconic" status.
The mention of "less positive opinions of his record with workers’ rights" does leave a strong "except in Ireland" taste in the mouth...
November 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
The mention of "less positive opinions of his record with workers’ rights" does leave a strong "except in Ireland" taste in the mouth...