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Teesside lad and Boro fan living in NYC since 1996. Been around a bit in economics, publishing, technology. Proud dad. "When things are at their darkest, pal, it's a brave man that can kick back and party." #UTB
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British culture Fish and Chips - Fish brought over by Portuguese and Jewish Immigrants and fried Chips - Belgium Tea - Indian Tikka Massala - South East Asian Donnie Kebab - Turkish The Royal Family - German, Greek etc FCKing jokers not understanding the essence of British culture

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Remembering the late Actor and Comedian, Tony Hancock (12 May 1924 – 25 June 1968)

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Catching up with the new season of Andor, and it's just as good as the first. I binged the first 3 eps (no spoilers for future eps pls!) but I barely noticed that almost 3 hours had passed. I love how the stakes feel intimate yet vast. No Skywalkers or Force, just people trying to better the world.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff. - Carl Sagan, Cosmos

submitted 3 days ago • 231 comments

I was not sure Andor S2 would be as good as S1 but it has exceeded expectations. This is my favorite SW property and it’s not even close.

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

If you ever survived floppy disks, Lotus 1-2-3, and Windows 3.1… you deserve a lifetime achievement award.

submitted 5 days ago • 88 comments

#MeinSongDesTages Everything about you - Ugly Kid Joe open.spotify.com/intl-de/trac...

submitted 586 days ago • 0 comments

Ugly Kid Joe 'Everything about you' Whitfield Crane still has an amazing voice, ffs. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitfie...

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

Happy Birthday to Whitfield Crane of Ugly Kid Joe.

submitted 115 days ago • 1 comment

What does 'integegrated web search mean?' in other to predict the next word in a given context, the software scours the entire Internet? For every word? Somehow I found that doubtful. Happy to hear facts that prove me wrong, of course.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching. Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.

submitted 14 days ago • 47 comments

I assure you, the experience of driving your car into Manhattan is not in any way an experience of “freedom.” Much closer, viscerally to the experience of confinement, and being caged.

submitted 15 days ago • 1111 comments

People getting worked up about gender neutral toilets have clearly never been on a train. Or a plane. Or many cafes and pubs. Or a coach. Or a ferry. Or a house. Or their house. Or a friend's house. Or many single cubical public toilets.

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submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

Stephen Fry's argument against God and His morals.

submitted 17 days ago • 625 comments

Bog standard (excuse the pun) here in NYC. The 'restroom' is just the toilet. How is the question of where someone takes a piss a political issue when there are children who don't get enough food or education?

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Oh hell yes. Now I can have a lovely Easter weekend. My goodness, beautiful. Come on #boro #utb

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Top Championship Team of the Decade, you’ll never sing that. And people say we are underachieving 😁 #UTB

submitted 79 days ago • 4 comments