Marcel Marceau only spoke a single word onscreen in his entire career, and it was 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙚𝙘𝙩. (SILENT MOVIE, 1976)

Brighton #Ruby was one of the conferences I was excited to attend this year. Unfortunately, a family matter requires me to stay home next week, and I choose to put family first. Good news: I have a ticket to give away for free! If you want to go, please DM. RT appreciated!

Heading home the day after another great Brighton Ruby. So many great talks and great conversations! As always, let's do it again next year. For now, go do Pointless things! #BrightonRuby

Overheard on the train: "You know when you've got a balloon, like, deflating and all the air's at the bottom?"

Hey, look, there's Max, Trivia Mastermind

Here’s one of the most fascinating child development videos I’ve ever shared. As your baby learns language, they begin by approximating the examples you set. After a period of early experimentation with sound (including cries, coos and gurgles), infants begin babbling -

Put an X in a box. (Indicative) Put an X in a box! (Imperative)

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Annabel competed at the Archery GB Junior National Outdoor Championships near Birmingham. She shot in a range of weather (torrential rain, bright sun and gusty winds) at 60/50/40/30m targets; and after 10 hours of shooting was crowned U18 Ladies Barebow national champion!

"Hard" encounter successfully achieved - both healers unconscious and on fire at the same time; party survives.

I would watch a feature length documentary about the two women who voice The Minions in Italian

Three logicians walk into a bar. The barman says "Evening. Three lagers, is it?" The first logician says "I don't know." The second logician says "I don't know." The third logician says "Yes, please"

New handle, what dis?

I put tickets live. Now if I can just find the keys to my banged up mailing list software I can do some “marketing” brightonruby.com

I dipped my toe into conference speaking this year at Brighton Ruby (great fun, 10/10, would witter at a bunch of programmers again). The video - along with everyone else's - is now up! Watch me here: brightonruby.com/2024/pursuing-… Or don't, I won't know😉

Nngh, I'm already on Mastadon, do I really need to get a Bluesky as well?

Alright, fine. Chris Howlett, Archer First Class.bsky.social 🦋 I'll get around to adding people at some point. Also, with slightly longer tenure, @[email protected] 🐘

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