-no sympathy at all frankly. The computers must be sucking the boring, boring supremacist nonsense and terrible adjective use from somewhere.

Open to real book recommendations about *interesting* werewolves, of course. Mildly fond of Gail Carriger.

If anyone knows how to tell Facebook I have no interest at all in cookie cutter, probably AI books about bitchy supernatural eugenicists I'd be delighted because despite being 1/3 of my ads it's inexplicably not an ad category I can block.

And if you are a human who writes these things-

...and even that would be fine if that wasn't how policies are being set at the moment.

...especially one open to education.

But whoever made the video had clearly not bothered to research the very well established people who talk about domestication, or a *single* museum of rural life, or indeed researched anything other than "aw! Fur baby!"

...

...had ever had to earn their keep. That there may have been a dog criteria more important than perceptual cuteness. I had to break out my computer and show him sheep dog trials (which were on the telly when I was small), and old engravings of mastiffs. Now, that's forgivable in a 10 year old...

...the best pets.

I said babe, even when I was young, many dogs worked. We bread smart dogs for herding, fierce dogs for guarding, fast dogs for hunting. Companionship was only one goal, but in all cases, cute came in far far later. And he had simply never heard of the concept that dogs...

...it's illustrative of some of the "just so" stories that only exist when people have no idea of what actually happened in history. Little son told me that the theory went that dogs were domesticated when humans made friends with the wimpiest, stupidest, cutest wolves because they were also...

Defend Our Juries: "Mass arrests of peaceful protesters will be acutely embarrassing" for Labour on Day 1 of conference.

Labour officials also rejected all 30 motions on Palestine - leading to anger from campaigners.

DOJ: Most Labour members oppose the ban and the TUC recently backed reversing it.

Really good!

Which I'm given to understand is a relatively rare level of forbearance.

I want to live in his world.

I've been playing him Stake a Claim by @scroobiuspipyo.bsky.social - he's taken more action than most of my adult friends.

...next to the existing posters so everyone sees the real ones are better.

So my boy is essentially creating the world's most polite protest. A protest that creates an *evidence base.* With no damage.

The school appear to be tolerating this shocking level of dissent.

My last two return journeys on that route have been completely trouble (and unicorn) free - believe me no one was more surprised than I am and it in no way invalidates your question. It just proves it is possible, therefore should happen more often.

I really wish political parties would stop believing the response to their opponents is to go "hey, we're just like those other guys, except, like, the diet version!".

Labour being diet Tory/Reform over here is disastrous, I can't imagine diet republican is going to work out any better.