New academic research suggests that automated accounts used the film to stoke cultural conflict: Star Wars: Russian Bots May Have Derailed The Last Jedi Blimey.

My September in 32 seconds…

Here’s what my September looked like, in one second of footage from every day…

September in one second every day. #1seme

A young child wearing a white hat and a red and blue dress is pushing a pink stroller on a paved walkway.

Just had a PR email suggesting that I write a sponsored post about how I slept while I was pregnant. 🤔🙄

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I’m reminded today that what I read has a huge impact on my stress levels. Stuff about social media, and publishing and new tech: surprisingly stressful. So, today I have been reading about nature and woodlands. Ahhh. Better. We are what we read.

Stunning day.

A glass-sided pedestrian bridge extends over a marshy area towards a harbor filled with boats and buildings under a clear blue sky.

Why do I aim to be at the station soon after 7am, when I don’t start lecturing until 11am? This is why:

Departures include multiple trains to London Victoria and Brighton, with some services cancelled or delayed due to urgent track repairs, and several trains running on time.

Interesting interview with Instagram co-founder Systrom in 2012:

Can Instagram live on if its founders leave? The best advice Systrom read was that you should build an organisation that can outlive its founders, as Steve Jobs tried to do with Apple.

Instagram’s founders are leaving, possibly because of increasing interference from Zuckerberg. Insta’s semi-autonomy from the rest of the Big Blue Beast was always an anomaly. That’s now being corrected…