Michael R
@amiablehuman.bsky.social
Variously described as a 'life wrecking bastard and Wigan git' and a 'serene and holy old bumbarrel' happy for you to decide which is more accurate
Product Manager professionally. Introverted show off socially.
He/Him
Product Manager professionally. Introverted show off socially.
He/Him
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I used to have "Old man Korfballer" in my bio. Korfball is a sport (Google it) that within certain ranges of physical aptitude rewards experience.
There is a lot of pleasure to be gained in beating a team whose average age is half that of your own team. It doesn't get old as you do
I used to have "Old man Korfballer" in my bio. Korfball is a sport (Google it) that within certain ranges of physical aptitude rewards experience.
There is a lot of pleasure to be gained in beating a team whose average age is half that of your own team. It doesn't get old as you do
November 30, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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I used to have "Old man Korfballer" in my bio. Korfball is a sport (Google it) that within certain ranges of physical aptitude rewards experience.
There is a lot of pleasure to be gained in beating a team whose average age is half that of your own team. It doesn't get old as you do
I used to have "Old man Korfballer" in my bio. Korfball is a sport (Google it) that within certain ranges of physical aptitude rewards experience.
There is a lot of pleasure to be gained in beating a team whose average age is half that of your own team. It doesn't get old as you do
Once again I would like to draw your attention to something I completely agree with expressed far better than I ever could.
(with thanks to @annkempster.com for putting in front of my eyeballs)
(with thanks to @annkempster.com for putting in front of my eyeballs)
November 30, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Once again I would like to draw your attention to something I completely agree with expressed far better than I ever could.
(with thanks to @annkempster.com for putting in front of my eyeballs)
(with thanks to @annkempster.com for putting in front of my eyeballs)
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don’t cheapen your slides! there *are* places to get free, human-created, rich, visual content on this bitch of an internet, some on this list: livelaugh.blog/posts/non-ai...
November 28, 2025 at 4:40 PM
don’t cheapen your slides! there *are* places to get free, human-created, rich, visual content on this bitch of an internet, some on this list: livelaugh.blog/posts/non-ai...
All I'm saying is that 'Shai-Hulud 2 NPM Bug-a-loo' was right there
www.theregister.com/2025/11/24/s...
www.theregister.com/2025/11/24/s...
Wormable npm attack returns as 25,000 repos spill secrets
: Trojanized npm packages spread new variant that executes in pre-install phase, hitting thousands within days
www.theregister.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 PM
All I'm saying is that 'Shai-Hulud 2 NPM Bug-a-loo' was right there
www.theregister.com/2025/11/24/s...
www.theregister.com/2025/11/24/s...
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This is your regular reminder that being a weekly columnist for 10 years + is deeply self-radicalising. No one has that many ideas or opinions and the two inevitable outcomes appear to be either inane predictability or performing acrobatics to justify hate-stoking controversy.
November 25, 2025 at 7:30 AM
This is your regular reminder that being a weekly columnist for 10 years + is deeply self-radicalising. No one has that many ideas or opinions and the two inevitable outcomes appear to be either inane predictability or performing acrobatics to justify hate-stoking controversy.
November 14, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Dear Amazon Writing Team
Bond is a Timelord, MI5 are all secret Timelords, they regenerate. There fixed your continuity for you.
(Probably the 36000th nerd to suggest this I realise)
Bond is a Timelord, MI5 are all secret Timelords, they regenerate. There fixed your continuity for you.
(Probably the 36000th nerd to suggest this I realise)
November 13, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Dear Amazon Writing Team
Bond is a Timelord, MI5 are all secret Timelords, they regenerate. There fixed your continuity for you.
(Probably the 36000th nerd to suggest this I realise)
Bond is a Timelord, MI5 are all secret Timelords, they regenerate. There fixed your continuity for you.
(Probably the 36000th nerd to suggest this I realise)
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
Scariest thing I've seen this Halloween
October 30, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Scariest thing I've seen this Halloween
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"I think I shall have a rest from thinking as I have been told I do too much..."
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Postmark: 21 July 1906
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Postmark: 21 July 1906
October 27, 2025 at 9:04 PM
"I think I shall have a rest from thinking as I have been told I do too much..."
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Postmark: 21 July 1906
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Postmark: 21 July 1906
"If anyone wants to join me in day dreaming about tranquil Scottish holiday cottages..."
"You can't trust Gary, Gary."
October 26, 2025 at 5:20 PM
"If anyone wants to join me in day dreaming about tranquil Scottish holiday cottages..."
