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Are Virgin incapable of returning telephone calls? Many promises of calls back in response to complaint, new contract but rarely happen, NEVER at agreed time. Making it very hard to stay with them. Timewasters!

Can't recommend Virgin, even free support number does not work.

Finally got there! My PhD thesis has been submitted. Now we need to find an external examiner so viva can be arranged.

My field of research seems rather niche, hopefully because it is original, even for academia. It means we don't have obvious candidates for the external examiner 🤔 .

Just had a couple of Cadbury Roses. The King was right to remove Cadburys royal warrant. They have been going in wrong direction since Mondelez bought them.

Dairy Milk has changed, it's grainy and only a step away from the horribleness of Hershey "chocolate", not yet quite as sickly.

Don't think Google, Meta et al's use of AI is altruistic, remember they manipulate algorithms to serve their commercial, political needs.

AI will serve them even better. Studies show AI reflects the biases in training data. AI bots are biased, there's no sort of intellect to challenge their output.

@virginmedia. Abysmal service

Although a long time customer I am seriously unhappy with the service since I last renewed. At the moment I cannot reach a real person to get support, chatting with a robot is a waste of my time.

The service is atrocius and support even worse.

I have been away from having a public presence for too long, so quick update as I'm on track to submit my PhD thesis next Spring.

I am planning for post-doctoral life so must sort out what social media presence will be useful. I am now getting LinkedIn (martinpwilson-ng) & Bluesky active again.

Although I enjoy my current PhD and colleagues, if I had been living closer I would have tried to do it on #aphantasia at the University of Exeter. Ideally with Professor's Zeman's group.

I discovered in my 60s that my lack of a mind's eye was unusual. I thought the mind's eye was just a concept.

During #meditation with the mind's attention on a focus of awareness, breath or whatever , do you have a sense of your mind "thinking" or otherwise working just below the level of awareness?

I have been feeling exactly that in recent meditation sessions.

Congratulations @valanania.bsky.social. Share why it is a good day>

I joined BSky today, and going to leave it overnight. I wait to see how quickly the algorithm updates and how effective it is at not showing me cats, dogs other cute animals, K-pop, celebrities, most tribal sports fans. If it takes too long it won't work form. I spent an hour or so training it!

Just an introduction:

I am a PhD researcher exploring photographers' practice around creation of personal bodies of photographic work and its relation to culture, media, visual culture.

Am based in Culture, Media and Visual Studies dept, University of Nottingham.

Aim to submit Q1 2025