Neil o'Riddleford

🧵Three short writing exercises that I value and appreciate highly. They take no time at all, and I think the effects outweigh the effort by a factor of 300 to 1. #wellbeing #MentalHealth #Happiness #MeaningfulLife

Never forget that YOU are a data center. Drink some water!!

There are people sitting on porches tonight listening to crickets. People driving home with tired eyes and favorite songs. People folding laundry beside someone they love. The world is still full of gentle things.

Inflation “unexpectedly” fell by 0.5% to 2.8% Growth was an “unexpected” 0.7% - the highest in the G7 Net immigration “unexpectedly” fell by 82% NHS “unexpectedly” met it’s interim 18 week target Our media have so deceived the public that all positive news is now “unexpected”

Libraries could self-fund by charging for an in-house Bibliomancy service (fortune telling via books). I'd be so up for it. Got a query about your career? The answer is on page 4 of 'Fifty Ways to Create a Small Pond': "Start small, and work with what's already there."

@historigins @amidthetumult Spot a pattern?

@CaroWallis 🤣🤣

"Calm your t1ts" is such a funny phrase. 🤣🤣Just heard someone say it. Implies a companion phrase of "My t1ts are so angry right now."

Good old fashioned values. </sarcasm>

Something very Two Ronnies about this excellent SNL sketch. youtube.com/shorts/WHEcmor…

Google just announced they are redesigning search around AI. Here's how to get actual search results again.

I will not be silent about this.

21 kicked out. 28 defected. 39 resigned. 5 suspended. 1 disqualified. 5 lost seats. That's approximately 99 Reform UK councillors and representatives who have left the party. 22 of them since the local elections just two weeks ago. The party claims "some of the strongest vetting in the country." Here's the full list 👇

AOC: This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community.

My thoughts are with Farage and the Daily Mail at this difficult time 🫶🏼

This sounds nice, but it's a great way to undermine the welfare state. The strongest welfare states in the world (the Nordics) tax everyone, including nurses. And they give everyone universal healthcare, childcare, pensions, education in return. When the middle class has skin in the game, they defend the system. When welfare is 'just for the poor', it becomes a poor program: stigmatized, underfunded, easy to gut. That's why billionaires keep pushing this idea. The real scandal isn't that this nurse pays $12k. It's that Jeff Bezos pays $0.

@CultureCrave @TechCrunch

FYI, DuckDuckGo not only allows you to totally disable AI summaries but also allows you to filter out AI images.