Phil Cohen @philcohen.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Actually, most regular cyclists abhor these rentabikes, for the reason your photo makes clear. 250
Phil Cohen @philcohen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I visited Dublin as a child in the late 1950s and mass cyclists at rush hour is one of my clearest memories. 140
Phil Cohen @philcohen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I've been calling the peak of the Australian housing market since I arrived here in 1978; had to be right sometime. 000
Phil Cohen @philcohen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I generally shout “forgot your bike?” as I cycle past 000
Phil Cohen @philcohen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026We do a lot of police checks (we're a recruitment company) and they're slower the more common your name is. 000
Phil Cohen @philcohen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026As a small child in the 1950s I remember crowds of bikes at rush hour in Dublin. 100
Phil Cohen @philcohen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Is it just my feed, or has the whole of BlueSky become suddenly obsessed with cycling? (Third possibility: BlueSky somehow knows I’m a cyclist?) 020
Phil Cohen @philcohen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The problem with economics is that it tries to use equations to describe what is essentially just a set of beliefs. 130
Phil Cohen @philcohen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Lame excuse for not delivering what he promised his investors 000
Reposted by Phil CohenDiane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I’m all in favour of hire bikes in principle but idiot cyclists who park like this give the rest a bad reputation. It only needs a molecule of common sense … 4452535
Phil Cohen @philcohen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026For some reason every ice cream truck in Australia plays Greensleeves. Just Greensleeves. All of them. 000
Reposted by Phil CohenLindsay Ellis @lindsayellis.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I think this is their way of retroactively rationalizing how LLMs haven't gotten any better in like two years and are stuck with a certain inevitable percentage of "hallucinations" - so hey let's IPO next year - and if it seems like the product isn't improving, well we did that on purpose 52218
Phil Cohen @philcohen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026What if OpenAI et al finally realised that pumping more compute into their models wasn’t actually improving them any more, and decided they needed an excuse to stop trying? “AI will kill us all” leaves them with all the cash, plus a great reason not to deliver. 001
Phil Cohen @philcohen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Car did that to me on a quiet road and I stopped dead in front of him. It worked, but I wouldn’t recommend it. 110
Phil Cohen @philcohen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I've always assumed that those high-end shops were just for money laundering, so they don't care if there are no customers. 2111
Phil Cohen @philcohen.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Reminds me of my first Japanese hotel room toilet experience. I’ll just leave it at that. 000
Phil Cohen @philcohen.bsky.social · 25/08/2026My dad had a copy of "Test your own IQ" and one weekend when I was a kid I did all the tests for fun. Monday morning the school administered an IQ test to the whole class. I don't know what I scored, but the teachers looked at me funny from then on. 000
Phil Cohen @philcohen.bsky.social · 24/08/2026You can be sure it wasn't the parents that bought them. 020
Phil Cohen @philcohen.bsky.social · 18/08/2026The only time I hit a pedestrian with my bike was when I stopped a yard behind someone and rang my bell, and as they turned around they backed into me. 000
Phil Cohen @philcohen.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Constitutions are like banknotes; they only work if everyone values them. 010
Phil Cohen @philcohen.bsky.social · 24/07/2026They won’t be happy till the reanimated corpse of Thatcher crawls into No 10 010
Phil Cohen @philcohen.bsky.social · 22/07/2026No but I remember playing that on an ICL mainframe at Uni in the mid '70s! 000
Phil Cohen @philcohen.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Yeah now that you mention it, there were two spacecraft firing at each other ... would that be Galaxy Game? It was a while ago, too. 220
Phil Cohen @philcohen.bsky.social · 21/07/2026I first played that on a minicomputer at a Glasgow trade fair in about 1970. I won. 120
Phil Cohen @philcohen.bsky.social · 08/06/2026I was told I sounded like Sean Connery, but only by someone who’s never seen me 010
Phil Cohen @philcohen.bsky.social · 28/05/2026So I hear they’re going to print a $250 note with Trump’s face on it. Given its most likely use, they’ll likely call it the Laundry Bill 000
Phil Cohen @philcohen.bsky.social · 26/05/2026The ones you have to worry about are the ones that don't plink 100
Phil Cohen @philcohen.bsky.social · 25/05/2026I got pecked by an emu once, but it could have been a friendly peck 010
Phil Cohen @philcohen.bsky.social · 05/05/2026The best bit is making everyone else on the bus avoid eye contact. 020
Phil Cohen @philcohen.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Not as bad as the signs that say "Trucks can't stop quickly." They should just go slower, then. 041
