He demanded we visit Battersea Power Station. It is now, like everything else in London, a shopping centre for Shit I Can't Afford and an activity warehouse for men called Dan who should have more self respect

(Writing about the Russell-Einstein Manifesto going "lol" to myself. Your taxes)

Like I've got a 1.5 hour in person meeting with about 15 people on Wednesday and I'm seriously considering wearing an N95 throughout (fortunately I can expect minimal pushback on this) because people have forgotten that illness is communicable?!

If they haven't got flu they've got Covid, which would be fine if people remembered that one time nobody went to the office so others didn't catch it, but they haven't, so now I'm looking at getting a private covid jab (£100) in addition to a private flu jab (£20). Just stay at home you bastards!

I thought the research system in non-clinical science was fucked up but ever since I had to start paying attention to the present state of psychopharmacological research it ironically makes one feel and appear like a paranoid loon

It was good to see this big man in person after years of seeing photos/reading unintelligible art essays about it

Was anyone using the self checkouts in Rewe except for me? No, they were all queuing for a single checkout operator scanning at the speed of light

"up to you to spot it lol" Amazing, I love living in the future where the magical AI assistant may or may not do the simple task you asked and then may or may not tell you whether it did it properly or not, now to fully disable this and return to Ludditeism

And yes it does indeed serve me right for doing something in a rush with the help of the lying machine instead of writing a proper query I am FULLY AWARE OF THIS

What I do at these times is remind myself that the presentation at CERN announcing the detection of the Higgs Boson was in Comic Sans and used Clipart, so my tree map is going to look like I'm on some Tufte shit www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...