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@royal-mail.bsky.social I know you're not the real Royal Mail but thought you'd appreciate this:
I had a parcel sent to my local Post Office to collect since it was free.
I received a notification this morning that Royal Mail had failed to deliver it because "there didn't seem to be anyone in" 🤦♂️
We're only 2 episodes in but the thing I love about it so far is the sheer volume of really intriguing thoughts and scenarios which are alluded to or shown to us without feeling the need to say them out loud multiple times.
It's nice when occasionally problems take care of themselves.
AI doesn't just mean LLMs and staycations aren't just holidays in your country.
Whatever your opinion on the conflict, it's a huge moment finally seeing the release of the sausages.
People like this know that being racist is bad which is a good thing. The problem we have is that they think that you're only a racist if you're overtly aggressive to other races. Somehow we need to educate and challenge that assumption.
It never needs to make sense, it just needs to be a good enough excuse on the surface.
How many have you got?! 😂
I'm (probably naively) hoping that this is largely a ploy to get everyone else to loudly state the positives of migration without Reform getting all the attention for promoting the negative argument, so the plans can be publicly scrapped without too much backlash.
Obviously not the main issue here, but we (and desperately the Conservatives) need more people like Kit Malthouse.
It's difficult to believe he actually does get it though, given the strategy they seem to have deployed for these elections.
Wear more hats, you coward! Real men wear so many they're physically restrained under the weight of their cheaply printed nonsense slogans.
It's ridiculous that we're still not having this conversation properly here in the UK.
On the societal side of things, obviously we want cafés etc to exist which clearly rely on footfall, but at the same time do we want to make that happen by requiring the whole working population to waste time and energy commuting 5 days a week? There's a sensible end state somewhere in the middle.
Sure, video calls exist, but I find them absolutely exhausting. There's decent evidence building that it's fairly common response for many people.
From a personal point of view it's clear there are some things like collaborative meetings which work best in person. But at the same time I know I do my best actual work at home where I have space to think without most of the constant interruptions of modern workplaces.
We seem to have turned this whole discussion into a binary everyone must be 100% in the office or 100% WFH situation. For many people being at home full time is rubbish, but also many find being in an office full time horrible too. The answer isn't either extreme, we need to accommodate both groups.
The 40% makes sense if it's that it'll happen next year.
I know there's a lot going on right now, but if we can all keep an eye out for kids with a talent for pod racing it could save us a lot of hassle later on.
Coincidentally caught some con trails floating past the sun in one frame too!
This morning's partial solar eclipse from the back garden - the clouds stayed away! 😀
Heavily stabilised since I wasn't set up for guiding without any stars (hence the weird drift at the end), but great to have been able to properly witness and capture it.
The way things are going is not going to end at all
Could be an interesting topic for an @originstorypodcast.bsky.social episode?
I'm intrigued to know what the reason is that they think we're all incorrectly assuming?
"The News" enters its 473rd season
Elton John's career has taken a really sharp turn hasn't it?
This isn't the most important observation, but there's also zero chance he personally wrote this. It's far too concise and coherent.
It's quite entertaining that this lot are loudly proclaiming what Europe should be doing despite helping to ensure they also no longer actually have a say in anything Europe does anymore.
