Rhymer Rigby

Advice to chief executives: pick up a book If Elon Musk is ‘uncultured’, a false opposition between literature and business may be to blame

Advice to chief executives: pick up a book—At a time when business leaders seem to be constantly firefighting with little time for a hinterland, there is an even stronger case for entrepreneurs and chief executives… www.ft.com/content/1369... @emmavj.bsky.social @financialtimes.com

"Quiet! Quiet, Piggy."

Oracle’s astonishing $300bn OpenAI deal is now valued at minus $74bn [FREE TO READ] And suddenly, there may be a reverse Midas at the centre of AI’s circular economy

Big oof.

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Don't want to overshadow the kind of fishes, mate. Not my plaice.

Won't happen. But at some point a UK government is going to have to make a big decision to scrap the triple lock, and I suspect when they do it will prove to be far more popular than expected. Leadership rather than government by polling.

They walk among us

Reading the Epstein emails in the same spirit I'd read Frank O Hara poems or listen to Lou Reed

I mean, I do use insured, tracked, etc. post for stuff worth, say £300. But if I were sending something worth £10k...

I would simply not put a gold bar in the post

If they could do LBG for this evening that would be good. I'm going out on Upper Street, but nearer the Angel end.

There is a corner of our kitchen which is forever Q2 2025

A parent’s fear: the mother in hiding from her son [FREE TO READ] What happens when the person you gave life to, wants to take yours

on.ft.com/4nWiG1G A parent’s fear: the mother in hiding from her son

He was golden-haired, a “really happy” baby. “He was gorgeous. I absolutely doted on him, I loved being a mum.”

Life Will Move

Been listening to a lot of 70s African rock and it’s depressing how many band bios read something like “formed during the commodity boom in their hometown, they later fell out of favour after the US/Soviet backed coup brought a military dictatorship to power”

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Bought a vintage fountain pen the other day because I liked the idea of it.

Then I opened a drawer and remembered I'd bought one 4 years ago which I'd never used, also because I liked the idea of it.

Netflix House opens its doors as streaming giant’s latest weapon Theme park in Philadelphia allows fans to step inside their favourite shows such as Wednesday and Squid Game, with Dallas and Las Vegas the next locations

Excited for an exhibit that would have been great as 4 rooms but actually goes on for 196.

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Relatedly, Google used to let you give a star rating to whole continents. Asia was a 4.5, I mean, who needs to know more?

Gonna simplify my life with one seasoning that does it all

Brockley Ponds

No, the new one that's been taking ages. End of Upper Brox Rd.

The little Victorian one is part of the crap development on the same site.

TBF, the 90s were actually good

Such a crap building (although better than the previously approved one). IIRC, the planners just waved it through.

The unfinished one behind it is better.

Where dat?

Update: Think I won the real-life auction. But I won't know for sure until later today or tomorrow. They're going to send me an email, like it's 2005 or something.

Stockpiling Claymore mines and barbed wire in the cellar to make Brockley Cross impassable. You can have Manor Ave, they've always thought they were a bit special.

How we do pensions and retirement income in this country is predicated on a few assumptions, one of which is that old people have minimal housing costs and/or security of tenure. It's not happening anymore, and will get worse.

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Live on hill, am mostly worried about the future flooded out barbarian hordes from the bottom of the hill

In a year or two, it will be further stretched to make an 80,000 word book...

Bright red, white and pale green northern lights fill a night sky. The black silhouettes of three cows look up at them

obsessed with this photo of cows watching the northern lights. it's the scene in a muppet movie that's so surprisingly touching you start to cry

(photographer: @ChrisReichert3 on twitter)

Am bidding for something in a non-eBay auction (i.e. - they have an actual auctioneer with a hammer). For some reason this makes me feel like a proper grown-up.

CONFIRMED: the gold snot covering the Oval Office is $58-apiece onlays from Home Depot that have been spraypainted.

When Laura Ingraham confronted Trump about this in the Oval—specifically and correctly noting that the tacky garbage was from Home Depot—he lied to her face and insisted it wasn't.