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You can skip the parboiling, just give them a shake in oil and air fry 25-30. Won't be quite as crispy, but decent toasties regardless if the distinction from Parmentier bothers you. If not, same thing in 1 - 2cm cubes and it will probably be done in 15.

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The parboiling is just to allow the outsides to fluff up and hold a bit more oil for crispness. I used to do it when roasting them in the oven!

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Normal roastie size chunks, parboil for five mins, shake (with a little flour if you want extra crispy), coat in oil (plus any herbs or garlic you feel like), air fryer 200 for 20 - 25 mins. Crispy on the outside, fluffy on the inside.

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Marcus Hill @drmarcushill.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

$=xp? Maybe ablative vs. absorbtive armour?

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Did you take off the previous windowsill surface or just tile over it in order to maintain the tradition in that house?

Hannah R @missradders.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

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Niche offer but anyone mathsy in Leeds I have a ticket to this at lunchtime today if anyone wants it. Free to a good home. Please repost.

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No, but it stacks with teething gel.

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Will you be reporting on the taste test?

At this stage, you must be tempted to just remove all the plasterboard in the expectation that you'll gain an appreciable amount of interior space after removing all of the random strata.

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Is your house not today's discourse?

"Zionism" has become an essentially useless term. One side uses it to mean "Jewish people deserve a homeland", so anyone opposing it is antisemitic, and the other to mean "anything Israel does is fine", so anyone endorsing it loves genocide. Both deliberately refuse to address this semantic rift.

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In a way, they did. They have to have the same number of distractors per question, so I suppose they might have decided one of 2^2022 and 4^1011 would be the one to omit.

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I know next to nothing about home electrical systems, and even I know that's one of the first things you should be checking.

It's weird, because I always thought the main element of limp lettuce was texture rather than flavour, so I would have assumed that recognising the latter without the former would be challenging. This grand culinary experiment has proven this conjecture was incorrect!

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This is blatant wokery! How dare they change the sacred names of the Great Old Ones? They were constructed by a master of the language, not just made up, and why should it matter if it sounds a bit like a bad word? It's not like Lovecraft was a massive racist. Hang on, I'm being handed a note...

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NGL, I am intrigued as to how they managed to replicate limp lettuce flavour.

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To be clear, this is for flavours replicating food I really like!

I look at many novelty crisp flavours and avoid them for exactly this reason. Even if they manage to replicate the flavour exactly, I am always left wondering why you would want to do so in crunchy potato texture.

Marcus Hill @drmarcushill.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We need to do a bit of quick maths and calculate the greatest distance from any point in the UK to the nearest court, and then expand the ban to anywhere within that distance of a court.

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Intelligence and education, sure. Wisdom? There are reasons that my recollection of the 90s is patchy at best, and literally none of them classify as wise choices.

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More recently, 5) The grey in it gives me an unwarranted air of wisdom.

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Not only that, but as we know, GenAI is better at telling you how awesome you are than it is at creating interesting things, so it's far better suited to the role of sycophantic player than genius GM.

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Hold on, it's worse than that. They have just cut off those bars at 600k for no good reason.

I strongly suspect uncritical use of Artificial Stupidity here. Look at all those bars of equal total length with numbers that don't even come close to having constant sums.

What kind of idiot decides to pivot to being a travel agent when the world is staying at home?

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Are they trying to lean into some sort of "male menopause" thing?

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And declaring the Catholic church's official stance on things like the ontology of AI is literally his job.

Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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Okay, but who's the SECOND person you want to shit himself to death on live TV?

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"How did you get into ttrpgs?" I was 11 and staying with relatives in Canada having left Argentina sharpish in 1982, and my cousins played in their basement (as is traditional). One of their adult kids is over to visit this month. This makes me feel old.

They can't decide whether to use the total or drained weight in their price per kg calculation.

Damn, you beat me to it by 6 seconds!

Marcus Hill @drmarcushill.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If I can get just over 50% of the people in every constituency to vote for my party, I will become Prime Minister in a historic landslide victory.

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Fellow academics, if you are an external examiner for any course at Brighton (I have been), can I urge you to tell them you will quit prior to the June boards unless the University withdraw their notice that they are derecognising the UCU, and not to take any position if they come up.

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Was it more or less mad than asking British and Irish people about their tea drinking?

It's more akin to (though not quite the same as) the Genesys success/fail advantage/threat system.

But if I were sitting at a computer, I would probably just brute force it on Excel in 20 seconds instead. I'm not saying it's the best way, but it allows me to skip the annoying "thinking" stage.

Marcus Hill @drmarcushill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

To be really pedantic, it should be "birds are dinosaurs"