tech companies for 40 years: ok 1. we sell the device at a loss, 2. capture the market and 3. kill it on services tech companies now: what if we skip step one

yeah let me just talk to this fucking monkey for a minute about home electronics

Discovered something new about myself today. Went in a sauna and generated absolutely zero discernible sweat from my arms, legs or back. Confounding variable of "maybe it wasn't that hot" accounted for because everyone else in there was fuckin dripping, like normal people.

I'm playing the phoenix wright games for the first time in ages and jesus shitting fuck the whole justice system is dystopian fuckin hell. trials capped at three days and the only way of securing a not guilty verdict is for the defence to pin the crime on a witness?????

This is great, and it's worth revisiting their wonderful Tintin kit from a few years back.

Just need everyone to know that the Belgium men's soccer team has new jerseys based on the art of Rene Magritte and this is the official photo shoot

oh, youre sad during pride month? go see great homosexual clown "fagliacci," I hear theyre performing tonight

"Working class" in 2026 means a blue haired barista with they/them pronouns, a Asian immigrant nail technician, and an undocumented hotel cleaner. And we are going to keep having the same fights until we let the midcentury illustrator mirage of the white guy in plaid with the lunch pail go.

Man, all these stories about Anthony Head...it reminds me of when George Michael, Ray Liotta and Burt Reynolds died and there were endless personal stories from people who had wonderful experiences knowing them. Just anecdote after anecdote about top guys. RIP to another good one x

R.I.P Anthony Head 💔

Pop stars doing their bit.

Chickens Georg, who lives in a cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

Today's woke youth would only be interested if he were an Otzi the iceTHEM

love that whenever there's a sourdough story, 11 million people send it to me anyway, iiiiinteresting to see nobody is writing horrible things about how feminism has gone too far about ötzi the iceman 💅

Astrology For Men is a perfect description and a book waiting to happen

There's a lot of weird stuff in the reactionary right which I 100% put down to Russian interference because it makes no sense in western theologies (and therefore culturally) but is wildly rooted in eastern orthodoxy

can't get enough plankton? krill issue

I'm half cut and therefore considering my Great Work Of Art that I will one day make, it's a toss up between: 1. A George Michael jukebox musical about Princess Di's life-she-never-had after the Paris tunnel 2. A George Michael jukebox musical about the 1974 invasion, set in a small Cyprus village

A friend did the maths on this and noted that in the last 5 years there has been one hostile news article for every ten trans people in the population total.

The important point to remember is NO SHE DOESN'T. What was published yesterday were guidelines for service providers. They impose NO obligations on individuals and are NOT the law. People want you to believe otherwise, to intimidate trans people. But they haven't yet criminalised their existence.

Me, every time I take my glasses off:

Since we've been in Portugal, my butch trans gf hasn't been misgendered even once, and I'm not sure if this means it's an absurdly tolerant country, or if simply the act of saying "obrigada" immediately establishes correct pronouns

Every time I leave the country, I am struck by how singularly horribly-behaved and badly-trained British dogs are. Seems like everywhere in Europe there's no jumping, no barking, dogs walking at heel and either completely ignoring humans and other dogs or being very polite with a cursory sniff.

TFW you have absolutely no memory of taking a selfie but it's a complete banger so you're gonna post it anyway

Auditory processing disorder a superpower when you're travelling with a group where nobody speaks the local language. Suddenly that not actually fucking understanding anything and figuring it out from context cues really comes in handy.

These days they hang people like Jesus from cranes, these days

Well, since I didn't get much from this aside from a million recs for pasteis de natas, gonna start a thread of things I enjoyed eating in Lisbon with a fish/shellfish allergy, because I love you all but it's untenable for me to spend 6 days eating only custard pies...

I'm going to Lisbon next month! Would really appreciate recommendations from the Portuguese and well-travelled among you of places to eat or dishes to order that don't contain anything that will kill me (finned fish, crustaceans, molluscs). Appreciate the fish allergy is a pain in Portugual lol

Scoring myself 10/10 on leaving drinks for a job I genuinely liked after attempting to sing The Parting Glass with Tom Hooper levels of ugly cry, snot and overall tunelessness, then doing tarot readings for everyone.

unless it's lou reed, in which case he wrote multiple songs that were "please give me A pussy"

practice saying "this is the worst pour of Guinness I've ever seen, call that a head?" because you're gonna need it

seeing dropkick murphys next month and facing a choice: do I work on my cardio to get myself pit fit or do I accept that everyone else there will also be middle aged and therefore prepare for mild jostling while complaining about lower backs and knees

Swift alert: woken at 4am by my noisy temporary neighbours. They're back and they're SCREECHY!

What did Margaret Thatcher write on her tumblr profile? Miners DNI

First barbecue of the year, lads

Really enjoying the BBC Good Food website.

On this day in 2006, Neil banged out the tunes

BBC news might want to get someone to moderate the automated headline feed because they put this up literally seconds before the comms blackout and it gave me a heart attack

I'm going to Lisbon next month! Would really appreciate recommendations from the Portuguese and well-travelled among you of places to eat or dishes to order that don't contain anything that will kill me (finned fish, crustaceans, molluscs). Appreciate the fish allergy is a pain in Portugual lol

A couple of years ago, there was a minor heatwave and my gf was recovering from surgery. The house was fucking sweltering and nothing we could do would fix it, despite airflow generally being great. Turns out at one point while working her way up the stairs she'd knocked the thermostat to 30C

Yeah, well it's not so great down here either, ABC News.

“…And now you see why Neil always said never to mention — oh, hey Houston, we’re back. Saw normal, far side of the moon things.“

One of them hides. Other three pretend there never was a fourth crew member. This works best if the one in hiding has a twin back on Earth who can pop up in the control room and shout “surprise!”

Best case scenario, both the crew and mission control prank each other about what happened while they were out of contact

I agree with the idea of them coming around speaking Klingon. But switch it up. The Americans are all talking in Klingon, but the Canadian is talking in Na'vi. And someone has some gagh. #ArtemisII

Just say nothing. Stay absolutely silent for the rest of the trip.