Travel hack: if someone suggests flying long haul with Icelandair, karate chop them in the throat and run away

Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume? Virginia Woolf: Time Passes

Every time I travel the experience becomes more stressful and more demeaning, and I feel less human & more like play-doh extruded through one of those machines they used to sell.

Imagine *wanting* to experience art that you can’t share with anyone.

Personalised! Art! Is! Not! Art! Because art is always and necessarily social! (Personalised software is an excuse for poor product management)

This is poo racing 💩

Give him the others too, just to be safe. Literature. Economics. Physiology or medicine.

Sure Jan, let’s trade.

Anthropic: Claude is a god, whom we must worship Also Anthropic: it is illegal to be mean to Claude lest you hurt its feelies

It’s like if U2 stole all of your albums, ground them up into a slurry and forced you to listen to the sludge all day long

I am more likely to say thank you to a vending machine for giving me a frosty beverage or wee snack than I am to AI, which can provide none of those things.

Kathy Beale still somehow looks younger than her ostensible son.

Time to take a big sip of coffee and google “properties in Harrogate”

I’m fairly sure I bought this sandwich from a campus Starbucks concession the other week. It cost $12 and tasted fluorescent, somehow.

Heaven help me I have had an Idea for a trade book, and I think it’s a good one. Only thing is I’m suspicious of how good it is, given it’s the fruit of my brain-loins, and wonder if the idea was someone else’s. Maybe I heard it in a conference bio???

Saving this for when I finally have to bite the bullet and upgrade

Big Law as opposed to???

it just so happens that this one (1) soundbite was all he had.

wait no what am I saying, that's Sardinia...

Tired: Britain is European Wired: Britain isn't European Inspired: Britain is Sicilian