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It’s not quite the right fit for this question but “open source fae” reminded me of my recent spurt of curmudgeonly joy in revisiting the work of the aptly named Steve Roud and his work “The English Year” about English folk traditions.
November 20, 2025 at 9:57 AM
It’s not quite the right fit for this question but “open source fae” reminded me of my recent spurt of curmudgeonly joy in revisiting the work of the aptly named Steve Roud and his work “The English Year” about English folk traditions.
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NO FOOD DISCOURSE
REJECT THE YANK
BLOCK THE YANK
DO NOT RISE TO THE YANK
REJECT THE YANK
BLOCK THE YANK
DO NOT RISE TO THE YANK
November 20, 2025 at 9:22 AM
NO FOOD DISCOURSE
REJECT THE YANK
BLOCK THE YANK
DO NOT RISE TO THE YANK
REJECT THE YANK
BLOCK THE YANK
DO NOT RISE TO THE YANK
I'm fairly sure that people eat cutlery, that it's a common thing in workplaces
70 teaspoons placed in tearooms around the institute & observed weekly over 5 months. 80% of spoons disappeared; spoon halflife~81 days. Communal room halflife lower than in specific labs. 250 spoons annually required to maintain 70 spoon population.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
The case of the disappearing teaspoons: longitudinal cohort study of the displacement of teaspoons in an Australian research institute
Objectives To determine the overall rate of loss of workplace teaspoons and whether attrition and displacement are correlated with the relative value of the teaspoons or type of tearoom. Design Longitudinal cohort study. Setting Research institute ...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
November 20, 2025 at 9:03 AM
I'm fairly sure that people eat cutlery, that it's a common thing in workplaces
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70 teaspoons placed in tearooms around the institute & observed weekly over 5 months. 80% of spoons disappeared; spoon halflife~81 days. Communal room halflife lower than in specific labs. 250 spoons annually required to maintain 70 spoon population.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
The case of the disappearing teaspoons: longitudinal cohort study of the displacement of teaspoons in an Australian research institute
Objectives To determine the overall rate of loss of workplace teaspoons and whether attrition and displacement are correlated with the relative value of the teaspoons or type of tearoom. Design Longitudinal cohort study. Setting Research institute ...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
November 20, 2025 at 3:44 AM
70 teaspoons placed in tearooms around the institute & observed weekly over 5 months. 80% of spoons disappeared; spoon halflife~81 days. Communal room halflife lower than in specific labs. 250 spoons annually required to maintain 70 spoon population.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
"Auto fug" is a fascinating logistics company name
November 20, 2025 at 8:04 AM
"Auto fug" is a fascinating logistics company name
Quick question for Yvette Cooper: who's funding and arming those carrying out atrocities in Sudan and where are the arms they're supplying being made?
November 19, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Quick question for Yvette Cooper: who's funding and arming those carrying out atrocities in Sudan and where are the arms they're supplying being made?
Growing and improving: not posting "what is that in REAL units?" at an American, that I have never followed or interacted with, posting a thing about temperature in °F
November 19, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Growing and improving: not posting "what is that in REAL units?" at an American, that I have never followed or interacted with, posting a thing about temperature in °F
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found a friend with the most beleaguered face in the world
November 19, 2025 at 3:32 PM
found a friend with the most beleaguered face in the world
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Please do read the subsequent posts to this, you will not regret the time spent. Low investment, high reward.
Something strangely peaceful about this email I got from my tax preparer
November 19, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Please do read the subsequent posts to this, you will not regret the time spent. Low investment, high reward.
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November 19, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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🎵The Vengabus is coming,
And we are very cunning,
We're driving really close by,
So we can steal its WiFi,
I want to watch my TikToks,
And old Lovejoys on Britbox,
We're using all our gumption,
And saving fuel consumption🎵
And we are very cunning,
We're driving really close by,
So we can steal its WiFi,
I want to watch my TikToks,
And old Lovejoys on Britbox,
We're using all our gumption,
And saving fuel consumption🎵
November 19, 2025 at 9:58 AM
🎵The Vengabus is coming,
And we are very cunning,
We're driving really close by,
So we can steal its WiFi,
I want to watch my TikToks,
And old Lovejoys on Britbox,
We're using all our gumption,
And saving fuel consumption🎵
And we are very cunning,
We're driving really close by,
So we can steal its WiFi,
I want to watch my TikToks,
And old Lovejoys on Britbox,
We're using all our gumption,
And saving fuel consumption🎵
I hate that I know why I have icky-tummy-syndrome and also hate that I'll do the same thing again you can't stop me
November 19, 2025 at 9:36 AM
I hate that I know why I have icky-tummy-syndrome and also hate that I'll do the same thing again you can't stop me
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Oh god this is a true Smiling Man moment. The Era of Smiles begins
November 19, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Oh god this is a true Smiling Man moment. The Era of Smiles begins
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Got confused earlier when I went to reorder my shelf of Stephen King books and they all fell on my head. Then IT hit me.
November 18, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Got confused earlier when I went to reorder my shelf of Stephen King books and they all fell on my head. Then IT hit me.
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I thought this was going to turn into a story needing its own True Crime Netflix series, but no.
This is quite something.
metro.co.uk/2025/11/18/w...
This is quite something.
metro.co.uk/2025/11/18/w...
'We invited a homeless man for dinner - he stayed for 45 years'
The man was only meant to stay for a day.
metro.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I thought this was going to turn into a story needing its own True Crime Netflix series, but no.
This is quite something.
metro.co.uk/2025/11/18/w...
This is quite something.
metro.co.uk/2025/11/18/w...
You should see this excellent tatoo
November 18, 2025 at 3:50 PM
You should see this excellent tatoo
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your pets cannot talk to you through buttons you buy off instagram. the only people who want you to think that are people selling buttons on instagram
November 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
your pets cannot talk to you through buttons you buy off instagram. the only people who want you to think that are people selling buttons on instagram
If someone shares a load of sensitive business information loudly in a train simply note it down and email it to their boss
Yeah ok, but that one guy on the train with me was IN A BUSINESS MEETING the other day. Why TF am I having to circle back to something right now???? Leave me alone.
Man you guys gotta be more normal about the one guy on your train not wearing headphones, it's annoying but it's not, like, a decay of society level issue.
November 18, 2025 at 3:33 PM
If someone shares a load of sensitive business information loudly in a train simply note it down and email it to their boss
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Hope the eagles get him
November 18, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Hope the eagles get him
I had a lovely day out yesterday. I highly recommend having a lovely day out
November 18, 2025 at 9:32 AM
I had a lovely day out yesterday. I highly recommend having a lovely day out
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If someone has two followers, a brand new account and is responding to you with a strong political view, the correct thing to do is block them.
November 18, 2025 at 6:39 AM
If someone has two followers, a brand new account and is responding to you with a strong political view, the correct thing to do is block them.
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Anyone who uses this technology is stealing directly from the people who put food on the table for my kid, and also my published novelist & academic wife. Indirectly they are stealing a liveable planet from my kid’s generation as well. The depths of my loathing for them are unfathomable.
November 17, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Anyone who uses this technology is stealing directly from the people who put food on the table for my kid, and also my published novelist & academic wife. Indirectly they are stealing a liveable planet from my kid’s generation as well. The depths of my loathing for them are unfathomable.
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I was just handed this puppy.
November 16, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I was just handed this puppy.
anyone got any pre-gig food recommendations in Nottingham for a sunday night?
November 16, 2025 at 9:14 AM
anyone got any pre-gig food recommendations in Nottingham for a sunday night?
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your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️
November 15, 2025 at 12:50 AM
your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️