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Hoorah for the link to Ben Goldacre’s work. It truly is bizarre that one of the genuine “world-beating” opportunities of a monolithic health system is being able to interrogate the vast amount of data collected over the years - and this safe and efficient way of doing it isn’t being given the support it deserves.

And hoorah for Helen, for commissioning Sarah Ditum’s early writing at the New Statesman questioning the emerging gender orthodoxy - something she could have trumpeted herself but didn’t.

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A friend of mine was the line producer on Titanic and told me the story. The detail I liked best was how somebody had the bright idea of giving out charcoal biscuits as emetics - but a bit too soon -and the walls and corridors of the hospital were Jackson Pollocked with black vomit. Also, my band was the below decks Irish band in the film, but hired three weeks after I left. My own personal Sliding Doors moment. On the whole, I prefer this life.

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I'm so relieved that Danny and Grace Lavery found a new way to get attention.

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Curiously, it’s still one of the two female members of the throuple , who seems to do all the chores (that poor child). I’d bet on Rowan Jytte Knox similarly doing most of the housework and emotional labour around their house.

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Black text on a dark purple background is the first crime this map commits.

As a tech worker (I'm a test engineer) I have not been able to stop thinking about the agile sex scrum. Are there time estimates? Is there a backlog they have to groom? Do they use Jira? If a polycule member is unsatisfied, do they open a bug ticket? I'm going to be entertained in my own agile ceremonies for weeks while thinking of the kinky Bostonian squad doing the same.

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I wasn't sure from the first paragraph of your quote whether "IP" stood for "Intellectual Property" or "Internet Protocol" - both shifts have upended the structures of power in Hollywood.

I can't quibble with the actual climatic comparisons, but I can quibble with the title of the map - "the US" should clearly be "North and Central America".

Also, it's clear that whoever invented "agile scrum" meetings has never seen a game of rugby.

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Your podcast is basically BARPod for normies, isn't it. Maybe it can be a gateway drug to get my wife into BAR.

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Hmm I'd argue with the Ukraine bit, Ukraine is way in land and thus doesn't get lake effect snow from Lake Michigan that East and South of the lake gets. I don't know enough about Japan to know if it get Buffalo's snow

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