Douglas Board
@boardwryter.uk
Half-Chinese Brit, proud south Londoner lucky enough to have 20 years+ of Johannesburg connections. Coach, writer and thinker on leadership. Main hobby: trying to change the course of Western civilisation. My writing website is www.douglasboard.com
Couldn't think of a #Xmas /winter holiday season card till now. Hello Magenta! Hello Riff-raff! Please take Agent Orange back to Planet Musk soon. (Seems like that project is on track.)
December 1, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Couldn't think of a #Xmas /winter holiday season card till now. Hello Magenta! Hello Riff-raff! Please take Agent Orange back to Planet Musk soon. (Seems like that project is on track.)
November 23, 2025 at 10:25 AM
This customer reward policy IS a joke, so the words I've circled are neither a threat nor a promise, but something already delivered! How very on-brand. Clever Amazon, did some #AI think this up for you?
October 15, 2025 at 8:36 AM
This customer reward policy IS a joke, so the words I've circled are neither a threat nor a promise, but something already delivered! How very on-brand. Clever Amazon, did some #AI think this up for you?
'Based on my experience' several CEOs are not on a viable timeline (compressed or otherwise) for speaking human. Might replacement with a LLM be an upgrade?
#Accenture #ethics #AI
www.ft.com/content/a74f...?
#Accenture #ethics #AI
www.ft.com/content/a74f...?
September 26, 2025 at 9:38 AM
'Based on my experience' several CEOs are not on a viable timeline (compressed or otherwise) for speaking human. Might replacement with a LLM be an upgrade?
#Accenture #ethics #AI
www.ft.com/content/a74f...?
#Accenture #ethics #AI
www.ft.com/content/a74f...?
1/2 To American friends, from a Brit. How lucky I was to study for a year in your country at an impressionable age, when the Boss was doing 'Darkness on the edge of town'.
Agent Orange, has brought the darkness closer; and he has his backing singers, the Orangettes, in my country.
Agent Orange, has brought the darkness closer; and he has his backing singers, the Orangettes, in my country.
September 25, 2025 at 6:07 PM
1/2 To American friends, from a Brit. How lucky I was to study for a year in your country at an impressionable age, when the Boss was doing 'Darkness on the edge of town'.
Agent Orange, has brought the darkness closer; and he has his backing singers, the Orangettes, in my country.
Agent Orange, has brought the darkness closer; and he has his backing singers, the Orangettes, in my country.
Given 'Plasticine Action', what if a British group self-organised with a proscribed programme of activities and called itself Ref0rm, or Lab0ur. Presumably the police would do their job on any public expressions of support.
#Democracy may die in darkness but stupidity works as well.
#Democracy may die in darkness but stupidity works as well.
September 1, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Given 'Plasticine Action', what if a British group self-organised with a proscribed programme of activities and called itself Ref0rm, or Lab0ur. Presumably the police would do their job on any public expressions of support.
#Democracy may die in darkness but stupidity works as well.
#Democracy may die in darkness but stupidity works as well.
It's #millercuisine - strictly non-MAGA foods which have to be eaten with mayonnaise (Stephen Miller's only condiment).
Kicking off with frogs' legs, lamb madras, won ton soup and crocodile croquettes.
newrepublic.com/post/199058/...
Kicking off with frogs' legs, lamb madras, won ton soup and crocodile croquettes.
newrepublic.com/post/199058/...
August 14, 2025 at 9:21 AM
It's #millercuisine - strictly non-MAGA foods which have to be eaten with mayonnaise (Stephen Miller's only condiment).
Kicking off with frogs' legs, lamb madras, won ton soup and crocodile croquettes.
newrepublic.com/post/199058/...
Kicking off with frogs' legs, lamb madras, won ton soup and crocodile croquettes.
newrepublic.com/post/199058/...
All GBU-57A/B MOPs used on Iran were wokeness-scrubbed via a special 'Trump Operating System' Pete Hegseth found on Signal. As the bombs fell, they sent a signal received in the Situation Room after some hours' delay. 'I may work. I may not work. Nobody knows, not even me. LOL, Dr Strangelove.'
June 25, 2025 at 8:14 PM
All GBU-57A/B MOPs used on Iran were wokeness-scrubbed via a special 'Trump Operating System' Pete Hegseth found on Signal. As the bombs fell, they sent a signal received in the Situation Room after some hours' delay. 'I may work. I may not work. Nobody knows, not even me. LOL, Dr Strangelove.'
One for Anglophiles: from today's Guardian. Gosh, imagine a world in which 'listener' became an on-trend occupation.
June 20, 2025 at 6:57 PM
One for Anglophiles: from today's Guardian. Gosh, imagine a world in which 'listener' became an on-trend occupation.
2/2 ... Estreet percussionist Anthony Almonte is another story! Hoping for 'Wrecking Ball' tonight, dedicated to Elon Musk.
#EStreetBand #Bruce #Praha
#EStreetBand #Bruce #Praha
June 15, 2025 at 10:50 AM
2/2 ... Estreet percussionist Anthony Almonte is another story! Hoping for 'Wrecking Ball' tonight, dedicated to Elon Musk.
