Rick Edwards

Well I could not possibly comment!

YEAH YEAH CHEMO BLAH BLAH BLAH THIS GUY NAILED A MENTAL MINUTE, LIVE!

Inquest if not

Truly magnificent @thomgibbs.bsky.social

This BLEW MY MIND

on fighting talk just now, one panellist claimed they were “world class” at knowing when a minute had passed so rick edwards started a timer and turned to the other panellists.

the guy interrupted someone else’s answer to say “now!” at 1’00

The only sensible response

Yes I think you’re right

Ooh and The Housekeeper and the Professor! Love that book

(obviously all Murakami a given)

Memory Police / Snow Country / Goodnight Tokyo / Decagon House Murders / Kitchen

There is a reason actually, we're playing old Olympic comms as part of the sportswoman of the century vote.

My absolute pleasure!

1. you're probably right
2. that decision was a disgrace (and also screwed us!)

That’s very interesting!

Yes, if you're a toddler.

Amazing Fliss!

One of the many reasons I love Germany!

Why Are Young Men So Disillusioned With Politics? Why Are Young Men So Disillusioned With Politics?

Stumbled across this piece I wrote 11 years ago about young men (well, young people) becoming disillusioned with politics.

Disappointingly I think most of the arguments still hold...

www.shortlist.com/news/why-are...

Hahahahaha that’s right in my dad’s wheelhouse

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

We are drafting in a supersub don’t worry

#proud #isotopes #neutrons

@rachelburden.bsky.social

For the absolute last time: I *never* said I thought E.T. dressed in the wig and the dress was sexy, I said *I could see why people would think that*

Ah yes! Fair enough. Will track down a Fowler’s, sounds good

I can't remember what I said (or anything, these days), but surely 'Jannick Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz, world number one and world number two respectively' would be correct, and useful? Without 'respectively' the attribution of the seeding would be unclear...

Yes

Will have a look!

@clairewillett honestly the best marketing scheme in history is men successfully getting away with calling women the "more emotional" gender for like, EONS, because they've successfully rebranded anger as Not An Emotion 6:00 PM • Aug 12, 2020

once again I must tap my own sign

I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.