Richard
@rchdnv.bsky.social
Husband, father, brother, son, great uncle. Enthusiastic, compassionate, inquisitive.
Images mine, except where noted.
📍 Leicestershire UK
Images mine, except where noted.
📍 Leicestershire UK
This article very much conflates the two, yet the final paragraphs that separate immigrants from terrorists also separate Israelis from those who are Jewish. I was so happy to see that it was a Muslim who had stepped in to stop the matter: it perfectly illustrates the idiocy of these conflations.
December 16, 2025 at 9:28 AM
This article very much conflates the two, yet the final paragraphs that separate immigrants from terrorists also separate Israelis from those who are Jewish. I was so happy to see that it was a Muslim who had stepped in to stop the matter: it perfectly illustrates the idiocy of these conflations.
Would such a situation not illustrate perfectly the pointlessness of such things? I am a little reminded of Ozymandias.
December 14, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Would such a situation not illustrate perfectly the pointlessness of such things? I am a little reminded of Ozymandias.
Finally, we see a sign of "must prepare"...
news.sky.com/story/uk-rap...
news.sky.com/story/uk-rap...
UK 'rapidly developing' plans to prepare for war
Al Carns has warned of a "shadow of war" at Europe's door, as hostile intelligence activity against the UK has jumped by more than 50% over the past year.
news.sky.com
December 13, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Finally, we see a sign of "must prepare"...
news.sky.com/story/uk-rap...
news.sky.com/story/uk-rap...
Equally absurd but my assumption was that you'd be obliged to use the women's toilets. It'd be interesting to see how well that goes down in some quarters! However, I'd say go with how you present. 99.9999% of everything in life is presentation.
December 13, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Equally absurd but my assumption was that you'd be obliged to use the women's toilets. It'd be interesting to see how well that goes down in some quarters! However, I'd say go with how you present. 99.9999% of everything in life is presentation.
Or was at least as far north as Birmingham.
December 11, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Or was at least as far north as Birmingham.
They just say "no" when you get there, so you then need to buy a ticket home again. Lovely.
December 10, 2025 at 8:36 PM
They just say "no" when you get there, so you then need to buy a ticket home again. Lovely.
I enjoyed the way he helped himself to it from the tray. Felt appropriate.
December 6, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I enjoyed the way he helped himself to it from the tray. Felt appropriate.
Presumably the inaugural and only.
I especially love the way Trump helped himself to the medal. Medals are usually given, not taken.
I especially love the way Trump helped himself to the medal. Medals are usually given, not taken.
December 6, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Presumably the inaugural and only.
I especially love the way Trump helped himself to the medal. Medals are usually given, not taken.
I especially love the way Trump helped himself to the medal. Medals are usually given, not taken.
Remember when Brezhnev died? Has the same ring of truth about it.
December 1, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Remember when Brezhnev died? Has the same ring of truth about it.
In the same way that Robert is your avuncular relative.
December 1, 2025 at 8:29 PM
In the same way that Robert is your avuncular relative.
Ozymandias, king of kings, has nothing on these guys.
November 28, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Ozymandias, king of kings, has nothing on these guys.
My favourite too. They seem quite smudge resistant.
November 24, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Wholeheartedly agree. I've ditched all others in favour of these.
November 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Wholeheartedly agree. I've ditched all others in favour of these.
No reservation needed. JFDI.
November 23, 2025 at 12:32 PM
No reservation needed. JFDI.
Imagine that your savings and investments suddenly are razed to the ground, no home, no electricity, no heating, no food. We have lived a soft life too long and become far too accustomed to it. I share the General's worry that today's generations -- myself included -- cannot comprehend war.
November 23, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Imagine that your savings and investments suddenly are razed to the ground, no home, no electricity, no heating, no food. We have lived a soft life too long and become far too accustomed to it. I share the General's worry that today's generations -- myself included -- cannot comprehend war.
And constant thanks to @julienhoez.eu for bringing French and European politics to English readers. The BBC did cover it somewhere on its news pages but nobody, so far as I can tell, is making similar noises in the UK. Imagine any part of France or the UK levelled in the same way as Ukraine or Gaza
November 23, 2025 at 10:52 AM
And constant thanks to @julienhoez.eu for bringing French and European politics to English readers. The BBC did cover it somewhere on its news pages but nobody, so far as I can tell, is making similar noises in the UK. Imagine any part of France or the UK levelled in the same way as Ukraine or Gaza
I've got my mum an admissions interview for a care home on Tuesday. She doesn't recognise what the hob is in the kitchen or the microwave and recently forgot about a meal cooking in the main oven -- I discovered it 3-4 hours into cooking. So that's about the point we've reached.
November 22, 2025 at 11:21 PM
I've got my mum an admissions interview for a care home on Tuesday. She doesn't recognise what the hob is in the kitchen or the microwave and recently forgot about a meal cooking in the main oven -- I discovered it 3-4 hours into cooking. So that's about the point we've reached.
Or just a way to understand where someone is on a scale would be helpful, even if it is like a self-assessment and some guidance as to "this is unsafe". The only guidance I've been given re my mum is "you'll know when" which may be true but it's very woolly!
November 22, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Or just a way to understand where someone is on a scale would be helpful, even if it is like a self-assessment and some guidance as to "this is unsafe". The only guidance I've been given re my mum is "you'll know when" which may be true but it's very woolly!
And a few years later, a comb-over. Or was that just a 20th century thing, do you think?
November 22, 2025 at 10:38 AM
And a few years later, a comb-over. Or was that just a 20th century thing, do you think?