Rick Crawford

@rickcrawf.bsky.social

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A 2 by 2 box plot, with coupling and feedback speed on the two axes. Continuous integration has fast feedback and high coupling. Microservices had low coupling, which allows for slower feedback. The danger zone is slow feedback and high coupling.
In another instance, a three-year-old boy was allegedly raped by the same monitor who had been moved to a different school after complaints he had been physically violent towards children.
Tweet from Alex Wickham: NEW: Another Andy Burnham u-turn appeared designed at dropping his past positions to win Reform votes He says he supports the EHRC guidance on single sex spaces and the Supreme Court ruling Previously he said trans women should be able to use female toilets
Screen grab from the article: The band’s first single was 60 Lies, a song in support of the Waspi women’s pension inequality campaign.
Screen grab from YouTube. It's supposed to be "Simpsons Histories - Disco Stu" but there is a big black screen with a warning from YouTube "The following content may contain suicide or self-harm topics."
Screenshot from Find My Politics. Your political profile: technocrat Evidence, experts and institutions - not populist instinct. Economic: Slightly left wing Social: Moderately libertarian Civil liberties: Slightly pro liberty Governance: Strongly globalist System trust: Strongly high trust
Image of Jules Winfield (Samuel L Jackson) in Pulp Fiction. He is drinking a milkshake through a straw.
Full image of John Shaft and Odysseus, in the style of the "epic handshake" meme, which I believe comes from Dillon and Dutch in Predator (1984).
The "epic handshake" meme image, but re-imagined with John Shaft and Odysseus.
Screen shot from Red Dwarf VI, episode 1: Psirens. A blonde woman in tight black attire has the attention of Lister.
The 3 pane comic "different". 1 - "I want things to be different" 2 - <smashes things up with a baseball bat> 3 - "oh no"
Picture of the Artemis crew stood behind a seated Donald Trump, in the oval office.
Screen grab of an old tweet from Noahpinion (Noah Smith, 28 Aug 2017) "15 years ago, the internet was an escape from the real world. Now, the real world is an escape from the internet."
Screen shot of one line of my Outlook inbox. Email from Linkedin. Subject: Follow Rupert Lowe MP - Member of Parliament For context, Rupert Lowe left Reform UK because he was far too racist for them.
GoPro net income chart over time. Small profit 2013-2015. Big loss 2016. Losses reduce over time until... A profit of $371M in 2021. This is quickly reversed, such that the biggest loss ever in 2024: £432M. Much smaller loss in 2025. Source: https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/GPRO/gopro/net-income
Prompt to Chat GPT: Rewrite the firs Response: Who, if I cried out, would hear me in that height Among the ranked angelic orders bright? And even if one pressed me to his heart, His stronger being would tear my own apart. For beauty is but terror we endure, Still just bearable, and we feel secure Because it calmly scorns to ruin us— Each angel’s terrifying, luminous. So I restrain myself, and swallow down The dark, appealing call that would resound. Ah, whom can we rely on? Not the bright Angels, nor men; and beasts already sight How we are not at home in what we claim. We linger, half-assured, in borrowed frame. Perhaps the trees beside the meadow stay, Perhaps the streets we walked retain our way, Perhaps the river yesterday still flows, Perhaps the habit of a former closeness grows— But we, we slip away from all we knew, No longer held as once we thought we grew. And yet—when lovers lean into the night, They shelter one another from our sight. Do they not taste eternity in breath? Do they not drink beyond the reach of death? Ah, gently they conceal it in embrace, Each promising the other time and space. But who has truly turned to face that span, And measured out the limit set for man? Who speaks of love as lasting, yet can stand When loss dissolves it softly from the hand? Strange is it not, how what we hold so dear Slips into air, yet still remains so near? Yes—springtimes needed you. Often a star Waited for you to notice where you are. Waves rose in longing toward you from the sea, And in the passing wind, a memory. All this was meant for you. But could you take The gift of it, without a heart to break? Were you not always scattered by suspense, Expecting something vast and more intense? What presence could contain you, or remain? You drifted on, a stranger to your pain. Even the nights, too tender to define, Would slip away beneath your searching mind. So—if you must, go out into the night, And praise the world, though fleeting from your sight. ...
