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TIL people drink mugs of bouillon. The depravity of our species never ceases to amaze me.

When someone asks you something and you go to write "np" and write "no". Has to be the easiest absolutely-opposite-of-intent typo I experience on the reg.

I really feel there should be 600 miniseconds in a second. Where this millisecond bullshit come from? How did we let this happen?

Hey, DuckDuckGo, do you hate money or something? I use ddg search and duck.ai every day, I love them I noticed the "free" badge appear today and I was like "I wonder if I can pay a bit to get a bit more from this?" However apparently you can only subscribe if you use their browser - how about no?

Proving you are an adult should not require you to compromise privacy. Why isn’t the system you prove you’re an adult and you get a token, you then put that token into a pile with loads of people and everyone who put a token into gets one out. I feel there should be a big push for this.

The emasculating experience of finding you don’t have an appropriate screwdriver to open a piece of technology

I have a fidget spinner on my phone - a pop socket backspin. Was unwell yesterday so vibe coded this weird little web app for anyone else who fancies spinning their phone and making things look like they’re levitating.

The Lexi Alexander suspension raises a point to me which maybe has been discussed to health but I missed - isn’t the whole thing that if BlueSky admin have the power to ban people on a whim that makes any claim to any degree of decentralisation via ATProto absolutely void and meaningless?

Wordle has been a crock of shit lately.

Kind of ashamed I never had the curiosity to do this youtube.com/shorts/rLxjs...

Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: "Working from home makes us happier." A 4-year Australian study found that remote work boosts happiness, health, and productivity. Especially when chosen. It saves time, improves sleep, diet...

"Rodney Trotter's gone on holiday to one of America's smallest states!" "Delaware?" "I presume he'd have mentioned his holiday to Connecticut to his brother, yes."

Props to Enterprise Car Club for their particularly shite UX today - 1. Can’t get verified without committing to a year’s membership with no guarantee on how long it takes to get verified 2. Cannot paste in any forms 3. After submitting, can’t log in in any way to cancel subscription until verified

Trigger Happy TV would not work for viewers these days given that the premise was “lol imagine if someone was a really annoying prick in public and videoed it”

Eye drops are the new vaping

An hour on hold for the GP. A photo of my shit eye uploaded to the NHS pre-questionnaire (which works great I must admit). 5 min chat about the issue and what I’ve been using. Prescription ordered to pharmacy. And when I collect it… it’s the same ingredients as what I’ve been using (which cost less)

I've spent so much of my adult life thinking to tank up on caffeine gets you to be intense and focus and be more productive. I think that's true for drudgery type work but not always true for cognitive efforts. Being rested, peaceful, without distraction is how you cultivate space for deep thought.

I feel like conceding that all forms of sympathy for those less fortunate than you should be considered being Marxist is potentially a win for Marxism.

Here's a product I would use if it existed - AI enhanced chrome dev tools where I can just be like "why is this table cell so fucking wide even though nothing seems to be driving its width?" and it can tell me. Like full context of the DOM and my code. Seems the next logical step in AI tooling.

Eyes down, Conclave watchers! A few facts for your scorecards: - Shortest Conclave: 1503, three hours or so. - Longest Conclave: 1268, three years or so. - Last Conclave to elect someone from outside: 1378, Urban VI. - Last Pope to exhume his predecessor and put them on trial: Stephen VI, 897.

Well done, Australia ❤️

Labour's base-punching strategy reminds of the Seinfeld episode where George is so obsessed with making Jerry's girlfriend like him (she clearly hates him) that he neglects his own girlfriend (who does like him) and she leaves him

My favourite (minor early game spoiler) clue in Blue Prince is the hint card that tells you to consider keeping a clue journal has a picture of a journal which if you put the magnifying glass over shows some actual hints in the style of notes someone has written down.

3 of the last 5 runs on Blue Prince this evening I almost got to the Antechamber, 2 of which I missed due to bad decision making. Also I drew the pump room next to the boiler room but spawned it from a different room 😩 I even missed a couple of parlour riddles. This game doesn’t tolerate off days.

