I just feel like I’m dying inside. I’m literally giving it six months or I’m filing for divorce. That will be her birthday present if we can’t find common ground. I would rather live in a shack, mired in debt and alone, seeing our four kids every now and then, then be this fucking miserable every night.

Have you told her this? Have you tried couple’s counseling?

She may think she needs to get her head down and work hard to sort out the finances, then she can work through the emotional stuff but that’s not working for you. Better she finds out now, when you can work on fixing it, rather than when you hand the papers over.

Reports about the number of ghosts in the castle vary, but there are believed to be around nine, including Thomas Bowes-Lyon, who was said to have been removed from the line of succession after he was born with a severe deformity.

While official records state that he died the day he was born, on October 21, 1821, it is rumoured that he survived and was kept hidden away by his family until he died in the 1920s, having been only allowed out to exercise at night.

The Monster of Glamis:

Depictions of the mysterious earl also emerged in time. Jacynth Hope-Simpson in her book Who Knows? suggested the boy may have suffered a genetic defect given the child’s parents were cousins first removed.

Ghost writer Peter Underwood suggested Thomas had wasted arms and legs and resembled “an enormous flabby egg.”

Godzooky has entered the chat.

No Don’t Fuck in the Woods? I mean it’s terrible but…

Something like Teeth (2008) would be a solid addition.

Watch the first one and go with your friend to see the sequel, it’s really good.

I wasn’t that bowled over by Smile as it seemed like another one of those “concept” horror movies, a poor man’s It Follows. However, other people liked it more and you kinda have to watch it before watching Smile 2, which is one of the best horror movies of the year.

So if you like horror, then I’d recommend watching it, if only as set-up for the sequel, which is a must-see.

It’s a great series - one-off documentaries which allow people the space to follow up on a story and try interesting ways to tell it. I may not be gripped by every episode but that feels like they are doing their job and delivering an eclectic mix.

Even the whole premise of a station coming out of nowhere, somehow somewhere flung out of orbit, somehow getting captured by their planet’s orbit, just to then be on an intercept trajectory with the ring.

I was waiting for them to drop an exciting in-universe explanation for that and… I’m still waiting.

Things that “just happen” to move the story forward or up the peril are signs of bad writing. I’m still curious about the writing process - did the studio interfere and make them do all that or did they genuinely create exactly what they wanted to and hand it over to the studios who greenlit it without anyone along the way calling out the fact that it was terrible? I’m not sure which option I prefer.

But he admits a theatrical version would be “enormous fun”, and they are open to the idea.

Given the fact that the musical was a license to print money that seems inevitable but in a landscape of hostility to reboots this could be the angle a movie exec needs to make another Warriors film too.

I suspect tomfoolery at work here as the Esso down the road has a microwave you can warm your Ginsters in.

That’s it, if they don’t improve the contract they aren’t going to get many takers.

It’s Interesting that this coincides with a change of management - looks like they are rethinking their bad decisions. I wonder if they could tempt Karen Berger and Shelly Bond back.

Or more milkshake

The IFS’s deep dive on the claimant statistics reveals that claimants were younger and their claims increasingly focused on mental health. New awards made to under-40s more than doubled from 4,500 a month before the pandemic to 11,500 last year. Over the same time period, the percentage of all new awards primarily for mental health conditions went from 28% to 37%, an increase from 3,900 claims a month to 12,100 a month.

Anecdotally I saw a lot more mental health issues emerge in the children I know who were going through secondary school during lockdown and a lot are either now at university (or planning on which to go to) or have recently graduated.

That’s your ticking time bomb and needs to be addressed ASAP. Fiddling with benefits or introducing changes in the workplace or job centre seem like rearranging deckchairs on the Titanic. What they need is faster access to better quality health care. Every example I know of involved a long fight to get a diagnosis and in most cases their treatment under CAMHS was inadequate (they got more help at university). So if the government want to invest to improve the lives of younger people then this is where it is needed.

And could this same generation also be at the sharp end of the explosion of AI replacing a wide set of entry-level jobs - in call centres, retail, law, the financial and creative industries and much more. Britain’s biggest corporations are racing to implement effective AI solutions to handle everything from customer service to their marketing output.

These transformations are happening more quickly than had been expected, affecting everyone from entry level front-line workers through to highly skilled professionals such as art workers, media planners and legal clerks. It will inevitably become a significant reality - perhaps the defining social and economic change over the course of this Parliament.

And that seems like the elephant in the room. Call centres in particular are going to be hammered (as will fulfillment centres) and a lot were established in areas hit by the collapse of mining or heavy industry. When they go, there will be nothing left in those communities.

Also:

!firefox@lemmy.world

!dataisbeautiful@mander.xyz and !dataisbeautiful@lemmy.world

!steam@lemmy.world and !steam@programming.dev

!degoogle@discuss.tchncs.de

Some are a bit quiet but worth promoting to push more people there.

Here’s the post about the StardewValley drama. Which is on !fediverse@lemmy.world, which is also an important alternative to a big ML community.

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No need to apologise if you are right.

What size does it need to be?

It’d be handy if the banner was wider than it is high. We may be able to tweak some templates to better fit.

The icon is usually square and smaller.

!birdsarentreal@lemmy.world

!stardewvalley@lemm.ee - just started in the last few days after a run in with Mods on ML

!horrormovies@lemm.ee - one I helped start