Alix Mortimer

“Business teachers, post secondary” come on this is not a real list is it. Is it a faked screenshot or is someone at Fortune trying to make the obvious point by coming up with the list on ChatGPT

There was this software my sixth form careers advisor had which had a questionnaire and a list of career choices that was a mix of incredibly general and bizarrely specific, and told me I ought to be either a librarian or a textile designer. This looks a lot like that.

"when I was 24, the town centre was safe, you could have a right raucous night out with your mates and then stagger home. Now I'm 55 and it's a scary place, full of thugs drunk out of their mind and shouting"

YouTube video by CroatiaRecordsVEVO Oliver Dragojević - Svirajte Noćas Za Moju Dušu

*waves arms* SVIRAJTE NOĆAS ZA MOJU DUŠU DOK SE NE RAZDANI etc m.youtube.com/watch?v=zguq...

(Sorry, shouldn’t have been a link of any kind in this post obviously. I have a long way to go as an Oliver influencer. But would the man himself worry? No.)

Three old men at a cafe table outside a cathedral. It is very Jugoslavian.

This is him (left, with two friends) outside Cafe Bar Lloyd, one of my favourite coffee spots in Zadar, courtesy of instagram account Nas Zadar (Our Zadar) who had this suitably dramatic tribute for Oliver Day www.instagram.com/reel/DMroZNS...

His career spanned a Bowie-like period and he played the Royal Albert Hall in 2010. He remained reportedly a modest man. A Croatian guy I met this summer knows a guy who knows the guy who was his hairdresser (because everyone seemingly knows Oliver somehow)

YouTube video by Oliver Dragojević OFFICIAL Oliver Dragojević - Ča će mi Copacabana

Honestly a mystery to me that neither Tarantino nor anyone in charge of James Bond title tracks discovered this man m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC42...

Every year the Croatian ferry company Jadrolinija runs a special party ferry (trajekt) out of Split, his hometown, where everyone gathers to sing his songs (drunk Croatian men here severely challenging my contention that this, like the Welsh, is a nation of singers) www.instagram.com/reel/DMsHKJ5...

YouTube video by Jovan Slavović Oliver Dragojević - Ča Je Život Vengo Fantažija + Tekst

This was the first Oliver song I heard (none of these are going to be necessarily the famous ones, although some are - they’re just my favourites) m.youtube.com/watch?v=BOHc...

I have missed Oliver Day (31 July) by a couple of days, the anniversary of the funeral of Oliver Dragojević, Croatian singer and musician. And to give you an idea of his importance the Croatian government decreed a national day of condolence two days after his death in 2018 and so it has been since

My University has opened a virtual scholar scheme for scholars from Gaza. Please share widely and help stop scholasticide. www.exeter.ac.uk/faculties/ha...

In that case I hugely look forward to seeing who’s been making all the mess in my flat

Badge on a grey lapel, white text and TfL rondel on a blue background: Please offer me a seat

White badge on a leather jacket, blue text and a red and blue TfL rondel: Baby on board!

Rondel in red and blue with blue and white chequers in the centre: Bayern München!

Do not really know what happened to my brain here tbh

Just carefully stood back on the overground for a man wearing a TfL “Please offer me a seat” badge, was ever so self-congratulatory for noticing a not obvious demographic in need.

It was a Bayern Munich badge.

now google each of those six universities and “redundancies”

The largest language model anyone could ever need (With apologies to Gilbert and Sullivan) I am the largest language model anyone could ever needI’m trained on hefty datasets that no one sane would ever readI’ll answer any question with great eloq…

I am the largest language model anyone could ever need
I’m trained on hefty datasets that no one sane would ever read
I’ll answer any question with great eloquence and attitude
As long as you indulge me with a little factual latitude
stroppyeditor.wordpress.com/2025/07/29/t...

A twitter post of "No Way to Prevent This" in reply to an NYT headline that's nearly identical.

I posted to Twitter for what looks like the fifth time this year yesterday. Checked back today and the post has 39,000 likes, 3.2k retweets — and 9 replies, and 4 quote tweets. I'm sorry folks those numbers ain't real. Bordering on a statistical impossibility. It's gotta be almost entirely fake.

The full article has something for @adamcsharp.bsky.social “When my aunt in Zagreb was absorbed in some crime drama on the television, she would say it was “as tense as an umbrella”.”

See compare British lower case r (messy double stroke, tails off into nothing, easily mistaken for being distracted by a noise while writing) with French lower case r (curvy, decisive, ends in upward flourish, maybe you are a mysterious French spy?)

Vattenfall and Samuel L. Jackson present Wind Farmed Seaweed Snacks, a delicacy grown at a wind farm Together with the iconic actor Samuel L. Jackson, Vattenfall is now presenting a sea-farmed delicacy – Wind Farmed Seaweed Snacks, snacks made from seaweed grown at an offshore wind farm. The collabor...

My disappointment over the seaweed snacks not being commercially available is offset (somewhat) by my delight learning Samuel L. Jackson studied marine biology as an undergrad.

I saw this at an airport once. A teenager had to take off thier shoes, and tsa had to search it because of an "electronic device" in the shoe. There was much yelling at the parents, because the teenager was *not* aware of the tracking device

A lot of 12 year olds are going to learn the phrase "op sec" in the next few years.

"Are those burner shoes?"
"I didn't think --"
"You're not SUPPOSED to fucking THINK, Skylar, you're supposed to follow FUCKING PROTOCOL."

If we are ever at war with the French (again) I am screwed because I write my lower case r like the pi symbol. It’s just way better for a clear script when your name has r’s

I do feel 90% of the people “seething” would be genuinely shocked to know what expectations their Reform overlords have for them. Everyone loves a seethe, almost no one actually wants to be violent. It’s the equivalent of struggling against your mates holding you back in a fight, but *not too hard*.

Weirdly writing a trade book meant catching a lot of these — even though it’s lighter on footnotes than an academic article. Because I’d write about something that “everyone knew” happened, look for some more interesting detail to flesh out the story, and realise quickly that the story wasn’t true.

It's incredible how insidious the BBC have become for injecting far right talking points into the mainstream. Just heard a breakfast radio news item say 'the RNLI has faced allegations that it's acting as a taxi service for people arriving in the UK illegally'.

Given every chance to say that his problem with Epstein was the raping, or at least the "he hit on a club member's daughter" story Cheung keeps pushing, Trump keeps clarifying that his beef was that Epstein "stole" an underage girl who Trump considered his possession.

this answer would end a Dem presidency within the hour

Trump outright confessing to his involvement in sex trafficking