Had a fantastic and totally chaotic game of #gaslands today. I won thanks to being the fluke last survivor of a chain wrecksplosion. Lesson learned - a larger track is probably faster to finish due to less collisions!

💫 Wake up, #Europe! For the sake of freedom and stability, the UK must stand with Europe. Let's commit to a European future and secure our place in the world. #RejoinEU #freedomandstability

Google Maps is really bad with any location that is a 1D line rather than a 0D point. If I search for a road, a path or a river I want to see the whole thing, not a point somewhere near its centre. Any alternatives that handle this better? #maps # googlemaps

Random game screenshot from my phone from 2018. I think it was meant to be #vgadvice but no idea what the game is

The "year of expiry" years when entering credit card details are now so absurdly futuristic sounding that its really beginning to confuse me

I came across an insult in Spanish, calling someone "the bloke who holds the basin for the brothel clients to wash their genitals". That's this man. Starmer won't be drawn on whether US strikes on Venezuela broke international law - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy4qgvwxp08o

#ttrpg Looking for a good ttrpg for a 9yo who wants to try their hand at DMing for the first time. A high-magic fantasy theme would probably go down well.

Had a mad dream where I stayed the night in a big Airbnb with my extended family. There was a weird review that just said "Good burping atmosphere" with a positive rating, which we found both cryptic and amusing. The entire trip was then absorbed by us discussing what was meant by a good burping […]

I watched the 1999 Patrick Stewart _A Christmas Carol_ last night and spotted the topical 90s joke that the writers slipped in. In the original, Scrooge attributes seeing Marley's ghost to "an undigested piece of beef." In this one it is "a piece of British beef."

Replacing right wing stickers in my area with these

It begins

Where does Harry Hill buy his shirts? This isn't the set up for a joke, I actually want to know.

The UK Government hid the live stream of the e-petition debate on Digital ID on its YouTube channel (it is an 'Unlisted' video) making it much harder for people to find. This evening is the debate on the Online Safety Act. Will they do the same to this one? […]

Can anyone help identify this #flag that #flaggers have put up near #Oxford? It's a red dragon with large wings on a dark green background with a horizontal white stripe. The dragon looks more like a 'fantasy' dragon than the Welsh dragon. It isn't any […] [Original post on cupoftea.social]

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"Apt." is a song by New Zealand and South Korean singer Rosé and American musician Bruno Mars about installing and managing software packages in Ubuntu.

Having browser-hopped a few times over the years and never worried too much about tidying up my bookmarks menu, it now looks something like this. #webbrowser #firefox #vivaldi #chrome

Amidst all the AI and other general badness, this might actually be the thing to push me over the edge. #firefox

Another sporadic music recommendation: The Precure Album (Remastered) by Kmoy. Ska/Punk #bandcamp #ska #punk #musicreccomendation https://kmoy.bandcamp.com/album/the-precure-album-remastered

I was reading someone talk about the difference between an academic ML conference and a hypey industry AI conference and they said ‘it’s like the difference between chemistry and alchemy. Or between astronomy and astrology.’ I really like that

Steam Frame - I think this is the one. I've had my eye on VR since around the time of the original Oculus Rift but was never fully convinced that the technology was quite there. The bulk, the heavy cables and the base stations of older devices are now all gone. The specs of the Frame look good […]

Helping my parents set up a new smart TV. Pray for me.

Now in detailed Black and White: The #Trump administration is blackmailing other countries to actively destroy the environment at the behest of the US oil industry. There is no sugarcoating it. Evil seems a fitting adjective. #MännerDieDieWeltVerbrennen

Get rid of anticircumvention laws by @pluralistic https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/01/redistribution-vs-predistribution/#elbows-up-eurostack

Had a dream last night where I dug out my (entirely imagined) early 00's wrist-mounted computer/PDA thing. Weird nostalgia for a past that never was. #retrocomputing

LB: remembered that I'm giving away advertising space for free PURELY BECAUSE THE WORST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD WANT TO CHARGE LOADS OF MONEY FOR IT, please give me your 468x60 pixel non-animated banner for your hobby website or small (small!) business. Make it colourful and cool looking like […]

Finally, someone is saying it. 🔴 NEW: "The message is simple: Farage is ultimately to blame as the man who delivered Brexit with 'easy sloganeering' then walked away from the aftermath rather than putting in the hard yards."

