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likes: statistics, cricket, cities dislikes: the National Capital Development Commission (1958-1989)

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A person with a microphone saying “ because I think that something awaits me in the divine for resisting“

A person with a microphone saying “ because I think that something awaits me in the divine for resisting“

Them: why do you keep calling yourself a “statistician” instead of a “data scientist”

Me:

06.03.2026 23:22 👍 181 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 1

I reckon it's extremely doable if chundering is allowed

27.02.2026 06:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

whenever someone says they've had a mid experience with a mango, I always assume they've made the mistake of getting a calypso mango (dogshit variety not worthy of the name mango)

23.02.2026 07:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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The Hundred: IPL-linked teams 'not considering Pakistan players' Four sides in The Hundred with links to the IPL are not expected to sign players from Pakistan in next month's auction.

www.bbc.com/sport/cricke...

we should not sell BBL franchises to these people

21.02.2026 10:49 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

it's the Big Bash League of soccer

21.02.2026 07:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
I teenager winds up for a might

I teenager winds up for a might

nah, this is the frame that's going to be the reaction image

14.02.2026 04:28 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I've never found a politician so relatable

11.02.2026 09:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I assumed this was going to be about Don Rubin, who corresponded with Epstein and was the phd supervisor of the proprietor of that group blog

11.02.2026 07:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I assume this pub is similar to SMH's Good Weekend where the feature is invariably pitched to them by a PR firm, but they continually are taken by surprise that their puff piece comes out the same week a scandal about the subject occurs

07.02.2026 20:22 👍 35 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 0

If you curate it well, your bluesky feed could be full of posts about how AI is a bubble and uses too much water

07.02.2026 11:31 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

wait you're supposed to clean your oven???

07.02.2026 04:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Normie libs are correct!

03.02.2026 22:38 👍 126 🔁 4 💬 26 📌 6

I think most people other than really hardcore nationalists would disavow them though

03.02.2026 00:02 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

you hardly ever hear about them

03.02.2026 00:01 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

> It's true that they are ignoring motions passed on the floor of the Assembly

Do you have any specific examples of this?

31.01.2026 00:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My workplace is pretty anything-goes and shorts are the only thing I've ever been explicitly told I shouldn't wear

29.01.2026 03:02 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

in a heating climate, it’s obviously ridiculous to forbid workers from weather-suitable attire (shorts). creates discomfort for no reason and drives up energy use.

29.01.2026 02:58 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
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RETVRN

29.01.2026 03:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Throw back to when I explained to Huberman that searching "New York Times" in a grants database just gave him all grants that included the words "new" "york" and "times".

28.01.2026 20:46 👍 188 🔁 21 💬 9 📌 3

The level of woke is low, but the second derivative...

23.01.2026 08:22 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The great sine wave of culture is turning once again

23.01.2026 08:19 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I do not know who those two men are

23.01.2026 07:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I'm in the odd position of being too old to be in the nominal JJJ target audience but still too young for all this nostalgia bait

23.01.2026 07:48 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Dryden was a massive simp for Milton though:

Three poets, in distant ages born,
Greece, Italy, and England did adorn.
The first in loftiness of thought surpassed,
The next in majesty, in both the last:
The force of Nature could no farther go;
To make a third, she joined the former two.

19.01.2026 07:12 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The second edition had a note from the printer:

> Courteous Reader, There was no Argument at first intended to the Book, but for the satisfaction of many that have desired it, I have procur’d it, and whithall a reason of that which stumbled many others, why the Poem Rimes not

19.01.2026 07:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Unfortunately I think the truth is quite boring: people complained about the lack of rimes in the first edition and the publisher made him add the explanation to the second

19.01.2026 07:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I don't think so? "Our best English tragedies" presumably refers mostly to him, does it not?

19.01.2026 06:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

it's a banger

19.01.2026 06:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

good to see peope being basically reasonable

17.01.2026 04:19 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It’s called ‘vs code’ because the code is an enemy you are fighting

15.01.2026 00:54 👍 758 🔁 183 💬 12 📌 4