Bah. Just as I was finally falling asleep, some arsehole with an obnoxiously loud motorbike went past. FFS.

Right now I have 9.8 problems, and all of them are meters per second per second.

Gotta say, on my bingo card for fediverse nutters today, a pro Stalin, pro genocide, racist was not what I expected. I thought the fediverse was better than that. Fortunately it's also had more wholesome posts about growing chillis and bikes and museums. Which counters some of the utter […]

[all the swears, to improve my mental health] I do not want to read fucking Blue Origin's fucking "consolidated response" to the many comments submitted to the FCC on why 51,000 "AI data centre" satellites is a fucking terrible idea. I really REALLY don't want to write a response. But I have to […]

Some antisocial twat is parked up downstairs playing music so loud it's drowning out what I'm watching. I'm 7 floors up.

Am very sleepy but can't goto bed yet as the laundry is in the washing machine and I need to stay awake to hang it out to dry.

Dear Fediverse: What's the most dramatic supermarket spillage you've witnessed? (This post sponsored by cleaning up after a catastrophic cous-cous bag failure, and noting that the lentils were in a similar state at the supermarket last week. I've encountered the occasional red wine murder scene […]

Even after three visits, I still get goosebumps as I push open the heavy doors and step inside once more. Built in the 1920s, this stunning oval powerplant control room is one of the most impressive examples of Art Deco industrial architecture in the world […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

Today after a stressful meeting, the friend who accompanied me asked "what shall we do now?" Given how hot it is, I suggested the Rijksmuseum, as they have Aircon, and since we both have a museum card, it doesn't cost anything. So we spent about 45 mins in there. Most of it just sat on the […]

RE: https://flipboard.social/@ScienceDesk/116652914668411600 I'm totally going to get asked to do local interviews about this, aren't I? Blue micromoon! I don't know if I can even say that without giggling, it's just silly. (But sure, a hook to get people interested in orbital dynamics and the […]

:fs: Trenitalia France finally accepts Interrail on their Frecciarossa trains to and from France, as well as domestic legs within France ! Reservation fares are equal to everywhere else on Frecciarossa trains ! […]

RE: https://mastodon.world/@nlnews/116652836525700990 Dear @gemeenteamsterdam, can we have these please? Especially in nieuw west.

1.8 GB per emoji

Had to do a Mandatory Corporate Training on AI policy. For some reason, the language selection defaulted to Chinese, so I went ahead and did it in Chinese just to amuse myself. However, corporate English that has been clearly machine-translated to Chinese is still quite excruciating, and being […]

Yay! It appears that Trenitalia’s Paris-Milan Frecciarossa has finally joined the Eurail/Interrail network, as passholder reservations now bookable at partners.italiarail.com/default?forc.... Rail Planner app still needs the ‘not in pass network’ message removing.

This is a big moment. Massive. We are now the closest we've come to electoral reform since 1997.

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RE: https://sfba.social/@revjss/116649005765746593 With the return of the wolf to the Netherlands, there's been outcry from farmers about predation on their sheep. What noone seems to ask is "do you have livestock protection animals?" For centuries humans have raised sheep in areas with […]

I’m vaguely looking at putting some #railway #timetables onto paper to have a backup during a trip I’m planning this summer, where I expect both power and coverage to be sparse. I’m guessing that Fedi is the right place to ask this: Is there a guide to timetable layout best practices out there? […]

phishing training really doesn’t spend enough time on “how to structure your mass corporate communications in such a way that your employees won’t conclude that you communicate exactly like scammers and still expect a reply so they’d better assume scammy emails are legitimate”

An incident over M&S changing rooms proves anti-trans women need to get a life - Metro https://apple.news/Ap3c8pjLNTmyr52t_hT9JTQ

the infosec people at my work are rioting because the Distant Corporate Overlord sent an email that scores 10/10 on the phishing scale (“We want to give you a present to thank you for all your hard work! [Click here] to claim your gift!”)

