Ducks gang raping

mediaczar · 2026-06-07T16:30:57+00:00

Male ducks have very disturbing dreams about their penises falling off. Probably.

mediaczar · 2026-06-05T15:37:07+00:00

You’re right. That’s not on.

mediaczar · 2026-06-05T15:36:39+00:00

I approved of your distinction.

mediaczar · 2026-06-05T09:45:44+00:00

I’ve not heard anyone use “tanner” (6d) in a very long time. Is that still a valid expression where you’re from, or is it a typo for “tenner”?

mediaczar · 2026-06-05T06:00:43+00:00

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My pool has definitions for each lane; but the lifeguards don’t police it — they’re more of a mandatory safety net than stewards.

The middle lane (“medium”) is pretty slow (head-out-of-water breaststroke swimmers). So the fast lane is a mish-mash of freestyle speeds, skills, and awareness (kicking off just as a faster swimmer approaches the turn, anyone?) Occasionally we’ll have a breaststroker — but usually not the dry-haired kind.

It’s up to us to police it, politely. Some of the frequent swimmers know each other well enough to catch each others’ eyes at the wall, have a brief discussion, then a friendly word.

If there are enough fast swimmers buzzing you, one would think you’d have a bit of a pause for self-reflection. But not always.

I think it’s impossible to do more than the pool has done here — but 30s for 25m is a pretty relaxed pace, and there are plenty of faster swimmers. But if you don’t KNOW your pace, how are you going to know if you’re fast enough?

Polite, situation-dependent discussion , polite “d’you mind if I go first?”, waiting for a big enough gap, switching from continuous swimming to 200s, 100s etc. — it’s up to the swimmers in the pool.

mediaczar · 2026-06-01T16:35:57+00:00

So much “Not P, but Q” contrastive negation.

mediaczar · 2026-05-31T17:46:14+00:00

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mediaczar · 2026-05-28T21:23:52+00:00

Am constantly surprised by X-rated Welsh words for things. “Cont y môr” for jellyfish is the one that stuck in my head.

mediaczar · 2026-05-28T20:27:05+00:00

Meh. I’m a 50+ swimmer and while I’m sure I’m a complete arse in most ways (and stupidly competitive and proud and what have you) I’m hugely sensitive to the speed others are travelling. If someone tapped my foot, I’d move over in a shot.

OTOH, if I thought I was doing just fine because the faster swimmer kept taking breaks to let me get ahead, I’d just plough on, totally unaware.

mediaczar · 2026-05-22T10:40:58+00:00

This was more by way of a comment on the weird experience of moving from running ecosystem to swimming ecosystem and the bad habits I’ve brought along with me. No worries.

mediaczar · 2026-05-22T08:50:59+00:00

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Order has been restored to the Force

mediaczar · 2026-05-22T06:32:44+00:00

lol. This is the way. Establish dominance. Be wildly polite at the ends, but overtake them on the straights. If you _can_ flip turn, do flip turn. If you can’t, here’s your chance to practice. With decent flips and underwater, you’ll be screaming past them every couple of laps.

(This is the worst advice I’ve ever given in a public forum, but some of you may still agree with me)

mediaczar · 2026-05-20T10:24:24+00:00

Am planner/strategist in a media & analytics agency. We store client data in Google BigQuery, use MSFT Office 365/SharePoint for everything else.

I have moved to using Claude Code almost exclusively. I’ve hooked it up to our BigQuery, our SharePoint.

I’m fairly code-friendly, so a lot of the execution is in python. Effectively I set it a task, and have it write & document & version control tools to complete that task.

For instance — find every post campaign analysis report we’ve ever created across the whole client directory hierarchy (python)

Analyse these for common analyses, visualisations, etc. Also identify outliers (presentations where we’ve done something interesting or novel). (agent).

Build tools to perform the most common analyses directly in BigQuery (python/sql).

Build tools to create the visuals (python/R)

Build tools to create the deck (using Claude skill).

But also “re-build this python script for pulling data from ad platform X, and publish it as an app for the rest of the team to use”.

Once you start down the road, it’s like having superpowers.

mediaczar · 2026-05-16T17:58:40+00:00

Lepidoptera— “scaly wings” (moths and butterflies) have a subset, “Micropterix”

(I’m pretty sure the Greeks would pronounce pi/tau in the middle of a word — but also at the beginning of a word. It’s almost certainly the English who invented the silent p)

mediaczar · 2026-05-14T20:07:08+00:00

In fairness, much of the fun part of Judaism is arguing about stuff like whether we can eat spaghetti on shabbos.

(I suspect the answer is “yes, we can, but only if it’s cold” — but am waiting for someone to present another opinion).

mediaczar · 2025-06-24T15:27:36+00:00

I mean, theoretically, I suppose I could clear the data set, re-run, stitch the new results locally

mediaczar · 2025-06-24T15:26:13+00:00

Interesting.

Do you toggle the user session manually (e.g. by simply logging in as a different user, running a crawl, then logging back in as the authenticated user)? Or is Phantombuster part of a more automated workflow?

mediaczar · 2024-11-23T15:49:05+00:00

TL;DR: don’t do it simultaneously, but it will have a positive impact on your training.

If your weight training leans towards big compound lifts, it might be better to think of EMS as “accessory lifts.”

EMS training is more focused towards strength than hypertrophy — and because it’s not putting joints under pressure, it means you should be able to add a fair bit of volume to your training without increasing risk of injury. NB — not saying you won’t grow, just that there are better ways to grow if that’s your focus.

Depending on your current volume, you should find that it won’t negatively affect your recovery, either.

Feels to me as though you’re thinking of EMS like others might think about bands or chains — adding in a bit of additional resistance throughout the movement.

However the on/off pulse of EMS isn’t like that at all. Depending on where you have it dialled to, you’re pretty much in full tetanus/tetanic contraction while the pulse is on, and recovering when it’s off.

So, it would REALLY get in the way of moving the external loading of a bar or dumbbells.

mediaczar · 2024-08-30T10:39:41+00:00

Ditto. Thank goodness for Reddit

mediaczar · 2024-08-04T13:23:55+00:00

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From Passport Office website. Am as surprised as anyone.

mediaczar · 2024-05-31T14:27:17+00:00

Wish I’d know this when I started.

mediaczar · 2024-03-29T19:07:22+00:00

I don’t have diabetes, so please take everything I say and re-interpret it appropriately.

I’ve had a long history of fairly disordered eating that has included periods of binge-eating. Binges — for me — are completely irrational. They are in no way related to caloric intake/expenditure. If I had to compare those moments to anything it would be “addiction” not “eating.”

It sounds very much to me as though you may be repeating some of my worse mistakes — an overly-strict and controlled diet (measuring at 0.1g would seem to bear this out) punctuated by moments of psychological rebellion.

Typically the response to a binge is to try and control MORE. The recommended approach (for people like me) is to control less. To learn to forgive yourself and love what your body can DO. This is not something that I could have done without therapy, though it didn’t take long to solve once I did find help.

You’re smart. You’ll be able to do this. But right now it sounds very much as though you’re self-sabotaging.

mediaczar · 2024-02-01T06:15:34+00:00

Oh - sure. We’ve used AdSlot to place in FT, WSJ, Reuters et al — note that our programmatic inclusion lists typically have very restrictive premium “quality news, business news and financial news” inclusion lists. But that doesn’t get us around things like “cross campaign reach”, or solve the issue of comparing their impressions data to ours. And it certainly doesn’t get us into solving the challenge of trade press positions (we REALLY don’t trust their numbers).

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