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In the legend of St Maughold’s conversion, Patrick appears to have a man straight up die so that Patrick can resurrect him all just to turn a practical joke back on the jokers

(Disclaimer: it never says Patrick kills him. He just happens to actually die)

It’s real! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Head_(footballer)

Also, the top American fighter pilot in WWII was Major Dick Bong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bong

I suppose she was probably a monarchist herself, even if that’s not why her death got so much ridiculous fuss

Elizabeth’s funeral took place over one day. If you’re counting the lying-in-state, you should also count it for Kim

Talisker make reliably solid stuff, but I don’t think I’ve ever had the Port Ruighe. What’s it like?

To drink: Beer if I’ve had a long and tiresome day. I like malty dark beers best, like stout or heather ale, but on a hot day a wheat beer is pleasantly refreshing. If I’m already in a good mood and want to really take the time to savour something, whisky (Scottish or Japanese ideally, not generally keen on Irish or American but will give things a shot). Gins and red wines are welcome. If it’s earlier in the day or I don’t want alcohol, I am a big fan of slowly working my way through a cafetiere of coffee

To eat: I love stuffed green olives as a snack, but when blackberries or redcurrants are in season I will grab those instead a lot of the time. Nice bread and balsamic is a strong choice too

To listen to: Very mood dependent, as music often is. Old blues standards are fantastic to really relax with. Power, black, or prog metal are great when I want to devote more attention to the music and get absorbed in the energy. Scottish and Irish folk music and adjacent rock/pop stuff is where I go for daydreaming and creativity. Jazz, other types of folk music, post-rock, and 90s/00s alt rock might be where I wander sometimes

Anecdotally, I’m in the UK and Discord has never asked me for ID. I don’t have nitro, though, so if it’s a nitro thing I would not know

He’s working hard on his PhD in comfiness

I’ll be helping my wee brother out with some DIY he needs done on Saturday, so I’m otherwise occupied unfortunately. Stay safe at the protest and thank you for helping make that bastard feel unwelcome

Someone has added a “Twinned with Epstein Island” sign to one of his golf courses

Seriously though we should surround every inch of his golf courses here with wind farms

There’s a Nelson Mandela Place in Glasgow, Scotland which was renamed to that in 1986 because the apartheid South African consulate was there. I love this kind of thing

There’s a great video of the Outer Wilds devs watching someone speedrun their game, and at the end of it one of them jokes, “We made a very short game”

This article is about to make my steam wishlist a good chunk longer, I think

Oh hey, I’m also a veggie that loves chorizo and is unimpressed by the soy versions. If your plan works, could you tag me and tell me?

Politically, I’ve historically voted Lib Dem but get grief for being a yellow Tory. I’m like bitch I can’t stand the Tories - but there’s no Green candidate in my area, and I just want to start pushing the stats towards the left to make it more appealing for parties to field more social or left-leaning candidates.

I’m lucky enough to have a better option in my part of the UK, but for so long as we have FPTP then I am completely with you that tactical voting for the least bad viable option is the best strategy on election day. I’ve said to friends that I would even vote Tory… if that was the only opposition to Reform in my constituency. Less bad is always still less bad, even if it remains terrible in its own right

An embroidery hoop with some embroidery on it. The word “fucking” is censored because the image is from a (terrible) newspaper

It’s actually a mural and she is, unfortunately, just like that all by herself

The Mouldemort meme is funny though

I only found out about it because of posts on here several days after it happened. I’m glad I went to find the video though, it’s pretty funny to me that Chris Martin immediately called out that it was an affair over the mic

The theory was to get the proportions right to replicate the pH, sugar content, and tannins close to grape must without having to add much else. Turns out, by chance, that on those three factors, pomegranate and dates are all roughly different from grapes in opposite directions and amounts to each other.

I live in Scotland, which is not exactly prime pomegranate and date territory, so they’re both kinda expensive here and not great quality out of season. I did a trial run with pomgranate molasses to just see if I was on to something without spending as much money (or having to crack open and juice like twenty pomegranates)

If I figure out an actual good recipe I’ll be sure to stick it on !homebrewing@sopuli.xyz

Deprivation Of Rights Under Color Of Law is the one, by the looks of it. Which explains to some degree why every news outlet is describing it the way they are. NBC gives the actual name https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/breonna-taylors-family-heartbroken-one-day-sentence-recommendation-ex-rcna219947

Oh I’ve made plenty of beer (and fruit wine, and gin, and currently an attempt at bochet that is awaiting bottling)! It really is just the wild yeast I’m afraid of

I figure I could probably do enough reading and learning to make myself comfortable, but there are enough other things I want to make that I’m not prioritising it just now. I had a crack at a pomegranate and date wine over the winter that I particularly want to improve