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  It's interesting spotting the biases of international tech companies as you engage with them. Airbnb is making a big deal of my apartment not having a carbon monoxide sensor. But we don't have any gas here so I've never even considered that a problem.

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  Finally watched Portrait de la jeune fille en feu (Portrait of a Lady on Fire). A very sparse and beautiful romance that builds up to be an absolutely devastating and layered piece of art. It helps watching with an English Professor to peel them back afterwards. I really liked how the initial clandestine looks needed to paint the lady in question mirror and turn into a forbidden love story. The extremely economical use of music also makes it so powerful when it hits.

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  Tracey showed me pictures of her sports nephew and while the whole of American sports is like an alien world to me I definitely prefer the aesthetics of baseball to American football, it's so old-timey. You'd still have to pay me to watch a game of it though.

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  First nice weather of the spring this week and exam season is over. Consequently the library has been completely deserted.

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  Finding out through Connections that in the US "Black and Tans" refers to a drink and not a notoriously violent British paramilitary force in the Irish War of Independence. This has predictably resulted in a bunch of hilarious US corporate faux pas.

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  Seemingly every month we get an email warning us that there will be a test of the sprinkler system in the city offices. Which doesn't concern us as we don't work there. I assume they're just periodically getting soaked along with all the documents and electronics down there.

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  Gotta wonder how it feels to my cats when I come home from a night out. "Dad's home but he's all frisky and weird."

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  Yes baby! catfishing.net #675 - 10/10 🎉 🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈 🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈

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  Happy international worker’s day! 🚩

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  I watched it on stream yesterday and man, what a wasted episode. First of all Tasha Yar being killed so unceremoniously, at least make it the climax of the episode, and her a character who's potential was already being wasted (which is why the actor left). Armus being a creature of pure evil, thus making all the usual Star Trek moral dilemma stuff redundant and then a bizarre holodeck memorial praising the rest of the crew. Definitely one of the worst TNG episodes yet.