Gareth Edwards

I can’t emphasize enough how much you need to watch this until the end

Just so long as you're not trying to follow Mahler, evidently he got lost a lot...

New Home Office impact assessment finds that cutting skilled and social care visas will cost the UK up to £10 billion with a central estimate of -£5.4 billion.

It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops

Robin Williams' daughter, Zelda Williams, also recently slammed people who are making Al-generated videos of her late father, calling the clips "gross." She added, "To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough, just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop pup-peteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it."

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🌲 THE BIG CHRISTMAS GIFT THREAD! 🌲

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Four hand-illustrated bird-themed christmas cards, featuring sea birds in Christmas hats or carrying presents. There are some terrible puns, like "Peck The Halls".

Picture of a 2026 British Bird Life calendar, with hand-drawn illustrations of common British birds. Limited stock remaining!

Cover of a Christmas Card showing a figgy pudding, candy cane, mulled wine and other seasonal hand-drawn illustrations.

A picture of a packaged figgy pudding tea towel. The tea towel is covered in hand-drawn illustrations of figgy puddings and other seasonal treats.

My wife is an illustrator who does a lovely range of seasonal and nature themed cards, prints, teatowels (sometimes with awful puns I have repeatedly failed to veto). All her illustrations are hand-drawn and coloured. She also does commissions, with custom maps being a speciality: www.coostie.co.uk

I have a governance point: a film being "A Christmas Film" is not about what people think, it is an epistemological question about the film's content, style, and so on

A survey is therefore an inappropriate methodological tool to determine the christmasness or otherwise of any given film

Happy "Oh God, when will Elf on a Shelf stop being a thing?!" Month, to all who celebrate.

Poster for the South Korean stage production of Macbeth showing Lady Macbeth whose back is turned to us, and Macbeth posed towards us with his hand on the back of his wife's neck. The long cut in the back of her dress reveals skin in the shape of a sword/dagger that Macbeth seems to be holding.

Poster for the South Korean stage production of Macbeth showing Lady Macbeth facing us with her cleavage cut into three pointy triangles. Macbeth is kneeling in front of her, away from us, his face in his wife's chest. The exposed skin of Lady Macbeth looks like a crown that aligns with the top of Macbeth's head.

These posters for the South Korean stage production of Macbeth are the greatest thing ever? #art

My hand holding a shortbread cookie in the shape of an airplane. There are red sprinkles in the pattern of the survivorship bias plane.

A plate of the same cookies.

Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread

The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture

I'm 40 years old, please don't make me "discuss in a breakout room".

It's late November, so it could actually be a Next Year Problem!

You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?

Have you had the "do I offer them a cup of tea" existential crisis yet?

I used to love walking through piles of leaves, then I got a dog and realised:

a) Dogs love to poo in them
b) Dog poo is IMPOSSIBLE to find in a pile of leaves.

I don't walk through piles of leaves any more.

I don’t have a dog #altc - eLearning Stuff Dogs can be wonderful pets, or so I have been told. So ask me do I have a dog? The answer is no. Now ask me why I don’t have a dog? I don’t have the time! Over the last twenty years or so when learnin...

When people say they don't have the time, the answer is not more time.

What people mean when they say they don't have the time, what they actually mean it isn't a priority for them.

Make it a priority, then they will find the time.

elearningstuff.net/2015/12/09/i...

If I may present an alternative opinion on cloud outages:

Occasional short reminders of fragility in centralization and smoke-testing of our societal systems with effectively inconsequential events, is important.

There is going to be day gigaoutage culminates, due to lack of minoroutage warnings.

On the contrary there are countless studies describing the positive impact immigrants have, including on such sacred measurements as GDP.

Computers were a skill. They were taught in classrooms as a skill. Skills give you power over your tools because you work them as an expert and that is leverage to multiply externally.

And then computers became an A/B tested telemetry-based advertising conduit to brains for SaaS recurring revenue.

"Rebecca Guy, senior policy manager at the Royal Society for Telling People Things They Really Shouldn't Need to be Told, said..."

Simpler times...

a) Dude, where's the rest of your car?

b) It does say "In" there...

WORD OF THE DAY.

Excellent.

To give up spreadsheets for forty days.

A path passes through a wide wooden gate in a fence. The path heads downhill slightly and disappears. In the distance is the silver of Derwent Water and surrounding it hills and mountains partly obscured by falling rain.

Looking towards Keswick and Derwent Water, walking around the "waist" of Little Man (easier than going up it!), in the Lakes.

I like how the caption on this photo reads as if he's making a claim that could not be independently verified.

A mountain range is lit by a setting sun, with only the upper parts lit by a warm glow.

That's enough #gbbo for one year. This is a moody sunset view of, if my memory is correct, Skiddaw and Little Man, taken from the edge of Derwent Water in the Lake. If my memory isn't correct, then it's something else...

This week's #gbbo treat: fruit scones with clotted cream and garden blackcurrant jam from a former Bake Off contestants, to celebrate a just result for Jasmine. Yes I alternated the jam/cream order, to equally offend everyone.

a brown and white corgi dog is standing in the grass with the words `` are we rioting ? '' ALT: a brown and white corgi dog is standing in the grass with the words `` are we rioting ? ''

How #gbbo fans prepare for possible outrageous final decisions:

a man in a yellow shirt is sitting in a chair holding a cup and pointing ALT: a man in a yellow shirt is sitting in a chair holding a cup and pointing

He's missed one side of the decoration! #gbbo