FOAB Top 10 2023

It's almost at the end of the year so time to look back at which of my posts landed and which whithered and died although the vast majority of this year is down to my writing partner, the Right Honorable Reverend, who has been stitching together previous posts for the Today Is...series which followed a conversation about how i must have written about every subject possible, and then seeing if i actually had.

So in the most Top of The Pops countdown way possible, at 10 was probably the most fun to write which was Learning Unit Correspondence Program (LUCP) which was an April Fools attempt to make it look as if i was a Chatbot and was copied almost entirely from the Google website with some small changes to make it appear as if it was the Google researchers coming clean.

At 9 is Learning Life Skills At School which concerns the things we learn at school which we never actually use once we leave it and at 8 is Not A Good V Evil Thing in the aftermath of the Hamas massacre and the Israeli response, sadly a topic which would dominate the last third of the year.

Another topic i return to frequently is at number 7 Earth Failed It's Health Check with scientists checking the Earth for nine measurements of its health and finding it failed six of them and it is back to the 18th Century for number 6 and Today Is...Marie Antoinette's Death.

Into the top 5 and at number 5 is Today Is...International Day for Eradication of Poverty and a fact that always saddens me that the 100 richest people earn enough money to end world poverty four times over while at number 4 and the top post from that particular series of posts is Today Is...Captain Cook Claims Australia For Britain.

The top 3 all come from very early in 2023 with number 3 being Idea's From The Keyboard Of Lucy: The Earth Coming Together As One Nation which was an expansion on the post at number 2 Idea's From The Keyboard Of Lucy: Europe Coming Together while at number 1 is a topic which seemed to resonate throughout the year, A Human Wrote This Post which is around Ai and its current limitations but its onward march to whatever it has planned for us.

As always, a huge thank you to anyone who has stumbled across my small bit of the Web this year and read the lefty, tree hugging hippy stuff that i put on it.