UK anti smart glasses petition one to publicise https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/769206

I think I saw someone asking recently what the next milkshake duck was going to be. Well, we've got that answer this weekend. #mullvad

We went out for a walk this morning after the rain, and were pleased to see a flock of house martins collecting mud from a newly formed puddle to fix up their nests.

Thunder and rain for a bit, then 30 degrees again. All perfectly fine, nothing to worry about.

The government could designate supermarket chilled aisles as cold places, thus dealing with the heat crisis in the same way as the cost of living.

Birdle 🇬🇧 23/06/2026 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Birdle United Kingdom https://birdle.co.uk/ I've been playing for a while but never got it in one before. It helped that we were at a holiday park recently where some of these were seemingly singing 24 hours a day.

I've been to the post office to drop off an item, got enraged by the browntops parroting far right attack lines and enjoyed the delicate aroma of a hot bin truck (it would have to be general waste today). I'm back in the study with a fan rearranging air.

[UKPol] Whoever it is who actually runs Labour have now had to bring in a leader from outside the parliamentary party twice, which may give an idea of how they view their MPs, let alone their members.

As the billionaire executive chairman of Amazon has said that water should be rationed for human beings to feed the plagarism machine, I have finally closed my personal Amazon and AWS accounts. It's a small thing, but I can't get to his stockade to cement over his water supply. #amazon #fuckbezos

[UKPol] The inexorable march of Reform UK plc continues, with three Parliamentary by-elections on the same day increasing their representation by none. Long may it continue.

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I saw this headline from my local rag and fleetingly hoped that it was 'Vindaloo': https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/26185689.asda-offers-free-hot-drinks-people-named-caroline/ #thefootball

Tonight's rabbit hole has been brought to us by Pigeon in a Peanut, which is a product of Archie McPhee of Seattle, who can be found and marvelled at at https://mcphee.com .

The Ikea restaurant on a Tuesday evening is a manifestation of Limbo on Earth. And I don't dancing under sticks.

Stamer's legacy is to hand over more data to the US tech duopoly, make mobile devices that don't run their operating systems effectively illegal and open the door for additional surveillance as when it is required by this and future governments. Just what the money wants. Well done everyone.

I'm the spotlight this month at the Association of Ghostwriters! Check it out. I'm also on the market for work at the moment. I can write something for you to put your own name on. My last ghostwriting book is going through the publication process now. I specialize in narrative fiction and […]

A chap around here has two young cockerpoos. One has a harness that says 'FRIENDLY', and the other has one that says 'ANXIOUS'. I find myself wondering if he swapped them sometimes, or has others, such as 'SARCASTIC' or 'ETERNALLY OPTIMISTIC' for variety.

I thought it might be possible to get past platforming perpetrators of genocide and enjoy the rest of the camp spectacle that is the Eurosong tonight but it's proper taken the edge off it.

_Comedy look at bottle on table_ #gre #eurovision

Laibach advising Albania this year then #alb #eurovision

Dancers dressed by East 17. #eurovision

Germany send a Standard Eastern Eurobanger #ger #eurovision

Emo Right Said Fred #den #eurovision

It's all a bit of a shame, I was looking forward to finally getting the chaos with Ed Milliband we all deserve.

Well, Laibach are making me laugh again with the new LP. I've occasionally wondered what would happen it they represented Slovenia at Eurovision and at least three tracks would do it.https://laibach.bandcamp.com/album/musick #music #laibach

[UKPol] I'm shocked, I tell you, shocked https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/03/starmer-adviser-varun-chandra-undisclosed-meetings-us-tech-bosses

Lidl have their own knockoff Vimto called Mixto. I humbly propose that as its name is similar to an aspect of the recording process, it's adopted as a Bonkwave beveridge. #bonkwave #vimto #notvimto

As I've got around to announcing it on the DeltaChat forum at last, I've set up a UK based DeltaChat server at https://chat.thisisyour.tech, and if you want to try it out, go ahead. #deltachat

Well, I've just ordered a Seeed Wio L1 Pro. I sense a slippery slope ahead of me. #meshcommunication

@Vibracobra23 Hi Chris, quick question, how do you find eBid as a selling platform? I signed up but was a bit dubious about needing to pay to sell up front. Thanks Simon

I switched my broadband to Brsk just before they got taken over by YouFibre. The connection is fine, but if you want to see a perfect example of enshittification, have a look at their Trustpilot reviews for the last month.

I've got @postmarketOS running with kde-plasma on my Lenovo IdeaPad Duet Chromebook. Only problem so far is that the touchpad is a bit jumpy, but I've rescued it from the ever increasing bloat of ChromeOS and it will be handy for when I don't want to carry a laptop around.

Big shout out to Proximic, presumably a commercial company selling services, that want me to disable my Adblocker before they will tell me what they do. No babes.

Just told the young local Labour candidate that we won't be putting up a sign for the elections. He didn't seem surprised, and I do hope they're able to send a message back to Labour HQ and that someone will pay attention.

Aldi have some Easter Walkers Sensations, chilli and chocolate flavour. i had to try them, naturally, but I don't think the world is quite ready for dessert crisps. #crisps

Reading a Nation.Cymru article and there's an ad for Tŵt on it. Big time! @jaz

Late evening thought: 'devops' increasingly means mitigating the damage that 30,000 typescript packages can do to a system. #devops #sysadminlife

We have been in the presence of greatness (Jim Moir at the Cartwright Hall, Bradford)

Idly looking for a second hand 16GB stick of RAM on eBay for the Lenovo TinyPC that runs this instance and well, that was interesting. I do have a disused laptop that could be raided, but I also hope that Sam Altman gets suffocated under a non-existent stack of silicon wafers, the grifting fuck.

Over the last few months I have been setting up my _online business presence_ and I now have a website that I'm reasonably happy with (Wordpress as I got fed up with fighting with raw CSS) so if you know of anyone who needs UK based remote Linux sysadmin support, or help with setting up web […]

It appears that ChatGPT uses Cloudflare workers and other dynamic DNS services to retrieve content to respond to queries - specifically images in the issue I'm looking at. Fortunately, they at least use the GPTbot user-agent for these queries, so if you were suffering from this kind of traffic […]

[UKPol, cynicism] The petition "Ban foreign media ownership, enact a social media levy & new regulatory" has just been launched by the Media Sovereignty Act Campaign (https://mediasovereignty.org/). I think it deserves backing to see the debate in which Labour decide that everything is all […]

Our next door neighbour's cherry tree is looking resplendent this morning.

Our six year old Samsung TVs have recently started showing one of their streaming channels in the 4000 range when switched on. It can be turned off in the settings but it just seems like yet more rent collecting. I don't want a dumb TV, just one I'm in control of.

I'm surprised that I've only just come across html-load.com, which appears to be yet another anti-adblocker tool. The Yorkshire Post has started using it, and it's blocked by @[email protected]. I won't be bothering with the Yorkshire Post anymore then.

I have a soft spot for SoulIISoul's song. This is about as live as they got too. #totp

Aww, Fuzzbox... #totp