From the “yeah, you go first” files

like to add ® and ’ any time I submit online forms because I know that some developer is going to see it and wonder if they have a bug

Remember when the most sophisticated computer in a car was the trip computer?

(Only thinking about this as I have another car interface to figure out)

‘Your brain isn’t fully formed until you’re 25’: A neuroscientist demolishes the greatest mind myth | BBC Science Focus Magazine Whether you are young or old, your brain is always changing.

‘Your brain isn’t fully formed until you’re 25’: A neuroscientist demolishes the greatest mind myth

www.sciencefocus.com...

Dr Dean Burnett tackles a stubborn, and increasingly harmful, brain myth. For Science Focus Magazine.

#Brains #Teens #Development #Autonomy

Do you ever wonder whether Chris Franz has an affinity for things Gallic?

Bunch of farketers

Melissa Williams - Raising Funds and Awareness for Alzheimer's Research UK Help Melissa Williams raise money to support Alzheimer's Research UK

My amazing friend Mel is running equivalent of 3 marathons today on the London Capital Ring.

Give her a beep if you see her

She an ambassador for @alzheimerssoc.bsky.social and has so far raised over £22k.

Her mum was diagnosed with early onset dementia at 59 💔

justgiving.com/page/melwill...

And everyone smoked!

Or carried a pint!

Jimmy Tarbuck, proving the gap-toothed Taskmaster’s assistant was as a staple part of the format as it is now

In intranet consulting, we encounter employees like John's "glue people" all the time.

I tend to view them as connectors, but they're often the people who make the organisation work in spite of itself

Next week: garages blighted by teenagers

Following week: crime menace of local garages

Next month: won’t someone do something about these garages?

Types of American plays

1. I hate my parents

2. I hate my children

3. I hate my spouse

4. I live in an exciting/boring town

5. I am a special boy/girl/mystery.

Great thread from Ciaran. Genuinely world class state capability. In a new(ish) institution.

Is it so much faster than the previous one that you can only screengrab the slightest glances of it?

So are you saying we should, or should not, build forgiveness into the service?

😂 Blaming the users, so soon?

Continuity, established user base, I like it! Do you think the POPE protocol can handle the demand?

Work with me here:

Product Hail Mary

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.

“I’m unhappy with management styles, particularly jumping, too late, from trend to trend” [pulls string]

“Rrrr-rrr-rr-rr-r-rrr-sffr-drr-drr!”

That’s the way I started coming around to your assertion (but not as well put)

This was the worst abuse of the system I’ve encountered, and the more I think about it, the more I think others would have been helped had the system(s) been better designed.

Thinking first of a young adult I encountered on a UR call, I want to argue that there will always be extreme cases…

However, I can also see how lack of attention to duty of care led to failings in the multiple systems.

So many good points…

Even if half way through I started imagining the Zuckatar as a giant golden statue (can’t imagine why)

Does the existence of merchant adventurers and merchant bankers imply the existence of adventurer bankers?

Offering a documet for download?

Make sure you name it something like

important-report(1).pdf

so Simon can spend 10 minutes try to work out where the duplicate is

They have invented a new test of Witchery, Sister What is it, Sister? The Subject, when dipped in a Lake, may Float or Sink. If she Floate, she is a witch. Indeed Sister? Let us try it. (Nuns floating) Well this is Most Pleasant Unfortunately so, Sister

Sunday Sunday

Thinking of trying working from Oval myself. All I need to do is secure some work for the summer months.

It always was private land, and had scary signs, but it wasn't an issue – until it was

Whatever young me had seen most recently, I'm sure

Nettles, for me, are tightly bound with memories of family walks, the school sponsored walk, and blackberrying in woods that have long since been shut to the village.

Nettles were for one thing only, getting a stick and thrashing your way through them, occasionally beheading them like a stick-wielding jedi or samurai.

At least this was true a little further down the M5