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It's a lovely 6th Day of Christmas at my true love's house, and you are six horrible geese
December 21, 2025 at 1:35 PM
It's a lovely 6th Day of Christmas at my true love's house, and you are six horrible geese
Family duties done, now back home after two nights sleeping in a strange bed, with two weeks off to come. And relax
December 20, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Family duties done, now back home after two nights sleeping in a strange bed, with two weeks off to come. And relax
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It's your birthday, Duane.
December 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM
It's your birthday, Duane.
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There was a wonderful interview with the veteran pro wrestler Minoru Suzuki about five years ago where he said that all the genuinely great wrestlers are bad at some aspect of being a wrestler. Someone who was an 8/10 in everything would be the most boring performer in the world.
The great old comedy writer Larry Gelbart said that your style is formed by what you can’t do. I wish more people understood that. That and the Martha Graham quote about keeping the channel open.
December 20, 2025 at 7:16 PM
There was a wonderful interview with the veteran pro wrestler Minoru Suzuki about five years ago where he said that all the genuinely great wrestlers are bad at some aspect of being a wrestler. Someone who was an 8/10 in everything would be the most boring performer in the world.
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they're calling it the worst take of all time
November 5, 2025 at 4:40 AM
they're calling it the worst take of all time
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Alison Bailey told me pro-trans lawyers keep eating her legal fees so I asked her how much money she has and she said she just goes to JK Rowling afterwards so I said it sound's like she's just feeding money to trans lawyers and now Helen Joyce is crying.
December 18, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Alison Bailey told me pro-trans lawyers keep eating her legal fees so I asked her how much money she has and she said she just goes to JK Rowling afterwards so I said it sound's like she's just feeding money to trans lawyers and now Helen Joyce is crying.
Okay so this is actually good and I don’t understand why they’re not singing from the rooftops about it
Some of England’s most-deprived councils to get funding boost in new deal
Manchester, Bradford and outer London boroughs among those to receive increases ministers hope will ‘restore pride’
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Okay so this is actually good and I don’t understand why they’re not singing from the rooftops about it
Distracting myself from an imminent stressful visit to my family by watching Marcus the Worm videos is a perfectly fine and normal thing to be doing
December 18, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Distracting myself from an imminent stressful visit to my family by watching Marcus the Worm videos is a perfectly fine and normal thing to be doing
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if you ever, at any point, thought marjorie taylor greene was maybe secretly a good person get your instincts checked
December 18, 2025 at 1:41 AM
if you ever, at any point, thought marjorie taylor greene was maybe secretly a good person get your instincts checked
Feel like this headline would have more meaning if people hadn’t regularly been expelled from Labour on the slightest pretext over the last few years
UK’s largest union elects leftwinger who was expelled from Labour
Andrea Egan to become Unison general secretary, succeeding Christina McAnea, who has close links to Keir Starmer
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Feel like this headline would have more meaning if people hadn’t regularly been expelled from Labour on the slightest pretext over the last few years
Well this is lovely
A moment that changed me: a pigeon fell out of the sky – and she led me to a secret underground rescue network
I had no idea what to do with the injured bird I named Belinda. But suddenly 3,000 Mancunians were happy to help, giving me a whole new appreciation of my home town
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Well this is lovely
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Tonight, finally, I will see Mr Blobby in a wrestling ring at Riot Cabaret
December 16, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Tonight, finally, I will see Mr Blobby in a wrestling ring at Riot Cabaret
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Observational research, broadly speaking, seeks to expand our knowledge of the the data-generating processes underlying reality.
Research using synthetic data expands our knowledge of the process that generated the synthetic dataset.
They are explicitly, trivially, and facially not the same thing.
Research using synthetic data expands our knowledge of the process that generated the synthetic dataset.
They are explicitly, trivially, and facially not the same thing.
Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)?
Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
December 16, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Observational research, broadly speaking, seeks to expand our knowledge of the the data-generating processes underlying reality.
Research using synthetic data expands our knowledge of the process that generated the synthetic dataset.
They are explicitly, trivially, and facially not the same thing.
Research using synthetic data expands our knowledge of the process that generated the synthetic dataset.
They are explicitly, trivially, and facially not the same thing.
