This but Star Wars. 🤷🏻‍♂️

I think it is good British agriculture is expected to compete internationally and become less reliant on trade wars style barriers & subsidies

Cannot remember the last time me, my wife and children hadn’t left the house all day. Honestly, what a relaxing day. Fuck turkey roasts & pork products, this is what it’s all about.

Today I am mostly transferring bloated games to my new 1TB microSD card

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Opened up TikTok to see Pog’s latest training ride. 230km, 6hrs. Honestly, don’t know how these guys do it.

Because vanity boats have always been a good idea for navies and they never fail to work.

Mate, did you ever see Trump towers?!

Fucking hell why do dentistry antibiotics need to be so horrendous to take

Will a British government ever “ban” anything that is actually enforceable?

It has not been the restful start I was hoping for

Yes! More of this, please. Nuts on the line! This is the sort of stuff that drives the anticipation.

Are discovery trying to ruin all sports?

I think getting a bad case of the shits is another way out of your addiction, if anyone’s asking. Did you know I had my last coffee on Monday?

Only guy to drop Pog uphill in what, two years?

I mean, broadly yes. There’s some nuance to the DEI stuff that he misses (who knew HR in FS was pretty crap), but as a man born in ‘88 and graduating in ‘09, yrs.

Fatherhood does make you soft; daughter’s nativity has to be one of, if not the, highlight of the year. What a pleasure to see yours do their own thing and enjoying it so much.

What do you mean, Christmas slowdown?

Too many non-fiction books could have been an article but that does not a book make. How often do you find yourself thinking “yeah yeah I get it”? (I get bought a lot of these for Xmas. Maybe social media has just pickled my brain)

Aaahahahahaha

Good job Germany is massive rearming.

Given **how often** we were made to study “rise of the nazis” and the Russian Revolution, it’s remarkable how people can’t see the wood for the trees when it comes to growing extremism in Western politics.

Quite pessimistic about the general state of affairs today. Suspect it being a Monday in December is, in part anyway, a reason for it

What is it about business chat that makes us stretch, or me anyway, stretch metaphors to destruction over and over again

Because people hate recruiters so much (!) they put up with enormous amounts of crap. LinkedIn was supposed to do away with expensive middlemen in hiring. Alas it just highlights the value of them

In the office the morning after the Xmas Party. Send help & bacon

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Some thoughts on all this “Every boy has a Hitler/WW2 obsession” chat 1) an interest in military history does not mean you support all the actors in said war? 2) relatedly, there are some WW2 strategy simulator game streamers who complain of being wrongly considered neo-nazis by other neo nazis

There are two types of people who arrange internal meetings. Those who check people’s diaries beforehand and those who don’t.

Great paper. direct.mit.edu/rest/article...

You will be visited by three spirits

This officially makes me an old duffer, but the way the cycling calendar marks the years and seasons is really part of its appeal. It is inextricably linked to geography and weather and that is part of the appeal. That the calendar is threatened by climate change is a sign about climate change!

**who knew** you had to pay for investment into the system. I, for one, am shocked

Spent a summer filing (as in, physically putting pieces of paper in files) for Cambridge University. Stunning building on the outside; a 70s hell hole of an office inside. Whipped quite the speed for finding & extracting the correct folder from the cabinet and sliding the paper in.

Because it’s Trump there’s no actual cogent argument and it probably is done spitefully, especially given the execution. However, there is a good argument, that, in the long run, development & equivalent aid is detrimental. Argument here is the execution of cuts was explicitly harmful

People think the most non-AI stuff ever is AI and all the obviously AI-made-to-press-your-buttons stuff is real. We, collectively, cannot handle stuff that doesn’t support our existing worldview and understanding of the world

Film you’ve seen more than six time with a gif

Can you imagine how upset yanks would be if some random yank boat got blown up for no reason?

I loathe private & public schools; were I king for a day I would banish them all, and country would be better for it. But this caricature of public schools boys never resonates when you actually meet people who went to them.

There’s a whole swathe of music that now just doesn’t sound right because it doesn’t have the CDRW burn skips and clicks.

You have to love the all the Christmas traditions - A* faff is very much part of it 😑😑

Helmet broken because some white van passenger, having lost his rag with all the cyclists behind me, honking, shouting and swerving, decided to throw a bottle of something at my head. Helmet did its job but for fuck sake.

I am fascinated by how AI is eroding the tools we use to evaluate people. Whether it is in education or recruitment - I’m sure there are others. I am equally fascinated by how and what tools we develop to counter this, and how they will reflect what criteria is useful to know in an AI world

So apparently national rail plans its train cancellations entirely to conflict with my diary. I can only profusely apologise for foolishly trying to arrange *another* breakfast meeting

Errrr 🫣

Won’t happen.

Err yes obviously, but presumably that’s why Theresa May drew “citizens of the world” as “citizens of nowhere”. When you have roots across borders, the artifice of nations and nationhood is shown up rather more clearly.

Luckily policing was spared funding increases?

Work stuff is just the right balance of being obviously trivial and petty, yet entirely consequential. Fuck sake

Yes quite. The ownership model only matters as much as it affects how it gets money into the system. Ie not as much as anyone thinks.