Neil Fazakerley

Using near-earth orbit rockets?

But not explaining what carnivorous means.

💯% 'Write for a reading age of 10' does not mean this.

It means write clearly, plainly, with simple sentence structure.

Not you can't even try to explain new or challenging concepts.

10-year-olds are in fact not complete idiots, you just have to learn to talk to them the right way.

Classic lack of service design fail

When I teach this stuff I get people to put their hands up if they've never tried to read and understand something important when they're tired, sick or hung over.

OMG people are describing content design best practices!

💯% 'Write for a reading age of 10' does not mean this.

It means write clearly, plainly, with simple sentence structure.

Not you can't even try to explain new or challenging concepts.

10-year-olds are in fact not complete idiots, you just have to learn to talk to them the right way.

If you love the Strait of Hormuz so much why don't you marry it?

Ooh you’ve demanded it have you. And what will you do when they ignore you?

Banknote candidate if ever I saw one

£5 Bilbo Baggins
£10 Alice
£20 Lyra Belacqua
£50 Elric of Menliboné

Not even just parenthood. Before I had my own kids I was fully knocked over with a split lip by a friend’s toddler I was throwing pebbles into the sea with when it turned out I had not taught him to let go of it in the direction of the sea instead of my face at point blank range.

I wear dungarees and even my daughter says if I wasn’t her dad she’d think I was gay.

JFC

Carp are taking over the *land around* the lake? Why isn’t this bigger news, not least for evolutionary biologists?

How do we sign up for this before anyone else knows about it and there’s no more room left?

Did an AI write this?

I am enjoying imagining the session where they had to come up with a neutral name because they couldn’t go with one of Yeti / Bigfoot / Sasquatch and ’Hairy Creature’ was apparently the best they could do before everyone had to ‘drop for another meeting’.

The plan? Oh you don’t know her. She goes to a different school.

I guarantee you that at some point someone in the user-centred design team said ‘nobody wants an app, we should just make the website better and more mobile responsive’ but they were ignored and it went downhill from there.

Or kicking him in the nuts. Perfect distance.

And yet being anti-renewables is a right-wing culture war position. It’s almost as if these people aren’t actually patriots at all 🤔

The rallying cry of the Centrist Dads Party.

What do we want?
Gradual improvement!
When do we want it?
As soon as is reasonably practical!

And even if it was a person, it would be an unreliable person who lies regularly and will say the opposite of what it just said if you ask it to.

For people whose first language is sign language they may not be as fluent in English.

Please do not share pictures of dead children thanks. It is not something I ‘should’ see.

Starmer: terrible Prime Minister, would’ve made a fantastic Foreign Secretary.

On-field decision stands unless VAR can confidently overrule it in 60 seconds. Sorted.

You have a very high number of grade A+ opinions but this is not one of them.

I don’t understand why he thinks it’s necessary to explain human consciousness to be able to state that Claude isn’t. What’s the connection? I can happily state Claude isn’t conscious because there’s no evidence it is. Unlike me. I have strong evidence for human consciousness without an explanation.