Normal Guy

saw your boyfriend taking the tram-replacement bus 😕

When I wear my Uniqlo HeatTech, business *is* pleasure.

(guy who thinks Picanha is Portuguese for beer) Let's just say there's gonna be a few empty Picanhas in Sao Paulo tonight .. 🤣🇧🇷

Wow. UK issues call for Bluesky users to prepare three days worth of drafts "if you had 3-8k followers on Twitter but don't make a big deal about it these days anyway". Finally a Government taking supply-chain resiliance seriously? 🙌

(Kate Nash rejected draft voice) You said I must eat so many gourds, because I am so bitter!

"Milk, Sugar - Vampire?" - my one-man re-interpretation of Bram Stoker's epistolary classic through the medium of dramatised Notes app readings - has met with what i can only describe as a "muted" response from Manchester's leading theatres

picture a beautiful, glamorous woman - clipping along at 30 km/h on a heavily modified e-bike surprised? not who you were expecting? (scrawling "UNCOMSCIOUS BIAS" across the whiteboard) Today I'm going to ask you to sit with that feeling,

In Japan, they call Uniqlo ユニクロ (phon: YOO-nee-kloh) - there's no direct translation, but it roughly equates to 'quirked up business casual' - and I think that's so beautiful

that's a beautiful collection of moleskine notebooks man. i will say i had a rifle though and i thought your reflections were pretty middling. felt almost like you were doing an impression of someone with a genuinely rich inner life. do keep trying though!! ❤️

junta would be a beautiful name for a baby girl

(headlines from good timeline) Stocks soar as tech firms launch multi-trillion race to develop coffee that "actually helps you sleep better"

In life, you've always got to be on the look out for a "sliding doors moment" (having to navigate a set of sliding doors)

Lecturer paused on this exact frame for about twenty minutes this morning i was crrrrrryin

whenever i see two guys with a mullet and a moustache it's like oh i didn't realize Getdown Services were here ?

My post-industrial techno act - mainly comprising the clattering of keypads, the hiss of the coffee machine, and the Teams notification sound - has been wrongfully non-platformed by many of Manchester's so-called "forward-thinking" music venues

morning routine has now started seemingly perfectly overlapping with that of my ex in what experts are describing as an "unprecedented" test of small-talk ability

(kate nash voice): he said said you must eat so many olives cos you are so, umami

(stuck at two bars on the Glastonbury site) Stoicism has always been one of the great philosophies of our time (at three bars) To the winner, the spoils 😏

financial journalists post in all caps because they are shouting to be heard above the din of a busy trading floor

Uhhh is anyone else seeing this ?? 😬

I accidentally spent £17,700 on 400 subscriptions to the LRB for Home Office staff and now the Life in the UK test is asking applicants to rank Derek Jarman films from most to least emotionally resonant?

The Guardian | Culture | REVIEW: Visionary creator brings wit and charm to sparkling adaptation of beloved classic ⭐⭐⭐☆☆

Our long national bedtime is over

first eye test in two decades and the optician said i "should have been a fighter pilot", so i'm now casting around for more superfluous medical appointments to keep this high going

Airport passenger STUNS security by removing belt, watch and liquids over 100ml in one fluid motion; acclaimed by grateful queue for nous and prescience

I thought this was just beautiful. Kurt Vonnegut takes a walk to mail a letter:

oh neat, my shower head has a secret setting, i think, as a single beam of ultra-pressurised water passes clean through my skull, killing me instantly

Reading the timeline

your boyfriend has a self-described complex relationship with the New Statesman

babe, i need you to level with me. do you think i'm coded like the pleasant but ineffectual boyfriend in the first act of a Nora Ephron rom-com? don't pull your punches here. would you ever go Meg Ryan mode on me??

"Please babe, there's a 4.4 ⭐ just three more blocks away" - The Google Maps Reviews Boyfriend

(Goodbye Lenin-ing my 38 year-old friend) Wow - an extraordinary joint session of TikTok and Reels has bestowed the vacant title of Greatest Generation onto millennials, for their bravery in "living through 9/11, the financial crisis and a literal global pandemic". Isn't that incredible buddy?

The Peculiar Economist: Let's just say my latest findings are somewhat .. counter-intuitive 😏

I'm the guy at Anthropic in charge of the big red Recursive Super-Intelligence button. Whenever the office needs livening up, I pretend I'm about to drop it, or put my coffee mug down on it, to a chorus of screams. Dario Amodei can't fire me due to Bayesian priors

Recalling my favourite ever pub toilet football sticker

The OBR has scored my willingness to purchase flat whites and baked goods as likely to add 0.1% to GDP over this parliament, in what economists are hailing as a 'much-needed' boost to UK fiscal stability

daily affirmations

A single can of diet coke from the little Sainsbury's on a Sunday afternoon is known in the trade as "The Gentleman's Purchase"

guys will be saying "he's just like me for real" reading Wolf Hall - buddy you are a minor functionary in English local government 🤨😭

From roughly 1981 to 1988 every American movie set in a city began this way.

I work at 23andMe and when I get bored I sort the big spreadsheet by % Neanderthal DNA and then grab the top 2 guys addresses and fake write letters threatening to kick their ass signed by each other and then take wagers on the fight from my coworkers