"I am explicitly saying I'll be (only) 1% less evil than the worst asshole alive, why aren't people voting for me?"

JUDGE GRRRR i love comics so much

Thames Water's seems to think they can make customer service so annoying I'll just pay a lunatic 400% bill error. Inconveniently for privatising bastards, individuals still decide whether they pay things or not.

Reminder that "preprint" means "blog post"

My mind has worked so much better since I realized that "This task MUST be completed!" means that I have to decide WHEN to do it now, not that I have to do it now.

Stove as the protagonist in one episode of every science fiction series ever

Still the best site on the internet, increasingly the only one!

"the geribatric ward"!

"The argument for electrifying our railways will become clearer in time." British Rail, 1979.

EVERYONE must fight this. Trans rights are human rights.

Amazon Kindle told me it wouldn't work with my e-reader any more and genuinely believed it would be the reader I stopped using

How I arrived on Bluesky

I’ve started sayin “He’s wearing a wire!” when I see these glasses. One man overheard and pulled them off. 😭😭😭

🎵 PER-VERT GLA-SSES clapclapclapclap-CLAPCLAP! 🎶

Also a book off his check it list

SPACE WARLORD BABY TRADING SIMULATOR is the same that finally made me drag my Steam Deck out of the house with me as if it was portable

Manus! Original Manus edit by @jonty.bsky.social

MULLET MADJACK is worth that *alone*, and you get I AM YOUR BEAST and BOLTGUN too! MM is the first hypershooter chunky enough for me to get up to speed and, friends, I did not stop enjoying that ever.

AI companies turning into slop vampires, lethally allergic to the tiniest fragment of actual creativity

Insultingly stupid company chatbot trying to cover for its lack of memory by claiming it's been handed over to a new associate who talks in an exactly identical manner every couple of lines.

"Look at this dipshit you don't follow!" No, and now that's another person I don't follow.

Hahaha YES now THIS is a 40k story idea

I love this game so much, didn't get half the love it deserved. It had a Release Doves To Kick Ass button!

Highlight of recent return to Ireland is hearing lepping. Friends and family watching the figure skating and all "God look at her lepping around like a wee rabbit"

I'm a big fan of computer shortcuts, anyone got any good multi-touch gesture uses? Apparently the screen I've got can go up to 10 touch points, I don't know any useful gestures beyond 3. BUT I WANT TO. I've talked myself out of buying a ridiculous new keyboard so let's use what I've got!

Just saved 50 quid and got a better product because the non-Plus version has actual buttons instead of touch-surfaces

Using AI is great if you prefer tidying up after assholes instead of getting smarter

When I finally get that multiple selves power one of them's going to be watching and thinking about romance of the Three kingdoms on a loop

So many people failing the most elementary "will you let us do fascism TO SOMEONE ELSE FIRST" test.

Billion dollar startup: tiny drone earbuds. Release on any public transport, they locate and force-connect to the loudest phone while simultaneously diving into the offenders ears.

Watching Neon Genesis Evangelion and appreciate how they take the time before each fight to remind everyone that yeah, non-giant-mech weapons just don't fucking work here. They don't just mention an AT field, they animate anti-air cannons coming out on cable cars and blazing away before blowing up.

Someone at work meeting played a sample of an AI-generated podcast and I wasn't prepared for how angry it made me. Co-worker later asked if I was preparing a Butlerian Jihad.

Had a nightmare where the bad guys were a new property development so rich the cleaning staff wore jockey helmets. Excellent visual design, subconscious.

RIGHT TO REPAIR or LEFT TO ROT, force tech companies to make the right choice because they never do that without pressure

Fraiser: And how is Dr Quinzel? Niles: Didn’t you used to date her, Fraiser? Jonathan: Well I can’t say her taste in men has much improved.

James T Kirk voice: “what does Sonic need with a race car?”

From Flash Gordon to everyone

"go back to Dragonlance, Raistlin! the adults are talking." God tier line for future use, I felt it slot into my head like a RoboCop Directive

Just a wonderful week in Ireland visiting some of the best people with my kid (best)

It's cool how all puppeteering is double puppeteering because the hand is a marionette

ALERT ALERT PYE PARR vehicles incoming! I now care even more about M.A.S.K. than I did as a kid!

No, go after them because they're bad for society, like arsenic in the water. A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work to prevent the acquisition of the former with the same urgency and ruthlessness we use to prevent the acquisition of the latter.

The calls for trans people to be quieter as we're wiped out are only going to increase, and you owe it to your sisters and brothers to get louder and louder.

To oppose trans people's rights and freedoms you break so many social contracts. We keep saying that trans rights are human rights, but conversely, human rights are trans rights, because the second you decide some people don't deserve the same rights and freedoms as others? You start to lose it all.

Oh hell yes, I want to copy this strategy of "You wasted my time with AI lies so now you owe me two and a half grand"

🚨 👑 🚨 👑🚨 ROYAL ARRESTED! A royal has been arrested! They're trying the Tesla "autopilot turned off a second before the crash so autopilot wasn't responsible" bullshit, don't fall for the titles removed nonsense, he was a royal when it mattered and A ROYAL HAS BEEN ARRESTED 🚨 👑 🚨 👑🚨

"It's 9 am and I'm nocturnal I do NOT have time for this right now"

"maxxing" and "cel" are the most efficient suffixes as they save me from paying any attention to that person/account/publication