Never turned up to staff seminar

I bet Stakhanov could only shift so much coal because he had a grant thst relieved him of teaching duties

Lol

In the other direction: a writer friend once described themselves as 'birthing' a script. Writing is hard but it's not that hard!

Yeah it's all quite nice

I didn't know about Kagi, thanks!

I guess this is part of what I like about Bluesky, yeah. But it's still smaller than Twitter at its peak pre-algorithm and ads right? So still feels worse. (Putting it behind a paywall wouldn't help increase scale so I might be posing an unsolvable problem.)

You know this one? youtu.be/8EDdUGycdfg?...

Whoa

I used to spend hours poring over excess death statistics, and then things got back to normal and i just totally lost track of which country's policies did better

Source: Richard Arneson, 'Human Flourishing Versus Desire Satisfaction'

I think that's only true of oxbridge, which makes sense given their tutorial system

So excited