“I can walk the calculus questions but i also have to literally count on my fingers” has been my deal since I sat GCSEs myself

It is many many camlings since i first tunked this halpock and it never occurred to me to distim tophthage by distimming a warb. I think I distimmed myself instead!

lmao they have finally reversed the process if plugging your phone into the cigarette lighter in cars

Sometimes clearing out old paperwork means chucking out ancient bills and receipts but sometimes it means the stash of bangface signs

Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂

Never mind that, where do i plug in my usb and where is the cue button

Discussed the Treaty of Shalimar with The Teenager yesterday and now have inevitable earworm of “What do you want from me” by Monaco because it was in heavy rotation when i did 1st year relativity and it starts with “sha-la la la la-la-la”.

I am absolutely here for @oliver.ie 's motion at tonight's Cork City Council meeting (referred to a relevant committee).

The really exciting thing about scraping data is that they’re always coming up with exciting new variations for you to deal with

Reading Wright's 1929 paper on colour perception was genuinely pretty radicalizing for me

You can tell it’s a beekeeping day because i tend to forget i’ve tucked my trouser legs into my socks and walk around looking like even more of a total dork than usual for most of the day. Beats getting stung though.

I was slightly worried that one of our queens wasn’t laying, but it turned out she was, just at the edge of the outer frames - a bit unusual but I guess the weather has been odd lately. Seeing larvae in different stages together like this always reminds me of Escher’s Metamorphosis II.

Going through an issue of the TLS from last December, I find a philosophy pun courtesy of Nigel Warburton that surely deserves wider currantsy.

ngl BSD gets more tempting by the day

Everyone’s treating this as a weird kind of joke when it’s well known that eg Xenophon was simply trying to get back home to Coney Island

I used to work on a system in a Very Large Bank which used cricket terms for errors & it was great for support, ‘cos instead of saying “umm it doesn’t work” or otherwise mangling the message, users would ring up & say “it says it’s been bowled a googly” and you knew exactly which line of code it was

Hey look it’s one of those pictures you can hear in your head

Fair but it led to the best deleted scene from In The Loop

Occasionally I wonder if it was a bit foolish dropping that much cash on a Thermarest neoair but then I actually use it and remember that, no, floating an inch and a half above the ground is in fact a superior camping experience.

Am i getting cranky in my old age or have certain vendors been a smidge slow releasing official fixes for CVE-2026-31431 ?

does sunscreen work for vampires

SYMBOLS ARE MORE MEANINGFUL THAN THINGS THEMSELVES

“It’s not clear what the petition is asking the UK Government or Parliament to do” come off it this is perfectly clear

Tonight at 9pm UK time @shed.gay will be DJing a byte/shader jam and I will be attempting to livecode something silly to go with the music. Be there! Or be someone who doesn't get to watch me forgetting which order the arguments to the line function go, again! www.twitch.tv/fieldfxdemo

I spent four hours on the glowsticks yesterday and five hours handing out water today and now my deltoids feel extremely odd

Normally there’s a long tail of exhausted folks in chicken suits towards the end but there didn’t seem to be as many this year by the time the broom wagon went past? Hopefully a lower casualty rate this year!

Runner just went past clutching a half empty pint of Neck Oil, a couple of tinnies and a rollup; that’s dedication to the cause.

Down to the walkers now but they’re still looking pretty cheerful; reckon I’ve handed out somewhere north of 425 litres of water since the start.

Elite wheelchairs zip through first, all sleek carbon-fibre cyborgs. Pro runners come next but generally nobody wants water until the club runners come through, at which point it’s nonstop madness for several hours.

At the Mile 12 water station with several cubic metres of water to hand out

Tower Bridge looking pretty eerie in the mist

Q. Why is the sound in this fairly decent club so shit? A. It’s a Funktion One and you’re standing in the wrong place. Every. Time.

TIL that in major emergency scenarios hospitals will transfuse O+ blood to conserve O- levels, because while you have AB antibodies from birth, Rh antibodies are acquired and there's a decent chance Rh- people won't have them, so chances are it's better than nothing

One of the many things I love about Keynes is that besides everything else he just exuded Chaos Bisexual Energy, up to and including being unable to sit straight

what i wouldn’t give to see Actual Gideon swordfighting the intensely annoying fascist techbro

"No Stonewall at Pride" wasn't on my 2026 bingo card but here we go

I don’t mind the stoner, the camp antiques guy, the mopey goth or even the bear, but the elderly woman with paranoid delusions can be really quite unsettling

on the 50th anniversary of the release of The Boys Are Back in Town I'm morally obligated to share my favorite story of all time

Intrusive thought for the past 48h has been this bit of academic genealogy: Ludwig Wittgenstein (tick vg) had as a student: Elizabeth Anscombe (vg even if I sometimes disagree) who had as a student: Roger Scruton (100% max power turbo wanker)

Years ago I found a thread about chopping onions where they found the best thing was to put a spoon in your mouth, because it forces you to breathe through your mouth; nose breathing draws the vapour too close to your eyes. Ever since I’ve just mouth-breathed while chopping, and it‘s been fine!

I think about this post every time I hear about a new and otherwise incomprehensible US foreign policy move

There is a barbershop quartet rehearsing in my living room, mmmmmmmmmmm!

First hive inspection of the year always awakens something in me; now I just want to spend all day singing ”Sumer is icumen in“ while setting fire to Edward Woodward

The start of spring means the start of beepoasting, and beepoasting means.. queenspotting!

😤✋ Black-Scholes is too simple, we should add string theory! ☺️👉 Black-Scholes is too complicated, RETVRN to the Bachelier model!

Sometimes you don’t need the bot, because it’s hard not to notice the thing charging down the river like a marine Death Star

yeah, you fuck him up, Dieter

Finally playing TOTK and I love how it encourages a certain sort of optimistic careful risk taking. So many times I squint at the map and think if I tool up and I take *just* the right route I could make it to that tower by air instead of slogging overground, and it usually works after a try or two