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Find all previous and future episodes listed here or in your podcast app under “Barbican Station”. Go on a tour of the real locations seen in SLOW HORSES. Go to https://www.squaremilesecrets.com/slow-horses and enter the coupon code SLOUGH for 20% off your tour. We are back to break down all the excitement of the season four episode four of SLOW HORSES. I’m joined this episode by returning recapper Gary Dexter. We …

I bought two of these in Norway last spring. One I shared with two friends on top of a local hill at sunset. This one I found in the gel and sports nutrition drawer that’s mostly sugar. I’m saving it for something. I just don’t know what.

The Wild Robot (2024) • View trailerFour stars (out of five). Rated PG, for action, peril and dramatic intensityAvailable via: Movie theatersBy Derrick Bang • Published in The Davis Enterprise, 9.29.24This is most sumptuously gorgeous animated film I’ve seen in years. That’s surprising, given that it comes from the American Dreamworks Animation team; the verdant, sparkling look is much more typical of Tokyo’s Studio Ghibli. Indeed, in the production notes, …

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Fuck Time Fuck Space by Spooky Jaguar

Early morning, April 1789. Captain Bligh is abruptly dragged from his cabin. Wrists bound, bayonet pressed to his chest, he and a few loyal sailors are forced into a tiny launch and set adrift on the vast Pacific Ocean. This far from land, no-one is likely to survive for long. History remembers Captain Bligh as a cruel, petty tyrant. The reality is more complicated. Bligh championed rational thought and showed …

The Fujifilm X100VI is the most preordered camera in history by far. There were more orders placed prior to the release date than there were X100V’s produced in its entire four-year run. Completely unprecedented! I quickly made my order within minutes after it was announced, and I still had to wait over a month for it to arrive. There are people who placed their preorders on day-one who are still …

The share of payrolled employee jobs among London residents that are held by non-UK nationals has been increasing since the UK’s formal exit from the European Union and the start of the pandemic in early 2020. A big increase in jobs held by non-EU/non-UK citizens has been driving this change, even as the number held by EU citizens has fallen. We have recently published analysis looking into this. It examines …

Over the last year I’ve been working with our local school system to include preferred pronouns in their student information system. The use case for this arose out of direct experience with one of my own kids being misgendered in a classroom. Now as a technology-savvy parent, it is not like you check out the source code of your school’s student information system and go patch the problem yourself - …

Some wild stuff has surfaced in my RSS reader this week about WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg’s corporate-but-very-personal war with WP Engine, full of absolutely S-tier business maneuvers. I could hear the tiny *squelch* of braincells dying within my skull as I searched for logic and reason behind this stuff, but by golly have I found it. Behold: Exhibit A, Exhibit B. I’m sorry. It’s not right to make fun of …

My 17-month-old baby has been going through an absolutely awful sleep regression, and most of the month of September has been a sleep-deprived tornado. Because she can’t fully sleep… I can’t fully sleep. We tried everything. My husband and I switched off taking care of her, we tried rearranging her bed setup, we tried letting her sleep with us, we tried feeding her more before bed, we tried different pajamas, …

This is both the second part of my meditation and a review of Tabarome Millésime. Here’s the crux of it: Tabarome Millésime is the most important Creed of the 2000s, and yet no one discusses it. Before you dismiss this claim, hear me out, and then draw your own conclusions. My argument rests on a theory that ties this Creed fragrance to one of the biggest successes of 2010—a wildly …

Writing code for a computer is hard enough. You take something big and fuzzy, some large vague business outcome you want to achive. Then you break it down recursively and think about all the cases until you have clear logical statements a computer can follow.

Not a new idea, but just another visualization and reminder. Wealth, feeling like you have plenty, is an equation. Wealth = Have ÷ Need If you have nothing, then focus on having some. Once you have some, the easiest way to increase your wealth is to decrease your needs. Have 10 but think you need 100? You are poor. Have 10 but only need 5? You are wealthy. Have 10 …

Miriam Kent joins Tim Worthington for a chat about Yelena Belova not quite managing to break her 'eating stale biscuits' conditioning in Black Widow.