Hamid
@palestine.bsky.social
Proud Palestinian-Brit. Interested in everything.
Just opened YouTube to look for any interesting documentaries on the Terra-cotta army in Xi’an and it’s just a useless pile of conspirabollocks. For Pete’s sake.
November 8, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Just opened YouTube to look for any interesting documentaries on the Terra-cotta army in Xi’an and it’s just a useless pile of conspirabollocks. For Pete’s sake.
Just heard that an old and dear friend of mine passed away. Eamon Downes gave me my first meaningful role in the business way back when and we had some amazing fun together. He was wonderful. I’ll always remember him with great respect and love. on.soundcloud.com/M1EpETaMHHOB...
Wuthering Heights - Arturino Talamonti
Listen to Wuthering Heights - Arturino Talamonti by Arturino Talamonti #np on #SoundCloud
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October 19, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Just heard that an old and dear friend of mine passed away. Eamon Downes gave me my first meaningful role in the business way back when and we had some amazing fun together. He was wonderful. I’ll always remember him with great respect and love. on.soundcloud.com/M1EpETaMHHOB...
The DM has now picked up the 'too many blacks on TV' story, related to the C4 report, using so much of the exact logic from The Spectator that I suspect it was either plagiarised in part or heavily cribbed from. The Daily Mail of course rachets up the "woke" hysteria. Archive link: archive.is/TQXu9
October 6, 2025 at 7:54 AM
The DM has now picked up the 'too many blacks on TV' story, related to the C4 report, using so much of the exact logic from The Spectator that I suspect it was either plagiarised in part or heavily cribbed from. The Daily Mail of course rachets up the "woke" hysteria. Archive link: archive.is/TQXu9
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Yikes. That’s terrible.
Guess he’s now tossing out the data that claims diversity correlates to gains in revenue and brand perception?
www.marketingdive.com/news/study-d...
Guess he’s now tossing out the data that claims diversity correlates to gains in revenue and brand perception?
www.marketingdive.com/news/study-d...
Study: Diversity in ads correlates to gains in revenue, brand perception
Those with the highest diversity scores showed an 83% higher consumer preference, according to Deloitte-owned agency Heat.
www.marketingdive.com
October 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Yikes. That’s terrible.
Guess he’s now tossing out the data that claims diversity correlates to gains in revenue and brand perception?
www.marketingdive.com/news/study-d...
Guess he’s now tossing out the data that claims diversity correlates to gains in revenue and brand perception?
www.marketingdive.com/news/study-d...
This is *extremely* disappointing from Rory Sutherland. The article is here: www.spectator.co.uk/article/is-t...
Points to note:
* it doesn’t link to the report
* I cannot find the claim that black people appear in 50% of adverts in the C4 summary
* even if it could, the argument that ‘if black
Points to note:
* it doesn’t link to the report
* I cannot find the claim that black people appear in 50% of adverts in the C4 summary
* even if it could, the argument that ‘if black
October 4, 2025 at 4:34 PM
This is *extremely* disappointing from Rory Sutherland. The article is here: www.spectator.co.uk/article/is-t...
Points to note:
* it doesn’t link to the report
* I cannot find the claim that black people appear in 50% of adverts in the C4 summary
* even if it could, the argument that ‘if black
Points to note:
* it doesn’t link to the report
* I cannot find the claim that black people appear in 50% of adverts in the C4 summary
* even if it could, the argument that ‘if black
I was middle-aging through various Reddit threads about home improvement and noted the near ubiquity - inevitability - of ‘your mum’ comments. I think this has become almost formalised as part of a 21st century chivalric code. Honi soit qui mal y your mum.
September 20, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I was middle-aging through various Reddit threads about home improvement and noted the near ubiquity - inevitability - of ‘your mum’ comments. I think this has become almost formalised as part of a 21st century chivalric code. Honi soit qui mal y your mum.
So I'm reading through the latest JK Rowling/Robert Galbraith 'Strike' book and while I'm happily surprised that there's no obvious racism/transphobia so far, there is this absolute gem from a German character: 'Der first time I came to der flat. Der vigs and dat.'
Peak literature.
Peak literature.
September 16, 2025 at 9:28 AM
So I'm reading through the latest JK Rowling/Robert Galbraith 'Strike' book and while I'm happily surprised that there's no obvious racism/transphobia so far, there is this absolute gem from a German character: 'Der first time I came to der flat. Der vigs and dat.'
Peak literature.
Peak literature.
Whenever I’m on LinkedIn, I inevitably encounter some banal, depressing dross like ‘Thrilled to announce that we’re launching our latest case study, revealing how our business does business’ on first scroll. I immediately click away and spend five minutes contemplating life.
June 4, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Whenever I’m on LinkedIn, I inevitably encounter some banal, depressing dross like ‘Thrilled to announce that we’re launching our latest case study, revealing how our business does business’ on first scroll. I immediately click away and spend five minutes contemplating life.
I think the most sublime act of corporate passive-aggression is the ‘my calendar is up-to-date’ reply. It’s a polite power play. It’s practically impossible to respond to without seeming like an asshole. Do you yield to getting a CC teabagging or do you throw toys? A true white-collar snookering.
