Kirsty's network of friends (and Helen). Ha, that made me laugh #TheArchers

Elite law firm Sullivan & Cromwell admits to AI ‘hallucinations’ Firm whose partners bill more than $2,000 per hour apologises to judge for software-driven errors in bankruptcy case

S&C has an enterprise licence for ChatGPT. At least five high-level partners were assigned to this case. It's all very well telling juniors to 'check everything' AI comes up with, but sometimes that takes longer than drafting things yourself. www.ft.com/content/657d...

This was one of the photographs on show at a fantastic Chris Killip exhibition in London three or four years ago. Tremendous work

It baffles me why multi-millionaires try to avoid paying tax. You're multi-millionaires for god's sake. You can afford it. You won't miss it

I’ll never forget watching The Wicker Man with my outer Hebridean mum. “I just don’t know where there got all that wicker from”

Yeah I agree. I think having a relationship with your best friend's child, male or female, gay or straight, does make things weird. Same as if you had relationship with your best friend's parent. It introduces triangulation and power imbalance. (Oddest thing though is lack of chemistry) #TheArchers

A lot of hate for English literature students and Shakespeare 🤔And a bucketful of lack of understanding #R4Today

I'm horrified by that adviser. For anyone who didn't hear the report, she urged the reporter posing as an asylum seeker to falsely claim he was gay. It was her proposed solution, not his. Very sad that it makes it more difficult for people genuinely in danger in their own countries to find safety

Bath to Brittany with bikes! Cycling campaigner Saskia Heijltjes tells us about her family’s cycling holiday in Brittany

Incredibly kind station staff helped this family. I've found that train company employees want you to be able to take your bike on the train, even if policies and infrastructure are against you. So much friction to stop you in your tracks
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An acquaintance moved to Hayle with the kids, husband worked in London, flying to Newquay on Fridays to spend the weekend with them. I was astounded when she stood for election for the Greens! She then defected to Labour, they chucked her out she's now Green again. Says it all, really

I know, right? An acquaintance moved to Hayle with the kids, husband worked in London, flying to Newquay on Fridays to spend the weekend with them. I was astounded when she stood for election for the Greens! She then defected to Labour, they chucked her out she's now Green again. Says it all, really

EXCERPTS FROM KAFKA'S DIARIES 281 JANUARY 20. The end of writing. When will it take me up again? JANUARY 29. Again tried to write, virtually useless. JANUARY 30. The old incapacity. Interrupted my writing for barely ten days and already cast out. Once again prodigious efforts stand before me. You have to dive down, as it were, and sink more rapidly than that which sinks in advance of you. FEBRUARY 7. Complete standstill. Unending torments. MARCH 11. How time flies; another ten days and I have chieved nothing. It doesn't come off. A page now anc hen is successful, but I can't keep it up, the next day m powerless. MARCH 13. [.] Lack of appetite, fear of getting ba te in the evening; but above all the thought that I wr

The writing life, courtesy of Franz Kafka.

AI Cannot Replace Glue Work A colleague of mine left recently. She was one of the strongest connectors I’ve experienced in my career. The person who remembered what was discussed three meetings or five years ago. Who no…

Glue work - such a great description of what goes into keeping projects on track. There was nowhere on our timesheets to log it. This is perhaps why few of my colleagues spent time on it. And why clients were often pissed off with the company testpappy.wordpress.com/2026/04/03/a...

I might mentally tag her as clean rather than cute for the moment. As in 'clean label', 'clean eating' an ugly term for 'no artificial ingredients'. The men did keep complimenting her on her lack of artifice. Every episode in fact. Can there be a link between lack of artifice and concept of sublime?

…At first I thought you can't apply Ngai's categories but given that Hadlow's Mary belongs to both then and now, on reflection maybe you can. Mary's strange timelessness was a tension in itself. And she very much was a commodity. I need to go and read this book bcos I still have a problem w cute

I see more what you mean now. I haven't read Ngai's book and having looked it up, now want to! Simultaneous tenderness and aggression in cute - there certainly was a mix of cringe and compassion towards Mary. Some of it I almost watched through my fingers. Her character weirdly straddled time…

To your point about the place of sublime in our consciousness now - I see plenty of it on Instagram, it's just not called 'sublime' and it's often commodified, as everything else is by capitalism and our extractive attitude to 'nature'. (Only adding inverted commas because we're nature too).

It was the penultimate episode though, wasn't it.

I hope the final episode and that Lakes scenery gave you a small dose of 'sublime' 😁The storm was quite well done, I was trying to work out if they'd really waited for a storm or it was CGI. But I enjoyed their silly decision to stay and get soaked! #TheOtherBennetSister

When this series was reviewed after the first couple of episodes I was amazed actually at the negative reviews - most TV critics had nothing good to say about it. I thought it was terrific #TheOtherBennetSister

Women are still having to navigate this. I'm glad the Gardiners, Ryder and Hayward were kind to her and I found that genuinely touching rather than cute which implies a kind of rom com superficiality where the audience glides over emotions rather than engaging with them

To me, Mary never feels cute and endearing. She's clever and awkward after years of being invalidated by almost her whole family and the patriarchal values she has to live within. As a viewer I was rooting for her. I loved her navigation of how to live life on her terms while being part of society

No one at Brookfield should ever watch This Life on iPlayer #TheArchers

Episode 10

I've just seen Leonard's penis. This seems wrong. Don't tell Jill. Or David, fercryinoutloud. 😧#TheArchers

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Poor Jerry. That convo's unravelling in my head now. This Life is a weird mix of incredibly dated but also extremely current. I didn't watch it back then, am really enjoying it now

Watching series 1 of This Life and recognised #TheArchers' Leonard's voice straight away. The actor Paul Copley is Jill's love interest and Egg's dad. Bring on the lemon drizzle #hotdad 1996

I usually listen with half an ear while I'm doing something else and most of it just washes over me but that stray Brad did jump out. Maybe I pay more attention than I think 🤔#TheArchers

This is what we're interested in. Not budgies #TheArchers