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Your friends don’t like voice memos?? They hate that you self-produced a micro-podcast about them???

your nephew being super cute and funny?? gf sending you baby memes?? that’s progeny propaganda progprop.

noooothing hits like a strong signal, no-password wifi network called “linksys” - just saw one in the wild! feels like 2005 again! xx

british airways offers courses for people with fear of flying!! super super neat flyingwithconfidence.com (((context: I tried to do a discovery flight this morning at a flight school but panicked after 2 minutes as I was super terrified -- now, I'm looking into facing/overcoming this...!)))

it's gmail, but you can sort your inbox by sender.

placebo is a hell of a placebo.

i’m very for phones/glasses making a loud, un-mutable shutter sound when taking a picture but what sound should devices make when filming? a continuous 35mm film “clickety”? a “recording in progress! recording in recording!” announcement?

“the call is coming from within the house haha!” but it’s just me describing sadness to a therapist

incredible product market fit. will outlive us all.

see you all at the

i want a full late 90s computing revival experience. i want hard drives to be as slow as magnetic disks. i want streaming audio in realmedia format. 56k connections. external VGA monitors. and CD-Rs.

the fact that this is still for sale is astoundingly cool www.amazon.com/Linksys-WRT5... this history of the wrt54g unanticipated open sourc'ing of its firmrware is also fa-sci-nat-ing: tedium.co/2021/01/13/l... (I am wondering if I've owned less or more than 10 of these in my life... like...)

“AirPods Detected Near You” alert, but it’s just your partner’s airpods, so you end up getting a little map of your romantic stroll together.

devastating.

i swear to God, to all of the Gods, that this is, 100000000%, a real ad. What. The fuck.

apart from its gruesomeness, how is this not a more popular expression?? en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/the_rab...

oyster shot lobster roll artisanal hot sauce affogato famous slide from the internet thank you Boston www.instagram.com/reel/DOze3gf...

Airbnb access instructions aka a devious new form of captcha???

The hotel room is free but it’s $100 per hot, perfectly powerful shower with the best soaps.

had an extraordinary day at @tnmoc.bsky.social with folks from @recursecenter.bsky.social - so so many exhibits, and extraordinarily kind and patient volunteers our whole group was mesmerized by @peteronion.bsky.social's work on the "Elliott 803" - his deep knowledge of it, and incredible emulator.

site don't say Add to Cart over here in the UK. they say Add to Trolley...!! life is just so much more delightful here ok!!! I'm seriously giddy.

my friend @k-monk.org's CLAVIER-36 software - the web version! - is now live and out!! and on the HN frontpage!! clavier36.com/p/LtZDdcRP3h... enjoyyyyyyyyyy!!! AMA!!! have fun. make music. share sounds.

a wise British person just told me that the state of New York should actually technically be called New Yorkshire

my go to bulk downloading has been `wget -i urls.txt` for a very long while (create a file with a list of urls, and pass it to wget) just discovered github.com/aria2/aria2 -- it's a maaaaaaassively fast & capable parallel downloader. super super neat!

deeply and beautifully gloomy/dark album kavarimusic.bandcamp.com/album/cult-t...

why is this amazing university library in london letting me work here until midnight for 5 pounds?? incredible wifi, basically as good or better than a coworking space... ooooooooh......... ((((((((((from a friend who also noticed the coat of arms: "burning the midnight oil" (!!!!!!!!!!!!)))))))

may your houses be blessed with never enough house slippers (too many friends visiting you) and too many house slippers (may you know peace and quiet and too many slippers waiting for friends to come back) #tapotchki

Run, don't walk, to wfmu.org ...!! Amanda's new show: "The best in field recordings and sound effects. May be musical, natural, synthetic or majestic." Trust me..............!!!!!!

that’s too much data, bro

honored (hyperventilating, sweating, screaming) for this chat with Alexandra on the topic of indie/small web!! lots of amazing peeps mentioned - take a read

“Making friends is hard” Have you tried redirecting a group of spam receivers into doing wholesome things recently?? Literally 0 effort.

would "mucho mas bueno" be a good gringo band name?

Google always has my back (I was indeed searching for the emoji eyes) (i don’t have the emoji keyboard) (this post was about praising google anyway)

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

if this can soothe anyone our yc rejection email said “We saw that you haven't launched yet” even though we’ve been launched, have paying customers (not a ton, but not 0), and we provided all the user/revenue numbers and had 3 recs from yc founders it’s tough! keep building.

asked a young(er) person working at the apple store where to find a café to work from she opened tiktok and typed “café to work from in (borough)” I said… what? She said - yeah I use tiktok and chatgpt exclusively for search, not google (Tiktok did have some relevant results) I felt dialup-old.

don’t use these {%\=.,>.+]^ng thing when abroad mac went completely dark and would not boot at all. apple store person was like “oh yeah, those!” goddamn garbage. mini heart attack. like bringing your little baby kitty to the vet after a bad fall. she’s gonna be alright after all x x x

if 2 people are eating sandwiches and taking turns talking, each sandwich is a progress bar of how much time the other person had to listen to you

build a group (troupe) of friends who engage in mutual appreciation. appreciate everyone so much that it feels like you’re tickling them so hard they’re about to pee themselves. destroy any doubt in their minds that they are anything but the most absolutely delightful people you’ve ever met.

google maps, but it only shows places/restaurants whose description’s first word is “unpretentious” ((((It’s impossible to search descriptions!!)))) this comment, once again, is brought to you by London’s impeccable Indonesian/Malay cuisine scene maps.app.goo.gl/9pXvYq4uzzuC...

“Bam & Boozle” Good clown duo name!

you don't need a pomodoro timer you need Junkpolitik by Robin Foster fractalmeat.bandcamp.com/album/junkpo... "Through the performance practice rummaging, he uses found objects to explore ideas relating to viscerality in performance [...]"

it’s not my ultimate ultimate goal in life (somehow precipitate world peace?) but you have to admit that making *one* thing that is as useful, as frequently used, as delightfully cool, as a bus schedule real time hardware thingie must be prettttttty neat

respectfully why would you ever meal prep in london. astounding restaurant/food culture. surreal. a daily stew and (Turkish) coffee have fully healed me. religious experience. comes with a serving of bread. 12 pounds. maps.app.goo.gl/nxCtqM6Kktuk...

extremely great site &&&&&&&&& avant-garde music hellospiral.uk

opening up hours! to chat!! thank you @potato.horse for inspo and excited to hear from you ALL (aka everyone) byyyyyyyyyyyyye xxxxxxxx blog.greg.technology/2025/08/30/c...

you should be able to right click a location in google maps and see the neighborhood name

###londonnnnnn,uk if you're in/around town ++ would like to meet in person super down to collab on projects web/mobile/embedded?? ÷÷÷ plan or implement tomfoolery §¶§¶ make art, throw things at the walls. LAUNCH STUFF. LAUGH. • alternatively if you know good folks hereabouts, lmk!! • ´´ DM!!! ´´