Leon Bambrick
secretgeek.bsky.social
Leon Bambrick
@secretgeek.bsky.social
Writer, reader, coder, friend, musician, human; see https://secretGeek.net, https://TimeSnapper.com https://NimbleText.com
Walking through a second hand book store should feel like you’re flying through the trench run on the Death Star.
August 16, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I must acknowledge that I am uncharacteristically and perhaps unreasonably riled up by this paper, but to double down on my "dying on this hill" -- here's a word cloud of all the times "cognitive {x}" is used in the paper, for different values of x.

It's such an utter load of "cognitive slop"!
July 4, 2025 at 3:43 AM
June 22, 2025 at 2:56 AM
I used to believe, there’s no “i” in Teamwork. Google set me straight.
June 10, 2025 at 11:13 PM
“American Progress (1872) by John Gast... Columbia, a personification of the United States, is shown leading civilization westward with the American settlers. She is shown bringing light from east to west… On the left, Indigenous Americans are displaced from their ancestral homeland”
April 16, 2025 at 6:53 AM
“Dire-wolf” you say? Seems to have a suspiciously large amount of amphibian DNA for a “dire-wolf”
April 10, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Trump didn't pay attention during Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and it shows
March 11, 2025 at 1:05 AM
The most popular movie on Netflix today is called “carry-on”.

I’ve just watched the first five minutes and I can tell you this is *nothing* like the “Carry On…” films I saw when I was a kid. Very dark reboot.
December 14, 2024 at 10:54 AM
Bit of a good news story here! Two Spanish tourists were rescued in North Queensland after a sudden downpour caught them by surprise while bushwalking on a mountain track; apparently the rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain.
December 1, 2024 at 3:19 PM