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Queues behave in strange and counter-intuitive ways - queuing theory is much more interesting than it has any right to be. But understanding a queue is a vital precursor to reducing it.

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Clear at a glance status reporting on a charity from the Charity Commission

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Smuggling poetry across frontiers is a strange thing to do. 🧵 The Guardian has a story about Jerzy Giedroyć, who published Polish literature in a Parisian suburb during the cold war, including special print runs of miniaturised versions to make it easier to smuggle them across the iron curtain.

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Smuggling poetry across frontiers is a strange thing to do. 🧵 The Guardian has a story about Jerzy Giedroyć, who published Polish literature in a Parisian suburb during the cold war, including special print runs of miniaturised versions to make it easier to smuggle them across the iron curtain.

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Part 2 of a blog post following a little over two years after part 1 must be some kind of record - but is also nicely illustrative of the irreducible slowness of a mission to Mars. And it's worth the wait for a painstaking demolition of muskian fantasies.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

The muzak in Caffe Nero is a Shostakovich dance. Perhaps the world is marginally less terrible than it appears. Although it has now gone on to a track of somebody who thought they could improve on Beethoven and were very wrong. So as you were.

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This is utterly glorious - and a special appeal, I predict, for @paulclarke.com for the unexpected plot twist two thirds of the way through. h/t @garius.bsky.social

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The theme of the walk was reflections

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Coming soon to a bear near @radiobeartime.com

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An absolute must-read. I said "They did WHAT?!" out loud at least 4 times.

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

I wrote this on this day ten years ago. It has become a necessary ritual to share it again each year and to remember for those who no longer can.

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

Early train and everything is going well so far

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