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Coming to you from Manchester, UK. Product person at Pendo. Walker, cook, nerd.

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I thought this didn’t sound right coming from her, and true enough, she’s been royally chucked under the bus by the headline writer here.

06.03.2026 07:24 👍 87 🔁 6 💬 4 📌 5

Came into the replies looking for this joke, thank you for your service.

04.03.2026 18:45 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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IRAN EMERGENCY EPISODE WITH CHARLIE GAMMELL Podcast Episode · Behind The Lines with Arthur Snell · 2 March · 47m

🚨🚨Iran emergency episode with Charlie Gammell🚨🚨

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02.03.2026 06:13 👍 90 🔁 35 💬 1 📌 19

Having a nice lie down?

26.02.2026 20:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The film Arrival, the aliens are squirting heir incomprehensible glyphs on the barrier. The lead character holds a whiteboard with “you’re muted” written on it.

The film Arrival, the aliens are squirting heir incomprehensible glyphs on the barrier. The lead character holds a whiteboard with “you’re muted” written on it.

Intergalactic, even.

25.02.2026 20:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks. When were you able to do some work after the op?

25.02.2026 19:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

One of my eyes is, technically speaking, quite fucked at a retinal level. That one is getting a monofocal and the other is getting a fancy trifocal.

25.02.2026 19:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I _think_ so, yes

25.02.2026 18:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Who do I know who has had a cataract operation? I’m having both eyes “fixed” soon, and I’m trying to set my expectations around recovery time.

25.02.2026 07:10 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

I’ve got some miso and garlic paste, what can I do with it?

22.02.2026 17:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

(The custard tart, not the plate)

21.02.2026 20:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A gloriously sunny yellow custard tart slice on a white plate.

A gloriously sunny yellow custard tart slice on a white plate.

Made this.

21.02.2026 20:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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A new series of the Kitchen Cabinet kicks off at 10.30am on BBC Radio 4, the start of an (almost) unbroken 13 week run, and we begin at Zoe Lauglin’s institute of Making at UCL. Here she is with a display of her TKC experiments.

21.02.2026 09:25 👍 53 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 2

Just gone past a shop called “GIMME POTATO”.

19.02.2026 19:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

OH MY GOD??

17.02.2026 04:42 👍 370 🔁 34 💬 10 📌 0

One in six couples experience infertility (that's couples, so not counting the single people who struggle). So that's at least one in six votes he's automatically losing.

Or maybe there will be a special 'it's not my fault' discount on the barren tax?

16.02.2026 16:21 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0

sigh

15.02.2026 17:08 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

those of you who this resonates with need to 1. identify and connect as an actual community and 2. collaborate with each other directly as humans so not to lose further touch with the anchors that had grounded you before this token anxiety has manifested

15.02.2026 17:22 👍 212 🔁 45 💬 2 📌 2

Not all value is in the output and resultant complexity. That said, once a software solution is out there and described, it can be more easily reproduced. Other “moats” than output/complexity exist, but whether they will hold remains to be seen.

The old world is dying, etc etc.

15.02.2026 19:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

😐

15.02.2026 03:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oh wow.

14.02.2026 19:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Olympic village apparently ran outta condoms after 3 days so congrats to the next generation of elite athletes

13.02.2026 20:24 👍 353 🔁 37 💬 15 📌 8

Just started Drops of God on Apple TV. Can’t work out if I like it, opinions?

13.02.2026 18:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

12.02.2026 16:31 👍 10354 🔁 3079 💬 162 📌 419
The cautionary precedent is a story about George Bernard Shaw who, browsing in a second-hand shop somewhere, found one of his own works, inscribed for a friend "with esteem, GBS". Naturally, he bought it and returned it to the same friend, "with renewed esteem"

The cautionary precedent is a story about George Bernard Shaw who, browsing in a second-hand shop somewhere, found one of his own works, inscribed for a friend "with esteem, GBS". Naturally, he bought it and returned it to the same friend, "with renewed esteem"

Because of this story I can never give signed books to charity and if I buy one which turns out to have an inscription I feel bad for the signatory

12.02.2026 12:44 👍 551 🔁 102 💬 29 📌 12
Book extract showing excerpt from a letter: “I am still just as frightened of bombs, & guns going off, as I was at the beginning. I turn bright red and my heart hammers, in fact I’m a beastly coward but I do believe that a lot of people are, so I don’t mind! Well darling I must stop, and I do feel sure that all your present work is useful, and if you can put in a little refresher in nursing – well all the better. 
Tinkety tonk old fruit, & down with the Nazis 
always your loving 
Peter

Book extract showing excerpt from a letter: “I am still just as frightened of bombs, & guns going off, as I was at the beginning. I turn bright red and my heart hammers, in fact I’m a beastly coward but I do believe that a lot of people are, so I don’t mind! Well darling I must stop, and I do feel sure that all your present work is useful, and if you can put in a little refresher in nursing – well all the better. Tinkety tonk old fruit, & down with the Nazis always your loving Peter

That splendid sign-off of the Queen Mother’s – “Tinkety tonk old fruit, & down with the Nazis” – celebrates its 85th anniversary today

07.02.2026 10:50 👍 176 🔁 75 💬 10 📌 10

Carolyn did just ask was there enough food!

06.02.2026 22:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Wow! No fire engine no flyeeee

06.02.2026 21:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Ahh he's a good lad.

05.02.2026 15:01 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Paris prosecutors raid France offices of Elon Musk’s X – Europe live The raid is linked to a year-long investigation into alleged abuse of algorithms and fraudulent data extraction by X

France getting serious with Musk.

03.02.2026 10:56 👍 1835 🔁 426 💬 81 📌 66