Chris
@improbablytall.bsky.social
Airline pilot ✈️, occasional photographer, geek.
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Nothing has highlighted just how technically illiterate the senior business management and political classes are right now as the whole AI thing.
Just an entire generation of "leaders" incapable of spotting a bad sales pitch because of some woo woo tech words that sound cool.
Just an entire generation of "leaders" incapable of spotting a bad sales pitch because of some woo woo tech words that sound cool.
We want to make sure tutoring isn't the preserve of a lucky few, but accessible to every child who needs it.
AI can help us do that.
Safe, personalised, one-to-one learning support to help every child achieve and thrive.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01...
AI can help us do that.
Safe, personalised, one-to-one learning support to help every child achieve and thrive.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01...
Poorest pupils to be given AI tutors
Bridget Phillipson says tuition would no longer be the preserve of ‘the lucky few’
www.telegraph.co.uk
January 29, 2026 at 11:01 AM
Nothing has highlighted just how technically illiterate the senior business management and political classes are right now as the whole AI thing.
Just an entire generation of "leaders" incapable of spotting a bad sales pitch because of some woo woo tech words that sound cool.
Just an entire generation of "leaders" incapable of spotting a bad sales pitch because of some woo woo tech words that sound cool.
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Yeah sure why not. Nothing can go wrong with this plan.
January 17, 2026 at 8:39 AM
Yeah sure why not. Nothing can go wrong with this plan.
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If I were a politician planning to defect to another party, I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t do it while The Traitors was on.
January 15, 2026 at 2:16 PM
If I were a politician planning to defect to another party, I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t do it while The Traitors was on.
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Guys guys guys, I found the archive of the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures (it's not an achievement, they've not hidden them) - you can watch every single one since they started televising them in the 60s:
www.rigb.org/christmas-le...
I love watching them every year, now I can see them all!
www.rigb.org/christmas-le...
I love watching them every year, now I can see them all!
Watch the Royal Institution CHRISTMAS LECTURES archive
Watch all the Royal Institution CHRISTMAS LECTURES back to 1966, when the lectures were first televised.
www.rigb.org
December 30, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Guys guys guys, I found the archive of the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures (it's not an achievement, they've not hidden them) - you can watch every single one since they started televising them in the 60s:
www.rigb.org/christmas-le...
I love watching them every year, now I can see them all!
www.rigb.org/christmas-le...
I love watching them every year, now I can see them all!
I once facilitated Eric Knowles filming a piece to camera for some BBC antique programme or other, which involved starting and taxiing a light aircraft.
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
December 29, 2025 at 10:53 PM
I once facilitated Eric Knowles filming a piece to camera for some BBC antique programme or other, which involved starting and taxiing a light aircraft.
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I see the Brexit-backing owner of Dyson, who offshored himself and the firm for tax reasons, is moaning about having to pay tax on the extensive farmland that he bought here as a way to avoid inheritance tax.
Hang on. I'll find my violin.
Hang on. I'll find my violin.
I rather think what has put Dyson's "family business¹" at risk is selling fucking hugely overpriced non-essential sucky-blowy machines.
¹ Does he want us to think Dyson is like some kind of local greengrocer or something? The massive splat of jizz.
¹ Does he want us to think Dyson is like some kind of local greengrocer or something? The massive splat of jizz.
December 28, 2025 at 9:49 AM
I see the Brexit-backing owner of Dyson, who offshored himself and the firm for tax reasons, is moaning about having to pay tax on the extensive farmland that he bought here as a way to avoid inheritance tax.
Hang on. I'll find my violin.
Hang on. I'll find my violin.
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The manager of Hilbert's Grand Hotel, hearing the Christmas story and thinking "Fucksake - it's easy. You move the guest from room one..."
December 25, 2025 at 5:56 PM
The manager of Hilbert's Grand Hotel, hearing the Christmas story and thinking "Fucksake - it's easy. You move the guest from room one..."