Graph of the reciprocal of the gamma function. When x<0, there is a wave of increasing amplitude (as x reduces). When x>0, there is a bell curve with a long tail.
Since the gamma function has no zeros, its reciprocal is an entire function.
Screen grab from BlueSky Will Stancil: Fun fact: most people have no good way to tell if inflation is moderate or low or nonexistent, and that means their experience of inflation is almost entirely mediated through social narratives they encounter in politics/media Quote poster: Told you he'd just go back to telling poor people they are stupid for not knowing how good they have it.
Old cover of The Land That Time Forgot (1918). A dinosaur has taken down a woolly mammoth.
Cover of Dinotopia (1992). A scene that looks a bit like ancient Greece, but with medieval flags and ... Dinosaurs of at least three species
Jesse Owens easily winning in the Olympics
Screen grab of a chess app. Black pawn has moved forward 2. App is showing one option to move white pawn - forward - not showing the option to take the pawn en passant.
Excerpt from the Wikipedia article "6-7 (meme)": 6-7's identity as a slang term has allowed it to spread in offline contexts, especially in schools, with some banning its use due to its disruption in the classroom. The numbers are used without any fixed meaning, instead functioning as an inside joke for Generation Alpha. The moniker "Mason" has been used to refer to a stereotypical white boy who overuses the slang.
Picture of shredder from the original cartoon series of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Screen capped excerpt from text Aubry previously shared. It includes the line "the women they treasured so much responded by throwing dance parties".
Screen shot of black in checkmate.
Black (computer) has moved the queen forward to put white on check, but hasn't taken the rook and the queen can now be taken by the rook (or the king, queen or black bishop).
Image of a chess board, with the human player as white. White wants to move the king, the options given are to the left. Moving to the right would place white in check, but castling to the right should be fine... right?
A screen grab of Wikipedia: Personal life Badenoch is married to banker Hamish Badenoch; they have two daughters and a son. Hamish works for Deutsche Bank and was a Conservative councillor from 2014 to 2018 on Merton Borough Council. He also contested Foyle for the Northern Ireland Conservatives at the 2015 general election.
There are some coordinated activities that people engage in with secrecy that are not generally thought of as conspiracies. For example, intelligence agencies such as the American CIA and the British MI6 necessarily make plans in secret to spy on suspected enemies of their respective countries and the general populace of its home countries, but this kind of activity is generally not considered to be a conspiracy so long as their goal is to fulfill their official functions, and not something like improperly enriching themselves.
A photo from the 2011 AV referendum. Ed Miliband is giving a speech in favour of a "yes" vote. The word "yes" is behind him, twice, on a big purple poster.
A photo of an advert in a bus stop in Manchester, England. It is in the branding of the American sandwich chain Subway. It says "NEXT LEVEL CHEESE & BEANS" and has a photo of a baked potato, covered in cheese and beans, with jalapeños and what looks like barbeque sauce.
The Jesusland map, popular on the Internet in 2004. It shows "The United States of Canada" incorporating Canada, West Coast states, and some states from the North East and Mid West of the United States. Jesusland is the remainder of the USA (excluding Hawaii, which is not shown).
Picture of Mamdani surrounded by reporters in a tweet by David Freedlander. The text of the tweet: "Mamdani tells the press that Cuomo is still running because "Andrew Cuomo is someone who doesn't know 'no means no'"
Google search result for "second driest continent on earth". The AI overview says that this is Africa, but gives an image of Australia. Below that, a snippet from Wikipedia gives the correct answer: Australia.
I photo of Rachel Carson, with a quote from her: "Man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself."