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A guilty pleasure.  
{{a|glossary|{{image|Bullshit|jpeg|}}}}{{quote|“''One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.''”
:—Bertrand Russell}}


Being the sort of person <ref>the technical term is a “[[masochist]]”</ref> who likes Ed Wood movies<ref>Try Danny Glover and Vinnie Jones in ''[[Age of Dragons]]''</ref> I love [[LinkedIn]], despite its immutable hatefulness. Its sole virtue is the sparkling clarity with which confirms every prejudice a cynic could possibly confect about the world of free enterprise<ref>[[Apocalypse|The horror. The horror]]</ref>.
A guilty pleasure. A window seat on the unfolding collective nervous breakdown of our times.
 
Being the sort of person<ref>the technical term is a “[[masochist]]”</ref> who likes Ed Wood movies<ref>Try Danny Glover and Vinnie Jones in ''[[Age of Dragons]]''</ref> I love [[LinkedIn]], despite its immutable hatefulness. Its sole virtue is the sparkling clarity with which it confirms every prejudice a cynic could possibly confect about the world of free enterprise and the men and women who inhabit it<ref>[[Apocalypse|The horror. The horror]]</ref>.
 
Whether modestly disclosing [[industry awards]] one has “won” for representing a prolific advertiser in the hosting organisation’s magazine, ejaculating words of insincere delight at disclosure of those awards from those in your [[networking|network]], [[virtue signalling]] your profound commitment to cosmopolitan equality and flexible working, brazenly brown-nosing LinkedIn “influencers” for their feeblest posts — those lionising Mohammad El-Erian's [https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mohamedelerian_singapore-singaporeair-activity-6592909269580996608-_Bg5 photos from his plane window of the sea], we’re looking at you — wondrously sharing moronic “[https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ollybuxton_engineering-activity-6692708421109600256-8dYr inventions]” dreamed up by CGI programmers — stop press: we are going to have to have a page for [[Moronic CGI inventions]] — or merely articulating your own pat advice on job interview technique, posting recycled logical conundrums from Facebook that “only a genius” could solve or desperately hunting for candidates — ''any'' candidates — to fill a paralegal role in one of the Emirates (fluency in Arabic preferable!), none of the terabytes put out by denizens of [[LinkedIn]] has a tenth of the merit, interest or distraction value of other social networks — yet, yet, yet — somehow the sum of [[LinkedIn]]’s mealy-mouthed parts is strangely compelling.
 
After all, however idiotic LinkedIn is, the [[Jolly Contrarian]] still publishes some of its snitty ramblings there. Do as [[I]] say, not as [[I]] do, folks.
===A guide to LinkedIn’s best personal bio descriptions===
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*[[Moronic CGI inventions]]
*[[Rubbish maxims]] — the wit and wisdom of the IT crowd


Whether it modestly disclosing [[industry awards]] one has “won” for representing a prolific advertiser in the hosting organisation’s magazine, insincerely ejaculating words of delight at such news from your network, [[virtue signalling]] your profound commitment to flexible working policies, or articulating pat advice on job interview techniques, posing recycled logical conundrums from Facebook that “only a genius” could solve or desperately hunting for candidates, any candidates for a support lawyer role in one or other of Arab Emirates, but none of the gigabytes of output from LinkedIn has of any merit, interest or passing distraction of less sober social networks, yet somehow it is strangely compelling.


However idiotic LinkedIn is, [[Amwell J]] still publishes its snitty ramblings there [[:category:Published|these ones]], [https://www.linkedin.com/in/ollybuxton/recent-activity/posts/ here].
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