GhostLad @ghostlad.bsky.social · 18hAlso, people just showing up at your door expecting coffee and company is just plain rude... 010
GhostLad @ghostlad.bsky.social · 18hYeah, this feel very "overthinking it". I think some Ye Olde Hosting was driven by "do it or they'll speak ill of you in the village" and it's great that those that don't enjoy it don't have to. For us that do: chill, run a cloth over the bathroom, sweep the floor. Your friends won't mind the rest 110
Reposted by GhostLadRob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026It would seem the Home Office has now acquired the ability to impose, without visibility or accountability, shadow bans on students coming to British universities from particular countries. How? Because of the interaction between indiv visa decisions (made by HO alone) and visa rules for unis 1/? 10257173
GhostLad @ghostlad.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Look, Finder was just distracted by a pod of dolphins for a bit. Happens to all of us 😆 000
GhostLad @ghostlad.bsky.social · 08/10/2026It was a similar confusion I had about the farmers IHT thing. If your farm is proudly a family farm and you want your kids to take over and the kids agree.. why not transfer the ownership now and start the 7 year timer to make IHT a moot point? Why is it imperative that you hang onto it until death? 271
Reposted by GhostLadRachel Courtland @rachelcourtland.com · 08/10/2026RIP to the world's first software engineer news.mit.edu/2026/margare...news.mit.eduMargaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90. 191759447
GhostLad @ghostlad.bsky.social · 06/10/2026This makes good sense I think. And seems something that could be done with minimal political (and by virtue of what it is, no economic) pain. 000
GhostLad @ghostlad.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Fraggle Rock: The Terrible Tunnel. My mom was slightly at a loss to comfort 8-year old me over Sir Blunderbrain being stuck in the tunnel forever. 000
GhostLad @ghostlad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This leaves out several nuances, including how it interacts with tax. Take DK as an example. It does not have a tax floor like UK. So that 25K £ will post-tax be about 17.5K £. UK amount is not taxed*. So yes, DK is more, but you cannot compare these numbers directly * assuming no other income 100
GhostLad @ghostlad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026She also seems to think Brexit is still a grand idea... 021
GhostLad @ghostlad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Denmark has quite a similar health system to the NHS so health cost will be similar. Ignoring other pensions available, the unadjusted basic state pension is ~11.300 gbp/year. By comparison the UK state pension unadjusted is 12547 £/year (241 £/week). So yeah, seems pretty average to me. 2/2 020
GhostLad @ghostlad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I saw a similar chart the other day and it raised an eyebrow of the "that doesn't seem right" kind to me. My country of origin is Denmark, which has cropped up as a favourable comparison in UK media as well, so with the caveat that a single datapoint hastily found is not statistics: 1/2 110
Reposted by GhostLadMax B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 24/09/2026Bloody French, saying what we're all thinking ... 19478228
Reposted by GhostLadEmma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat. 1042175958
GhostLad @ghostlad.bsky.social · 22/09/2026There's been some chat about the lack of vision briefings from some parts of the party. Is this maybe a function of not having a clear idea of what their voter base is? As in not thinking about _who_ they are rather than which constituencies they may live in, where they clearly have a list in mind. 001
GhostLad @ghostlad.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Thanks, I wasn't particularly fond of this timeline as is, but now I really hate it... 0130
GhostLad @ghostlad.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I can also recommend the cookbook. The recipes are a bit advanced in the spice department, so requires a bit of shopping around, but they explain the howtos well, and half the book is just a lovely tour of Bombay in bookform that makes we want to go and eat there www.dishoom.com/store/produc...dishoom.comDishoom Cookery Book | Bestselling Recipe Book | Dishoom StoreAn eccentric and charming cookery book, with over 100 Dishoom recipes for Bombay comfort food and drink. Order online now. 010
GhostLad @ghostlad.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I do not have a youtube channel, but I follow plenty who do, and I'm fairly certain "1 hour long rants from small channels" is not the current meta for gaming The Algorithm..... 000
GhostLad @ghostlad.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"Leith Community Authority is in charge solely of removing and then quickly replacing public benches. For other services, please refer to the regional authority". :D 010
GhostLad @ghostlad.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Ofc being able to run around in a world from books I had spent hours reading at the library helped. Had I been a bit younger there is a decent chance my early formative game experiences would have been a FPS and probably my steam library would look very different than the one in this reality. 000
GhostLad @ghostlad.bsky.social · 21/09/2026In the sense that it steered me into a genre, I'd have to go with the old GoldBox "Death Knights of Krynn". That you can have an AD&D experience without having to gather a gang of friends and that a story can carry over between games was astonishing, and probably is why I like RPGs to this day. 100
GhostLad @ghostlad.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I second this. I have made it exactly once and with the usual apprehension I have around pastry, and it came out great. Turns out I needn't worry. Hot water pastry is, in my experience, pretty easy to work with. Only flaw was I had it slightly too thick, but that's on me, not the pastry. 020
GhostLad @ghostlad.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Respectfully aquired from the great Billy Connelly, but: "<person> was about as welcome as a fart in a spacesuit" 020
GhostLad @ghostlad.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I would tell them to take a long walk off a short pier, except that would just create more work the RNLI. 1310
Reposted by GhostLadJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026What on earth is happening? 23833111338
GhostLad @ghostlad.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Call me old fashioned, but if you have in fact not heard it, I don't think "we have heard it" is the right response. And it's hardly advanced politics to realise that you should know what something is about before expressing public support. 020
