I would say the problem isn't phones, it's social media - which is a separate, tedious conversation
Wrote about this a few weeks ago as it happens www.thenewworld.co.uk/matt-muir-it...
VERY IMPORTANT. The Paul Foot Award is free to enter, insanely credible and career-enhancing and judged impeccably fairly and on merit.
This is how to enter www.private-eye.co.uk/pictures/pau...
Just been motivated to look up my favourite song from my favourite film, because it's fucking great, and I figure not all of you might know and love Bad Boy Bubby as much as I do so, well, enjoy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1YG...
ooh, ta, not an instagram user but will take a look x
Yes, very much aimed more at 'people who can't do cryptics at all' (ie me)
Cryptic crosswords are something I have always wanted to learn how to do, but which I have always proved too lazy and thick to actually bother. This new game from the Wordle guy is a daily cryptic clue, with hints, and it is ACE www.parseword.com/daily
@trishacode.com Feel like Tilly is ripping your vibes a bit here Trish www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7V2...
You may not have thought it was possible to use a fire in Glasgow to stoke hatred and push a remigration-adjacent agenda while also, er, attempting to sell nicotine pouches to racists, but it turns out it apparently is!
interesting, ta, useful use-case
As in, links in pieces you've posted on the url to other pieces you've posted on the url? that's a great idea
Good story, this, on AI 'sovereignty' (lol), data centre 'jobs' (also lol) and the fact that the UK's approach to this entire sector is, in many respects, a bit of a fucking mess
A curios-free afternoon is a perfect time to catch up on the others...x
Just looked through writing gigs on LinkedIn, half of which turn out to be training AI when you click on them. Came back on Bluesky and to find someone complaining that writers who want to be paid for their work are "money grabbing twats".
Sometimes I think people deserve gen AI slop.
I wrote a thing
Zone 2 cardio. Mobility maxxing. There will be no further discussion.
1. A short thread on a Bluesky phenomenon that might be described as "They are a dead-eyed cultist who must be cast out lest the heresy take root!" OP has blocked me for mocking them - I'd usually obscure their name but since they themselves were quote-dunking to demand someone else be blocked ...
Per today's Private Eye
While it would make your professional life difficult, I can't pretend I don't hope...
IT ME
also not my personal taste, but gustibus non est disputandum, innit x
The 'potential outbreak of WW3' thing happening over the weekend rather buried the opening of the Government's consultation into the proposed social media ban for u-16s. You can find links to all three consultations (for young people, parents and everyone else) here: www.gov.uk/government/c...
It's Bluesky, it's what we're here for!x
A fair point! Wasn't an attempted dunk so much as a note on the fact that I had 'bundled substacks as a product' on my bingo card for this year as a concept x
Really excited to see this new invention, which we could perhaps call...'magazines'?
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