it was one thing living through brexit as a foreigner, at least there was a smidgen of meaningful political opposition to the idea, but it's another thing entirely watching the labour prime minister criticising the colour the fascists plan to paint the deportation camps' bike sheds. fuck me sideways

I'm a simple man, can't see a Manhattan and not want a Manhattan; I think that's actually how they market Manhattans

There are too many IPAs.

got myself in on this because I'd happily pay £149 to watch @scott.is read me the shipping forecast, but actually also getting to learn something in the process? absolute top-tier bargain

this makes my fucking soul ache. I know at some point in the next couple of years the bubble will burst because this is not a financially sustainable operation *even when you pirate your entire training corpus* but at what fucking human cost along the way.

this is a great tune and you should put it in your earholes asap if you like indie punk (and if you don't, what are we even doing here?)

As well as farting around trying to use different techniques yesterday in Bristol, I met a couple of people on the street who let me take their portrait in my more usual shtick.

a chronological list of how I met all of my serious relationships: - deviantart (2008-2010) - okcupid (2013-2018) - tinder (2018-2021) - hinge (2021-) had I needed to talk to strangers in person I'd have been screwed 🥲 (or not, as the case may be, fnar fnar, etc.)

freelance/ltd company pals who are grown up enough to have a mortgage—did any of you use a specialist mortgage broker when you got your gaff and if so, would you recommend them?

no more sinister death knell for a bescandaled politician than the prime minister saying they have full confidence in you. not even a 24 hour gap this time 🤌

one thing I love about London is that the food offering isn't just incredibly diverse but also often made by people you wouldn't expect, ie a Moroccan café I like is for some reason owned by a Vietnamese woman, and I'm currently having lunch at a Jamaican place run by south east Asians, what a joy

Brendan Eich is a piece of shit for both his political views and inventing javascript

Can someone tell me how we're just over a month away from WDC2025?! You've got your ticket already? Right?! webdevconf.com

my annual google workspace subscription just ended and delighted to announce I was able to switch to fastmail in just about an hour (and 50 minutes of that was swearing at DNS), it was v easy. 10/10 can recommend. LICK MY TAINT GOOGLE GEMINI, YOU WILL NO LONGER DARKEN MY DOOR

what a fucking stupid time to be a person who cares about other people

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

Here’s the link to file claims in the Anthropic case: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

as far as explaining gender to kids, "some people switch from boy to girl or boy to girl or whatever" is like a hundred times easier than explaining that we saw their teacher at the grocery store because she does not live at the school

HEY friends: recently seen heaps of "disclosures" from AI companies of the energy cost per question you type into chatbots (most recently from Google)? Presenting per-query 'efficiency' is part of big tech's efforts to hide its extremely real and happening-right-now climate impacts! NEW POST -->>>

We had a client drop through - if anyone is after design (Design Systems, UI, UX, etc), Webflow or front-end, please let us know. We're knowledgable about implementing design on different frameworks and backends (Node, Rust, Ruby, etc.) There's two of us with several decades of experience. ✌️

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

and I thought LLMs were supposed to automate all the jobs away so Space Fascism LLC could post record profits by not needing any actual humans. make up your mind my guy

Friends! I’m going to be looking for new clients from 1 October. If you know of any projects or teams that need (outside IR35) contract support with any of the following, please get in touch: - Content Design - Content Strategy - Design systems management - Design systems strategy - Documentation

Found a venue for the next Side Quest! Now I just need speakers... Anybody got a Side Project/Quest they want to talk about for 20 minutes on Sep 24 in London? Also, anyone fancy throwing £500 to sponsor and provide some drinks for the attendees?

okay everyone drop your sourceforge handles below

I love my chaotic city 🥰

please behold the kind of graphs you can generate when you burn down a rainforest to give you a team of phd-level experts in your pocket

Don't make me tap the sign.

> Today’s microwave can cook a frozen burrito. Tomorrow’s microwave will be able to cook an entire Thanksgiving Dinner. Ten years from now a microwave may even be able to run the country. www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-t...

pov: you're going camping for the weekend at your girlfriend's family farm

me and who

I’ve got some availability! In need of a wordsmith to help you craft your web copy, write some blog posts or put together a social media campaign? I can also help you build your content strategy and tell your brand’s story to your audiences. Get in touch to see how I can help 👉🏻

Every UK petition is like this

my new ai device will sit in a beer garden that backs onto a small river and drink three to five pints on a sunny late summer afternoon for you, leaving you free for more meetings and business calls

please sign my petition to legally mandate an option on every telephone menu, "press 9 if you have, in fact, already tried doing what you want to do on the website and there's no other possible reason on this god's green earth to voluntarily use the telephone, so we will not mention it again"

"CEO of the only company making money on LLMs (by selling chips) tells everyone that they need LLMs or they'll die". Thanks media outlets, very informative. Up next is the CEO of Coca-Cola and you'll never guess his opinions on drinking Coke.

UK users when the website asks them where they're posting from today.

PSA, if you're in the UK and have an Android device I strongly encourage you to download and install the Bluesky 1.104 APK from Bluesky's GitHub, and turn off auto-updates for it in the Play store when you're done 🫡 github.com/bluesky-soci...

As someone who came here as an immigrant, I can’t tell you how jarring it is to see this anti immigration narrative flooding our politics every single day, people will say they don’t mean you, it doesn’t matter, it’s disgusting

more businesses are relying on heroin use to increase employee efficiency. studies have found that one employee on heroin can replace three non-heroin employees at a fraction of the cost. ceo's should consider implementing heroin in their organizations or risk being left behind, say heroin dealers

I'll be there but please don't let that stop you from coming

Hard not to see this as a precursor to an AI bust similar to the dot com era. Wildly unsustainable

never been so grateful to an instance of past alex than the past alex of summer 2020 who bought a portable air conditioner as an extravagant treat. past alex, you're a fucking legend

Who's doing event sponsorships these days? Feels like a lot of the folks who sponsored events have kind of stopped and this is my cheats way of finding some more for @webdevconf.com 😅 (psst we also do community sponsorships if there are any smaller folks interested in supporting a great event)

Join us! There’s still time to snag yourself a ticket. Did we already mention we’re volunteer run with a fab speaker lineup and unique social for only £75? www.tickettailor.com/events/front...

Back in the day, Twitter used to be really good if I set up a thread to connect freelancers with clients. Let's see if Bluesky can do it. Clients: if you're looking for freelancers/contractors, get in the comments Freelancers/contractors: get in comments Everyone else: boosts appreciated

my smartwatch just congratulated me and said "moving around helps you stay healthy" when I got up from my desk chair to get a beer from the fridge

freelance front-end JS wrangler mutuals, any of you got availability and looking for work in the near future? a friend I trust has an opportunity for 2-3 months starting soon, 4-5 days/week :)