Watching the episode of Blue Lights where two characters get sectioned
Super Hans And Jez Try To Get Mark Sectioned - Peep Show
YouTube video by Peep Show
youtu.be
December 16, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Watching the episode of Blue Lights where two characters get sectioned
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A university is so much more than its bricks and mortar facilities. It is also an eduroam network with intermittent access
December 15, 2025 at 11:04 PM
A university is so much more than its bricks and mortar facilities. It is also an eduroam network with intermittent access
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Also we've fetishized "debate” in these spaces as some kind of civic good, when what matters is competence, trust, shared purpose. Medicine, engineering, boardrooms aren’t organized around debate or requirements of false balance. We've poisoned public discourse by insisting it be adversarial.
"Bluesky is an echo chamber."
"Bluesky doesn't have enough reach"
"Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right"
I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.
"Bluesky doesn't have enough reach"
"Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right"
I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.
December 15, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Also we've fetishized "debate” in these spaces as some kind of civic good, when what matters is competence, trust, shared purpose. Medicine, engineering, boardrooms aren’t organized around debate or requirements of false balance. We've poisoned public discourse by insisting it be adversarial.
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If, like me, you’re finding the winter darkness oppressive, and you’re a night owl, and you can’t wait until the shortest day of the year to start feeling a sense of optimism again:
Today is the day of the earliest sunset. The evenings get longer from today. You’re welcome.
Today is the day of the earliest sunset. The evenings get longer from today. You’re welcome.
December 12, 2025 at 6:24 PM
If, like me, you’re finding the winter darkness oppressive, and you’re a night owl, and you can’t wait until the shortest day of the year to start feeling a sense of optimism again:
Today is the day of the earliest sunset. The evenings get longer from today. You’re welcome.
Today is the day of the earliest sunset. The evenings get longer from today. You’re welcome.
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i love "Terracotta mask in the shape of the head of a fox, dog, or bat ca. 600–480 BCE" so much he's so perfect
March 3, 2025 at 1:04 AM
i love "Terracotta mask in the shape of the head of a fox, dog, or bat ca. 600–480 BCE" so much he's so perfect
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My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area.
(15 in Manhattan btw)
(15 in Manhattan btw)
There is no possible justification for limiting e-bikes to 15mph but not cars.
New York Has a New E-Bike Speed Limit—and No Way to Enforce It
August 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area.
(15 in Manhattan btw)
(15 in Manhattan btw)
Glad to see this flopped. From what I could see when down there earlier it was a mix of sad old men with beers and a few young guys looking for trouble, but by no means any kind of critical mass
Tommy Robinson’s London ‘Christmas service’ draws about 1,000 people
Number is stark contrast with estimated 110,000 who turned up to far-right activist’s ‘unite the kingdom’ rally in September
www.theguardian.com
December 13, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Glad to see this flopped. From what I could see when down there earlier it was a mix of sad old men with beers and a few young guys looking for trouble, but by no means any kind of critical mass
This weekend has so far involved going to a squat party and an anti-fascist demo, and so has ended up with unexpectedly late 80s vibes
December 13, 2025 at 8:13 PM
This weekend has so far involved going to a squat party and an anti-fascist demo, and so has ended up with unexpectedly late 80s vibes
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The bones of Santa have been leaking liquid for 1,700 years.
December 8, 2025 at 3:05 AM
The bones of Santa have been leaking liquid for 1,700 years.
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the land raider and land speeder aren't called that because they go over land
they're called that because they were invented by a guy named arkhan land.
dees favorite joke about this is the emperor is named jimmy space and those are his space marines
they're called that because they were invented by a guy named arkhan land.
dees favorite joke about this is the emperor is named jimmy space and those are his space marines
One of my favorite brick stupid 40k things is that the Ultramarines aren't "ultra marines," they're called that because they are from a place called Ultramar
Glad the Ultramarines are finally getting to be in a game
December 12, 2025 at 6:10 PM
the land raider and land speeder aren't called that because they go over land
they're called that because they were invented by a guy named arkhan land.
dees favorite joke about this is the emperor is named jimmy space and those are his space marines
they're called that because they were invented by a guy named arkhan land.
dees favorite joke about this is the emperor is named jimmy space and those are his space marines