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Sir Terry Pratchett is best understood as one of the most interesting, deeply ethical practical (I would say Pragmatist but I cede to actual experts) philosophers of the late 20th Century who just happened to work in deconstructed fantasy literature as his medium.
Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather
December 25, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Sir Terry Pratchett is best understood as one of the most interesting, deeply ethical practical (I would say Pragmatist but I cede to actual experts) philosophers of the late 20th Century who just happened to work in deconstructed fantasy literature as his medium.
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FAQ for torties:
Q: What is this?!
A: A tail
Q: When did I get a tail?
A: You've always had one
Q: Why does my tail taste of porridge?
A: Because you left it resting in my breakfast
Q: OMG SHINY! What is THAT?!
A: The Xmas tree. Same as yesterday
Q: OMG A SNEK!
A: No, that's your tail again
Q: What is this?!
A: A tail
Q: When did I get a tail?
A: You've always had one
Q: Why does my tail taste of porridge?
A: Because you left it resting in my breakfast
Q: OMG SHINY! What is THAT?!
A: The Xmas tree. Same as yesterday
Q: OMG A SNEK!
A: No, that's your tail again
December 22, 2025 at 9:27 AM
FAQ for torties:
Q: What is this?!
A: A tail
Q: When did I get a tail?
A: You've always had one
Q: Why does my tail taste of porridge?
A: Because you left it resting in my breakfast
Q: OMG SHINY! What is THAT?!
A: The Xmas tree. Same as yesterday
Q: OMG A SNEK!
A: No, that's your tail again
Q: What is this?!
A: A tail
Q: When did I get a tail?
A: You've always had one
Q: Why does my tail taste of porridge?
A: Because you left it resting in my breakfast
Q: OMG SHINY! What is THAT?!
A: The Xmas tree. Same as yesterday
Q: OMG A SNEK!
A: No, that's your tail again
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Today marks the anniversary of Graf Spee being scuttled, and a unique victory for the British diplomatic service
December 17, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Today marks the anniversary of Graf Spee being scuttled, and a unique victory for the British diplomatic service
@catboycdr.bsky.social any weird system failures recently?
[to a Star Trek replicator]
Tomato soup. Opposite.
Tomato soup. Opposite.
December 14, 2025 at 9:21 AM
@catboycdr.bsky.social any weird system failures recently?
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Streeting to next launch inquiry into “over-diagnosis” of left-handedness.
“Never used to be like this,” he insists.
“Never used to be like this,” he insists.
December 4, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Streeting to next launch inquiry into “over-diagnosis” of left-handedness.
“Never used to be like this,” he insists.
“Never used to be like this,” he insists.
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Happy "Cloudflare is fucked again" day to all who celebrate.
Seems to come round earlier every month these days.
Seems to come round earlier every month these days.
December 5, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Happy "Cloudflare is fucked again" day to all who celebrate.
Seems to come round earlier every month these days.
Seems to come round earlier every month these days.
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🌲 THE BIG CHRISTMAS GIFT THREAD! 🌲
If you are a creator or small shop/business, reply to this post with:
- pics and a brief description of what you do (don't forget the alt text!)
- a link or details on how people can buy
I will boost you!
Everyone else: buy the cool things! Repost this post! ⛄
If you are a creator or small shop/business, reply to this post with:
- pics and a brief description of what you do (don't forget the alt text!)
- a link or details on how people can buy
I will boost you!
Everyone else: buy the cool things! Repost this post! ⛄
December 3, 2025 at 11:46 AM
🌲 THE BIG CHRISTMAS GIFT THREAD! 🌲
If you are a creator or small shop/business, reply to this post with:
- pics and a brief description of what you do (don't forget the alt text!)
- a link or details on how people can buy
I will boost you!
Everyone else: buy the cool things! Repost this post! ⛄
If you are a creator or small shop/business, reply to this post with:
- pics and a brief description of what you do (don't forget the alt text!)
