Spotted on a bridge in Pontllanfraith in
South Wales: 'Flags is it?'

It's true, tbf. If you sign up, you *will* never miss a new book by Marcus Tullius Cicero

When it says, "You are now chatting with Mark Sewards", that isn't true, is it? The bot is not you. Therefore this is a false statement. So you're openly stating to your constituents that you're happy to lie to them, and implying that's the behaviour they should expect from you. Good luck.

How on earth did you manage "garden centres" and "cream of tomato soup" with a straight face? Kudos!

Needed that, thank you. Slim pickings though tbh.

Stood next to John Peel in the gents.

(Not completely unexpected at the time - he was judging a talent contest I was taking part in)

The whole process seems to have regressed 20 years.

I always think of this when someone says they do everything with AI now

Isn’t it in the nature of shared realities that they fracture? - Gregory Bateson and schismogenesis

Magic solutions like portals and one stop shops puts me in mind of some of @spavel.bsky.social’s things about dashboards

An owl flapping through the twilight (not sure if owls do flap tbh)

That certainly fits in with abolishing universities

Isn’t X great?

/ditto

Someone made a lot of money with that story

He was one of the drummers I tried to emulate as a 15-yr-old, starting off with polythene boxes & a pair of chopsticks