I have one fan and he is great.

First camera app I’ve tried that actually lets me select individual lenses from the seventy bajillion* my iPhone has.

If the BBC boycott, drink everything in your house.

Like MAGA, transphobes have gotten everything they wanted in 2025. And, like MAGA, they've never been more vitriolic toward the institutions they've captured, more disgusted by their wounded victims, more ready to plough forth into realms of cruelty that even they would have balked at a year ago.

Accenture claim that tech debt costs $2.4T in the US alone. Which they should know, because they caused most of it.

Firefox, now: AI all the things Firefox, then:

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, first you must decide what a Christmas movie even is.

I remember when Firefox used to tout speed as one of the reasons it was a better browser.

so fucking tired of people saying AI "democratizes" creative skills, it's fucking privatizing it you dumb fuck, they're stealing your creativity from you and selling it back to you at a premium the ability to draw and write and sing and fucking whatever else came free with your fucking humanity

If I was the OBR, I’d go watch Trading Places (1983) for a hint on what to do.

I just don't need to know what the Telegraph has written about Dungeons & Dragons. It's a newspaper for people who are frightened of samosas.

They’re like junior programmers. Very excitable about new tech but also very wrong, don’t know how to architect, will follow patterns they’ve seen without understanding, and cannot properly follow instructions. But junior programmers learn between sessions and gain understanding.

I love this cat to bits and this is just the best BOINGGG leap you will ever see.

Bouncy jump time ft Smorky

The framing of that Telegraph article about D&D - and the framing of the responses to it, even on here - has been rubbing me the wrong way. Lots of, "No, the reason it's dying is it's not woke *enough*..." type sentiments, or talking about a gaming culture that hasn't existed for decades.

In related news, a bunch of transphobes have been trying to start an argument with me for the last couple of days and why would I engage in that when I could do pretty much anything else instead?

I don’t think the recommendation engine quite gets the brief

Underneath all of this stuff is a real economy where everything is both shit and expensive, nothing works and everyone is miserable and hopeless. Can you fucking focus, you hacks??

5 years ago today, Pandemic Year. It had been a month since I opened my "side project" (lol) cat rescue in the spare room of my flat in London. I saw an ad for a male kitten with "balance & walking problems" who urgently needed a home. And so it began. HAPPY SMOL PAUL DAY!

I remember Dawning Realization Month for the NFT people too. Think this is going to take much longer because of how wrapped up the whole economy is in this, but it really feels like it's happening.

The second issue of the BROADSHEET is up on our patreon for Adept members and in the store! And it's Black Friday / Cyber Monday sales, so we're discounting all products (including this issue) for 30% off, or €6.65! www.patreon.com/posts/144466...

We will do any amount of self-harm to avoid seeing what our real problems are

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two thoughts on Farage's youthful bullying racism: first, yeah, I do absolutely believe the people speaking up about this now, because bullying stays with you. I still remember specific incidents of being bullied as a kid 50-odd years ago.

The excitement of what the web was capable of around 2000-2008ish was palpable. Now I barely want to open a web browser. And I have zero desire to work on any modern bullshit websites built on shifting sands and full of thieving JavaScript trackers.

Strong words, but I’m not going to argue with the idea that I preferred the early web.

Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.

Gender is a spectrum from just wanting have fun to being back in town, and to varying degrees, each of us contains attributes of both, which is a beautiful thing

One brilliant thing about Twitter was that for a lot of us, it made networking not networking. You posted about what you were passionate about it, and it had more of a chance to get in front of someone relevant. It wasn't networking, it was caring about something in public.

And it’s … HI HO SILVER LINING And away you go baby I SEE YOUR SUN IS SHINING but I won’t make a fuss though it’s obvious

For reasons obvious to anyone who knows what team I worked on in 2012, this makes me sad. (We made approximately a million old URLs redirect successfully to the new GOV.UK site)

My 27" Apple Thunderbolt monitor, purchased when I worked at Artfinder in 2010 and taken from job to job since has finally given up the ghost. 🫡

In response to the laughable fiction presented in the letter sent by Sex Matters to BBC Board members, we have sent a rebuttal letter to clarify the real facts, rather than their Orwellian tale.

the nominees were -a campaign to get lifechanging medication for extremely sick children -a campaign to improve access to justice for victims of rape and sexual assault -a transphobic hate campaign that managed to convince some judges to make the worst ruling in Supreme Court history* (*winner)

Criminal until proven innocent.

Not sure who made this, but probably the most accurate representation of the current state of tech to date

My copy just arrived. I love it!

Gone, but not forgotten.

#legend molly.com in 2008 https://web.archive.org/web/20080129035506if_/http://www.molly.com:80

mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one

It is genuinely incredible to me how much evidence there is to support investing in the public good and how much animus there is to do this simple, effective thing.

This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu

Forgot to mention - if funds are a problem, there’s a half price ticket option. If that’s still too much, but you’d like to come, please let me know and I’ll put you on the guestlist. No questions, no judgement on either. Let’s have a lovely time.

My favourite year for oppressed literary masculinity was 2023 when the number of women on the Booker shortlist was smaller than the number of men named Paul

One of my lukewarmest takes is that we should get comfortable calling evil actions (& actors) evil—not “insane,” “stupid,” etc. Pretending that we don’t know their intent is BAD, & using that comforting falsehood to claim we can’t make a moral judgement about their destructive acts, only helps them.

Comment was made in reference to an article about Johnny Cash. I like that Blusky mods have the same ability to watch a joke woosh over their heads as about 40% of the people who reply to posts on here. Shows community consistency.

Surviving Mars: Relaunched lands on November 10th! Experience the brand-new political system, all previous expansions included, upgraded visuals and refined UI! 🚀 See you there. paradoxinteractive.com/games/surviv...

I have played so much Surviving Mars. So much. And here I am buying it again with the Relaunched edition.

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