When this all comes crashing down, remember how little the Epstein Class valued your and your labour

INTERCAL: We have keywords like PLEASE and IGNORE because we think it's funny Anthropic: We have PLEASE and IGNORE *baked into our source-code* because we have no fucking idea how this thing works

I'm now hearing where it's important to be polite to the idiot robot because then you might get better results CAN YOU FUCKING HEAR YOURSELVES?

lmao

I found some soup in the freezer, so that's been warmed up for breakfast.

Just had the realisation that I should probably do something about breakfast. But in this heat, I'm not sure what my body would like to eat.

in all, ahem, seriousness, if you want a Liberated Social Network but you only want stern serious grown-up posts on it, you haven’t liberated jack

a stalwart Man was subjected to my post with a cute girly aesthetic and he took the time to let me know how much it annoyed him that there are posts on Mastodon that are cute and girly. There is of course only one solution

I wanted to share some train art today “Entre deux gares, le rêve continue” by Chloé Dousson, Beaux-Arts de Liège

Because of over-hunting, the Common Murre / Guillemot (Uria aalge) was down to 20 nesting pairs on Stora Karlsö Island 130 years ago. Thanks to these birds' protected status since then, there are currently over 25,000 nesting pairs on the island. ❤️ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_murre […]

Mapped: UK areas with the most speed cameras revealed https://www.the-independent.com/news/uk/home-news/speed-cameras-uk-cities-fines-map-b2984418.html Now we know where they care about keeping people safe. Sadly, tossers like "motoring journalists" don't always have the thinking skills to […]

Trans people like me are facing segregation now. We need parliament to restore our rights — Alexandra Parmar-Yee https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/27/trans-people-segregation-parliament-supreme-court-ehrc

Big let down, to be honest

Writers: here are ten free and easy ways to add a dash of visual interest to your blog posts without resorting to AI imagery (which signals to readers that your blog post is probably also AI and there’s no need to bother reading it): 1) A thoughtful photo […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

Boy who is begrudgingly putting up with having dozens of sticky seeds combed out of his leg-fluff

“Business Idiot they can do anything, because executives and managers do not regularly do much work. As a result, they have little idea what work looks like other than when they look over your shoulder, which is why they wanted you back in the office, and their distance from production is why […]

@hacks4pancakes Your travails remind me of this meme

NEW: A likely hate crime in Chicago left a prominent trans science educator, @jeymccreight.bsky.social with severe injuries after a brutal late night beating. McCreight told @evanurquhart.bsky.social he's shaken but determined to continue his activism. CPD confirmed an ongoing investigation.

The tide had already started to turn in the form of stock prices following these layoff announcements, if even the business analysts who normally love a blood sacrifice aren't buying it anymore it's game over for this rhetoric

I believe that is the sound of the tide starting to turn "AI has just arrived. How is it possible they're already losing jobs?" https://www.thestateofbrand.com/news/jensen-huang-ai-layoffs

Awesome. One of my favourite authors of cosy sci fi ( @clacksee) has a new book out in July. https://whitehartfiction.co.uk/products/donut-station-ebook Time to preorder! If you haven't read any of Si Clarke's awesome books, may I recommend the Devon island mars colony series, and the […]

A couple of days ago I tooted about how I changed my view on the guillotine. I had not expected how many people have replied trying to justify that they wish to execute people. Including people justifying that the USSR was a good thing. The same USSR that killed 3.3 million of its people under […]

Sometimes I imagine a world in which European leaders like @president.europarl.europa.eu spent as much time supporting the European model of tech as they do cosying up to foreign oligarchs with openly anti-democratic projects and anti-European foreign interference activities. 🧵

Can we just take a moment to appreciate that the Bone Museum in Brooklyn has a cat, and the cats name is Bone Jovi. Bone Jovi, the bone museum cat.

@quixoticgeek There's also Sir Indiana Bones, of the Museum of Osteology (in Oklahoma City). https://www.skeletonmuseum.com/pages/sir-indiana-bones

Temperature dropped suddenly, and the breeze picked up. I guess a weather front is coming in. Forecast is for Wednesday to be about 10°C or more colder than Tuesday.

I put a tiny used bookstore in my yarn shop because nobody stopped me

NASA announces 3 uncrewed missions to the moon this year to prepare to build a base https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/nasa-announces-moon-missions-prepare-build-base-rcna346349