Danny Fraser
@danny.scot
Birds & books, spreadsheets & scripts
Found around Edinburgh & East Lothian
Found around Edinburgh & East Lothian
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Man bursts into tears. Says, 'But doctor…I am Chris Nolan'.
Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Doctor says, 'Treatment is simple. Great director Chris Nolan has made a new film. Go and see it and enjoy its non-linear structure.'
Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Doctor says, 'Treatment is simple. Great director Chris Nolan has made a new film. Go and see it and enjoy its non-linear structure.'
February 13, 2026 at 11:38 PM
Man bursts into tears. Says, 'But doctor…I am Chris Nolan'.
Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Doctor says, 'Treatment is simple. Great director Chris Nolan has made a new film. Go and see it and enjoy its non-linear structure.'
Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Doctor says, 'Treatment is simple. Great director Chris Nolan has made a new film. Go and see it and enjoy its non-linear structure.'
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For all the talk about Starmer potentially moving leftwards, it’s always useful to remember just how far the Overton Window in British politics has shifted to the right.
February 13, 2026 at 12:29 PM
For all the talk about Starmer potentially moving leftwards, it’s always useful to remember just how far the Overton Window in British politics has shifted to the right.
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Made an annotated version of "Something Big Is Coming" for all of you to enjoy. I hate this guy's writing so much
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/qw6k5...
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/qw6k5...
February 12, 2026 at 3:26 PM
Made an annotated version of "Something Big Is Coming" for all of you to enjoy. I hate this guy's writing so much
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/qw6k5...
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/qw6k5...
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It’s not a plot hole that Elmo has been 3 years old for 50 years. He was bitten by The Count, willingly. Elmo asked for the Dark Gift
February 12, 2026 at 1:22 PM
It’s not a plot hole that Elmo has been 3 years old for 50 years. He was bitten by The Count, willingly. Elmo asked for the Dark Gift
"The patience of a Montessori school teacher" is an excellent line to come out of a snowboard cross commentary
February 12, 2026 at 2:11 PM
"The patience of a Montessori school teacher" is an excellent line to come out of a snowboard cross commentary
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Doubles luge? Oh, you mean seated rivalry?
February 12, 2026 at 8:11 AM
Doubles luge? Oh, you mean seated rivalry?
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Sam Altman was right - this unironically is PhD-level intelligence
February 12, 2026 at 9:14 AM
Sam Altman was right - this unironically is PhD-level intelligence
Introduce yourself with the name your parents almost gave you:
Holly, I believe.
My dad's whole family loves the consonant-vowel-double consonant-y/ie name format.
Holly, I believe.
My dad's whole family loves the consonant-vowel-double consonant-y/ie name format.
Introduce yourself with the name your parents almost gave you:
Alice!
There was never any other name, despite not knowing my gender.
Alice!
There was never any other name, despite not knowing my gender.
Introduce yourself with the name your parents almost gave you:
Wilfred. It’s why I use it.
Although I do joke sometimes that I’m named for my *mum’s* favourite gay WWI poet, if I were named for my *dad’s* it would be Siegfried.
Wilfred. It’s why I use it.
Although I do joke sometimes that I’m named for my *mum’s* favourite gay WWI poet, if I were named for my *dad’s* it would be Siegfried.
February 11, 2026 at 11:29 PM
Introduce yourself with the name your parents almost gave you:
Holly, I believe.
My dad's whole family loves the consonant-vowel-double consonant-y/ie name format.
Holly, I believe.
My dad's whole family loves the consonant-vowel-double consonant-y/ie name format.
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It's really instructive when you replace "Millennials" with "middle-aged adults" in headlines.
'"Middle-aged adults" are swimming in student debt and may never own homes.'
'"Middle-aged adults" are swimming in student debt and may never own homes.'
Gen Zers and millennials are swimming in student debt and may never own homes, but they’re splurging on gut-healthy juices and rotisserie chickens.
The Booming Business of Luxury Grocery Stores
A new crop of gourmet grocers has hit the city, drawing lines of trendy TikTokers, MAHA-curious health fiends and Instacart devotees who want to pop in for a treat.
on.wsj.com
February 11, 2026 at 3:55 PM
It's really instructive when you replace "Millennials" with "middle-aged adults" in headlines.
'"Middle-aged adults" are swimming in student debt and may never own homes.'
'"Middle-aged adults" are swimming in student debt and may never own homes.'
Disaster biathletes
THE OLYMPICS OF BIATHLON MESS CONTINUES
GOLD MEDAL FOR THE WOMAN WHO STOLE HER TEAMMATE'S CREDIT CARDS
GOLD MEDAL FOR THE WOMAN WHO STOLE HER TEAMMATE'S CREDIT CARDS
February 11, 2026 at 3:23 PM
Disaster biathletes
Maintaining the bullshit veneer of magic around the technology means that people are less likely to think critically about how the word predicting machine predicts words. Lower Artificial Intelligence Literacy Predicts Greater AI Receptivity: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Experiments conducted with the A.I. system Claude are producing fascinating results—and raising questions about the nature of selfhood. Gideon Lewis-Kraus reports from inside the company that designed it, Anthropic. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/rOfXjg
February 11, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Maintaining the bullshit veneer of magic around the technology means that people are less likely to think critically about how the word predicting machine predicts words. Lower Artificial Intelligence Literacy Predicts Greater AI Receptivity: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
I know people complain about excessive cleaning fees on holiday lets but I expect that for this place they're justified
February 11, 2026 at 1:14 PM
I know people complain about excessive cleaning fees on holiday lets but I expect that for this place they're justified
My contribution to age verification discourse is that we didn't have the internet in our own rooms at uni so we set up a campus-wide LAN with cables round the outside of buildings so that we could share music and pornography and play our single pirated copy of counter-strike
February 11, 2026 at 10:23 AM
My contribution to age verification discourse is that we didn't have the internet in our own rooms at uni so we set up a campus-wide LAN with cables round the outside of buildings so that we could share music and pornography and play our single pirated copy of counter-strike
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BAAAAAAABE BABE BABE BABE WAKE UP THEY’RE RECREATING THE 2008 FINANCIAL CRISIS FROM FIRST PRINCIPLES
February 10, 2026 at 9:16 PM
BAAAAAAABE BABE BABE BABE WAKE UP THEY’RE RECREATING THE 2008 FINANCIAL CRISIS FROM FIRST PRINCIPLES
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Heathcliff, it's me. Marvin. Your cousin, MARVIN BERRY? You know that new sound you're looking for? Well, listen to this!!
February 10, 2026 at 7:42 PM
Heathcliff, it's me. Marvin. Your cousin, MARVIN BERRY? You know that new sound you're looking for? Well, listen to this!!
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Peacehammer 40K: Paintinge litel miniatures of gardeneres, sculptors, academics. Detailed scale dioramas of museums, kiosks, cafés. Trimminge hedges. Makinge friendes. Yn the cozye glowe of the far future ther ys onlye WARMTH.
February 10, 2026 at 4:15 AM
Peacehammer 40K: Paintinge litel miniatures of gardeneres, sculptors, academics. Detailed scale dioramas of museums, kiosks, cafés. Trimminge hedges. Makinge friendes. Yn the cozye glowe of the far future ther ys onlye WARMTH.
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Sorry to be Radical Left but I don't think we should put people who haven't committed a crime, and aren't even accused of committing a crime, into any sort of "Detention"
February 10, 2026 at 6:04 AM
Sorry to be Radical Left but I don't think we should put people who haven't committed a crime, and aren't even accused of committing a crime, into any sort of "Detention"
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Look all I'm saying is we've tried chaos *without* Ed Miliband
February 9, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Look all I'm saying is we've tried chaos *without* Ed Miliband
Clearly I'm making full use of social media
February 9, 2026 at 11:05 AM
Clearly I'm making full use of social media
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I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
February 8, 2026 at 10:23 PM
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
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Just saw a post with George Clinton citing the Beatles as his favorite band, which reminded me of this quote he once gave me
February 6, 2026 at 3:12 AM
Just saw a post with George Clinton citing the Beatles as his favorite band, which reminded me of this quote he once gave me
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"full speed ahead to uber-woke, net-zeroist, rejoinerism"
is a slogan that would win my vote and a whole bunch of former Labour voters and centrist dads like me
is a slogan that would win my vote and a whole bunch of former Labour voters and centrist dads like me
February 8, 2026 at 6:46 PM
"full speed ahead to uber-woke, net-zeroist, rejoinerism"
is a slogan that would win my vote and a whole bunch of former Labour voters and centrist dads like me
is a slogan that would win my vote and a whole bunch of former Labour voters and centrist dads like me
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