Josh Glendinning

Team dynamics after AI Small giants and real giants

If there is zero cost or friction for busywork then all work becomes all busywork -- just as all content becomes slop. Really enjoyed this in case you hadn't seen mechanicalsurvival.com/blog/team-dy...

That would be lovely, thank you. Will give you a shout in a few weeks

We're moving to Walthamstow tomorrow! Would be a pleasure to bump into you at some point

She pointed out that the players had come in through the opposite entrance I wasn't looking at, and that these were WW2 veterans because it was near remembrance Sunday

This is very cute. It reminds me of going to see an ice hockey match. They announced "please welcome the Toronto Maple Leafs" and these four very elderly men plodded out onto the ice. I said to my now fiancée "I don't think we stand much of a chance".

Yahoo news screenshot “It’s your boy, Elder TikTok. There was just a gunshot at Charlie Kirk,” he said in the footage. “We’re in Utah! There was gunfire! This is not a joke … This is not a drill. Mormon Central, Utah. There was a gun that just fired off here at Charlie Kirk. I am not playing with y’all. “Hey, make sure you go to church on Sunday. Read the Book of Mormon,” he continued as others could be seen fleeing in the backdrop. “This is not a drill. I’m not playing with y’all. Hey, Jesus is Lord. Jesus will protect you. Jesus is your savior, bro. I’m not even lying. Make sure you subscribe to Elder TikTok on Instagram.”

Haha. Kinda getting to the exact same point by very different means

Pendant light fitting with 6 light bulbs

OTOH you can go too far in the other direction. I accidentally bought very warm bulbs for this light fitting in my living room and it felt like I was on a tanning bed

Happy Saturday! Presuming you are not marching to, er, 'unite' the country, why not spend your afternoon with some internet (the good, non-radicalising sort)? Web Curios! The semi-acceptable face of 'too online'! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-12...

Ignore what is a rather beautiful afternoon (in southern England, at least) and instead pay attention to my words and other people's (excellent) links in this week's fun-packed* edition of Web Curios

*Definitions of 'fun' may vary

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I like to imagine you took that photo with your toes

Yeah it works quite well. Also one of her best friends is an extra which is pretty badass and I can at least recognise her

Som is great at recognising actors but terrible with locations and I'm the opposite. She's always like "oh they're from x film" and I'm "those are the columns in the guildhall square" (Andor). This should definitely be an extra IMDb feature.

@adjwilson.bsky.social has just pointed out that I bear a striking resemblance to Emile Zola. There are many worse historical doppelgangers

Som and I have just happened across the international glossary of shit. I love that it was produced by a proper academic international development organisation. She hits me every time I say the Bengali word though archive.ids.ac.uk/clts/sites/c...

Now we just need a better and more economical sonic symbol for "caution, this vehicle is turning left."

The Tiny Awards are a fantastic project to celebrate all the wonderful little things that are still out there online. Have a look

It brought me and my friends so much joy. When my fiance wants me to relax she's been saying: "go sit down and play your piggy game". Thank you!

A swan on Burgess Park lake with 6 signets in tow

A baby signet

Very happy to see that, after last year's very inadvisable nesting location, the swans in Burgess Park have this year successfully hatched a brood of half a dozen signets

It's interesting talking to Som about which bands and songs did and didn't reach Canada when she was growing up

YouTube video by Grossstadtgeflüster - Topic Feierabend

Anyway, if you want another good chucking out song, I love this one youtu.be/G0UY3YqAOdE?...

When I first read the original post, I assumed "oh, so the person being chucked out is the soon-to-be dad who can't go for drinks anymore". I was not imagining this.

Omg what??? The baby is being chucked out of the bar/womb??

The resident services officer of our South London estate is now being asked to cover nearly 800 properties. He is expected to deal with everything from tenancy issues to welfare checks to housing repairs to ASB. I have no idea how local govt can cope.

BBC Radio 4 - Short Cuts - The Mystery of the Hellraiser 'Monument' Short Cuts goes in search of the origins of the Hellraiser 'Monument' in London

If anyone is wondering, my friend just found this www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/a...

Just spotted the Hellraiser series on VHS tapes neatly arranged into a formation on top of a bus stop on Old Kent Road. What does it mean?

Why is there a young Kent Brockman in the crowd at the monorail opening?

Blurb for the book Ghosts of Iron Mountain by Phil Tinline

Was listening this morning to a short radio interview with the author of this book, Ghosts of Iron Mountain, which sounds fascinating. Desperately hoping the QAA podcast invites Phil Tinline on for a deeper discussion soon @travisview.bsky.social @annieknk.bsky.social @jakerockatansky.bsky.social

I remember Wilmslow Road when it was 'Curry Mile'! Difficult to get a decent curry there now, sadly.

Very good

I heard Richmond, Virginia is named after Richmond, London which is named after Richmond, Yorkshire. I wonder which gave its name to the cigarettes and whether Richmond, Yorkshire can still claim some credit regardless