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This is the last thing the BBC needs

i dont want to be a killjoy but we desperately need to make it socially unacceptable to talk about asking chatgpt things in regular conversation

The replies to this are fascinating. So glad I did my IR degree in a relatively sane period.

think we should turn this into a global thing, once a week Jeffrey Goldberg gets to hang in a different group chat, then maybe at the end of the year he can write about what he's learnt

I thought this about The Idea Of You too.

It's only a reversal movie if you don't make a big deal about it. It's a reversal when Gwyneth Paltrow and Timothee Chalamet play a happily married couple who...
- get kidnapped by killers
- are secretly spies
- form a band
- host the party from hell

Let’s file the dating history of Field Marshall Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, as ‘a mixed bag’

This line from Shostakovich's memoir (fantastically bitter and waspish, recommended) hits hard: "It seemed things couldn’t possibly be any worse. (Later it turned out that they could be a lot worse.)”

People keep sharing this Sam Fender quote from the Sunday Times and while I think there is something in this – it feels bizarre that, in the midst of what is fundamentally a backlash against feminism + LGBT rights, everyone is so eager to dance around the obvious answer, which is primarily misogyny

Why does 25% AfD among young men spark a thousand "what is going on with young men?" posts yet Die Linke 34% among young women generates...nothing at all?

Yes, young men voting for the radical right is an important phenomenon. But so is young women going rad left *at even higher rates*.

This is actually accurate to the period because the artist for this fan poster, just like someone in the Late Bronze Age, knows nothing about the Greek alphabet.

Where should a person eat if they have a couple of nights to fill in Manchester?

Whatever you buy, I recommend Back Market. Reconditioned, as new phones, more sustainable and cheaper.

I think possibly the first time I’ve got the purple category first

put the fucking salaries on the job ads, for the love of all that's unholy. Have some respect for the people who'll apply for these bloody jobs, eh.

This piece seems to conflate actual busy-for-the-sake-of-looking-busy busywork that genuinely drives people mad, and "jobs I don't understand and am too clever to bother with understanding", thereby pissing off people who do actual jobs such as HR, comms, logistics etc.

Europe should continue exporting aluminium, and say but these tariffs are for aluminum, we sell aluminium

There was an essay on exactly this in Prospect last week. Hard agree.

This is excellent advice. Also: don’t do things out of politeness; “no” won’t end the world.

Oh I am SO LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS

#TheTraitors

I don’t think I anticipated so much of parenthood involving waiting in cars in the dark while my offspring get to pursue their hobbies. (Tonight, piano.)

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I liked these for a combo of riding/walking on safari - very comfy (don’t be put off by it being a horse brand. They’re great): www.ariat.com/gb/en/search...

friends, in the northern hemisphere we have now *done* the darkest *eight weeks* of the year. the next 44 weeks are all lighter than this.

(please: no replies to this pointing out other stuff that is still bad. I'll just block. we must be allowed to rejoice in at least *the return of the sun*.)

i think every anti-WFH argument i’ve ever seen invokes “isolation” as a reason commuting into offices is apparently vital but a societal push to reducing work hours and promoting engagement with local community activities instead never seems to be suggested, i wonder why that is

I’ve read this quote several times now and can’t for the life of me get it to make any sort of sense.

They’re such delights, aren’t they?

Anyone else’s kids choose half an hour *after* bedtime to have their existential crisis, or just mine?

The farm shop / boujie deli / coffee place at the end of the road is shut for a fortnight and I honestly don’t think I can cope with January now.

Pretty sure it's not up to women to "think carefully" about taking a higher-paid job than their partner. It's up to their partner to get the fuck over himself and be pleased for her.