And you see, sir, here is where your argument falls apart:
You see, this is a Victorian Smoking OR Dressing Jacket.
The specialisation into strictly Smoking Jackets only occurred in the second year of Edward’s reign.
Check-mate, I think you’ll find.*
* Okay, today’s theme at the pub was "talking like a posh twat, as we had some Oxford-accented-airs-and-graces-dickhead visit us for an annoying couple of hours. So please disregard everything I have posted, as it’s all a completely obvious pack of lies. But, it was a bit of fun, no?
As I recall, that’s about as long as it took originally. Whether or not I’m in the same mind to do so these days is an open question, however. It’s definitely possible, though.
I will never again devote my energies to building up an audience on a platform whose management can sever my relationship to that audience at will
One of my long-term plans/hopes is to try to come up with a solution for that problem here. I can promise that I’ll never sell out, but at the end of the day I could have a really bad day and just decide to shut it all down.
To paraphrase: It is better to have no use for kings at all rather than relying on benevolent ones.
I live in a Victorian/Edwardian historic district, on a street called Avery. The biggest house in the neighborhood is a smol mansion a few blocks N named The Avery. All the woodwork is mahogany, and the staircase is positively cinematic.
That happened to the Reader Rant board on Capitol Hill Blue a while back (waaay back, ~2006 IIRC). It was coaxed back into existence, but I’m not sure it really fired up properly. I hung out there a bit in the 2000’s and last poked my nose in about 3 years ago. The RoundTable topics are by quarter now, no longer daily.
At least Discourse is fairly open, and I see there are some plugins that support fediverse features. I realized that BBBBS was the only place I’d set pen to paper on some anecdotes, so was a bit panicked that it all shut down so quickly. At least I was able to get some stuff exported.
