On my theme of tweets about team ice breakers, my current team (which is actually decent unlike the one with the content marketer; I have never worked in marketing and didn't really appreciate that I was in the "misc" team along with marketing)'s ice breaker recently was "what would you do a PhD in"

Sometimes I think about the girl at work who had to use google/chatGPT to come up with ice breaker questions for our team meeting when it was her turn. She was our content marketing manager.

A lot of finance news I read is about the US because the US is big and usually relevant but whenever it gets into consumer finance it's so incredibly irrelevant and weird.

"This is like explaining cheese to the Taliban." - Me, in the coming months, to increasingly baffled colleagues.

Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · yesterday

Unbelievable: The Taliban is suppressing images of an official visit to Belarus because they showed women describing cheese and baby formula to the delegation www.rferl.org/a/taliban-ch...

"Air Force Communications Command," slide 22 of 24 [gallery]

It's been a long day and I briefly thought there was a new asset class I'd missed specifically for funding get togethers and shindigs.

Chris Hanretty@chanret.bsky.social · yesterday

Party finance people: is there research into the comparative effects of party finance reforms? Did, say, Germany or Italy become less producer friendly after the introduction of public funding in the sixties and seventies?

Lanyard class update: everyone in my office has to surrender their patterned lanyards and get a plain black one because our licence for the design has expired.

OF COURSE this is fucking Marie Gluesenkamp Perez. I know she probably isn't in fact Congress's greatest moron but she's certainly trying.

Jennifer Ouellette@jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 2d ago

"Staffer bros"? Like, educated people who can read legal documents? gizmodo.com/congresswoma...

Clark Woodland can't lay, McIlroy got 'er up

They do NOT make prayer books like they used to

A phenomenal woman

That movie with Ryan Gosling, you know, he has a cool jacket, what's it called...

I have little opinion on the existence of LeBron James bonds (no further information shall be provided) except that if one doesn't refer to them as "LeBronds" one is missing out.

I keep thinking about the guy at work born in 1979 who told me he went to a Harry Potter themed 21st. What kind of 21 year old has a birthday party themed after a fairly successful (this would have been before the movies) children's book, released when they were already an adult.

"ORGANIZATION FOR NATIONAL SECURITY," slide 5 of 41 [gallery]

EDITOR: You get those photos of Leonard for the album cover? PHOTOGRAPHER: Sure did, boss—real mob hitman, just like you asked

found out Larry David just starts verbally abusing Alan Dershowitz whenever he sees him, this is very good

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself best friends with the Prime Minister of Japan

Tyron@tyron.bsky.social · 4d ago

ACARS Drama@acarsdrama.bsky.social · 4d ago

Air to Ground Message: HELLO COULD A SPARE TEAPOT PLEASE BE BOUGHT TO THE AIRCRAFT IN BRS THANKS Area: Portsmouth, UK Type: Airbus A320neo A: #a014aa37eed F: #fa3b31a5661

The perfect map projection doesn't ex...

Simon Kuestenmacher@simongerman600.bsky.social · 4d ago

This vintage 1938 world map is centered around Sydney, Australia. Since it was published by Qantas, it also shows travel distance to all parts of the world. Great piece. Zoomable high-res version here: buff.ly/9Esk0vX

There has been only one presidential election in the 21st Century in which the Republican candidate drank alcohol: John McCain in 2008.

Revan@revan.eurosky.social · 5d ago

The ironic thing is in 2016 and 2024 the candidates most likely to have a beer with you were Clinton and Harris

Is there a better sign of being an out of touch elite than having spent so little time in any work place paying any attention to anyone that you've failed to notice that receptionists, cleaners and shop assistants also all wear lanyards?

I read this book about Kim Il Sung and there are, if I counted correctly, 49 different people named Kim listed in the Kimdex I mean index.

I love how much Proust hates chapters.

Finished a book. This means I am allowed to buy more books.

Amused that a searchable database of Belgian law is called wetwetwet. Bet they get a few mistaken google hits.

The two-Northern Ireland peace process solution was always doomed to fail

Mark Thompson@markreckons.bsky.social · 6d ago

I absolutely love this that someone just posted on linkedin clearly created by AI without even rudimentary checking. Surrey appears to be trying to escape to France. Staffordshire and Oxfordshire have annexed Wales. And Labour are very strong in the county of "Monthiste". Which has never existed.

New footage of Nathan Cofnas revealed: