I remember trying to tell a database architect this. He was trying to make a field 2-state Boolean. Real world scenario was "yes", "no", "not stated"/"unknown"/"na". Hus point was that not stating or not knowing or na defaults to no. But it wasn't an explicit no. More a maybe.
Happy birthday 🎂🎂🎂 from us to you.
This is the saddest day of my professional life. Today is not only the final recording of the latest series of The Infinite Monkey Cage, it is my last ever Monkey Cage. I never thought that I would have to leave the show. I always imagined going on until | dropped dead under the studio lights due to a brain aneurysm caused by my final attempt to understand notions of quantum gravity or the shock of being told about fly maggot infestations in the sacks of macaque monkeys. I resigned in September, after sixteen years of dedication to the show, A show that I named and helped develop over all those years. Unfortunately, my opinions outside the BBC have been considered problematic for sometime, whether it has been voicing support for the trans community, criticism of Donald Trump, numerous other outlandish opinions, including once gently criticising Stephen Fry. These things were considered to conflict with being a freelance BBC science presenter
In a recent meeting where BBC Studio executives again voiced problems with me, I realised my choices. Obedience and being quieter to remain making Monkey Cage, or 'Resign and have the freedom to speak out against what I believe are injustices'. • I chose the latter. It broke my heart. I love this show and I love the audience, and it is because of the audience in particular, that this decision was so difficult to make. I kept thinking about all the extremist voices promoting hate and division. They are being given so many platforms, while voices that represent kindness, open mindedness, empathy seem to be scarcer and scarcer. I felt I couldn't pamper myself with the luxury of silence. One of my many privileges is that I am able to resign and I can speak out even if it is to the detriment of my career.
I have thought a lot about my heroes, Sinead O Connor, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and so many more. I think of Sinead's words, "the job of an artist is to be themselves at any cost". James Baldwin said prejudice was really just a word for cowardice. Audre Lorde, viewing her life, wrote that her only regrets were her silences. I think of my father as I resign, he brought me up to believe in fairness , justice and kindness. Though my heart is broken, it is also full of fire. I apologise to our incredible listeners for my departure, your love of the show means a great deal. I am so sorry to let you down. I hope that you can understand my reasoning. I have to accept that I am not what the current BBC expects of their freelance presenters.
Despite this I should add that I have always worked far more than my contracted hours to try and ensure the show was always the best it could be, as well as making myself accessible and responsive to the audience wherever and whenever I met them. Every night, we have recorded, I have been filled with determination to make the best show possible. This was not "just a job" I hope that with my departure I can be a better ally to the LGBTQ community, to the neurodivergent community, to activists fighting against those who aim to brutalise society, to those currently in prison on hunger strike, and to all those who fight for a more inclusive world. From many conversations, I know there are many Monkey Cage listeners who support these communities and activists too. The strawberry is dead. Long live the strawberry. B
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
Is there a dog version of only fans you could sign him up to?
Just seen this. Sad day. Frustrating day. I'm sorry that you have had to do this. Gutted for you. And for your audience. I think you're resignation speech was spot on.
Weren't they taking valuables from undesirables, and putting them in camps?
I would love to play badminton once a week but all our courts have been commandeered by pickleball. Give it time, reform will make them play pickleball instead.
The hopeful side of me thinks that one thing this may do is make the government prove their case. They obviously can't. Because their isn't any proof. Because it's BS. That then opens up Tylenol to sue the government, and specifically RFK.
I was in Bangalore (as it was at the time) 20 years ago. It felt like every senior male in the family, or senior male family friend, was called uncle. It isn't that unusual in the UK either. I'm white welsh. We called my mum's oldest friends"auntie", and my dad's friends "uncle"
@greenparty.org.uk what qualifies someone for the concessionary for membership?
So a bit like being Welsh.
My bedroom faces the wrong way for sunrise, but I do enjoy watching it light up the houses in the hill, and the hill behind my house. A reflected sunrise.
Perhaps I'm confusing the hotels with the Bibby Stockholm.
My bag. I was thinking for weddings🤦♂️. But yes. 4 in a bed. Some of those really are awful
Wow. Over 30 years ago. Remember watching that in the cinema. No online booking in those days.
The way I've read it, it can be several strangers.
In 1970, at the age of 42, the revolutionary mathematician Alexander Grothendieck abruptly disappeared. He left the field of mathematics; he left his wife and his three children. Twenty-two years later, two mathematicians became determined to find him.
By all accounts, and the ultimate irony, Superman has applied
That's exactly it 😄😄 thank you
Annoyingly, somewhere I have a photo off Farage and Anderson looking lost in a lingerie dept as party of their campaigning in the last election. Wish I could find it
There was a story about it today. It's a loophole of you check in online, or something.
Does a VPN bypass this?
Google and Meta have banned or are about to ban political advertising in the EU because it's too much hassle for them to deal with new EU law governing such ads.
If we were to rejoin the EU, then they'd have to stop political ads being served to UK users too. How great would that be?
Let them work legally then
Helpfully @bsky.app is now using age verification. Equally helpfully, I can't get it to work. I'm a 50 year old man. Normally pretty good at tech. I'll have to find a kid to help me work round it. Or just sign up to a vpn.
Burn in hell, Netanyahu, and all who enable you.
These are NOT images of The Holocaust. These are images of similar brutality and genocide perpetrated by an Israeli government on innocent women and children, using starvation as a weapon.
Wake up. Please share.
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Keep them till they die, or reach three point where they can't function, or don't fulfill the attendance criteria. There at least is continuity and handover them.
If it's just a way to make money, why isn't she, you know, making that money?
Can the money be put towards ebikes?
The thermometer for the underfloor heating is currently reading 28.5°C.
I'm glad I don't have a thermometer on the patio. 🥵🥵
