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Bram Soaker

If only there were a cautionary tale about being too eager to accept the apparent time-saving capabilities of new technology.

Fun start to the morning, walking past a friend's recently dumped ex at my local station

Duck and Rabbit looking at offspring "really? I think he looks more like my side of the family".

#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky

We've hit peak Psychology Humour

As it's his birthday, one of my favourite RC big chair jokes: Man walking through a farmyard saw a pig with a wooden leg. Called the farmer over, and said "How come your pig has a wooden leg?" The Farmer replied "I'll tell you about that pig... I had a heart attack in yonder field... "

Not enough people talk about the sheer cheekiness of Girls Aloud picking the b-side of their single "Can't Speak French" to be a cover of the a-side.

In French.

Wait I want more of this type of thing, like director's cut DVD commentary except we can see the magic being made. Fascinating!

I also investigated this today! They had 5 Christmas Number Ones in a row, and now, 3 weeks out from Christmas, have roughly 1/4 the monthly Spotify listeners of Babylon Zoo

It’s really interesting to me for instance that the biggest pop star in the world can make a Christmas track which is a fine Taylor Swift song but broadly a failure as a Christmas song. The act who had 5 Christmas No 1s in a row now has one fifth the listeners of Babylon Zoo

Last Christmas
It tapped at my door
A black, stately raven
Who said “Nevermore”

Streamins service UI is increasingly bad deliberately. It's dark UX patterning as access to show catalogues narrows.

If you let the user search, they will look for shows you no longer have (or never had).

The goal is to hijack that journey and force a show they'll feel is 'okay' in front of them.

As soon as you see an edit of Lucas in Max's hospital room turning on the radio and ATW10 starts, please send it

The Hunger Games soundtracks had no right to go as hard as they did

Spotify Wrapped will once again not reflect reality, when undeniably @jamesvt.bsky.social's most listened to album is West End Girl, performed by me two rooms over.

I strongly feel that this is how we should all refer to him from this point

Didn't turn the heating on last night and as a consequence the cat curled up next to me in bed for the first time.

Have arranged to get the boiler removed later today because the heating is never going on again.

The Distracted Boyfriend meme, but their heads are now: Guy - a wide-eyed cat Girlfriend - a cat tree Red dress woman - a Christmas tree

It's that time of year

a screenshot of the Australian version of Taste Christmas, a recipe magazine, showing a recipe for a gingerbread house made of something known as "crack", which I think is some kind of mixture of chocolate and salty ingredients like crackers or pretzels. so they've called it "festive crack house"

oh, that's... that's not... you can't call it that

Just so it's clear. It's not allowing AI because it's trying to create a clean dataset for training AI. It's not because any of the involved parties actually care about human created art.

Demons can lie to you. You have to rebuke them categorically, rather than fold when they say the right words.

How HS2 built a bridge to nowhere A state-of-the-art road bridge has been built deep in the heart of rural Buckinghamshire. Designed to carry traffic over the HS2 railway, there's just one tiny problem - there's no actual road.

Reading rec: martinrobbins.substack.com/p/how-hs2-bu...

Oh! Lessi Russo's magic
She wears a magic hat!
And when she saw a headed goal
She said "I'm having that!"

"We pray that when Haiti's World Cup campaign comes to an end, it's as a result of better football teams, and not ICE" had me unexpectedly guffawing on the train home!

Surely the cold will help you be cool?

"There's definitely a benefit at bedtime in putting your phone in Airplane mode"

"What is it?"

"It's a setting on your phone that switches off WiFi and Bluetooth but that's not important right now"

I absolutely need to do more squats, those muscles have been wasting away

Warming up for pasta tonight by watching Como play Milan.

(My actual football team are live on TV and have been for over an hour before I realised I could've watched them instead)

Hold up

your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️