Independent washing machine repairer reveals shocking scam where machines count how many washes they’ve done before going irreparably useless. Last December I had to buy a new washing machine for my tenants and the salesman in Curry’s said outright they only last seven years these days. My own […]

Alternate timeline where instead of making the Star Wars original trilogy Special Editions, George Lucas made the prequel trilogy using only 1980s practical effects, puppets, etc.

I've seen a few Reform-ish stickers up around the local area recently. I just ordered a sheet of cute milkshake stickers to put over them. I hope people will appreciate the joke. #reformuk #antifascist #farage

I now assume that the avalanche of "journalism" "covering" Amazon "deals" on "Prime Days" is almost entirely a revenue generator for the "news" organizations, via commission links. I canceled Amazon Prime. Consider doing the same.

The bracket holding up the rail in my wife's wardrobe broke today so I am firing up FreeCAD and my 3d printer to model and print a replacement bracket. I'm appreciating having the opportunity to demonstrate that 3d printing has useful applications and isn't just for making little toy guns and […]

'Nother music recommendation. Newcastle desert rock, Dunes. https://dunesncl.bandcamp.com/album/land-of-the-blind #bandcamp #musicrecommendation #desertrock #altrock #stonerrock #ukmusic

Long bet: Within the next 5 years, a country currently within the EU or Five Eyes will pass legislation to restrict the use of VPNs for personal use; either requiring linking VPN accounts with official ID, requiring VPN providers to monitor and store user usage data, or blocking their use […]

"Electricity demand in Great Britain has been fully covered by the output of clean-energy sources for a record 87 hours in 2025 to date, new Carbon Brief analysis shows. This is up from just 2.5 hours in 2021 and 64.5 hours in all of 2024, ahead of the government’s clean-power target for 2030." […]

Update. "#austria's military has switched from #microsoftoffice to #LibreOffice. The move was all about digital sovereignty, not cost savings. Other governments are moving away from Microsoft to protect their citizens' privacy." […]

Keir Starmer's aides are reportedly telling him not to go to the COP30 climate conference, because Reform would attack him for it. Yes, they might. And he should wear it as a badge of honour. Standing up for humanity, for science and a habitable planet. Where's the hazard in that?

Green Party of England and Wales membership from 2024 to 20 September 2025.

Reminder that 100,000 people marched for Trans Pride in London earlier this year, but because they weren't violent fascists, there was minimal press coverage, unlike the Nazis today. https://www.them.us/story/london-trans-pride-march-turnout-record-uk-transphobia

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 "Reform UK leader Nigel Farage faces pressure to account for how his partner paid for a £885,000 home after a BBC investigation raised further questions about his previous explanation." https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce845w70g0yo

You can use an AI-free version of DuckDuckGo by using the subdomain “noai”. https://noai.duckduckgo.com/search?q=%s You can add that as a Bookmarklet or your default search engine or whatever. #ai

In short, if Starmer's Labour Party had set out to destroy its chances of re-election, and roll out the red carpet for Reform, it could not have done a better job.

One of the ways that LLM-authored code improves productivity is by merely SAYING it does things. It's way faster than the whole time-consuming process of actually doing things. This is real code someone sent to me for review.

Farage uses every tool to avoid paying his fair share: ✅ Set up offshore trust ✅ Avoided stamp 2nd home stamp duty ✅ Uses a company to reduce income tax https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/05/nigel-farage-uses-private-company-to-pay-less-tax-on-gb-news-earnings