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Tech support for friends and family. Recovering lexicographer. Crossword wrangler.
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Random fact picked up from a pub quiz: the weight loss drug semaglutide is derived from a compound found in gila monster venom 😮

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

Hilarious question. The only notable outside visitor from my schooldays was when the police came round to lecture us on the consequences after half the fifth form had a mass brawl with the school up the road.

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

I liked Conclave (2024) enough to write a micro review. Ralph Fiennes finds himself reluctantly in charge of the election of a new pope. Cue much atmospheric intrigue and shenanigans…

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

I took out a subscription to @newscientist.bsky.social because I needed more reading material during Covid lockdown and kept it up because it’s better science journalism than you get in a newspaper. But I’m starting to spot patterns in the stories…

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

Coins for Edward VIII were never minted, but one of the artists they approached came up with a wild cubist design.

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

Coins for Edward VIII were never minted, but one of the artists they approached came up with a wild cubist design.

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

I’m very lucky to live in a city with multiple treasure troves to visit. But at a loss to understand why the Ashmolean acquired this monstrosity.

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

The flood plain doing what it needs to in Oxford-on-sea, and quite atmospherically too.

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

With Haigh's departure from the cabinet, for the first time in our political history, the cabinet is 100% state educated. Quite the moment.

submitted 97 days ago • 73 comments

AI is changing everything. In particular it’s putting a thing you don’t want to accidentally touch in all of your favorite apps

submitted 102 days ago • 30 comments

Every so often I’m reminded that Asterix’s dog has the perfect name in French and the perfect translation in English, and the world seems like a better place.

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

Rainy Sunday

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

If you see this, quote post a Star Trek reaction meme

submitted 104 days ago • 1 comment

Wednesday night 5-a-side 🥶

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments

My son bought me some back issues of Private Eye for my birthday. They had the measure of Boris Johnson 25 years ago.

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

I have both books and highly recommend them. I found the puzzles in the first volume harder so maybe do them in reverse order if you’re buying both.

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

Scout, usurper of the office chair, wishes you good night.

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments

Post a picture of yourself to show the newbies what they’re dealing with

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments

This is a distraction. Misdirection so that you skip past the true ethical issues of stolen IP, environmental issues, the fate of those who will lose their jobs, and basic cui bono. Rush to protect artificial 'life' rights before other lives matter. Fuck off, leading philosopher.

submitted 109 days ago • 21 comments