thank you, the company 'smol' for including this warning on my washing up liquid carton

right, can anyone who knows a bit about UK data protection tell me why it's ok for literally ever company I have bought something from now to email me saying 'ooh, tell us how we did please!" What part of buying a product means I've implicitly opted into those emails? I HATE it.

sick of seeing this LIE every damn day

I cancelled my Spotify subscription and this popped up on the confirmation screen and made me even more glad I cancelled it.

I cried at least five times reading this book. It is like it was written for me. Yeah it's about weightlifting but it's also about learning to take care of yourself and to trust yourself. I love it.

lil live bug in Slack, you love to see it

The flip side of this is the male author who was asked about his writing routine, and who talked about how much he loved the feeling that he could close his door and then “the day is completely yours” to focus on writing. He had, at the time, two young children… and, of course, a wife

its just over nine months since i last drank alcohol. nine months! as if my sober self has been gestated, and now born

One last time: Every time I post it he goes up five more points.

is that good???

had all sorts of big plans for what I was going to do in the week off before I start my new job (build a server less twitter clone and all ci/cd piplines for it) but in the end I've just been rereading The Pragmatic Programmer for the first time since 2018 and what a bloody great book

don't tell me what I'll be glad about thanks

I keep thinking "wow it's great I fixed my relationship with food, now I eat what I want and it's good satisfying stuff" but what actually happened was: my ADHD got diagnosed, I eat for dopamine much less, plus I now take amphetamines every day which cut my appetite in half.

it is my last day in my job tomorrow! this job happened to coincide with probably the most eventful period of my person life as well as being a pretty wild ride professionally and i am READY to move on to the next chapter. can't wait to experience a whole new set of problems.

Developers? What are the tools that make your life easier at the moment? Of any kind? I love recommendations

when will the world realise that i would simply rather die than claim a free case of beer from beer 52

a millionaire? I’ve got two toilets in my house, man. what more could you want

first ever 6/6 on @learnedleague.com and it's against my own mother. Shakespearean.

keep not clicking this, i am assuming i'm being invited to chat with Jira/Atlassian's new AI assistant? I

I'm working on part of the codebase that no one has touched since I set it all up two years ago, a greenfield project. getting some genuine pangs of empathy and nostalgia for my former self, who knew everything about how she was going to set things up and build this project exactly right 🥹

some of you might not know I'm a cinephile now: My profile on Letterboxd boxd.it/cY6X

genuinely forgot i'd "reviewed" these films

i found a bug in chat gpt. The WAEC is the West African Examinations Council - it essentially gave me a link to the exam timetable for Nigerian secondary school exams this year?!

used to be you could just have a good laugh at these guys but now you wake up one day and they’re the assistant secretary of state for near eastern affairs or something

Is everyone on Survivor a crisis actor?

when I have strange persistent thoughts while I'm drifting off to sleep I sometimes just write em down to get em out of my brain and now my phone todo list has some entries like this

I've been watching later seasons of The Larry Sanders Show while on vacation and so far I've seen musical guests Butthole Surfers, They Might Be Giants and PAUL WESTERBERG!!! what a fucking show.

I tried to google “are most people named Gordon Canadian” but I dropped my phone in the middle and I’m fully hysterical

holy heck I am finally listening to Cheekface properly and they sound SO MUCH like Cake (who I love, it's not a complaint at all)

Did anyone else know this about sonic the hedgehog? I feel insane. mods lock 341 page thread "Which neo-liberal world leader is most like Sonic the Hedgehog?" I have never before in my life thought anything was a psyop before but this?

hello, what's your favourite music you're listening to at the moment? farming recommendations so I don't just listen to Alopecia *again*. any genre, I like hearing anything new to me that people are into!

I'm amazed he even knows who I am tbh.

@jeremybent.bsky.social just thought i'd say hi as we are currently TIED in points in Learned League. GOOD LUCK.

Oh!! You can listen to my band now!! I wrote most of this song!!! ddhp.bandcamp.com/track/larkin

🥹🥹🥹🥹

ok gang: I think I've invented A Thing. Giving blood on Valentine's Day. Is that a thing already? If not it is now. I invented it!

ahhhh this is the emoji kitchen result for combining two snake emojis, makes me very happy

i want to die when i accidentally commit stuff like this, feels like revealing the grossest parts of my id

a lot of men i know

🤮

Just learned about the extinct media museum in Tokyo and their motto doesn't mess about: All media but paper and stone will become extinct

What's your emotional support album? The one you put on when it feels like either the world or your brain is actively working against you? I need mine today.

This is both an incredibly niche thing but I think it should be more of a thing. Caffè Nero subscribes to the British Newspaper Archive so it’s all free on their wifi. There. I said it.

after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"

yeah that's right I'm the mfing champ

can anyone recommend interesting things to do/fun places to go in Sunderland?

a feature I definitely need, btw, so overwhelmed am I with DMs from my many admirers