3rd anniversary of cold water swimming
A look back at the past three years of bouncing around in cold water
Pete Carr
Can AI help with mental health?
This week Buzzfeed announced 10 reasons why they would be using AI to help write content on their site, and you’ll never believe what happened next! Mass firings! I really feel for the writers there. Surely they can’t be replaced by AI? If you’ve played any video
So long Twitter
Last week, Elon Musk’s Twitter denied 3rd party Twitter apps access to the Twitter API. No reason was given. No-one from Twitter mentioned it or offered to look into the issue. Something clearly happened though, and a week later we were told that 3rd party Twitter clients were breaking
Yearly Theme Review
I believe that attempting to force restart your life 6 days after Christmas when you’ve probably got a tax return to start is a bad idea. Setting New Year Resolutions is setting yourself up for anxiety leading to depression. Unless, oddly, that’s your resolution but then if you
Hello 2023
Word up! It’s 2023! I hope you’re as happy as a sandboy, which is apparently a thing meaning blissfully happy. That sounds like a nice place to be. It goes without saying, which is why I’m writing this, that it’s OK to be as happy as
Happy Queermas?
Let’s put a pin in Christmas for now. I’m half way through and I’m at the stage all I want for Christmas is not be disabled, able to just do stuff and not suffer from depression. My brain does not make it easy to do anything.
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Happy Queermas
After spending the last few weeks wondering, “What is Christmas? Why is Christmas? Who is Christmas?” I bumped into a phrase via BBC 6 Music. Queermas.
My brain lit up. Queermas! By Jove, they’re onto something. Would it be possible to dump the issues with Christmas and instead celebrate