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I did recently dip back into fb after a break. Almost by accident, just needed to contact a friend who I didn't have the mobile phone number of, so FB messenger was the way to go ( Read more... )

The forces that gave Brexit and Trump momentum coalesced around grievance rather than vision. There was no agenda, no genuinely thought-out project that the winners could soberly set about executing, just resentment. And the grievance narrative must be continued even in success because that is pretty much the whole energising principle.Sums it up ( Read more... )

Potentially at least. At times inadvertently. At other times intentional, yet well concealed.

...lots of things to lots of people. In my case it means, amongst other things, to not use Facebook anymore.

I can't really claim to have an especially green thumb, so I am very delighted that one of the orchids that grace the window-sill in my little office has decided to flower again after the initial bloom has long faded away.

Such an uplifting thing to happen in winter.


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Bla, bla, bla ... stil here (maybe even on LJ...) ... bla, bla, bla. Happy new year to all of you!

I just don't get the new BBC Sherlock series. At all. The whole thing seems to be just a gigantic plot hole with some vaguely human shaped cardboard cutouts around it, worshipping the void.

Work at the moment still seems to be absolutely hellbent to actively prevent me from doing any genuinely useful work or feel any semblance of progress by somehow never allowing me to finish something properly before sending me on to the next disaster zone. Incredibly frustrating.

It would be awfully kind if the new RSS feed of $annoying_customer would actually throw a proper HTTP 404 error instead of delivering a HTTP 200 - OK, but sending a stupid HTML error-page instead of the feed ( Read more... )