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I think a lot of people today are so far removed from the past that they forget that infant mortality was once so high that it skewed life expectancy down to 35.

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I think my grand theory of AI Hype is that a lot people are making themselves look very very silly by turning up to the B2C party dressed for B2B.

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14 years ago in med school we got this unforgettable lesson in the dangers of using both English and Swedish in the same PowerPoint presentation

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Just saw Ballerina, a movie about an assassin whose special move is kicking people in the balls. She comes of age by kicking someone in the balls. In the film she kicks balls, shoots balls, punches balls, and stabs balls. Which Tchaikovsky ballet did they choose as the soundtrack? Swan Lake.

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It always makes me smile when someone talks about their Instagram “page” as though we still had the real internet and it still worked.

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The absurd intersection of college and university rivalry means you may in Cambridge hear someone drunkenly chant “I’d rather be at Oxford than at John’s!” Not sure why that should suddenly pop into my head.

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Huh. I thought Banana Yoshimoto’s Wikipedia page was out of date but it turns out I was just skimming carelessly and it took thirty five years for the “new” one I’m reading to get an English translation.

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It is not dal weather. I crave dal. Is this… <butterfly meme> containing multitudes?

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Apparently it's #makeaterriblecomicday2025 which is handy because I can't draw for shit today! 🧙‍♂️🍄🌀💧

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Particularly embarrassing moment for anybody to be calling it "dropping the F-bomb" right now

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My weekend? Well, I hope “demure bougie over-the-clothes shibari workshop” isn’t your winter soldier activation phrase, because -

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Huh. That’s quite a demand spike. AI? Does tech comms hiring track B2B hype cycles? You could make a case for some of those past bumps being “big data” and crypto, maybe?

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"Bluesky is dying" "Bluesky is an echo chamber" "Bluesky is full of hateful leftists who scolded me" Grow the fuck up and get a sexual crush on a weird cartoon or video game character like the rest of us and you'll get better results out of this place

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Microsoft really really wants me to use Copilot in Outlook, and yet none of the services it offers is “drive this fuckwit howling into the roiling seas, that neither they nor their associates ever vex me again” Curious.

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How it feels to have executive dysfunction

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Exeter, pursued by a bear

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Logged in to Grindr and the guy whose profile said “horny” and hour ago now says “SO HORNY”, and I’m tempted to look back in an hour to see the third frame of a new galaxy brain meme.

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How absolutely astonishing that historic listed building The Hotspur Press burns down only a month after the developers were forced to revise and resubmit their plans to turn it into flats. The fucking brass neck of them. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Ahh May Week. I’ve been putting up with it as a resident for almost ten times as long as I got to enjoy it as an undergraduate, and I still can’t bring myself to get shitty about any part of it except the fucking fireworks.

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blockbuster didn't die because it didn't acquire netflix. it died because it was acquired by vision as a way for viacom to offload its debt. when blockbuster died, it had a billion dollars in debt on the books, almost all of it viacom's.

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There are - I am under no illusions - far worse things the human race has misguidedly done while trying to help, but right now the layout of Stansted airport rail station is the one in front of me

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Airports are the triumphal monument modernity built on the grave of magic. A completely liminal space shorn of power or intrigue, beginning with a shopping mall and ending in anemic carpet tiles.

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Bit of a blast from the past today, as I need to create a carer progression & capability framework for technical authors. Right back to my roots.

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Fwoooaaarrr www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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'The man' only wants you to use technology in the way they want. You don't have it.

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This book is a gobsmacking account of Facebook. The company culture comes across as worse than you can possibly have imagined. Full list of FT books of the summer here: www.ft.com/content/025b...

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By the time you’ve reached your forties you will have lived to see the newspapers that insisted that the country you grew up in was on the verge of social collapse portray those very same years of your youth as a period of blissful social cohesion.

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Instagram is desperate to sell me a bewildering variety of tools, techniques, and vectors of shame for smoother, neater feet. Ok, cute, but why? I walk comfortably north of 10km a day. I never wear shoes indoors. My calloused hooves are practically bulletproof. Why would I file that off?

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How about instead of every country having their own nuclear weapon - which seems to be causing all sorts of trouble - we all take turns looking after a single bomb, like the school hamster?

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In hindsight I could probably have predicted that Glasgow would not only serve eggs Benedict with black pudding, but with slices thicker than the muffin.

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Forgot to mention the Extremely Good Dog I met at Edinburgh pride!

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Literally begging you to post about Just Some Stuff. We will see the news I absolutely promise. Twenty people will repost the same exact thing about the news. Only you can post about a turtle you saw

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