The thread below totally debunked this 'story' over the weekend. This is the Mail today. You can read below that they were there for days without incident or trouble, but look at the images the Mail opted to use...

Made the move from Windows to Linux on the old gaming desktop. Now i don't like games.

Continuing to use #MicrosoftOffice / American software solutions when there have long been excellent (and free, #OpenSource, #European) alternatives available is sooo 2012. Get back to 2026 with @libreoffice.bsky.social #FOSS 👇

Bloody hate writing my CV. Hate reading all the useful advice like keep it short, snappy, but pack it full of every outcome and all the data ever. The current process says I can go up to 5 pages which just feels so odd. Been working on this for weeks and weeks...and I want it to end!

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

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I couldn't trust a nurse who has so little empathy for other humans.

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this week's newsletter is titled "aren't you tired of feeling insane all the time?" and I think it speaks for itself it is also free to read youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...

Is anyone still paying for Microsoft Office? Don't most people only use at home it because their workplace is being rinsed for a sub whilst handing over their data for AI training?

Okay, I can't let this one go. I live in Ireland, not the UK, but the use of this image by a supposedly socialist party is so stupid and offensive, I'm going to get stuck in. Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/

Another day, another job rejection. At least I got told this time rather than just ignored. FFS. What the hell am I going to do?! Sick of being #unemployed and just want work!

Reading this, one proposal is to raise state pension age to 70, which is fine except our ageist society routinely forces people out of work in their 50s. Add to that most people can't afford to retire in their 50s and you potentially have a giant fucking crisis right there

Dropping this here without comment...

Farage: epic grifter

My iPad has become nothing more than a glorified media player and colouring book. If it wasn't for a couple of graphics apps I use for a few projects I'd bin it off. I've dusted off my old surface pro, stuck Ubuntu on it & it's a million times more useful.

Everyday I realise my iPad is just getting less and less useful and I really would love to talk to someone who can explain how and why the apple ecosystem is so great. I'm sure you'd try to convince me wearing a red hat and sucking up to the orange one is great too.

South Korea pushed AI hard in schools. The national program was aborted within months, following massive pushback from students, parents and teachers, after a fortune had already been spent by both the government and education publishers restofworld.org/2025/south-k...

You gotta love it when your fully charged MacBook discharges overnight. If I had the money this thing would be gone!

Recently started working as an ESL teacher. I don't think it is for me. There are so many things that go against all I learnt whilst teaching in the (secondary) classroom and through CPD.

Apples universal control is awful. Why does it work so inconsistently? Sign out, sign back in, reboot, restart, mess about, repeat. The next device will not be made by Apple & all of their OSes can get in the bin!

Ah FFS. Fucking @vercel.com. Good job I'm lazy and haven't updated the site in a while. Guess now is the time to plan and do the updates I wanted as I shift to a new platform.

this is, no exaggeration, some of the most loser shit i have ever seen in my life

Carl Benz has an idea

A therapist who doesn't respect your pronouns has someone else as a client; they are serving an interest that is not yours and you shouldn't participate.

I wonder if this guy is related to "Boris Johnson" who introduced "voter id" as Prime Minister in 2023 ... off the back of some crazy US conspiracy theories ... and in the process, made digital ID pretty much inevitable.

A particular characteristic of fascism is the fetishization of masculinity and the subordination of women. Fascism is virulently male supremacist, uber machismo, and rife with sexual anxiety about gender roles. This is 100% Fascism.

Christ, where did the last hour go? Have to get back to some really shitty training soon. I was supposed to have a nap after dropping the OH off this morning and narrowly avoiding a crash on the autovia. In stead I'm going to make 2 coffees, cross my fingers and hope.

"there'll be lots of people in the LGBT community and allies who would say that's outrageous"; yeah, like me @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social. Please explain how this treats trans people with "dignity and respect". You're an abject disgrace on trans rights. As a gay man my message to you is "resign".

What went wrong in little Wes' life that made him this horrible fuckwit? I'd really love to chat to the guy but I'm sure he's far too busy chatting up the dumbfucks who frequent mumsnet and pandering to right wing nimrods.

SO my job hunt has been really shitty. Last place is either not responding to reference request or is giving something shitty (I know that they've done this at least once!). I know that I'm not great at selling myself either. [1/..]

Today has mostly been spent installing Ubuntu on the old Surface Pro, trying to get steam running - I want to try as bit of gaming on Linux, and trying. to run my cupboard inventory app on my little homeserver. Nothing is going as expected. Damn it!

Has anyone ever asked that stupid ms copilot that got pushed into windows how to bin windows and move over to Linux?

I love it when Americans hit back at me mugging off the US with "SORT YOUR OWN COUNTRY OUT FIRST" like I'm a) a person with any power to do that and b) like I don't mug off my stupid shit government all the time. Quit your tantrum and read my hot takes, Murican.

Trying to pick up an older project of mine, which means yet again I'm not working on my gamedev stuff. THis project though, which I am sure there are alreqady many like it, is something that ahs been on my mind for a LONG time and is something I need (well at tleast this initial stage) now.

I reallly like tech and if I had money I'd be buying stuff all of the time. BUT this need to have us/ourselves connected constantly is insane. Giving more data to the likes of Zuck the cuck (or is he just a weird lizard?) seems mental. Especially when his stuff is so crappy.

I'm not sure* how I feel about the gov spending £9m on advertising for new teachers when the system is in such a state. This is money that could go towards fixing the mess made by consecutive govs.

So Kimmel tells the truth, and Trump‘s FCC lies and attacks him for “appearing to mislead the public.” That’s as Orwellian as you get. Punishing voices for truthful criticism of a fascist government. And BBC, sharing that headline without noting that it’s a lie is embarrassing for you.

Slow going on my very basic frontend skills update. Sitting talking to the minis is not helping!

Damn it! Forgot the rule - "don't engage - block and move on". Anyway... time to buy some chocolate digestives, make coffee and cry over some bloody CSS.

This actually makes me feel sick. The UK is broken and those in power have sold out to billionaires.

Zack Polanski, "Are you comfortable with the most powerful man on earth banning books, militarising the police?" Penny Mordaunt, "That's not the point"