May 27, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I think the most sublime act of corporate passive-aggression is the ‘my calendar is up-to-date’ reply. It’s a polite power play. It’s practically impossible to respond to without seeming like an asshole. Do you yield to getting a CC teabagging or do you throw toys? A true white-collar snookering.
Been casually reading through the collected Judge Dredd volumes over the last few years and I’m almost through volume 5. It starts getting truly batshit. ‘East Meg’ (a megacity like Dredd’s) goes full nuclear assault and wrecks Dredd’s home city & conquers it in 4 days. They capture ‘Chief Judge’
April 18, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Been casually reading through the collected Judge Dredd volumes over the last few years and I’m almost through volume 5. It starts getting truly batshit. ‘East Meg’ (a megacity like Dredd’s) goes full nuclear assault and wrecks Dredd’s home city & conquers it in 4 days. They capture ‘Chief Judge’
Will recommend it to anyone who’ll listen
Disco Elysium really is very good. You were all correct. (Especially @palestine.bsky.social).
February 20, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Will recommend it to anyone who’ll listen
Recommend everyone buys Refaat Alareer's posthumous work, a collection of his writings. He was killed a year ago, with family, because he was vocal on Twitter. His beloved daughter was killed in April 2024. If you've ever been angry about threats to Rushdie, the killing of Alareer should enrage you.
December 8, 2024 at 10:34 AM
Recommend everyone buys Refaat Alareer's posthumous work, a collection of his writings. He was killed a year ago, with family, because he was vocal on Twitter. His beloved daughter was killed in April 2024. If you've ever been angry about threats to Rushdie, the killing of Alareer should enrage you.
Bit of an alternate take from me on TikTok in the US. This is the right thing to do but for the wrong reasons. The US should clamp down on China owned products and services in the name of reciprocity (cf China's bans and restrictions on US media). www.bbc.com/news/article...
TikTok set to be banned in the US after losing appeal
The app - which faces being banned in a matter of weeks - says it will now take its case to the Supreme Court.
www.bbc.com
December 7, 2024 at 11:36 AM
Bit of an alternate take from me on TikTok in the US. This is the right thing to do but for the wrong reasons. The US should clamp down on China owned products and services in the name of reciprocity (cf China's bans and restrictions on US media). www.bbc.com/news/article...
I remember, years and years ago, a friend visited rural Georgia for work and came back. She told me that the water on the farm we were at was so 'pure and natural' that it had earthworms and other sorts in it at pump. We're heading for that level of purity now. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
‘Brexit problem’: UK tap water safety at risk after testing labs shut down
Exclusive: EU countries will share laboratory capacity but UK rules mean products cannot be tested abroad
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2024 at 11:20 AM
I remember, years and years ago, a friend visited rural Georgia for work and came back. She told me that the water on the farm we were at was so 'pure and natural' that it had earthworms and other sorts in it at pump. We're heading for that level of purity now. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
I don’t understand this image. It looks like the owl is lying down randily but there’s a face growing out of his behind. Is this like a linguistic Rorschach test?
December 6, 2024 at 6:33 AM
I don’t understand this image. It looks like the owl is lying down randily but there’s a face growing out of his behind. Is this like a linguistic Rorschach test?
Odd choice. Huge has been acquired by a private equity firm, away from IPG. How’re you going to asset strip something with no assets?
t.co/zp32aL65kr
t.co/zp32aL65kr
https://adage.com/article/agency-news/ipg-sells-huge-aea-investors/2594441
t.co
December 5, 2024 at 9:13 PM
Odd choice. Huge has been acquired by a private equity firm, away from IPG. How’re you going to asset strip something with no assets?
t.co/zp32aL65kr
t.co/zp32aL65kr
Maybe it will finally be addressed when the wealthy realise they too can die from drug-resistant TB
December 5, 2024 at 7:15 PM
Maybe it will finally be addressed when the wealthy realise they too can die from drug-resistant TB
So I think I'm fully happy with voice transcription now at least in English. But it also works in mandarin Chinese. I still need to test and see if Arabic works, particularly in dialogue terms, but for now I'm really comfortable just talking to type. It's a great new world.
December 4, 2024 at 11:56 AM
So I think I'm fully happy with voice transcription now at least in English. But it also works in mandarin Chinese. I still need to test and see if Arabic works, particularly in dialogue terms, but for now I'm really comfortable just talking to type. It's a great new world.
I don't like AI used to exploit artists, erase jobs and remove the soul from creativity... Buuuuuut I absolutely love that I, despite a large void of artistic talent, can send this to someone who had a St Pancras typo (St pancakes)
December 3, 2024 at 9:28 PM
I don't like AI used to exploit artists, erase jobs and remove the soul from creativity... Buuuuuut I absolutely love that I, despite a large void of artistic talent, can send this to someone who had a St Pancras typo (St pancakes)
Would absolutely not be surprised if something similar were to happen today
I recently watched the documentary, TITANIC: BAND OF COURAGE, on PBS. What struck me most was that the families of the musicians couldn't claim compensation from the White Star Line as they were independently employed by an agency that then billed families for the lost uniforms after the sinking.
December 3, 2024 at 8:58 PM
Would absolutely not be surprised if something similar were to happen today
If I was 86 and doing packed movie schedules of probably be "lazy" too
December 3, 2024 at 8:55 PM
If I was 86 and doing packed movie schedules of probably be "lazy" too