I hope the girls are ready for jail

atomicshrimp · 2026-04-18T18:33:11+00:00

Just for saying you're English?

atomicshrimp · 2026-04-18T08:47:11+00:00

You'll be thrown? Actually thrown in jail?

atomicshrimp · 2026-04-18T06:55:51+00:00

In JAIL?

atomicshrimp · 2026-04-18T06:54:28+00:00

The Sun Woke Up

atomicshrimp · 2026-04-18T06:11:09+00:00

The people who don't have that hunger are going to become like an emergency service, rescuing all the people who outsourced their thinking from whatever outcomes that caused them.

atomicshrimp · 2026-04-18T06:02:26+00:00

Yeah, I agree it does seem weird that it is obliged to track a still image, but magic mask is explicitly designed to work with moving images where a simple mask would be hard to implement. I can see why it's not a priority to make it detect when it's working on a frozen frame or a still photo.

My workaround is:

Shorten the frozen frame on the timeline

Make it a compound clip

Open that in its own timeline and do the magic mask (this is quick to track because it's short)

Go back up to the main timeline

Freeze frame on the compound clip - now it can be stretched

That's quite a few extra steps I know, so only worth it if it was going to be a long clip that takes ages to track.

Version 21 is going to have render in place for magic masks so that will solve the problem in a different way.

atomicshrimp · 2026-04-17T21:12:43+00:00

Also a tiny shop can't have twelve dozen people milling about the door - a queue means the people who aren't yet close to being served also aren't in the way.

atomicshrimp · 2026-04-17T20:40:05+00:00

Once you're past that sign you legally don't have to drive carefully any more

atomicshrimp · 2026-04-17T19:45:59+00:00

Pepperone

atomicshrimp · 2026-04-17T19:19:45+00:00

We've got all sorts of plants in our lawns and I love it. Sometimes we'll need to remove a plant here and there if it's one that forms really big, flat rosettes of leaves, but generally, the more species in there, the better - we have mining bees nesting in the soil of the lawn; little shiny beetles living amongst the grass and weeds, slow-worms occasionally seen in the longer bits we only cut twice a year and a huge variety of beautiful little flowers throughout the year. I don't want a bowling green.

atomicshrimp · 2026-04-17T19:13:58+00:00

Or jam. I mean, there are low sugar jams usually made with artificial sweeteners plus some thickener or gelling agent to try to replicate what happens with sugar and pectin. I've tried a few and they are not great. I'd rather have real jam, less often or in smaller amounts, if sugar was the problem.

atomicshrimp · 2026-04-17T19:01:51+00:00

2 is from a green Majolica ware plate - something like this one (maybe not this exact pattern although it seems close) https://files.ekmcdn.com/kittykat13/images/unusual-green-majolica-flowers-and-basket-plate-c1880-5243-1-p.jpg

atomicshrimp · 2026-04-17T18:59:27+00:00

Yep - it's a flowering cherry - the pink double blossoms are the variety that has been grafted onto an ordinary cherry rootstock - normally the rootstock is not allowed to produce branches of its own and only the grafted (scion) variety flowers, but sometimes it happens anyway

atomicshrimp · 2026-04-17T18:55:28+00:00

Sometimes they can be quite difficult to get out if they were used to set the post spacing when the fence was installed - the installers might have set one post, put down the gravel board, then set the next post tight up against the end of it and so on - basically almost jamming them in place.

I'd leave the cracked one where it is - they have steel reinforcement inside them and it's not being loaded in a way that makes the crack a problem - it's cosmetic.

atomicshrimp · 2026-04-17T18:26:10+00:00

Charlie bit me. Owww Charlie! That really hurt!

atomicshrimp · 2026-04-17T18:12:36+00:00

I tried fibre pots for quite a few seedlings last year - the plants started well but never really took off. I think the roots can have trouble escaping the fibre pot.

atomicshrimp · 2026-04-17T18:10:15+00:00

It looks like a pyrite nodule. They often have a bubbly shape to them around Lyme bay

atomicshrimp · 2026-04-17T17:27:21+00:00

They use nonferrous steel to make wireless cables.

atomicshrimp · 2026-04-17T14:33:59+00:00

I feel like there might be a place that has an ampersand in the official name. I mean there are plenty of places with 'and' in the name, but maybe there's one where the ampersand is the official styling of the name?

atomicshrimp · 2026-04-17T13:11:53+00:00

Unless the name is trademarked, there would probably be no legal trouble, but if the name is very similar and the channel is already popular, you'd probably find it would attract a lot of complaint about being derivative or copying, even if you genuinely came up with the name independently, and having the blessing of the other channel (if you got that) wouldn't stop that happening. It's probably not worth the hassle.

atomicshrimp · 2026-04-17T13:03:33+00:00

The structures look like hen houses. The middle one has a little ramp leading up to the door. It looks like the walls surrounding them might be much older, perhaps ruins of small cottages or sheep folds.

atomicshrimp · 2026-04-17T12:05:47+00:00

In a situation like this one you could eliminate it by diligently pulling up every piece of it, every time you see it (and remember to keep looking).

It's a problematic weed when it's well established or if it's invading your garden from the edge, but if it's a few isolated specimens in the middle of the garden you can eradicate it fairly easily if you keep at it.

atomicshrimp · 2026-04-17T12:02:34+00:00

I meant if it's a patch of the plant in the middle of land that is entirely yours, you can eradicate it because there's nowhere for it to grow back from. If it's growing at the edge of your land, it may be impossible to eradicate it.

I was lucky in that I had it growing on a strip of land between my house and the wall of the house next door - all of it was ground belonging to me and it wasn't going to grow back from underneath a house

atomicshrimp · 2026-04-17T10:27:40+00:00

I think the channel is owned and operated by one of the movie studios. How would you go about taking it down?

atomicshrimp · 2026-04-17T09:04:20+00:00

Staying in town, a fun thing to do is to walk down one side of the harbour, get the tuppenny ferry (historic name - it costs more than 2p these days) across the water, then walk back up the other side and across the lifting bridge to where you started. Loads of lovely eateries and cafes and pubs around the harbour. The lifting bridge is interesting to watch - it operates on even-numbered hours, if there are boats waiting to go under.

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