Paul Davidson
@elementalpaul.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Reading about the Radical Road on the BBC news website reminded me that I ran it in February 2017 when I was trying out my new Saucony Peregrine trail shoes. It was hard going! #running #Edinburgh
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Reading about the Radical Road on the BBC news website reminded me that I ran it in February 2017 when I was trying out my new Saucony Peregrine trail shoes. It was hard going! #running #Edinburgh
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I just started watching Parks and Recreation a few years ago when it was pulled from Netflix in the UK. I'm pleased to discover today that it's available to stream for free via the U streaming service. #ParksAndRecreation #StreamOnU
November 11, 2025 at 11:56 AM
I just started watching Parks and Recreation a few years ago when it was pulled from Netflix in the UK. I'm pleased to discover today that it's available to stream for free via the U streaming service. #ParksAndRecreation #StreamOnU
Ha! Suck it up.
November 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Ha! Suck it up.
I saw Dan Trachtenberg's Predator: Badlands this afternoon and I wasn't ready for how good it is! The trailers show maybe about 5% of what the film is about. See it for yourself as soon as you can on the biggest screen possible. I'm calling it: best Predator film yet! #PredatorBadlands
November 9, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I saw Dan Trachtenberg's Predator: Badlands this afternoon and I wasn't ready for how good it is! The trailers show maybe about 5% of what the film is about. See it for yourself as soon as you can on the biggest screen possible. I'm calling it: best Predator film yet! #PredatorBadlands
November 9, 2025 at 9:29 AM
I've watched the first two episodes of Pluribus, so far so good. It's a fascinating premise and I'm interested to see where the story goes. #Pluribus
November 8, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I've watched the first two episodes of Pluribus, so far so good. It's a fascinating premise and I'm interested to see where the story goes. #Pluribus
I had to check for myself to see if this was a real photo of Donald Trump, it is. 📷Yoan Valat/AP.
November 8, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I had to check for myself to see if this was a real photo of Donald Trump, it is. 📷Yoan Valat/AP.
I was treated to some lovely autumn light at Seafield and Leith Links on my post run walk this afternoon. #Leith #Pixel9Pro
November 8, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I was treated to some lovely autumn light at Seafield and Leith Links on my post run walk this afternoon. #Leith #Pixel9Pro
Every day a school day. Today I found out that the 1985 Richard Pryor film Brewster's Millions is based on a 1902 novel by George Barr McCutcheon. This came to my attention when I wondered why Brewster's Millions hadn't been adapted for TV yet. Brewster's Billions now maybe?
November 7, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Every day a school day. Today I found out that the 1985 Richard Pryor film Brewster's Millions is based on a 1902 novel by George Barr McCutcheon. This came to my attention when I wondered why Brewster's Millions hadn't been adapted for TV yet. Brewster's Billions now maybe?
I'm recycling an earlier reply. I asked ChatGPT why large language models seem to favour em dashes. I thought the answer was quite interesting. Well it was to me, I appreciate this kind of thing might not float everyone's boat!
November 7, 2025 at 10:09 PM
I'm recycling an earlier reply. I asked ChatGPT why large language models seem to favour em dashes. I thought the answer was quite interesting. Well it was to me, I appreciate this kind of thing might not float everyone's boat!
I wondered why AI favours em dashes, so I asked ChatGPT. Ironic, I know!
I have an irrational dislike of some punctuation marks, like the interrobang for example. It should work but I hate the damn things. Thankfully they've never really caught on so I rarely come across them.
I have an irrational dislike of some punctuation marks, like the interrobang for example. It should work but I hate the damn things. Thankfully they've never really caught on so I rarely come across them.
November 7, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I wondered why AI favours em dashes, so I asked ChatGPT. Ironic, I know!
I have an irrational dislike of some punctuation marks, like the interrobang for example. It should work but I hate the damn things. Thankfully they've never really caught on so I rarely come across them.
I have an irrational dislike of some punctuation marks, like the interrobang for example. It should work but I hate the damn things. Thankfully they've never really caught on so I rarely come across them.
Interesting upcoming film! Or is it a documentary? 🤔
www.imdb.com/title/tt3461...
www.imdb.com/title/tt3461...
November 7, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Interesting upcoming film! Or is it a documentary? 🤔
www.imdb.com/title/tt3461...
www.imdb.com/title/tt3461...
It's exactly 38 years since I saw A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors at the cinema though. Back when cinema tickets were stubby wee things. #ANightmareOnElmStreet3
November 7, 2025 at 8:27 PM
It's exactly 38 years since I saw A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors at the cinema though. Back when cinema tickets were stubby wee things. #ANightmareOnElmStreet3
I never thought I'd type the words 'I'm the current Local Legend for Steven's stinky Seafield loop' but here we are. It's a circuit round the nearby water treatment works that Steven obviously thought was worthy of a funny name. It can be a bit whiffy sometimes. #running #Strava
November 7, 2025 at 8:09 PM
It's 38 years, almost to the day, since I saw Ben Elton performing live at The Capitol Theatre in Aberdeen. I paid £4.50 for my ticket! #BenElton
November 7, 2025 at 7:42 PM
It's 38 years, almost to the day, since I saw Ben Elton performing live at The Capitol Theatre in Aberdeen. I paid £4.50 for my ticket! #BenElton
Some tree photos from yesterday's run. 10 km to start November. #running #Pixel9Pro
November 2, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Some tree photos from yesterday's run. 10 km to start November. #running #Pixel9Pro
Oops. I feel a correction coming on for this piece in The Guardian about autocorrect.
November 1, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Oops. I feel a correction coming on for this piece in The Guardian about autocorrect.
Steady on, Amazon. It's still October!
October 31, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Steady on, Amazon. It's still October!
Interested to learn today that the hyphen in Terry-Thomas's name represents his characteristic distinctive diastema.
October 30, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Interested to learn today that the hyphen in Terry-Thomas's name represents his characteristic distinctive diastema.
I'm watching Misery. Kathy Bates and James Caan were both 42 when they made it. James Caan in particular looks like he had a tough paper round.
October 30, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I'm watching Misery. Kathy Bates and James Caan were both 42 when they made it. James Caan in particular looks like he had a tough paper round.