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Tom Runnacles
@tomrunnacles.bsky.social
Software developer, philosopher, guitarist, whinger.
Extra points if you had Peter Thiel declaring the Pope to be the Antichrist in your bingo card.
November 13, 2025 at 12:25 PM
“I got a bad feeling about this”
November 9, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I think Bertrand Russell called it ‘the metaphysics of savages’, so there’s that.
November 9, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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You can tell phrenologists are all lazy by the shape of their skulls
November 7, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Is this part of a two-step in which he feels compelled, entirely for the sake of the nation you understand, to join Reform?
November 6, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Reminds me of that thing about how being a billionaire must have a similar effect on one’s cognitive capacity as being kicked by a horse every day.
November 6, 2025 at 9:45 AM
The British people have enough of (grammatical) experts.
November 5, 2025 at 8:01 PM
What passing bells for those who die as (checks notes) pastrami on rye?
November 4, 2025 at 4:21 PM
After the second one the decline becomes more rapid, but ymmv.
November 4, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Yeah, that’s definitely the reason lads, just keep doing what you’re doing.
October 31, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Reposted by Tom Runnacles
As a first order issue, management that decides it can deploy AI as an efficiency tool is already leveraging themselves into some combination of job cuts/lower hiring (at least relative to some counterfactual) position. So there's an ex ante incentive problem where the job cuts are proof of concept.
October 29, 2025 at 3:17 PM
“You ain’t no liberal, bruv”
October 28, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Yes, but I’d go further.
October 27, 2025 at 10:10 AM
This is the way.
October 27, 2025 at 9:51 AM
I think we’re missing a trick here - Jackson Lamb is played by Miss Piggy, *Diana Taverner* is the one human.
October 27, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Or more despairingly, full of STAIRS.
October 22, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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A (dedicated and professional) Deputy Headteacher: ‘it’s really increased the number and length of letters from those parents who are total pricks’
October 21, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Now is the time to consult the Prompt Engineers to identify the correct incantation to use at this difficult moment.
October 20, 2025 at 12:30 PM