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ATLAS Physicist, miniature painter and tired parent...
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UCL prof. being interviewed on the BBC, pontificating about style over substance in the work place being a bad thing. I.e. incompetent but confident males being over promoted, but also DEI schemes. He is using a rather extreme video filter to smooth/de-age his face. Would wrinkles ruin his message?

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Not got much time in the evenings, but I got Akhorne and a mimic painter this week. Very happy with both, but especially Akhorne!

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

I'm going to be playing Wood Elves this year in Blood Bowl... My team will actually be all trees... A little weak on their own, so I need the most violent star player on my bench to bring the hurt, thus, Akhorne the Squirrel! And ofc I need to make him a skull throne!

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

I'd forgotten how silly jargon can sound when it's not your jargon... Little-endian vs big-endian... It's jarring... I will now go back to using all my niche particle physics jargon :P

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Hmm, is Elon getting sad pthat no one is listening to him anymore? The twitter app still tries to lure me back with notifications of posts from people I follow... It just started pushing Elon posts at me... I didn't follow him...

submitted 80 days ago • 2 comments

I expect some dividends this year... So, now I need to ask a #tax, #dividends question... What does it mean for an investment income to have ended? If a dividend has been paid, but I still own the shares that paid it... Has the investment (the dividend) ended? Or are the shares the investment?

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

So many layers of wtf... www.ft.com/content/dc34...

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

Thank fuck for that... It has been too long, but finally, I got the zero-copy publish/subscribe working...

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In a meeting with someone who appears to be called "Very-Long-Time"... The surname is Greek... Polychronakos, which only makes a more powerful name!

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Look, I'm not saying that Tabletop Inquirer are right... But on my way home tonight I have only seen one other person in shorts and t-shirt... And they had a WAAAGH! tattoo on their calf... I'm guessing he had an ork army... And I do... So that checks out...

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I like how you can tell how long an England player has been on the pitch by how clean their shirt is...

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