- a link or details on how people can buy
I will boost you!
Everyone else: buy the cool things! Repost this post! ⛄
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Adding alt text to this because this is fucking amazing and everyone deserves to read it.
December 2, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Adding alt text to this because this is fucking amazing and everyone deserves to read it.
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A friend asked for book suggestions, and honestly I'll concede on this one...
Anyway, check out The Atrocity Archives by @cstross.bsky.social if you somehow haven't read it and James Bond the IT guy fights Eldritch horrors sounds up your alley.
Anyway, check out The Atrocity Archives by @cstross.bsky.social if you somehow haven't read it and James Bond the IT guy fights Eldritch horrors sounds up your alley.
December 2, 2025 at 12:09 AM
A friend asked for book suggestions, and honestly I'll concede on this one...
Anyway, check out The Atrocity Archives by @cstross.bsky.social if you somehow haven't read it and James Bond the IT guy fights Eldritch horrors sounds up your alley.
Anyway, check out The Atrocity Archives by @cstross.bsky.social if you somehow haven't read it and James Bond the IT guy fights Eldritch horrors sounds up your alley.
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Gosh.
"The BBC tried this after 'Final Final Version (2) - Do Not Edit (1)' failed."
November 28, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Gosh.
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I'm not the first to say it, but I think we should absolutely start a campaign to convince all the worst people that K2 is a *much* more impressive mountain to climb than Everest and we would all be much more impressed by that achievement
November 27, 2025 at 4:04 AM
I'm not the first to say it, but I think we should absolutely start a campaign to convince all the worst people that K2 is a *much* more impressive mountain to climb than Everest and we would all be much more impressed by that achievement
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So apparently the correct response to shopping centre Santa ringing his bell is not to shout "bring out your dead!"
No sense of humour, some people...
No sense of humour, some people...
December 16, 2024 at 1:09 PM
So apparently the correct response to shopping centre Santa ringing his bell is not to shout "bring out your dead!"
No sense of humour, some people...
No sense of humour, some people...
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JA BITTE.
Lufthansa's fantastic 100th anniversary livery will be painted on SIX aircraft types — the 787, 747-8, A380, A350-1000, A350-900 and A320neo.
More of this please.
Lufthansa's fantastic 100th anniversary livery will be painted on SIX aircraft types — the 787, 747-8, A380, A350-1000, A350-900 and A320neo.
More of this please.
November 24, 2025 at 2:11 PM
JA BITTE.
Lufthansa's fantastic 100th anniversary livery will be painted on SIX aircraft types — the 787, 747-8, A380, A350-1000, A350-900 and A320neo.
More of this please.
Lufthansa's fantastic 100th anniversary livery will be painted on SIX aircraft types — the 787, 747-8, A380, A350-1000, A350-900 and A320neo.
More of this please.
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Absolutely thrilled by how successful Bazball has become. We should totally continue with this. Just wonderful stuff. The ability to adapt and learn lessons is second to none. Greatest thing to happen to English cricket of all time. Long may it continue.
November 22, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Absolutely thrilled by how successful Bazball has become. We should totally continue with this. Just wonderful stuff. The ability to adapt and learn lessons is second to none. Greatest thing to happen to English cricket of all time. Long may it continue.
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if the telegraph can’t find a new buyer maybe it should just be towed out into the north sea and sunk
November 22, 2025 at 9:31 AM
if the telegraph can’t find a new buyer maybe it should just be towed out into the north sea and sunk
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It’s the exclusive everyone wanted, the story that will win next year’s Pulitzer…
I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
London's giant AI artwork to be torn down
The bizarre story of why a much-talked-about creation is being torn down. Plus: Docklands Light Railway extension, giant laser stalks the night sky, and more tales of Android phone theft rejection.
www.londoncentric.media
November 20, 2025 at 7:18 AM
It’s the exclusive everyone wanted, the story that will win next year’s Pulitzer…
I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...