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This is true.

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Super interesting thread. Well worth reading in its entirety if you’re interested in how work works and different organisations work differently.

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Watched a parent explain messenger pigeons to a very young child and the kid's mind was BLOWN. Like...birds? Trained birds? Trained birds that delivered messages????? And these were pigeons...like PIGEON-pigeons???????! Like that pigeon right there? C'MERE PIGEON!!!!!!!

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BITD if someone needed a giant prop for a photoshoot there was no CGing it into existence. We built gigantic snowglobes, toothbrushes, VHS cassettes, pound coins, cheeses, sweets, Oscar statues and remote controls...

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“Is this a dagger I see before me?” Weight: 3 Damage: 11 +2 bonus against kings of Scotland

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I spent 72 hours checking the posting times of every Gazan account I saw fundraising. More than 2/3 of them were inconsistent with Gaza but consistent with Myanmar or Cambodia, where hundreds of thousands of people are trafficked into doing scam work under threat of violence or death.

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It’s the 623rd anniversary of Satan manifesting himself in... er, Chelmsford. Obviously, this is true. It says so in Thomas Walsingham’s Historia Anglicana: “Diabolica species apparuit in Estsexia apud Danbury”

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"Protecting women".

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Good morning #Stockport - we're open 1-7pm this bank holiday Sunday if you fancy a pint & a pizza.

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Americans put sugar in all kinds of dishes that don’t require it. And one of the main reasons for this national aberration is … Prohibition. 🧵

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This guy is Reform’s new councillor for Stretton in Staffordshire. This is what you get with that party - all they’re interested in is making libs cry. They’re too weak and pathetic to do the hard yards. Imagine what a Reform government would be like.

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Thinking in layers for product managers: - time orchestration multiple possibilities while delivering in the present - dual-track thinking delivery with cadences discovery in the background buff.ly/4Kyj96u #productmanagement

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"Katwala's paradox of racism" In a demonstrably less prejudiced society (attitudes shifted, esp across generations), I am in receipt of much more racism Minorities in 2020s have more equal opps than ever before - esp at very top - yet an increasingly unequal experience of more equal opportunities

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Good GRIEF.

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What even IS a Tottenham Hotspur?

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Happy Murderbot day, everybody.

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This’ll do.

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Reminds me of that John Finnemore sketch: "Mulligan's ice lollies. They're not poison!"

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1 year on. Doesn't time fly.

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Off to #Budapest for the day! What are your favourite things to see and do in the city?

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When thinking about what the current state of AI video means for disinformation, there are 2 traps to avoid: either being overly alarmist or completely dismissive of the dangers. Warnings about deepfakes being used as a political weapon have been around for years, but actual cases are quite rare 1/

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No one has ever LinkedIn this hard. I am CRINE.

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Text "STOP" to +1 (HAM) MER-TIME

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Home martini advice gratefully received.

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🚀 #ProductTank #Frankfurt is back! Join us July 2 for hands-on learning, pizza & great company. Want to sponsor, speak, or share a product topic? DM me! RSVP: meetu.ps/e/P3f0N/tC7V... Let’s make some noise! 🙌 #ProdMgmt #Product #ProductManagement #UXDesign #rheinmainrocks

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It’s frustrating that LLMs are, by a mile, the most transformative consumer technology to emerge in living memory, and the modal opinion on this website is “fake trash, lmao, bubble’s gonna burst, fuck you for even talking about it.” Take it seriously. You’ll have to for the rest of your life.

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LinkedIn definitely understands what a non-executive director is.

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A sandwich of Cornish Yarg and a ploughman’s pickle, BTW 👌

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I cannot imagine the stress in the Co-op and M&S IT teams. Stock on shelves still seems down in stores too, which surely must be affecting suppliers as well?

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In this era of AI-generated, generic social media slop, I'm a big fan of in-person connections and real conversation. I've been running a free UK events directory for a few months now; come and find your next event and (optionally) sign up for a free weekly digest.

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glad that this is being written about but lol, how depressing that "the new boss came in and made sure the website was actually usable" feels revolutionary for the media in 2025

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Total mic drop on the last line, but… why did both Hannan and Johnson reach for the ball gag metaphor here? Did one of them nick it off the other? Was it some kind of hilarious banter they came up with together the night before? Or are they both just VERY WEIRD? (Alt text in following post)

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Cod help us

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