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Paul Rissen
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Lead Product Manager for Platforms @ Which?

A geek about metadata, narrative, hyperlinks and technology.

Wrote 'Experiment-Driven Product Development'.

Personal, professional & nonsense posting here. Apologies in advance.

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I know I missed the anniversary, but my, *this* is how to do an anniversary video. Never been bettered, really www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hRy...
The Day of the Doctor | 50 year trailer | #SaveTheDay | Doctor Who
YouTube video by Doctor Who
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November 27, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Very much in favour of this dame.is/writing/blog...
Why I started posting like it's the 2000s again - dame.is
In November of 2007, Facebook made a tiny change to its user interface that would massively influence what we know of today as a 'post' on social media. What was that change?
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November 27, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Now or Never Now
All Comes Crashing
Gimme Sympathy
Help I'm Alive
Monster Hospital
Artificial Nocturne
Youth Without Youth
Synthetica
Grow Up and Blow Away
London Halflife
Combat Baby

Almost certainly my favourite (not in any order) Metric songs, in case anyone was wondering.
November 27, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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xylophone sound
November 27, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Yes, but also, *clearly* the simplest explanation is that James Bond is a Timelord from the planet Gallifrey.
robmanuelyeah.bsky.social Rob Manuel @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social · 1d
No. The correct way to understand this is to stop trying to make things fit together. You can watch different people playing Sherlock Holmes, in entirely different stories, without trying to make it add up. Stories are a dressing up box, not a jigsaw.
November 27, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Low energy Saturday. An adventure is needed, soon.
November 22, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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"It feels more and more like the expectation that social media users have is for other social media users is not sharing their thinking out loud or thinking in progress, but declaring positions with which one argues or agrees."
hbcompass.bsky.social Heather Bryant @hbcompass.bsky.social · 8d
I've been thinking about social media a lot lately and how so much of the interaction I feel like I'm witnessing is oriented around users correcting one another.

www.hbcompass.io/breathe-just...
Screenshot of excerpt: It says something about the world we're living in right now. That lies and falsehoods, misrepresentations and manipulations are so pervasive, so rife, so affecting that we are primed to receive broad, nebulous, unspecific, tangential, or just differently focused speech that doesn't match our own priorities as if it represents the same level of threat as the misinformation and disinformation infecting our institutions and civic life. It feels more and more like the expectation that social media users have is for other social media users is not sharing their thinking out loud or thinking in progress, but declaring positions with which one argues or agrees. If you don't caveat every possible nuance, related topic, or thing you aren't including, the oversight will be noted. The social convention of not making assumptions about what someone thinks about the things they don't mention is no longer convention. What you say is assumed to be the totality of what you think and know. Every word has become evidence, including their absence. Sometimes especially their absence. Correcting others has become, maybe not the motive, but most certainly a prominent activity of social media users. Few people have the ability and access to go stand in the face of a politician or billionaire and tell them to their face they are wrong. But with just a few clicks, you can easily come across someone online who is entirely or just wrong enough, that you can tell them so. The power out of reach for so many where it matters most, is easily within reach where it matters arguably least.
November 20, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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I was today years old when I found out that Exile Vilify, by The National, is not longer available on streaming services 😢
November 18, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Everything old is new again
www.jenitennison.com/2009/02/01/y...
smethur.st/posts/34518552

Machine readable data, content negotiation, RSS, JSON, RDF... it's all still relevant, in some ways.
November 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Signs up. I'm @r4isstatic on there, as you'd expect.
November 13, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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barista: can i take your name
james bond: the name's bond
barista: ok
james bond: james bond
barista: well i've written bond now
james bond: it's ok don't
barista: i can get a new cup
james bond: no it's fine
barista: it's not a problem
james bond: just go with bond
November 11, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Speed dating is when you have to tell Keanu Reeves a little bit about yourself or this bus will explode
November 10, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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All social media
November 10, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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#BlueSky feature request: the ability to follow a hashtag from a specific user. I. E. I'd like to see person Y's posts about topic x, but I'm not bothered about their posts on other things (which aren't bad, they're just not overlapping with my interests).
November 8, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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BBC really burying the lede there
November 7, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Oh, I quite like 'Split view' in Chrome.
November 2, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Snagged by a cold. Knackered.
November 2, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Did some good humaning under bittersweet circumstances today, I think. Hopefully made a positive difference.
October 28, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Oh no, I've suddenly got the urge to start watching Halt and Catch Fire again.
October 27, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Piastri should be absolutely fuming about that VSC.
October 26, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Pretty soon I'll have a HiChord and a Orchid to go along with Ableton Live 10 + a Push 2 and MPK Mini. Next step, working out which audio interface to buy that would connect at least the HiChord and Orchid to a Mac Mini with USB-C.
October 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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First Steps soundcloud.com/r4isstatic/f...
First Steps
A first, tiny step at recording some music with the Orchid + Ableton Live
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October 24, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Forget Andor being the best of Star Wars, here’s Mr Blobby instead of Darth Vader in Rogue One.
October 20, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Indulging myself in some much needed (music-making themed) retail therapy after a twisty week.
October 18, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Hire @suw.bsky.social ! She's awesome and has an incredible amount of knowledge, wisdom and expertise.
suw.bsky.social Suw @suw.bsky.social · Oct 16
Anyway, no real point to conclude with. I'm honoured and delighted to see my hard work recognised like this. And I am really going to enjoy my trip to Parliament this afternoon.

But if anyone wants to hire me or give me freelance work — writing, ghostwriting, research, DEI, comms strategy, comms...
October 16, 2025 at 10:16 AM