David Reid

if I ever go properly "screaming about nothing in particular in the street" mad it will be due to having spent too much time having read about the opinions of men who have absolutely never cared about women's rights for one moment in their lives but decided to pretend just for the sake of racism

We still keep meaning to come over and say hi on a Saturday at some point - maybe in December then! 😂

I always enjoy reading the TripAdvisor London Forum because I'm fascinated to see what foreign tourists expect, what they ask about and what surprises them. I thought this post from someone from Texas was a really lovely and cheering comment about riding the tube late at night

That “late night train ride home from New Street” vibe is a usually good one. You’ve got someone from every background, from students to OAP’s, we’ve all had a solid night out and are in high spirits, we’ve all got a take away of some kind and the night isn’t ready to end yet 🙂

Cursed items

Jurickson Profar just made the "Best Defensive Plays of 2025" highlight reel

Mo Salah is asking the right questions

Facebook post: Dorchester: News and Views (Name redacted) Does anyone offer pottery repair in Dorchester using the Japanese kintsugi method? Tristan Anderson Does anyone in Japan offer the Dorset Araldite repair method?

Chef’s kiss 10/10 no notes. #FacebookNews

BBC among media misreportimg/exaggerating scale of asylum protests

Median protest is a few dozen, below 100.

"Usually Several hundred at a time" is false.
- should say *occasionally*
< 1/10 protests have 200 people

"Sometimes thousands"
I dont think a single 2025 protest had > 2000 people yet

Dial-up Internet to be discontinued AOL routinely evaluates its products and services and has decided to discontinue Dial-up Internet. This service will no longer be available in AOL plans. As a result, on September 30, 2025 this service and the associated software, the AOL Dialer software and AOL Shield browser, which are optimized for older operating systems and dial-up internet connections, will be discontinued. This change will not affect any other benefits in your AOL plan, which you can access any time on your AOL plan dashboard. To manage or cancel your account, visit MyAccount.

So apparently we are within the last 60 days of dial-up AOL being a thing.

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ht @mat.tl

Having a Madame Bovary summer is all about:

-cheating because you're bored
-imagining what Paris must be like
-little treats you can't afford
-ignoring your child
-knowing exactly where the pharmacist keeps the arsenic (just in case)
-hiding in bushes

His legs are way out of proportion too. They Stretch Armstrong’d him.

He’s got Manute Bol’s wingspan ffs

Never knew he had Manute Bol’s wingspan wtf is this

How good is this sound after 30 years? Perfection.

The soundtrack of my early twenties. Eternal thanks to Ben, Robert and Darren.

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Happy 30th to the first Ben Folds Five album. Wrote you some thoughts on it from tour bus, as i listened to it all the wau theoigh for first time in 3 decades www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...

😂

Throw Kajagoogoo in there and you've got a supergroup for the ages 🙂

😳

motivation

RIP to one of the best.

AI policy and guidelines - Joe McVeigh.docx You are strictly prohibited from using Generative AI (GenAI) or Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Copilot, and Grok, for research or writing assignments. Any submitted wor...

Unfortunately, my policy on AI has grown by quite a few sources over the last year. Here it is for anyone who wants to adopt or adapt it for their courses. And if you have ideas, I'm all ears.

Absolutely correct 🙂 Released on September 11th 2001 (!) rips through every single emotion in the spectrum in just under 50 minutes, just perfect.

And I still love it when he leads the audience in the claps during Annie Waits and the three part harmony during Not The Same at every gig he does 🙂

This is from abnout 30 years ago, but has stuck with me ever since, I once heard an Amereican sports reporter pronounce it KNEE-zhell Man-SELL which rhymes nicely and I think should be adopted as the correct pronuncation moving forward.

YouTube video by cerealmad Hula Hoops Crisp Advert Compilation (1988-2017)

Just watched 12 minutes of Hula Hoops adverts, thought I’d share youtu.be/MS-c9y3NNI8?...

Friday TikTok thread go

A shitty map created by ChatGPT5. it purports to be US States with an R in their name, but it's wrong and dumb and worthless just like LLMs.

My goto is to ask LLMs how many states have R in their name. They always fail. GPT 5 included Indiana, Illinois, and Texas in its list. It then asked me if I wanted an alphabetical highlighted map. Sure, why not.

Flex post, flex post, flex post, flex post, flex post, flex post, BOLLARD.
#WorldBollardAssociation

I do think this is indicative of the sheer absurdity of what we're living through. OpenAI is allegedly worth $500 billion - more than Netflix - and this is their brand new product that is meant to be super powerful. Does this really make a billion dollars a month? This thing? ChatGPT?