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Month: July 2025

  • ๏ปฟHave I posted this joke before? It's all a Blur.

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    Accessible description: Dan, a white man with a goatee beard and a faded blue ponytail, stands in a darkened kitchen. Turning to the camera, he says "I get up when I want, except on Wednesdays when I get rudely awakened by the tadpoles." Then he holds up a book entitled "Pond Life".

    • Note
    • posted 4 July, 2025
  • Photograph of a looping steel rollercoaster against a setting sun. A logo of a flaming 'F' in the corner declares it Firstup: World's First Recruitment-Themed Rollercoaster. The track is annotated with the steps of the process in order, from application to screener to interview and so on.

    Firstup Recruitment

    I'll soon by starting in my new role at Firstup, after a rollercoaster of a recruitment process that rocketed through all the usual tech job steps... but in barely over a week. What a rush!

    Read more - about 6 minutes (1414 words)

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    • posted 2 July, 2025
  • Sometimes LinkedIn's approach to anonymising who looks you up isn't very effective.

    Full image of 'Anonymised' LinkedIn notification advising that 1 hour ago, 'Founder at WordPress viewed your profile'.
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    'Anonymised' LinkedIn notification advising that 1 hour ago, 'Founder at WordPress viewed your profile'.

    I wonder who that could be? ๐Ÿ˜‚

    • Note
    • posted 1 July, 2025
  • 12 Caucasian people of a mix of ages and genders posing as a group in front of a Nightline Association banner. Dan is one of them.

    The Last Post for the Nightline Association. How does that make you feel?

    Fellow Nightline enthusiast James Buller has written a stirring piece about his decades of volunteering for and around Nightlines, and - as usual - underplays the importance and significance of his work. Here's my take.

    Read more - about 4 minutes (852 words)

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    • of this original
    • posted 1 July, 2025

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