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So because some of the voluntary groups I volunteer for still use Meta, I have to spend time trying to fight Facebook and by God it is at times not easy.

In fairness, I think it will still be available, it just won't be supported

"Reform's spectacular fall in the late 2020s was only in hindsight attributed to an otherwise practically defunct computer program."

- Some political historian in 50 years

I've used to create 3 documents in about 20 years, largely because I wanted to see if it was still there and worked.

Honestly, hasn't changed since I accidentally did a school assignment in it in the 1990s because I didn't know Word existed.

I've just had some terrible news. Please sit down if you're not sitting or pull over if you're reading this driving, especially if drinking and driving.

Support for Microsoft Publisher will cease in October 2026.

Thoughts and prayers at this difficult time.

Don't worry, I still love you

I saved this post for some reason but man is it still true.

WHY IS HE TELLING ME ABOUT A FIELD FOR 4 PAGES IT'S NOT REAL JONNY RONNY REUEL

(In all seriousness, I think it's purely a taste thing. Like there are people who dislike The Wire having not suffered a serious head injury.)

Having seen many PowerPoint presentations and having done research into the delivery of PowerPoint presentations, I am pretty confident that 99.9% of people cannot communicate flexibly in academic and/or work situations.

Let's just deport everybody.

Don't read The Lord of the Rings, just watch the films.

I assumed it was some sort of sophisticated joke I didn't understand

I'm assuming this is an honest mistake but...isn't 2 + 2 = 4?

How Brexit drained the Tories’ talent pool The party can’t keep expecting successful people to pretend that leaving the EU was a good idea

You can’t be an effective party for successful people in midlife (sort of the *point* of the Tory party ultimately) if you are at odds with them over the most consequential thing you did in office. This week’s column:

I didn't delve into the comments to much. I mean, truth be told, my occasional dips into the world of online fitness, he didn't seem that mad but Milo Wolf's defence of him was bonkers.

Youtube comment: Lying about PEDs got boring so fitness industry is now lying about PHDs too

I'm not particularly au fait with the fitness influencer world (which may, just *may*, have the odd grifter) but a friend and I have been entertaining ourselves with the whole "is Mike Israetel's PhD real?" debacle.

I bang on about this a lot: I think the combination of a global pandemic, underregulated internet/SM, collapse/corruption of trustworthy media, plus now unregulated genAI, is a wildly toxic environment for radicalisation & mental health. We see the results of that in our politics & lives every day

than I'm suggesting here but it seems pretty shit that you can't even find the "new" newsletter.

Probably do need to close the old Substack account.

I have told people to search "secular sheffield". This takes them to the new beehiiv newsletter on both DuckDuckGo and Bing. It's about the 4th result and the Substack account of being visible.

Google finds the Substack but the beehiiv account is nowhere to be seen.

This is likely more complex

Secular Sheffield

Enshittification - an example

I have a monthly newsletter about events of interest to non-religious folk in Sheffield. It is called "Secular Sheffield".

I moved from Substack at the start of the year because Nazis.. I haven't posted on Substack since January. But...

secularsheffield.beehiiv.com

At least the BMA just did it for the cash.

Finally, a science reform we can all endorse!

I think I'm mostly surprised that even The Guardian was that insanely biased at the time

The IRA and the British Army were famously friendly until then so really Northern Ireland just provided a convenient spot to hang out. All ruined by that priest, aggressively waving his white flag at British troops.

Yeah, I can still remember a friend's phone number despite me not having phoned for 21 years. We are still friends though!

Similarly true with music. I run Sunday Assembly Sheffield, a secular gathering with songs, speakers and socialising.

It's challenging to find sufficiently well-known modern pop and rock songs such that everybody can sing along. In 1996 *everybody* had heard Wannabe whether they liked it or not.

I still dial my parents' landline number into my phone

PMJ are great but this one always stands out for me.

youtu.be/T2kOj-GFN8k

I think that would be fair point except the public sector product *might* be bad. The private sector product *will* be bad.