I love my steam deck to pieces but hate that if you plug it into a lower power USB-C it will think it’s charging, not warn you of low battery and just suddenly die, losing all progress when it runs out. I know, I know, don’t use a shit power supply… but meet me half way.

At this juncture I’d like to point out: * we’re on the brink of a golden age of medical healing * there’s enough money in the world to solve every problem in the world * a united approach could stop the climate crisis But a small group of sociopaths seeking personal power are going to throw it away.

The moment when you get the name “Blue Prince” 🤦‍♂️

The misery of having max tour tokens in Mario run and winning tour tokens must be what billionaires feel every day. I miss the thrill of meaningful gains.

Pretty good theory for explaining DOGE

Something else you mightn't be aware of (as I wasn't for many years): Git aliases. Add this to your ~/.gitconfig file: [alias] tidy-merged = branch -r -D --merged … and then invoke it like a Git subcommand: git tidy-merged git-scm.com/book/en/v2/G...

One of my fav commands - delete all local git branches which have been merged on remote: $ git fetch -p && git branch -vv | grep ': gone]' | awk '{print $1}' | xargs git branch -D I have this aliased in my .zshrc as "git-delete-merged"

Stealing chocolate from your toddler’s Easter egg stash - I have decided this is entirely ethical. If he ate that much chocolate in the next month I’d be a bad parent. He doesn’t notice the small amount I take between his own occasions so it doesn’t upset him. Also, I really like chocolate.

Radical self acceptance looks like eating Laoganma Chilli Crisp straight from the jar.

Every time I see the name of this pop up fairground I’m bothered by its name. Like it’s clearly a portmanteau of “fun” and “underworld” and not just a general world of fun otherwise that would just be “funworld”, yet they have no reference to demons, drug lords or people shouting lager lager lager

I feel one of the heavy hitter religions really needs to up the anti and claim AI is against god's will, the same way various medical procedures are. This would at least encourage various apps to allow you to disable all AI features. I'd like to pledge my honorary conversion to whichever does this.

Top of their update email. Man, I hate Vercel.

My #DesignEngineer article has gotten way more attention than I was expecting. Thanks to those who have checked it out, and especially to those who chipped in their two cents on the matter

Somehow, the future is both going to be a dystopian techno sci-fi hellscape AND we're gonna have coal and measles and robber barons and a permanent underclass. Philip K. Dickens

The BlueSky YikTok/IG like video experience is surprisingly fleshed out. Colour me impressed. Would love to see this pick up.

ai is a political project to centralize power

For some reason if you search on Google the word “maps”, you get a Google Maps link to “Club Pilates” in Dallas. Whoever’s doing their SEO needs a raise.

It is kind of insane how few of my friends in the UK at childbearing age, many reaching past that age, simply have had no option to have children unless they want to sacrifice every sliver of money and time they have for themselves. Capitalism is a death spiral. youtu.be/Ufmu1WD2TSk?...

I have come to the culinary conclusion that canned mackerel is better than fresh mackerel. I don’t know what about this brings me particular joy. The idea of accessible luxury perhaps.

My toddler has become addicted to Sonic, the original cartoon. Such a weird case where a whole world was built on an IP then it was overwritten with a different lore. Also Antoine is a little bitch.

Have been troubleshooting MS Clarity user analytics the last day. Turns out Vivaldi, even with all plugins disabled, doesn't allow clarity to operate. +1 for @vivaldibrowser.bsky.social as a user but that kind of got me! I didn't realise it had proprietary privacy features.

The optimal amount of pizza to eat as a programmer. Also I will never quite fathom the calorific density of pizza.

Making blends of ales for your guests? Ale cocktails? This seems like a forgotten beer trend that would entertain people, am surprised you don’t see this happening in craft ale bars.

I firmly believe Cheese Moments were discontinued specifically to demoralise the working class. Also I'll die before I call them "Cheese Flavoured Moments". I get it, there's no cheese - but guess what? They also aren't capsules of time. Cheese Moments is clearly in reference to a feeling.