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

this is definitely one of my "old man yells at cloud" moments but fuck me who thought "neurospicy" was a good idea.

@michaelhobbes.bsky.social @petetsipis.bsky.social I have no doubt it's on the list but another vote for The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck. also could you do the Unabomber manifesto as a patreon bonus? it's short!!!!!

hard work pays off

glorious

When my beloved screen shows me a character I don’t recognize I jeer and hiss until it shows me a character from a familiar IP or extended universe, at which point I begin to cheer and say “I know what that is!”

I'm so into this business card that was a bookmark in a charity shop purchase - what a job title!

the highlight of Christmas for me? spending lots of relaxing time with my dad. but after that in the number two spot, it's gotta be firing up Hinge in my hometown and seeing a member of the Royal Family.

my thing for 2025 is gonna be someone who gets super into watching The Shield in 2025

I've just started watching The Shield. Why hasn't Walton Goggins aged since then???

me sowing: hell ya me reaping: hell yes good thing i sowed all that stuff earlier

me cooking Christmas dinner alone and refusing all offers of help

i have about a week off and not much going on while i'm at my family home. it's hard to tear myself away from the computer and really tempting to just do work. trying to think of some project or learning thing to do so if I'm sitting at computer it benefits me not just my employer. it's hard!!!!

met Graham Fellows / John Shuttleworth at Salford lads club tonite

Off to the darts at Ally Pally