#EStreetBand #Bruce #Praha
#EStreetBand #Bruce #Praha
1/2 Super memory from yesterday in Prague celebrating TeachRock's achievements with musician, actor, activist Steve van Zandt. In this picture I think my marriage is safe but ten minutes later ...
#EStreetBand #bruce
#EStreetBand #bruce
June 15, 2025 at 10:48 AM
1/2 Super memory from yesterday in Prague celebrating TeachRock's achievements with musician, actor, activist Steve van Zandt. In this picture I think my marriage is safe but ten minutes later ...
#EStreetBand #bruce
#EStreetBand #bruce
From inauguration day 2017 to Los Angeles 2025. The former prompted a re-do of Boyzone lyrics 'No Matter What' www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eul... - here's part.
#fascism
#fascism
June 9, 2025 at 9:27 AM
From inauguration day 2017 to Los Angeles 2025. The former prompted a re-do of Boyzone lyrics 'No Matter What' www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eul... - here's part.
#fascism
#fascism
Catching up with the Netflix series 'Adolescence' took me back to a song from my own.
April 13, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Catching up with the Netflix series 'Adolescence' took me back to a song from my own.
It's good for some to be totally focussed on the next Congressional elections, and some to be focussed on the fact that it took less time than that to make this change:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_...
March 24, 2025 at 1:05 PM
It's good for some to be totally focussed on the next Congressional elections, and some to be focussed on the fact that it took less time than that to make this change:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_...
Small learning for me this morning: a job creation idea which should sound familiar to Musk, DOGE and the broletariat: "...empowered to issue directives to all parts of the civilian sector ..."
It was a loser's move (and that loser could pronounce long words).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reich_P...
It was a loser's move (and that loser could pronounce long words).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reich_P...
March 13, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Small learning for me this morning: a job creation idea which should sound familiar to Musk, DOGE and the broletariat: "...empowered to issue directives to all parts of the civilian sector ..."
It was a loser's move (and that loser could pronounce long words).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reich_P...
It was a loser's move (and that loser could pronounce long words).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reich_P...
History will not forget the words spoken by a US president to a "war-mongering" European leader who, despite having not many cards, managed to "force" a militaristic neighbour into a global war: "He won't be around very long. America will not put up with it for much longer".
#zelensky #churchill
#zelensky #churchill
March 4, 2025 at 2:57 PM
History will not forget the words spoken by a US president to a "war-mongering" European leader who, despite having not many cards, managed to "force" a militaristic neighbour into a global war: "He won't be around very long. America will not put up with it for much longer".
#zelensky #churchill
#zelensky #churchill
Simon Caulkin is one of very few management writers worth listening to - especially amid the Musk madness.
www.simoncaulkin.co.uk/2025/03/03/b...
www.simoncaulkin.co.uk/2025/03/03/b...
March 4, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Simon Caulkin is one of very few management writers worth listening to - especially amid the Musk madness.
www.simoncaulkin.co.uk/2025/03/03/b...
www.simoncaulkin.co.uk/2025/03/03/b...
Quick work visit to Dublin. Stayed at the (very fine) Leinster hotel. Now a bit less worried about #AI but a bit more worried about intelligent toilets taking over the world.
February 27, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Quick work visit to Dublin. Stayed at the (very fine) Leinster hotel. Now a bit less worried about #AI but a bit more worried about intelligent toilets taking over the world.
Well that's clear then: Putin and Agent Orange think it has been the "end of Ukraine war". Um, wrong.
February 18, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Well that's clear then: Putin and Agent Orange think it has been the "end of Ukraine war". Um, wrong.
Western civilisation saved as UK politician Kemi Badenoch announces world's first air traffic kindness service ... BUT ...
MAGA rage in the Land of the Stupid at climate gain from not being able to fly anywhere.
MAGA rage in the Land of the Stupid at climate gain from not being able to fly anywhere.
February 18, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Western civilisation saved as UK politician Kemi Badenoch announces world's first air traffic kindness service ... BUT ...
MAGA rage in the Land of the Stupid at climate gain from not being able to fly anywhere.
MAGA rage in the Land of the Stupid at climate gain from not being able to fly anywhere.
Welcome to the #wellness programme where we breathe in, settle and get into Agent Orange's mindspace for 3 minutes.
So #tariffs: instead of H-1Bs, we must tax human thinking power entering the country. The smarter you are, the more you pay. That way we'll decide to build intelligence in America.
So #tariffs: instead of H-1Bs, we must tax human thinking power entering the country. The smarter you are, the more you pay. That way we'll decide to build intelligence in America.
February 12, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Never be caught out with this hard-wearing recyclable headline for the next eighteen months. All-purpose ending "eat shit and die" sold separately.
February 6, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Never be caught out with this hard-wearing recyclable headline for the next eighteen months. All-purpose ending "eat shit and die" sold separately.
If only in 1964 someone in the White House had had the vision to see a (French) Riviera of the South China Sea.
February 6, 2025 at 9:25 AM
If only in 1964 someone in the White House had had the vision to see a (French) Riviera of the South China Sea.