Say out loud as an imperative:

“Hey Siri, play set adrift on memory bliss.”

I mean to complete two pieces of work today, both alike in importance and so my bird-brain can’t prioritise one over the other.

Open-mindedness was the strongest predictor of *rejecting* conspiracy theories in a sample of 46,745 participants in 68 nations

In particular, participants who were threatened by people who disagree with them were the most likely to believe conspiracy theories.
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Woken in Manchester for whatever reason

Someone at my door at 8am; I only had the first layer of moisturiser on

Sneezed and my glass lampshade rang in resonance.

Maybe 4% of people so this thought experiment is a waste of time, just trolling the poors

Blummin’ acronyms in comms again!

Booked a hotel, and the booking is called “BB with wine in room”.

I do not know for sure what ‘BB’ stands for, but I need to explain to this hotel that the gays would have expectations, especially when paired with wine (which I did not ask for, btw.)

I usually work with just a few client project members but when doing ‘content’ projects I have to influence hundreds of employees.

There must be a bell curve from “Proactive misunderstanding” through to “Joyous adoption”. My influence can only do so much.

Also, learning 99 names is a challenge.

There is no reason to be on Substack. There are plenty of free options. And if you need the membership stuff, consider paying for @ghost.org or @buttondown.com and keeping all your income.

The elves of pigeons

oof

Oh absolutely, but mine are on a wall magnet, and again, yes

My mate has one fox and two cats that sleep in his garden. Mine gets visited by two fat wood pigeons, a cat, a magpie, and occasionally a sparrow hawk.

What you got?

I’ll do myself a mischief flicking them around

They could record the noise in my kitchen

I hate how swords and even knives in films make the ‘sching’ noise for no reason.

Anyway I bought some kitchen knives and they make the ‘ting’ sound when I pick one up and the ‘schiing’ noise when I wipe them with a tea towel.

I really think it is bad for society that we all need to be in a constant state of suspicious hyper vigilance about everything we see. This is a big part of why "using AI is fine so long as you remember not to trust anything it outputs" argument, like it is just run of the mill critical thinking,

I’m using gpt-oss via Ollama on my local computer.
Here is its internal monologue which, granted, is not proactive, but interesting that it’s surfaced.

Good morning good morning, my wish for you today is a general awareness of debt. Decisions and actions today may create deficits, delays, and rework in the future.

A large, ring-shaped Lucrehulk-class droid control ship orbits the green and blue planet Naboo, surrounded by several smaller Vulture droids in the dark expanse of space.

BREAKING NEWS
In response to the Trade Federation's blockade of Naboo, the Republic announces a blockade of Naboo.

Private companies that sign contracts to deliver public services and then fail to do so should never be allowed to pay dividends to shareholders. A shareholder is a company owner. A company owner who takes public money, doesn't deliver, but takes profit, should be prosecuted.

My mate has never fully closed an app. Taught him how today because one had stopped responding.

Female octopuses throw rocks at males that bother them, documented in Octopus tetricus

Marathon (Original Soundtrack EP) - EP by Ryan Lott on Apple Music Album · 2026 · 4 Songs

Do you like music but sometimes get tired of music? Listen to this:

This is a bit spicy

I’m using a local LLM that shows me its internal dialogue as it parses my request. I’ll find it’s name and screenshot its ‘monologue’ for you.

I instruct people to avoid asking how I’m doing – because it would make me realise and then tell them.

there’s always something with this guy

Brittany Means @BrittanyMeansIt One of my greatest joys in life is when Jeff calls the vet to make an appointment and they ask for his name, and he says, Jeff. Then, they ask for our cat's name, and I watch him gather his strength before he tells them, Baby Jeff. 8:16 PM • 2022-04-13