VC, founder, dumbass

my dad didn’t go to university and he was extremely happy to pay taxes for his four children to do so; and, indeed, for the doctors who treated him at Addenbrookes to have gone to university as well.

Gandalf's "a wizard is never late, nor is he early" and Kesha's "Now, the party don't start 'til I walk in" are essentially the same sentiment

Just heard an AI ethicist talk about how important it is that we say ‘MEN are using Grok to undress images of babies, children and women’ not ‘Grok is….’. Grok isn’t responsible for the action, the men enabling & using it for this repulsive purpose are. Small but important bit of linguistic accuracy

From Other People’s Money: The Real Business of Finance by John Kay

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.

Incredible words from real boxer Anthony Joshua after he knocked Jake Paul the fuck out lol

Whilst i'm not generally a boxing fan, I AM a fan of Jake Paul fucking around and finding out. Soooo...

Me: I don’t see the appeal of boxing TV: OK but what if it’s professional boxers savagely brutalizing influencers Me:

You there, @cloxdale.bsky.social, what day is it?

He gave us 'you can't handle the truth', 'I'll have what she's having', 'My name is Inigo Montoya (etc)' AND 'it goes up to 11'. How many other directors can claim that? A terrible loss.

contra the way this is being reported, her claim here is being partially upheld *purely* on the basis that the board didn't adhere to proper procedure. the case also found that dr upton was *correct* in saying that peggie had harassed her, and that upton had the right to be in the changing rooms.

I'll give you the short version: they sponsored & supported the most influential AIDS denialist group of the 2000's, resulting in national policies in South Africa that caused an estimated 330,000 deaths there. They have never apologized or acknowledged what they did. medium.com/the-monthly/...

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

Yesterday I updated my first (and very silly) choose your own adventure game "i will strangle a horse"! The update brought the wordcount from 7660 to 13500+, and introduced: >ladder amnesia! >consequences for knocking on The Farmhouse door! >stardew valley* >MORE brainmage.itch.io/i-will-stran...

Wedding rings. they are going to exempt wedding rings from their thieving. How very eurocentric and heterosexist of them. No other jewelry can have meaning of course.

A big part of the problem with the "Brontë country" conversation is that we've been conditioned to see scenery like the photo below and think "ooh lovely countryside" and not "yikes, an ecological wasteland with almost no plant life left thanks to centuries of relentless livestock farming".

Aww hell yeah it's fish doorbell season.

Freddie Mercury didn't go into the studio and nail the vocals for "The Show Must Go On" in one take while dying of AIDS for you to despair and give up now. Take the time you need, but then get up and get back out there. The show must go on.

Best thread I've ever read

"pluto is a planet" boring, pedestrian, been done before "pluto is not a planet anymore" not even what happened, they FOUND MORE MICROPLANETS FURTHER OUT and larger than pluto! "pluto is the first discovered of the largest group of planets, there are dozens of them now" fucking fantastic, a legend