Smoking is bad. You'd have to be moron to disagree. But, life is finite. By definition. Some things are pleasurable for some people, whilst being detestable for others. So be it. Choices are made. Deal with it (or, decide that others must fall to your choice, and vice versa).

When a Cymru talks of "the Butcher's Apron", they really need to be very careful about who they are talking about. We suffered it, and we wore it. And I really don't think that enjoying the Manics (or the Phonics, or SFA, etc) is a get out clause. This is abysmal.

Wonderful! This museum should get a prize.

If the accident of birth should have no part in government, could Sir [hahaha] Kier [hahaha] Starmer stop wanging on about his tool of a father [hahahaha].

New bill introduced in Parliament to clarify crypto’s legal status gov.uk/government/new… And so it begins....!

Quite. Here is Ann Thomas, my paternal g-g-grandmother, known as Annie Baltic. She was the coal woman, the pub bouncer, and she was illiterate. Her descendants (nb short generations) are literate, and hate spreadsheets. She wins, but not as much as this welsh peasant does...

BBC Question Time from USA right now is genuinely, comically hilarious. As I've implied, on a four yearly basis, that country really would benefit from coming back under the Crown. Even if (indeed maybe because) the next episode of Question Time is from Rotherham.

Red Dwarf episode: "Marooned". Perfection.

No idea whether it was deliberate or otherwise, but as Rupert Myers implies, it's always good to talk.

Hahhahahahah. (On one hand i feel I should give biggly credit to @SpinningHugo, on the other hand I just think this is a hilarious nonsense that not even they could have guessed at!)

We're excited to announce that our own Dr. Thomas Sean Thomas will be speaking on Digital Product Passports at Eco-Designing the Future, next week! 🌍💡 Join on 21 November to explore this innovative step toward sustainable design. 🔗 [lisbonpubliclaw.pt/en/eventos/eco…]

Just in time for Christmas, a special issue of the Juridical Review has been published. This special issue on Moveable Transactions Reform considers the new Moveable Transactions (Scotland) Act 2023, which comes into force April 2025. The perfect read for the holidays.

This special issue was edited by Andrew Steven, with contributions from George Gretton, James Drummond Young, R. Bruce Wood, Orkun Akseli, Magda Raczynska, Chike Emedosi, Alasdair MacPherson, HardmanLaw, Sean Thomas, Caroline Sophie Rapatz (née Rupp), and Teresa Rodríguez de las Heras Balleil.

The Welsh are and always will be foreign in England. Note the prevalence of Cymru as "Foreigners". We are the definitive, original, foreigners. But, are Estonians and Faorese basically Welsh? As for Irish, well, um....

This is my/our/your life. Deal with it. (Could be worse. Could be a bricky like my dad.) [before the stupid pile on I'm sure Dr Juliette McIntyre ☯︎🩷💚 🏳️‍🌈 appreciates the irony]

Here's one for the colonials. You set up a country based on secularism, but you are having a flange over what someone in fancy dress says. Get a grip. They're just randoms in 18th century robes. They have no more moral authority than you or I.

I for one am happy to say that I would prefer all universities to be brutal and concrete.

I "might like" this....

#PhDone! Thanks to my examination committee (Elisa Mekler, Andrew Moshirnia, & Prof Pete Etchells), supervisors (Rune Kristian Lundedal Nielsen, Philip Newall, & Sean Thomas), and everyone who helped along the way, including the baking of a Brawl Stars loot box cake!

Just for Yuan Yi Zhu: Space jebus save the king! (And of course his banker on the little chair.)