Write and that

#
Yobs cartoon in Private Eye

I received my latest Private Eye at the same time I read of Tony Husband’s passing. I’ve been laughing at Husband’s cartoons for over 30 years. Sometimes silly, sometimes melancholy, always insightful.

#

I know rugby union is a slow game, but just how long is this World Cup going on for?

#

Interesting to see the UK reviews of #Frasier being surprised by how good Nicholas Lyndhurst is. He was in Butterflies, Only Fools and Horses, Goodnight Sweetheart, and more. The guy knows a thing or two about comedy.

#

Anonymous person messages Times Radio and says they are young, mostly left-wing, and feel Sunak is doing the right things.

Mr Snrub from The Simpsons
#

Never felt more woke than when walking to the local shop and buying vegan Galaxy chocolate.

#

At the local chemist and, once again, amazed by the sweet shelf time forgot. Chewits and whistling lollipops both proudly on display.

#

Still having fun playing with my AI-generated football rumour mill #ai

footyrumours.marketingwithai.rocks

Crystal Palace have made a surprise move to purchase Arsenal goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale over the weekend. Sources within the London club have confirmed that the club were so impressed with Ramsdale's ability to wiggle his ears while standing in Sports Direct last week, that they decided to take the plunge and sign him up. Arsenal were happy to accept the offer as Ramsdale had made it clear that he wanted to move to a team where his ear-wiggling would be seen in a more favourable light.
#

Simon Byrne looks like he’s straight out of a lukewarm BBC1 Wednesday evening sitcom.

Simon Byrne - Northern Ireland Police Chief
#

Someone left a mini-henge at the beach.

Mini Stonehenge made of pebbles
#

My daughter’s question for the Operation Ouch doctors.

Note reading 'Have you ever done something a doctor shouldn't do?' with a drawing of a poo underneath.
#

The most talked about movie of the year, but according to Cineworld nobody is mentioning it. #Barbie

Screenshot of website saying nobody is tweeting about Barbie.
#

It’s good to see Vader embracing their colourful side. #StarWars

A Darth Vader statue dressed in rainbow colours.
#

Sisyphus had it easy pushing that rock for eternity. He should have tried returning an order to Logitech.

#

Interesting how some debates around #ev charging connectors focus on the aesthetics of the Tesla charger like it’s some object d’art you hang in your living room, rather than a plug you occasionally connect your car to for power.

#

My daughter’s at a play rehearsal, leaving me with two hours to fill before picking her up. Eating a big slice of steak pie in a pub seems the most sensible option.

#

I’ve added another little tool to my ‘hobby’ site. This one turns an email into a list of action points — Great for those long, meandering emails we all get:

marketingwithai.rocks/turn-emai…

#

My little ongoing weekend project for #AI and #Marketing continues: marketingwithai.rocks

#

I’ve got a new hobby: Creating AI marketing tools whilst learning JavaScript. If you’d like to see my first effort, here it is:

marketingwithai.rocks

(please do give me constructive feedback)

#

It’s very good of the Tories to give me something to follow on a Saturday, now the football season has ended.

#

I see Johnson has resigned to spend more time with his families.

#

It would be unbelievable, if it wasn’t so believable. Boris Johnson referred to the police again

#

Enjoy your weekend.

Bottle of sloe gin

I'm not the man I used to be

#

I’m not the person I used to be. Nobody is. Everywhere I look I see strangers, behind every pair of eyes a hollowness that never used to be there. My invention changed the world, and then it changed everybody in it.

I’ve teleported more than anyone. The first time I shivered as my blood ran ice cold then swung to red hot, the reaction that gave teleportation it’s name; jolting. By my tenth jolt I didn’t feel a thing and declared my invention the driver of human progress. Instant global travel with no environmental impact.

The first travellers were the rich. Business leaders, billionaire entrepreneurs, presidents and prime ministers all came to my door. I saw the look on their faces after their first jolt. Their hands gripping unsteadily, their eyes darting back and to. With each trip they made I saw the reaction lessen, till jolting became mundane. I saw this, but didn’t see what it meant. Do the rich have souls to lose?

It’s taken 20 years, but now almost everyone in the world jolts daily. How many understand what it means to teleport? That the you who arrives home in the evening is not the same person who left in the morning? They may look the same, they may act the same, but you are not there. Your atoms are evaporating out into the universe, replaced by a golem imitating the old flesh.

I look and see mindless automations everywhere. There is no smile on any face, no anger in any heart. Every jolter in the world is a copy, of a copy, of a copy, and with each journey a little more whatever made people human is lost.

When I invented the teleporter I never considered people’s souls. As a scientist, I put aside such theological notions and studied the practical, the evidential, and the technological.

I should have listened to the priests.

#

Brave of them to do a hymm called Tedium. #coronation

#

I’ve seen Paul Daniels do this box trick. Is Charles going to disappear? #coronation