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I make ontologies for the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. An odd job and not one I would have chosen for myself
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They should roll out Shingy

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

I recognise the BBC catch a lot of flack for their coverage of news and politics, and - quite obviously - I have nothing to say on such matters. That said, they did kill /programmes and were, from that moment on, quite dead to me

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

This article can’t possibly be correct. A typo? It appears to suggest that UK manufacturing productivity grows by almost 5% when you replace home grown managerial talent with some foreign lads. No UK worker would sit idly by whilst our MBA classes are traduced in this fashion on.ft.com/3Hk6yba

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

SMERK and HELCH. Nearly home

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Down in Bournemouth. It’s mostly seagulls and crack lads. And then this place. Like if Michael Mann and JG Ballard scripted the Only Way is Essex

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Oh. I used to be the hand stamp lad there. Had my own trestle table and a little tin for the money. Quite the impresario

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

We are, at heart, a primitive species, peripheral vision tuned to spot threats in both woodland and savannah. Little wonder it is not the LLMs prone to hallucination, but us

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

I think we’ve all had our workplace disputes. Even Young Robert and I have exchanged cross words on occasion. But i have never - never - wished him to suffer an asteroid up his bottom. And I would challenge HR to prove otherwise

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Well, if you can’t entertain yourself

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

I’m not a Daily Express reader - I comment but never read - but I do feel we’re regressing as a society. We’ve forgotten how words work and regressed to corporate cave painting. Honest to god, I have no interest in your “deck”. The thought appalls me

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Barely imagine this place without civil serpents. Has anybody consulted Green King

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Another week. Another Parliamentary Pudding Club. Spoons at the ready for rhubarb and custard trifle and a treacle tart with a dash of the old clotted

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Found myself stuck in one of those “email jobs”, when I only ever wanted to be a sheet greaser

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

30 years in the HTML game and I can’t make a bit of text go bold

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Misplaced regional pride will be the death of us all. A Palatinian is a Palatinian. Not sure what the Cumbrians are doing in here though

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

I don’t understand how tariffs work. Practically speaking. A big bo-at arrives, some “longshoreman” unloads them, it all gets scanned or some such. Then what?

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment