a bowl of tomato and cucumber salad

I love tomato salad forever

turns out I was right

it's actually quite incredible how you can tell when you're entering certain boroughs by how markedly less safe it feels to cycle

amusing feed serendipity - for some reason the immediate next post in my discovery feex after yours was this bsky.app/profile/soni...

this is definitely about to be the new Lorde single for me

what's steeper and scarier, the first drop on the rollercoaster that caused this heart rate spike, or the drop in my S&S ISA this week bsky.app/profile/sojt...

would really appreciate it if the clown could wait until I get a job and don't have to rely on my savings before crashing the entire global economy

Screenshot of a heart rate graph from my smart watch today. There is a large peak of 158bpm at around 11am

Today I went on a very big rollercoaster. Can you guess when?

A selfie of me running in the sunshine, wearing a neon yellow t-shirt. The royal Albert hall is in the background, with some trees that are just beginning to come into leaf

A soft serve ice cream in a cone in the sunshine, held in my hand. There are two flavours/colours of ice cream swirled together. The peak of the ice cream is missing because I already ate it

Unemployment in winter = 0/10 not recommended
Unemployment in spring/summer = 6/10 sometimes enjoyable

a man in a suit and tie says you gotta pump those numbers up Alt: a man in a suit and tie says you gotta pump those numbers up

(I don't actually know how many I blocked on twitter but it was definitely a few on a daily basis)

copious blocking is the cure to social media

especially cruel in connections though where the number of guesses you have is limited from the start - only connect gives a bit of freedom to test the water before you start losing lives!

*every day

ULEZ is demonstrating the enormous public health benefits of taking bold action on air quality - quite simply, it will lead to healthier communities & save lives. Huge credit to the Mayor for holding out on it.

I know it's been out a while, but listening again in the context of the whole album, Abracadabra is an absolute banger

graffiti saying "I ♥️ my bike"

same

it's making me cringe just thinking about it

why does it take so long? why is there no status indicator to reassure you that you did actually record it? why is this whole experience actually worse than using Microsoft Teams?

I really feel like that last one deserves some special prize - "congratulations, you made something worse than Teams"

would love someone on the Google Meets product team to know how acutely anxiety-inducing it is to wait for the meeting recording to be processed, while questioning the whole time whether you actually ever hit record

everything I know about American sports I have learned against my will thanks to #nytconnections

feel a bit like I messed up a job interview yesterday - what do we reckon, follow up by email with some afterthoughts/what I would have said if I wasn't flustered, or leave it be?

one reason I'm completely giving up on the traditional job search. referrals and networking only from here I think

yes especially the last point!

I've had some cases in the past where research participants have been using lots of jargon which I've wanted to avoid leaning into, but it's jargon that is consistent across lots of people so then I'm wondering... is it even jargon at that point

I'm surprised they can even describe growth as "stagnant", I'd very much expect it to be "negative"

I've been outflanked here

thanks - I assumed it must be a fairly long lens but I wasn't sure. it's a great shot!

Inside Meta’s dehumanizing new speech policies for trans people "A trans person isn't a he or she, it's an it," reads a new guideline telling moderators what is now allowed on Facebook and Instagram

and www.platformer.news/meta-new-tra...

Leaked Meta Rules: Users Are Free to Post “Mexican Immigrants Are Trash!” or “Trans People Are Immoral” Facebook now allows attacks on immigrants and trans people, and posts like “Mexican immigrants are trash!” and “I’m a proud racist.”

(if you haven't seen the moderation guidelines I'm talking about, here you go: theintercept.com/2025/01/09/f...

a stack of 7 golden brown biscuits on a plate. each biscuit has a layer of chocolate on its base, which is peeking out between each biscuit in the stack

chocolate hobnobs