Maybe it’s the G&T but I just laughed at this for a straight minute

Why is he shirtless?

Headline: "The power of verbs (and why you should never use an adverb)", but I've crossed out the adverb "never"

Well OK, if you insist

I did, I hope you did too!

A white cat with orange patches, by the sea

I did!

I met this EXACT cat last week

(I love him)

So good to get back to saying "don't eat the cardboard!" approximately 47x a day

Didn't sleep well all holiday - came home expecting to sleep better in my own bed. Marv had other ideas - half-hourly scritches and nuzzles.

I’m in Sicily right now and the *only* way to eat gelato is in brioche

It’s now more like 60/40 Campari/Grillo

We’ve had 4 full days in Palermo so far and I’m 80% Campari

Personally don't recommend these. As the article notes, these properties are typically achieved through PFAS, which can shed carcinogens in your home (which you then inhale) or come out in the wash (polluting waterways for decades). Will try to do a thread on how to treat stains in the wash.

What’s the point of being right? Published writing is generally supposed to follow rules of ‘correct’ grammar and usage. These rules appear in style guides and other manuals, in the stern rebukes of English teachers, in the media diatribes of grammar pundits, and in the blood-red mark-ups of copy editors. But these sources never entirely agree on what all the rules are, and (as every pedant glumly knows) huge numbers of people ignore them. So how do readers really react to ‘common mistakes’? Are all those rules truly helpful if they don’t match the audience’s expectations – or can they waste our time and even lead us astray? And how can writers, editors and others do the right thing when it’s not so clear-cut what rightness is?

My #EnglishGrammarDay talk is "What's the point of being right?" Others are on: dictionaries & offensive language; HG Wells & the evolution of grammar; a curious case of adverb formation; the language of K-Pop fan communities; grammar in the school curriculum. Just £15!
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English Grammar Day 2026 The 2026 English Grammar Day will be held at the British Library with a wide range of speakers.

Do you like English grammar? Do you like days? Then you'll *love* English Grammar Day! Talks on aspects of grammar, usage, etc. British Library, Mon 29/6. With fascinating expert speakers, plus me. For anyone with a personal/professional interest in the English language www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

Tom! I want to come to your talk because it sounds extremely cool (to me?) but it’s in the working day? How could you

Every chronically ill person I know both pushes themself too hard and also thinks they’re not doing enough.

That’s my immediate neighbour / ex-boss’s husband’s band

They dined on
(Beastie Boys) MINCE
And slices of
(Beastie Boys) QUINCE
Which they ate with a
(Beastie Boys) RUNCIBLE SPOON

CON: Somehow becomes reason for Ticketmaster to charge more

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kier starmer such a briefcase non entity that Iran didn't even bother to turn their AI slop machine on him. functionally kier starmer does not exist. he is a grey conduit for capital flows who vaguely remembers liking the wedding present once.

The original Move Fast And Break Things cautionary tale! The novel’s whole throughline of anti-academicism, the hubristic capitalistic-science-uber-alles — so hot right now

I have now verified this and it is correct

Imagine going to actual Space and they make you use Outlook

The contract with Msft should have allowed space lasers to be targeted at Msft leadership until they create working software.

right now the astronauts are calling houston because the computer on the spaceship is running two instances of microsoft outlook and they can't figure out why. nasa is about to remote into the computer

Conned into watching another season of Daredevil with the promise of Jessica Jones - WHERE IS SHE

"April Fools' Day" is cultural appropriation and we in the fool community, who live with our own foolishness all year round, do not appreciate being turned into a sanitised mainstream joke. I have worked hard to overcome popular prejudice and am proud to be the president's special adviser on Iran

Yknow its really interesting how people trying the whole death of the author argument to defend the wizardslop always cite long dead artists as examples. Its always “oh can you still enjoy Picasso?! Or Wagner??” Never can you still enjoy Neil Gaiman. Almost like They Know hmmmm

Is there a license that is basically creative commons for humans but if a commercial LLM uses it as training data you are legally entitled to shit in the bed of any employee or financier?

Job posting off linked in your rate 450 vs customer rate 650 now that is what i call a margin

A note to my contractor design buddies. You can push those rates *right up*, the recruiters are fleecing the customers and you. No one deserves a margin of 40% for another persons labour.

A statement on the IOC's decision to reintroduce mandatory sex testing for women. Please share widely. Alt text follows in the following posts.