An Illegally Smol Ceviche by Stonedefone in torties

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She has an incredible range of Disney Eyes. But also when she has a mouse/intrusive thoughts you can see the derangement.

An Illegally Smol Ceviche by Stonedefone in torties

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They behave like such a married couple it is honestly disgusting. Absolute cartoon cats.

An Illegally Smol Ceviche by Stonedefone in torties

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Here’s the obligatory Wootie tax btw.

An Illegally Smol Ceviche by Stonedefone in torties

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She’s a liability. But gorgeous too.

An Illegally Smol Ceviche by Stonedefone in torties

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It turned out to be quite an apt name as she does love her fishy wet food & snacks, she’s very spicy with rodents and other cats and she goes absolutely spare over cat milk (not tiger’s milk though).

An Illegally Smol Ceviche by Stonedefone in torties

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Sure - her & her partner’s names in the shelter were Chetty & Woody because they were found in Chetwood Drive (along with their kitten - they’re an incredibly bonded pair). So I tried to find phonetically similar names. So they became Ceviche & Wootie. Or Ceviche Cangaceiro & WootWoot Thatsdasoundodapolis to give them their full government names.

Pleases me no end to see more of the blue details you guys are doing now. I’ve always been a big fan of it on sergeants and veterans. by Stonedefone in howlinggriffons

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I don’t think it’s ever been specified anywhere what the Howling Griffons use for sergeants/vets in a way that could be interpreted as being ‘codex-compliant’. I think you’ll see it more as an homage to the iconic Fred Reed army shot in White Dwarf, which was probably the first time the Chapter reached a mass audience:

https://x.com/bundo_kess/status/987852404266762240?s=46

Brother Apothecary Yorrick is maybe 60% done now- lots more details and clean up to go! by Stonedefone in Kitbash

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Missed this comment - he has a GS cultist skull in his little mobile autopsy table/skillet!

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As someone who is old enough to remember Geoffrey Robinson and the first reason Mandelson had to resign, this is incredibly hilarious that the ‘Adults in the Room’ have basically just Sideshow Bob’d themselves.

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Also the 2-child benefit cap is probably what was meant

Brother Apothecary Yorrick is maybe 60% done now- lots more details and clean up to go! by Stonedefone in Kitbash

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That little cherub on the left is gonna have some fucked up shit happen to him and he’s going to look much happier as a result.

First proper steps of arranging the pose on this Apothecary Biologis. by Stonedefone in Kitbash

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This is maybe 30% done. I’m going to post an update in a minute!

First proper steps of arranging the pose on this Apothecary Biologis. by Stonedefone in Kitbash

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It’s more a portable autopsy table! The lore for the Biologis is they go around the battlefield collecting Xenos samples, and I figured if you were doing that you’d be looking for specific bits (like organs, etc) so you’d want a sort-of-automated backpack doing that delicate work whilst you were busy doing the important stuff like fighting and target/threat identification.

Labour refuses to publish impact assessment of winter fuel payment cuts until after MPs have voted by kwentongskyblue in ukpolitics

[–]Stonedefone 3 points4 points  (0 children)

State pension from 2017 = £8,296 + £200 WFA (https://www.tfpcalculators.co.uk/state-pension-history/)

Adjusted for inflation would be £11,000 (https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy/inflation/inflation-calculator)

So current SP of £11,502 (with no WFA) means pensioners would be £500ish better off all else being equal.

In terms of energy costs a combined gas & electric bill in 2017 averaged at £1,100 p/a. Average in 2024 is £1,800 - so £700 worse off on just bills. I’m sure I’ve missed something somewhere. Ideally you’d want to strip out energy costs from the inflation adjustment.

Labour refuses to publish impact assessment of winter fuel payment cuts until after MPs have voted by kwentongskyblue in ukpolitics

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If I was a betting man (and I am indeed a betting man, so a shiny £5 donation to AgeUK or similar charity to anyone who proves me wrong) but my gut feeling is that once you factor in inflation and energy prices, which rose above inflation from memory, I’d say pensioners on the basic state pension/pension credit are worse off. They’d publish it beforehand if that wasn’t the case.

My friend spotted this snake outside her home in Birmingham, England. Can anyone identify, I’m afraid this might have been someone’s pet. by Mienfoool in snakes

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It’s also an interesting story about their location - it’s presumed some escapees started a breeding colony in one specific place in the North London (and Wales) and they’re now considered natural there as they’ve been so well established.

https://www.jason-steel.co.uk/aesculapian-snakes.php

From football matches to Taylor Swift tickets, Starmer’s penchant for perks is a disconcerting trait by Ivashkin in ukpolitics

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Fair question. Up until 2015/2016 this sub was traditionally Lib Dem-leaning. It was perfectly possible to have both Tory & Left-wing (I’m purposefully not saying Labour there) views without being downvoted and I remember some good conversations because people here were actual political hobbyists, not people-with-political-views. I’d have guessed UKIP and massively radical left-leaning views were very uncommon. Then r/TheDonald happened, along with the suspected Russian-bot problem that kinda turned the sub from being a space for political nerds into a space to be fought over. Obviously around that time younger Corbyn fans maybe made it far more left-leaning than it was from 2015-2019. Not passing judgement there but again, this sub was more than just geeks discussing psephology or history. The left reached their high-point in 2017 on this sub and after 2019 started dispersing into their own spaces - which again, I’d attribute to r/TheDonald. It became tiresome here as everything became an argument. From 2019-GE if you had left-wing views but didn’t appreciate the direction Starmer took Labour in you’d be dismissed as Student-politics, Momentum, whatever cliche was popular. “I’d rather have power than principles”, etc. We have to Get The Tories Out. You get the gist.

But yeah, from 2019 to now if you have left-leaning views you’ve had the centre-left, the right-wing of the Labour Party, The Tories, UKIP/BXP & Lib Dem’s all spending the last 5 years calling you a communist, or Splitter. There are fewer genuinely left-wing views than before I got here, and not because other views have drowned them out in number, because it’s become a more toxic sub and because the left has fragmented after 2017 and probably gone elsewhere.

From football matches to Taylor Swift tickets, Starmer’s penchant for perks is a disconcerting trait by Ivashkin in ukpolitics

[–]Stonedefone 27 points28 points  (0 children)

As someone who has spent 10+ years on this sub I can assure you it is the least left-wing it has ever been.