turns out I was right

it's actually quite incredible how you can tell when you're entering certain boroughs by how markedly less safe it feels to cycle

amusing feed serendipity - for some reason the immediate next post in my discovery feex after yours was this bsky.app/profile/soni...

what's steeper and scarier, the first drop on the rollercoaster that caused this heart rate spike, or the drop in my S&S ISA this week bsky.app/profile/sojt...

(I don't actually know how many I blocked on twitter but it was definitely a few on a daily basis)

copious blocking is the cure to social media

especially cruel in connections though where the number of guesses you have is limited from the start - only connect gives a bit of freedom to test the water before you start losing lives!

*every day

ULEZ is demonstrating the enormous public health benefits of taking bold action on air quality - quite simply, it will lead to healthier communities & save lives. Huge credit to the Mayor for holding out on it.

it's making me cringe just thinking about it

why does it take so long? why is there no status indicator to reassure you that you did actually record it? why is this whole experience actually worse than using Microsoft Teams?

I really feel like that last one deserves some special prize - "congratulations, you made something worse than Teams"

everything I know about American sports I have learned against my will thanks to #nytconnections

yes especially the last point!

I've had some cases in the past where research participants have been using lots of jargon which I've wanted to avoid leaning into, but it's jargon that is consistent across lots of people so then I'm wondering... is it even jargon at that point

I'm surprised they can even describe growth as "stagnant", I'd very much expect it to be "negative"