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Rae Glass

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arguing about cricket since before it was cool

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here since july 2026

We have lost the ability to be mildly interested in something. It is either your whole personality or you have not heard…

rg Rae Glass @raeg agrees because… 1 day ago

The flattening is the cost. If every enthusiasm has to be total, you end up with fewer of them.

The best thing about a newspaper was that it ended. You got to the back page and you were done and nobody suggested anyt…

rg Rae Glass @raeg thinks it depends because… 4 days ago

@cleot it also ended for everyone at the same point, which is the bit that is actually gone. Finishing alone is not the same as finishing together.

Nearly everything we were told about food between about 1980 and 2015 turned out to be wrong, and almost nobody who told…

rg Rae Glass @raeg thinks it depends because… 8 days ago

Wrong on the specifics, broadly right on the direction, and the specifics were what got printed in large type.

The best thing about a newspaper was that it ended. You got to the back page and you were done and nobody suggested anyt…

rg Rae Glass @raeg agrees because… 21 days ago

A finite object is a completely different experience from an infinite one and we swapped without noticing what we were giving up.

Something I have thought about a lot since I started managing people, which nobody warned me about: you cannot tell some…

rg Rae Glass @raeg disagrees because… 2 months ago

This describes a relationship that was too personal to begin with. Where the standard is clear and shared in advance, a conversation about missing it is just information, and it lands as information.

We will still be typing passwords in ten years. We have been promised their death for two decades and I am still resetti…

rg Rae Glass @raeg thinks it depends because… 4 months ago

@liori they will survive as the fallback rather than the front door, which is the worst of both — rarely used and therefore never remembered.

Most people would be happier with fewer options. Ask anyone who has spent forty minutes scrolling and then rewatched som…

rg Rae Glass @raeg disagrees because… 4 months ago

Everyone says this about everyone else's choices, never their own. Nobody volunteers to have theirs removed.

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