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Me staring into the endless abyss of my to dos on Monday morning

23 YEARS AGO TODAY, @mrweebl.bsky.social posted BADGERS to @Newgrounds.com

Genuinely mistook one person for another at work today, very awks but hey I’m sure no one will remember, right… right???

On AI slop, what really bothers me is seeing it IRL - flyers, posters, signs, menus whatever all look the same and are overpopulated with the same crappy graphics. Instant ick. I delighted the other day seeing a poster outside a church with old school wordart, white space and standard font text

In the long passport control queue at the airport yesterday, my son (5) had Questions. ‘Why is England not in the EU?’ he asked. ‘That’s a very good question’ I replied - to guffaws from others trapped in the same senseless mire

The internet has made us all citizens of everywhere and nowhere at once. We used to have a common reference in music, tv, talking points. Now you say oh have you seen x? And they say no we don’t have that streamer

One way to defeat the Sunday scaries - find a new scary. Eg water leaking from a light fixture! Never felt more alive

Party Hard by Andrew WK was on the radio for my commute home and it absolutely hit the spot what a time to be alive

I’m mourning my lost friend today who would have so loved to see Messi’s Argentina v England, as half Argentinian-English. He died 12 years ago, but grief has no time limit I guess.

Major trolling from fifa on the England Mexico kickoff time, nice

Unwelcome reminder today at a broader team building day that misogynists and sexist tendencies still pervade in the modern male. I am fortunate I rarely encounter it so blatantly, but ew

Waking up to 2 major World Cup upsets off penalties is exciting but also kind rubbish

They’re calling it the quote on British politics that ended the need for all other quotes

We are just as far from the song Three Lions being released as they were from England winning the World Cup…

Thought this was Alan titchmarsh at first 🙃

Lunch was asparagus, broad bean and feta tagliatelle. Love hitting on a winning combo from the random odds and ends in the fridge!

Loved reading Heart the Lover by Lily King. Spoke to me so much of the transient but weighty relationships we have and the marks left by ourselves and others. The passage and presence of time. Fabulous

Wealth of Britain’s 157 billionaires now equal to 22% of country’s GDP

My 5 yr old loves a spoonerism - yesterdays favourites were ‘Pobody’s nerfect’ and ‘Blawberries and Strueberries’. Examples welcome!

"Based on the dataset you shared, US and UK responses differ mainly in tone, intensity, and wording style, even though they express similar emotional states" New post on what happened when I got Copilot to do some data analysis: kucharski.substack.com/p/real-signa...

Look Around You tea episode from Yorkshire Tea here - i miss that show youtu.be/0J8VMLkuJgw

if i lived in popeye town and one day i saw a ropy little sailor punch a huge guy so hard his skeleton flew out of his mouth thats the only thing i would talk about for the rest of my life

Yer da at Christmas

So excited for NASA discovering whats on the far side of the moon #artemis II

Absolute SCENES. Jeremy Kyle could never

Probably one of the most public examples of the data integrity issue facing market research today. And how embarrassing it took this long to identify.

S4ep1 of Bridgerton I thought oh no this is just actually Cinderella.. and then it got me and I think this might be the best series so far. Love all the house staff esp Mrs Wilson,Mrs Crabtree and Varley ofc. Though how is Benedict still not clocking the resemblance lol #bridgerton

See also tiramisu, eclairs, cheesecake, trifle, hot cross buns, chocolate bars, ice cream… basically anything indulgent

Winter done well today