>ARCHIVE: >spotter: voodoo_ray; >56.006400,-2.517320; >1809hrs 23/6/22

Hey you know what I’ve been saying for the past decade about Meta being both extremely evil and extremely stupid www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

Locutus safety tip: To prevent identity theft, avoid having your own identity.

Locutus starter tip: To form an obedient collective, promote fear and anger to rally individuals around an imaginary problem.

Listening to Radio 4 Extra *Hidden Trasures* A Shred of Evidence because caught a bit on the way to my appt this afternoon and I missed the beginning/end but policeman had just been and Richard was bizzy creating an alibi. Had NO idea he'd already consulted a lawyer's view BEFORE police visit!

Fusion tea. Lasagne*, greek salad** - including olives which were Spanish.*** *M&S - yellow stickered ** - model's own (home made - even peeled the cu-cumber *** - also em and esses - but should've got some kalamata I think

This is such nonsense - and considering GPs difficult enough to contact for the fitnote required for employee's sick pay after 7 days, and to be continuous for benefit claimants pending the work capability assessment, they'll be MOST unimpressed by schools unilateraly deciding they require them...

This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

My instinctive response? "Izzit toast. And butter?"

Blue Tits brat have been yelling from the trees for at least the last week have been escorted to the feeder at the side of the house. Saw two being fed this morning before I left for werks, and surprised a couple sitting in the tray feeder full of sunflower hearts that's two thirds up the pole.

Accosted by 3 people regarding parking charges at the hospital - neither the App nor the card reader were working. One man asked "do you pay now or when you leave" - when I advised the former complained "how on earth do I know how long it's going to take?" Anyways told em all to tell receptionist

Don’t leave drawers open, you get drawer goblins

Perfectly gorgeous portrait of a boy holding his hooded falcon, painted by Wallerant Vaillant who was born on this day in 1623.

Wrong to the point of malpractice

PARASITE was released 7 years ago today. Among the most popular works of South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho, and the first foreign film to win Best Picture at the Oscars, the making of story will have you think something is lurking in your basement… 1/40

This is a sobering long read about multiple failures to protect two very vulnerable women - seemingly every step of the way. I hope Tracey is resting in peace. I doubt any lessons have been learned.

I know it's Caturday today but this is for an otter day. 😊 www.theguardian.com/world/video/...

Search I just did there now.

Realised me and the floofmeister Manny-D have the same pout at this unseasonableness

Due to the everything too fragile to listen to anything except radio4 extra at the moment. Strangely hooked on the ?60s serial Charles Chilton's Journey into Space that I started catching in the car on the way home from work such that I started leaving work in time for most of the next episode

European alternative to Google Docs and Microsoft Office launches on 9 June: free, open source and online, using existing building blocks. An important step in freeing ourselves from US control. www.zdnet.com/article/euro...

Blimey! I was on my way to work this am as one motorway police marked car then 2 unmarked vehicles oncoming on the A1000 towards Digswell, then followed by 2 fire engines. All blue lights. BBC News - Man killed on train line after escaping custody van - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Feels like it's going to rain. We haven't any forecast until tomorrow between 3 and 5 pm when it's a 30% chance (except 4pm goes up to 40% before dropping back). Saw discussions yesterday I think about whether you can smell rain before it falls. I. Have. Theories.

Just stumbled upon (elsewhere) a brawl concerning the word "smart" and whether its "pain" meaning is hopelessly obscure, and for the love of

I've been putting fresh water out in a variety of receptacles every morning and evening in this heat wave for any passing mammal/bird. There's a deep metal dish I used to use for the fox (Sassy's licked all the gravy off meats) but now clean and water but each evening its murky and grim.

A) phones for the actual benefits teams across our 10 district councils (many contracted out shared services) virtually impossible to get through on, if you can even find a number on their website and b) they are trying to drive online contact for all queries. Dire! B) look I tried to reply but

"It's very simple" is British for "you fucking moron"

A British person of that voice and class saying "It is very simple" in that tone is one of the most contemptuous things we can do.

Two more drownings today in UK. One in my home city of Oxford. Both youngsters. Slate have (I'm told) kindly removed the paywall on this article.

Wales-adjacent hivemind: what's a nice place to stop about midway between Manchester and Lampeter, please?

31° at nearly 6.30 pm is ridikerlus

Also: what's with these new wing mirrors that look like they're just the stump after the unit has been broken off? 🤷‍♀️

There appears to have been a run on watermelon. Unsure if Hertford only or UK wide. Please report back.

Nature always finds a way

I've been out to replenish all the water dishes that were already either evaporated/half done since I did em at 6pm

The fox just trotted past the car. I got a fabulous photo, obvs 😏

Too hot STILL when I got home earlier. Been lying on my bed with the fan on full ever since

An unusual appeal judgment was published earlier this month – a successful appeal by a Cafcass guardian against a court order that she arrange and supervise contact sessions between a child and the father. The judge had put the guardian in the... https://transparencyproject.org.uk/?p=30906

Proof reptiles lack self-awareness, because if they were self-aware, this would be so embarrassing for both of them that mating would never happen and they'd be extinct.

I have no children but it seems to me I this is a good thing. Particularly changing the addictive elements of design. Having spent a couple of days with 7 & 10 who in between some computer game playing would continuously scroll through short form videos such that we all yelled AI slop at each other

For different reasons from when I reposted someone else's quote post of this LAST week.

And I'll be randomly selecting winners for this giveaway later today, so you still have time to enter!

Re the financial shenanigans of Nicola Sturgeon's husband, I noticed lots of comments suggesting she would have noticed the spending and is therefore implicated. It keeps occurring to me that the items bought could have been bought as gifts for someone else... 😬

Attended a funeral that opened with a piece of music I thought I recognised and would place as renaissance-ish - completely discombobulated when it was referred to as from a film. V relieved having looked it up to see it drew on themes from Purcell (and later in full piece Mozart). Baroque, tho. 🤷‍♀️

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Who even knows what temperature it actually is any more? 3 different answers. Unreasonably AND unseasonably hot, is my view. 😐

Taking paracetamol because I've been awake an hour and a half, read all the fan chat, and still can't clear my head of intrusive thoughts. Plus actual headache. Obvs

Top and tailing with a 10 and 7 yr old again. 7 yr old who was mu way up and supposed to be in the middle has rolled to opposite side, which might explain why 10 who is tail has his foot in my stomach

The warmest temperature ever recorded in JUNE is 35.6°C. If the latest UKV is right, there’s a small chance we’ll beat that in May. Unprecedented & extreme doesn’t really cover it, consistent with climate change however.

Oooo, watercolor scandal! One of those heavily hyped budget lines (Phoenix) released a set of dirt cheap "professional" watercolor paints made with pricy pigments, including genuine viridian, but then quietly changed the pigment list on its website to the cheaper Phthalo Green.