I'm sure you've both read that Jezebel article by now: I tend to treat re-reading it as the annual tradition that TV schedulers in general are trying to turn watching Love Actually into 🙂

That last RT was, of course, deliberate sarcasm by the author

a woman stands in front of a white board with the words " they mean the same thing "

Alt: A white woman is standing in front of a white board, gesturing with her right hand. The caption over the image reads “they mean the same thing”

In the future, we won't need programmers; just people who can describe to a computer precisely what they want it to do.

I've just finished reading David Mitchell's Unruly, and I think it's clarified a lot for me in that regard 😀

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I can only promise you that you are not going to like Ireland’s current plans for the EU’s internet.

I know it's a terrible cliche, but if you could talk to a teenage version of you who was willing to listen (everyone always leaves that part out 😉), what would you you say?

I can well believe that feeling of gratitude. Can’t quite believe the number of people who watch it with any sense of nostalgia or wistfulness.

Thank you for putting into words that vague feeling of “this doesn’t make sense” that that movie gave me!

Don't forget: if you don't have storage space, you can't buy Stuff, so you have more money to spend on rent!