Lots to say about the new #RunningMan but the poster saying "Christ the Redeemer condemns you to Hell" is a great signifier of a society whose purported and actual values have come to oppose one another

The cheaper train line near me has new rolling stock and I am alarmingly excited about it

OH at BM&G: "St Andrew looks like you 40 years ago"

No need for government health dashboards, Deliveroo now has a "Cold and flu" section that pops into existence at times like these

Really liking the #MrMercedes soundtracks

During this cloudflare outage, let me supply you with this wisdom of the ages: “single point of failure” can be sung to the tune of “all the single ladies”

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Really bizarre door to door salesmen came round and opened by reassuring my partner that "we're not as daft as YOU look". Will be spending the next week attempting to quantify daftness.

Satisfying to see that the (current) top comment on HN about the Waymo DOS is to complain about people calling it a DDOS news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4556...

Entertaining start to the day when it took about 10mins to start a speculative incident presumably because every customer of the incident management tool we use was doing the exact same thing

Discovered today that the local café has a little dog called Timmie

Spectacular work

"She's gone dark" "Banville often goes dark" "Not like this: she's in Birmingham" Harsh words there from this Netflix thing I'm watching

No Only Connect? 😭😭😭

Absolutely love this

One day you're young and the next thing you know you're listening to Landslide without irony

"grave breach of ... semantic decorum" sounds like a fantastic comment for a pull request

I'm not normally bothered by vaccines but this lasted Covid one is proper brutal

Expect this will be the first and only time I guess right first time on Tradle #Tradle #1299 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 oec.world/en/games/tra...

Saw someone on Twitter refer to leftists as "the bed wetting Leftwaffe", which I guess is aimed at people like me, but I can't help but admire the insult.

Not sure I can forgive the script writer. #TheArchers

I wonder how many #TheArchers listeners will be debating poor Alan's minor heresy at Bible study after that episode

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On the train home from work this week the person opposite me was eating a burrito and the person next to them was throwing up. I don't think they noticed each other but it was quite discombobulating.

"The world changed on us, Marty"

Discovered at work today that I miss-scheduled the entire team by getting number of weeks in September wrong. 📆🤦

How do you solve a problem like Maria? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Largest supply chain attack in history stole ... a few dollars? youtu.be/4caJw0JJZTQ...

She asked for the trial to be adjourned after telling the court the expert duo were unavailable as they had been sent on a once-a-year training course." BBC News - www.bbc.com/news/article...

Saw a Kevlin Henney in the wild last week

“I too came from a poorish family,” says the 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, eldest son of Major-General Gilbert Monckton, 2nd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley and Marianna Letitia, Viscountess Monckton of Brenchley.

Not sure that "Pol Pot didn't have Facebook" is quite the argument Nick Clegg thinks it is

It's always fascinating to see how different technologies lend themselves to creating different subcultures. I can't imagine people exchanged memes via fax or Telex, but I bet they trolled each other via wireless telegraph.

OH on train, re. football disputes: "AI is what should make the decision, that way there is no emotion, no bias...". Maybe it should (I have no idea) but AI has been so catastrophically badly explained.

When factories automated we accepted (?) that the people who worked in them would need fewer skills than the people who hand-crafted goods. Employers who are telling software devs that their skills will be replaced by AI are expecting this to affect their standing in the hiring market how, exactly?

Library of Birmingham all lit up for the Ukrainian Day of Independence

"Since my customary greeting would seem oddly self-serving..." is such a brilliant line 🖖

Selfridge's still has their life size Lego™ Ozzy Osbourne of slightly questionable likeness

This reminds me of the student who brought in his monitor, keyboard and mouse into a lab when he wanted us to help fix his desktop. BBC News - No printers or PCs, Starbucks Korea tells customers www.bbc.com/news/article...

The most important goal for your advert is to inspire confidence in the viewer

The interesting thing about Gordon Brown on the Today Programme was not his message but how good an interview it was compared to most we get. He's on top of his 'brief', clear on the message he wants to convey, and he actually answers the question. No interruptions needed.

Half the world seems to have come out to remember Aston's favourite son. Queues of over an hour for the book of condolence, queues round the block for the local museum and everyone super chill.

Half the world seems to have come out to remember Aston's favourite son. Queues of over an hour for the book of condolence, queues round the block for the local museum and everyone super chill.

I could quite happily live in Tiger Bites Pig

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