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Several things here, tbh, but to me the most salient point is the fact that a lot of hyper connected objects have had close to zero design thoughts invested in cybersecurity
October 26, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Several things here, tbh, but to me the most salient point is the fact that a lot of hyper connected objects have had close to zero design thoughts invested in cybersecurity
"It seemed to me that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to purchase beds they can't sleep in when AWS mess up their Domain Name records was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane."
www.techradar.com/home/smart-h...
www.techradar.com/home/smart-h...
October 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
"It seemed to me that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to purchase beds they can't sleep in when AWS mess up their Domain Name records was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane."
www.techradar.com/home/smart-h...
www.techradar.com/home/smart-h...
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Six year old Carrie Fisher watching her mom, Debbie Reynolds, from backstage in 1963
Still one of the sweetest pictures I've ever seen.
Happy birthday, Carrie. You are missed
📷: Lawrence Schiller, 1963
Still one of the sweetest pictures I've ever seen.
Happy birthday, Carrie. You are missed
📷: Lawrence Schiller, 1963
October 21, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Six year old Carrie Fisher watching her mom, Debbie Reynolds, from backstage in 1963
Still one of the sweetest pictures I've ever seen.
Happy birthday, Carrie. You are missed
📷: Lawrence Schiller, 1963
Still one of the sweetest pictures I've ever seen.
Happy birthday, Carrie. You are missed
📷: Lawrence Schiller, 1963
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Bertrand Russell to Oswald Mosley. Perfection.
October 16, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Bertrand Russell to Oswald Mosley. Perfection.
This! With the whole of my shrivelled heart; this!
One of the things I like best about the teams I work with currently is the conscious creation of space for people to develop
One of the things I like best about the teams I work with currently is the conscious creation of space for people to develop
a weeknote supporting teams, being a therapist, and people peopling around
mikegallagher.org/posts/the-wo...
mikegallagher.org/posts/the-wo...
Mike Gallagher: The work is (often) people
Weeknote, w/c 13 October 2025
mikegallagher.org
October 19, 2025 at 3:38 PM
This! With the whole of my shrivelled heart; this!
One of the things I like best about the teams I work with currently is the conscious creation of space for people to develop
One of the things I like best about the teams I work with currently is the conscious creation of space for people to develop
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Come and join an open house meeting to further shape these and work out what to do next. We need a collective hopeful tech vision if we have any chance of putting out the current ridiculous bin fire fuelled by hype, power & billionaire egos. Booking links in this post buttondown.com/society-of-h...
#3: A Hopeful Charter and First Events
Our draft charter, the first SoHoT community events, and a Hopeful Tech Reading Group with Empire of AI author Karen Hao
buttondown.com
October 19, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Come and join an open house meeting to further shape these and work out what to do next. We need a collective hopeful tech vision if we have any chance of putting out the current ridiculous bin fire fuelled by hype, power & billionaire egos. Booking links in this post buttondown.com/society-of-h...
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Reposting this poem here for @thelabandfield.bsky.social who retweets it every winter. Yet again, I'm wondering where *is* my soup and hibernation?
November 23, 2024 at 9:44 AM
Reposting this poem here for @thelabandfield.bsky.social who retweets it every winter. Yet again, I'm wondering where *is* my soup and hibernation?
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October 4, 2025 at 8:47 AM
As seen in an emergency department in the north of England. Either I'm hallucinating or reality is leaking again. @criticalrole.bsky.social can you please check your story wards. #CriticalRole
September 30, 2025 at 8:10 PM
As seen in an emergency department in the north of England. Either I'm hallucinating or reality is leaking again. @criticalrole.bsky.social can you please check your story wards. #CriticalRole
Free business idea: Come the impending AI financial crash I feel like the company who figures out how to peel the roof off the unused data centres and turn those racks into vertical farms is going to win big!
September 30, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Free business idea: Come the impending AI financial crash I feel like the company who figures out how to peel the roof off the unused data centres and turn those racks into vertical farms is going to win big!
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What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own.
Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social
We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.
Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social
We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.
Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
Former Observer big-hitters inc @carolecadwalla.bsky.social launch new title The Nerve with redundancy payouts
After Observer sale: "We decided to launch a title that the journalists themselves would own, that would be truly independent"
pressgazette.co.uk/news/former-...
After Observer sale: "We decided to launch a title that the journalists themselves would own, that would be truly independent"
pressgazette.co.uk/news/former-...
Former Observer big-hitters launch new title with redundancy payouts
Five former Observer journalists including Carole Cadwalladr have launched their own culture publication using their redundancy money.
pressgazette.co.uk
September 26, 2025 at 11:03 AM
What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own.
Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social
We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.
Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social
We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.
Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪
Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.
I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:
Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.
I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:
September 24, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪
Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.
I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:
Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.
I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis: