Paul Stevenson

I enjoyed Politics On The Edge. Felt like he was pulling no punches, though who knows what he could have said but didn’t. Was fun trying to identify people alluded to.

Spam email from a company called GUNT

Thanks spammer, but is that really the name of your educational technology company?

This just happened to me with Antwerp

When traffic flow is more or less continuous, the same number of drivers are going to wait briefly when the lights change. So why not have lights change immediately? Why does it matter which specific drivers are the ones waiting?

In fear, like a horse?

On holiday and brought a card game (Dungeon Mayhem). So far, have played three times and every time there have been fist fights. Still they all want to play more. Gruelling.

It’s certainly how I came into being

I know some nuclear physicists

Apple automated album celebrating time spent in Heathrow Terminal 5

Brb just reminiscing about … terminal 5

Spending a week in mainland Europe. Any Brits need me to look at porn websites for them while I’m here?

1 in 3 doctors were born overseas.

1 in 2 builders were born overseas.

1 in 6 nurses were born overseas.

1 in 4 transport workers were born overseas.

1 in 7 UK business founders were born overseas.

1 in 5 university academics were born overseas.

The UK would be screwed without them.

We Brits also love London for its comparatively low cost of living

Now I am scratching my head. Guaranteed every time they are mentioned.

Also I’m in total denial that I’m taking 3 of my kids on holiday by myself on Saturday

now google each of those six universities and “redundancies”

Anyone go for ggrindr?

Wayne Koff, PhD - Human Immunome Project Wayne Koff, Ph.D., is the founder and former CEO of the Human Immunome Project. Prior to HIP, Koff served as chief scientific officer and senior vice president of research and development at the Inter...

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"it is in generally computationally hard to brutal forcely search the whole Hilbert space"

reading a paper again and I was reminded of this beautiful adverbial phrase

I’m having flashbacks to when Labour pretended they would join the Euro when five economic tests were met

It was his real name

IIUC this way of wrapping up beef is known as Beef Curtains.

Spacemen 3's Playing with Fire album, with "Lord Can You Hear Me" having many more plays than any other song on the album

Presumably when you see a song on a streaming service that has an order of magnitude more plays than any other song on the album, then it's because it's been used in an advert or TV show(?). Who has been using this fine Spacemen 3 song?

In a world-first, a photonic AI accelerator has been installed in a data centre – a milestone that could provide 100x performance using up to 90x less energy.

The Leibniz Supercomputing Centre received the upgrade last week, supported by Germany's research ministry (BMFTR). #ResearchInGermany

Back to school sale offer from a shop

First week of the school holidays so it “back to school” stuff in the shops. Found this vaguely wrong as a child!

Amazon to add 'Printed in Dunstable' label to millions of books - BBC News Alex Mayer MP says she wants the town to receive the recognition it deserves.

FAO @rhodri.biz www.bbc.com/news/article...

And they didn’t even try to traumatise me by telling me how old they thought I looked.

Barrier - more like Barry #UxbridgeEnglishDictionary

Solid line of yellow buses

Oxford Road Manchester buses

And oh god I forgot that I get travel sick on Pendolino trains 🤢

songs by MIke Berenyi, Horesegirl, Oklou, Stereolab, Destroyer, Fiver, and Dean Wareham

What are the best new musical releases in 2025? My 2025 playlist so far only has 6 songs and we're more than half way through the year 😒

to top it all off, I bought a large Americano from a coffee vendor at unreasonable expense, to find that it probably contains the same number of shots as a small, but just with extra water. Yuck.