Kristian Glass

A catoon image offering satirical advice about how to become a better conversationalist. The top text suggests: "Ask people questions that give them an opportunity to talk about themselves." The cartoon shows one character asking, "What the hell is wrong with you?"

It is hard to beat the ROI of buying a super-king size duvet for your double bed

Aviva, August 2024: "Thank you for telling us about your new address. I've updated these details on our records and this is the last letter we will send to your old address."

Aviva, November 2025: <mails pension statement to old address>

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Yes

(Probably wouldn't if on an induction hob though!)

Blimey!

Absolutely. @ceriddavis.bsky.social has made it clear that that it will not be in her presence though…!

Inspired by a general love of garlic, and @oldenoughtosay.com’s tweets, I made chicken with ~200 cloves (20 bulbs) of garlic last night

Was it good? Yes

Are we suffering slightly this morning? Also yes…

Happy Dependabot day to all who celebrate

I am proud to be a Fellow of the Python Software Foundation

I’m so sorry for your loss - wishing you all the very best

…I have been saying it wrong, oops, thank you!

@incident.io Hey qq please - when speaking, is the . (canonically) pronounced or not? “Incident dot io” or “incident io”? Thanks!

So much goes into this. For any internal tool nerds, we’ve written a bunch about what we’ve had to build here:

incident.io/building-wit...

Photo of Lawrence on stage in front of a large slide showing an internal dashboard timing trace of a multi-agent AI run

At @incident.io SEV0 watching @lawrencejones.dev show some of the internals of their AI SRE

The product itself looks absolutely fantastic and incredibly powerful

But the other thing that is a joy to see is the sheer quality of internal tooling they’ve built to learn and improve and monitor 😍

A nice piece of level trivia is the characteristically conservative judges involved with the High Court of Chivalry rejected 1189 and set time immemorial as before 1066 instead!

STEREOGUM: People my age, we talk about how we were lucky that we didn’t have social media growing up, and there’s no record of all the dumb shit we said and did. You didn’t have social media, but everything you said and did in those years is on record, and you’ve got to live with it now. That’s tough. VIOLENT J: And the amount of gay Juggalos out there is really surprising. I think about them doing their research and getting the old records, getting excited about it, and getting their hearts broke or something, you know? I tell my daughter, “For the rest of your life, when your friends ask why your dad said that, say it’s because your dad was a fool. Don’t defend me. Say I was a fool then, but I’m not now.” There’s no excuse. I was going with the flow, and that’s the very thing we preach against — being a sheep. And that’s what I was doing. https://www.stereogum.com/2083804/icp-interview-juggalos/interviews/weve-got-a-file-on-you/

Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.

London Overground under the underground

Under Over Over - West Hampstead

So it's taken a while, but I've finally found a location where you can clearly see London Underground trains traveling over London Overground trains.

The vantage point is at West Hampstead Overground station at the end of the platform.

3-year-old born deaf can hear 2 years after breakthrough gene therapy treatment Opal Sandy underwent a gene therapy injection to her right ear in 2023.

Timeline cleanser. Isn't science amazing...

Interview from the Titan submarine investigation. The witness name is blacked out. The first line is "Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

Great moments in redaction history.

It is a drizzly October afternoon and I am sitting in a rural Lancashire pub drinking pints of Moretti with London’s leading snail farmer and a convicted member of the Naples mafia. We’re discussing the best way to stop a mollusc orgy.

The fastest way to make me pay for your newsletter is to start an article with this sentence

It’s been nearly 10 years since I lived in London but London Centric is still a favourite read of mine - hugely fascinating and insightful original journalism

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Congratulations Professor Hicks!

REUSE - Make licensing easy for everyone We make licensing easy for humans and machines alike. REUSE solves a fundamental issue that Free Software licensing has at the very source. Adopting our recommendations is as easy as one-two-three!

REUSE is fantastic tooling for software licensing - solves several challenges I’ve had in the past! reuse.software

Great support for multiple licenses, automated checking, and annotating in-file or via config

I recently did this for the first time for Samoyed in github.com/doismellburn...

Yeah I don’t want to run server-side mods but I understand why people do - still here running my hopper-based sorter…

COVID is doing the rounds again Lots of people are getting COVID right now, here are some things I think you should know and do.

open.substack.com/pub/drmacive...

Congratulations!

Remake Face Off, starring Daniel Radcliffe and Elijah Wood, you cowards.