Simon Wistow

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A screen shot from perennial pit of wrongness Hacker News linking to a blog post called "The Origins of Wokeness" by perennially wrong Paul Graham, a man who won the lottery once and is convinced that makes him an expert on everything.
The picture shows the three puppet protagonists of the British kids tv show Rainbow from the 1980s - George, Zippy and Bungle. Bungle is a bipedal brown bear, noticeably taller than the other two. George is a pink hippopotamus type creature with prominent eyelashes and Zippy is orange with an oval shaped head and a mouth that is a a zippered opening. I believe he’s suppose to resemble a pajama case.
A man unboxes a potato studded with diamonds. He is, to put it mildly, dumbstruck.
A black box fill with a satin pad. Next to it is a potato on an ornate silver stand. The potato is studded with 24 small diamonds. That is not a typo.
A selfie of me, Simon Wistow, standing on stage at the WebSummit conference with about 350 people in the audience
A mid-century illustration of a smiling cloud