I see Dorsey is proving himself to be a massive bellend again. Hadn't realised Tidal was one of his. Guess I need to find another music platform again.

I am 'AI' cynical, & have ethical and environmental concerns about its use, but after fruitlessly scrolling through several pages of irrelevant Google SERPs earlier I put my query (something niche coding/WordPress related) to ChatGPT and got a relevant enough answer to my question straight away.

I recently got fed up of Windows getting stuck in an update cycle on my laptop where it would fail, retry, fail... I wiped it and threw Ubuntu on there (which I've not used for yeeears); I was pleasantly surprised by how easy it was to get up and running these days. It even picked up my printer.

Eating Pringles in the bath is a luxury everyone should try once. (Just don't drop one in, for the love of god)

I got a tip that all over the world, people are using a dead-simple hack to manipulate AI behavior. It turns out changing what AI tells other people can be as easy as writing a blog post *on your own website* I didn’t believe it, so I decided to test it myself www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Traveling into London Euston during half term is a whole bloody experience.

I don't mean to startle anyone but I've just opened days 13 and 14 on my advent calendar. It'll be Christmas any day now.

Absolutely stunning sky at 5:30 this morning. Completely clear, still dark, stars for as far as the eye could see. Bloody cold mind you.

Just went through the spam comments in my blog having posted earlier today and realised several of you had commented on other vaguely recent posts and my over-the-top spam filtering (err written by me) had yeeted them all into the big spam bin. Sorry about that 🫣

A game a game! dialed.gg

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Indeco IFP28X pulverizer with googly eyes.

Today hasn't been all bad! We got the go ahead (pending signed contract) on a new website project for a *lovely* new client, go ahead on some adhoc work for another client, solved a couple of things that were annoying me on another project, and I've now had a glass of prosecco to cheer me up 😆

This has escalated today because they want me to revise the invoice down because there are bugs in the code. I pointed out that they asked for the code to be put live against our repeated advice and despite insufficient testing. The saga continues. 🫠

Lost a client today because we had the nerve to put work on hold because they weren't paying invoices. 🙃 Honestly, if I didn't super love my job, the past 12 months or so would definitely have made me quit everything and go live in the woods.

About right. Credit: #stellaandlarry via #Instagram

I too am a web design Telford based company

I withdrew from social media quite a bit last year because there was a lot of STUFF going on at home/work and it wasn't until @womenintechseo.bsky.social's #WTSFest last week that I realised how isolated it had made me feel from some long time nerdy internet friends. So uhh, hi everybody 👋

What's going on with the weather this month? Yesterday it was freezing and I got drenched in ice cold rain on the dog walk, so this morning I wrap up & I'm sweating buckets because it's 9c and dry. Apparently it's going to be 11c & sunny tomorrow which seems bonkers for the week before Christmas.

I know Evri have a bad rep but my local guy is brilliant and I give him 5 stars every time I get one of those automated review emails in the hope it actually means something.

Prepare accordingly? I need to work out how to get into the house first

Despite being advertised as “never worn” and “from a smoke-free home”, your new jacket still apparently needed de-smelling, leaving you to conclude that the seller must have been trying to kill you to ensure your silence. Full article on Patreon here: www.patreon.com/posts/142496...

Still haven't weeded the driveway 5 months later and watching the birds still pecking at the bugs and bits between the gravel has been one of the highlights of my year 😍 bsky.app/profile/jemj...

MoneySavingExpert's credit club thing sent me an alert this morning so I've logged in for the first time in a while... it's simultaneously telling me that I'm not using credit that's available to me AND that I'm using too much credit that's available to me. Make that make sense 🫠

They've chosen a bangin' tune for this year's John Lewis Christmas Ad.

I noticed a WordPress developer out there has been pushing a "Doom" WordPress block to all the major socials. I did it a year ago ;) dwinrhys.com/2024/05/08/c...

You’re loading fonts wrong (and it’s crippling your performance) - via @jono.id‬ #seo

Calm your tits New Look, it's been an hour

all the best windows software in history is called something like "joe's thing doer". it does the thing and nothing else and is available on a html website in plain text and takes up under a megabyte of space and uses default windows ui elements and will work until the heat death of the universe

I've changed my phone, & forgot the master password to my 2FA app so can't copy it over. While I still have access I'm migrating 2FA codes elsewhere, but in doing so I've discovered a surprising amount of websites allow you to disable / change 2FA settings without requiring an existing code. 🤯

I'm still on the hunt for another WordPress developer to join me full-time at a food & beverage marketing agency. Hybrid role in Minneapolis/St Paul. Reach out to me! #WCMSP #WordCampMSP @wordpress.org

Nice.

I decided I want to go back to not drinking, I use this great app I Am Sober a huge part of which is the community feature where you can make friends and get support and motivation, it’s now unavailable for UK ppl due to the online safety act….in case teenagers are illicitly trying to get sober?

I find it weirdly annoying that you can search for an order by ID in WooCommerce but you can't search for a standard post or page by ID.

The perfect host.

Absolutely fair play to the door to door saleswoman who just came halfway down my drive, saw me through the office window, showed me her flyer and then nodded and turned away when I shook my head 'no'. Quality respect for my time and hers 👌

It's not just you...I've checked a client's site and I get this...and it's definitely new.

Potentially taking on a new client so have backed up their site to download and audit it first (pretty standard stuff). Backup completed OK but the host wants to charge extra to download it? This is absolutely outrageous upselling. Looking at you Siteground.

Thanks Google, I don't know how I'll cope with the emotional impact of you bringing up this memory.

Went to my partner’s grandad’s 90th birthday last weekend. Many years back I was asked to photoshop my gf’s brother so his hair wasn’t so messy. Naturally I gave him dicks for ears thinking SOMEONE would notice. The prints are now sun-bleached but they’re still on grandad’s sideboard.

Who stole summer, and how do I get it back? 🥶

I got mad about AI so I made this comic about The Fucking Point of it all (1/7)

It has been six years since the Gender Autonomy Act was passed in Iceland. In those six years, none of the usual fears that anti-trans advocates warn against have manifested - and trans people, non-binary people and intersex people have enjoyed increased rights and protections.

Every UK petition is like this

are you tired of being brainwashed by the mainstream media?

Take a week off work and suddenly I'm getting angry at 3am and committing to doing stupid social media challenges. If nothing else, it gives me something to blog about for the next few months... 😂 www.jemjabella.co.uk/2025/angry-a...

Really interesting post. 🙌 I have so many THOUGHTS after being in tech for a bazillion years and benefiting from WiT style groups (and also sometimes definitely NOT benefiting from them) so definitely going to digest, come back, read again. 💡

Google workspace/gmail has been doing a bang up job of blocking cold email spam for years and now suddenly it's gone to shit and I'm getting tons in my inbox every day. Wonder what's happened 😬

The tree that grows 40 different kinds of fruit - www.atlasobscura.com/places/tree-... Science is cool, man