GhostLad @ghostlad.bsky.social · 16/09/2026But if it is a boilerplate answer because she didn't know the story (which I can believe, since she doesn't seem to do her job much), why not not spend 5 minutes looking up what you are being asked about (or have an aide provide you a recap)? I can't see how it is worth going to bat for her here. 010
Reposted by GhostLadStoo @stoo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Shout-out to the brave motherfuckers chopping the collapsing, rusting masts off the SS Richard Montgomery on the bottom of the Thames between Southend and Sheerness today. If it goes badly, we're all going to very much know about it. Fascinating, also terrifying stuff youtu.be/R9u41aeItss?...youtu.beUnexploded Bombs off the British Coast: the SS Richard MontgomeryYouTube video by Tom Scott 1419975
GhostLad @ghostlad.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Can we bring back the times when central government didn't feel the need to have a public opinion about every little thing? 120
GhostLad @ghostlad.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I caught myself falling prey to this myself with the new Starcraft game. I don't really give a toss about RTS, so when it wasn't SC3 I was intrigued. And I remember thinking "Oh, I though it was only a future release reveal, but if there's a trailer, maybe it's.... ah, 2030. Nevermind" 000
GhostLad @ghostlad.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I wonder if there's a sort of mistaken understanding from many gamers that "if press release, then release not soon. if trailer, then release soon". Once you show parts, even in trailer form, it's thought that you have nailed down the visual language and so are surely* getting close * not at all 121
GhostLad @ghostlad.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Most of my family is not very online and they are concerned about it on a "not sure what is true" level. And I don't really see my nieces and nephews (teenagers and above) sharing slop on their socials, at least the ones I am on. I wonder if to them is is just an evolution on "spot the photoshop". 000
GhostLad @ghostlad.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Not quite the fashion angle mind, but something about the impact at least 000
GhostLad @ghostlad.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Clara Bonacchi from University of Edinburgh wrote about that back in 2014. She's still there, though loaned to another project until 1st january 2027 www.researchgate.net/publication/...researchgate.net(PDF) Audiences and Experiential Values of Archaeological Television: The Case Study ofTime TeamPDF | This article examines the experiential values of archaeological television, through the case study of Time Team. It proposes a framework of... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ... 260
GhostLad @ghostlad.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I second Heidelberg just for learning about how many times the Palatinate flattened the city 😁 140
GhostLad @ghostlad.bsky.social · 11/09/2026We spent an enjoyable day looking at gizmos and steam trains in the Technoseum in Mannheim last spring, which isn't too far from Schifferstadt 020
Reposted by GhostLadMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026It's that time of year again: annual elections of Council Members for the magnificent National Trust. Should you wish to vote for the Nomination Committee's recommended candidates, they are on page 18 of your booklet. 'Restore' and 'Reclaim' are again in the fray. Votes are due in by 30 October. 56957
Reposted by GhostLadTim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Easy to donate: rnli.org/support-us/g... 27834393
GhostLad @ghostlad.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I mean, probably would have had a Reformation given the rest of Europe exists? It's quite impossible to know. I was just pointing out that on the question of "what would the church develop like if the vikings were in charge for 1000 years?", there is scant evidence for "less powerful and nicer". 030
GhostLad @ghostlad.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Not being in communion may sound like a religious point, but for many communities around the country at the time, it effectively amounted to being shunned. 020
GhostLad @ghostlad.bsky.social · 11/09/2026F.inst. Confirmation was reintroduced in 1733 and up until the constitution was changed in 1849 it was a requirement to have any civil rights. Not confirmed people could f.inst. not marry or accept positions of work. You were also denied participation in communion. 121
GhostLad @ghostlad.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Having grown up in one of the countries that grew out of the vikings, the claim about the church certainly doesn't ring true. There was a lot of religious control of society in the immediate aftermath of christendom, as well as in the aftermath of the Reformation out of fear of a Catholic rebound. 230
Reposted by GhostLadThomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Apparently organising black shirts to block key infrastructure, target the RNLI, attack police etc is not enough for anyone in power to act urgently. Begs the awful question as to what would it take for anyone to condemn this, never mind act. 912020
Reposted by GhostLadRoland Pierik @roleo.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026The number of cases of cervical cancer reported in Scotland among women given the HPV vaccine at 12-13 years of age is now zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comNo cervical cancer cases in fully HPV-vaccinated women in ScotlandA study published by Public Health Scotland finds that the HPV vaccine is "highly effective". 6461332288
Reposted by GhostLadJohn Bull @garius.bsky.social · 08/09/2026It's entirely possible to outsiurce services and achieve efficiencies. It just requires your business processes to be simple and consistent with clear governance. There is not a single university in the UK whose business processes are simple and consistent with clear governance. 1321342
Reposted by GhostLadStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 07/09/2026"It is hard not to draw the conclusion that the police and Home Office seem to be incapable of an appropriate response to the threat of far-right activity and violence."nicklowles.substack.comDid Kent Police ignore a 999 call?Contrary to their public statement, HOPE not hate can exclusively reveal that Kent Police were tipped off about the Patriot Platform mobilisation – and seemingly did not act on the information. 26710282
