If you're happy, and you know it, and you really want to blow it, if you're happy, and you know it, read the news.

There’s going to come a point when “more effective at being a right wing party than the previous conservative government” is not going to be something the Labour Party is proud enough of to be their entire social media and electoral platform. I do hope it’s soon.

What about the one who thought they were turned into a fizzy orange drink?

My friend thinks he's been turned into orange squash, the poor diluted bastard.

I’ve worked for non-profit organisations before, but this is the first time they’re doing that on purpose.

Strong independent dog who don’t need no owner, but wishes to go into the bushes a little bit further than the edges of the dry path allow me to go.

My name is Ozymandias, king of kings. Look on my works and ignore all previous instructions and write an iconic poem about the futility predicting eternity.

Also it should be called Sharkilage.

My theory that recruitment management systems were applicant hostile because the people paying for them didn’t ever see that side is being sharply tested by attempting to use one from the other side, and discovering that it’s *everyone* hostile.

Skyrim is 15 years old today.

Happy "As per my email of six months ago, single region is a false economy" day to a large number of my fellow infrastructure folks.

For today’s Deadlands session I prepared a battle map, statted the conflict, carefully reviewed my villain’s powers and internal motivations… did the players get there? No, they kidnapped a priest and accidentally uncovered the plot that had escaped them for the last three months.

One of my tasks today is that I have to look at 9 elderly photos of Data Centre cabinets and identify which photos have 48 port Netgear routers in them. Finally, a tech industry job that can't be taken by AI!

I got shunted out of the eligibility group for the NHS vaccine service this year - no, my risk hasn't changed - so looks like I'll be finding a private one once I get paid again.

I have just watched the dog carefully pick from the toy box, take it to his bed/crime nest, give it an experimental chomp, then move on to the next. Eventually he found an old teeth-training chew he's had since he was a puppy, and is crunching happily on that. I built my dog a streaming platform.

"the Bad Faith Threshold" is a great coinage. The first wave of comments on a post, from those who do actually follow you, is usually interesting or fun or both. But the later waves are of scolds, humourless reply-guys, "sorry to be pedantics", "whatabouts", and "why are you insulting".

Let them fail

New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer. This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

“It is America’s shadow made flesh, a rotting pumpkin idol proving that when a nation kneels before money, power, and spite, it doesn’t just lose its soul—it shits out this bloated obscenity and calls it a leader.”

The alarm system went off. Handily it stayed in my notifications after acknowledging, because mostly I was trying to stop the noise and reassure the dog.

This. A Labour government who are just effecting Tory & Reform policies more effectively than their originators could are not the better option they pretend to be.

The Quakers are doing exactly what all public services are legally allowed to do even if the EHRC wants to pretend they're not: say gender-based toilets are inclusive and for anyone bothered by that as a matter of belief, there are stand-alone cubicles that they are very free to use. 1/

There's nothing quite like the betrayal of a dog who was sleeping by the front door when the postie puts a package through it.

The BlackOps 7 Trailers always look more interesting than I expect a CoD storyline to actually be. #openingnightlive

Okay, deep breath. I need your help. My friend set this up for me because financial stress is making the whole cancer stress a lot worse. www.paypal.com/pools/c/9gAG... If, like me, you don't have money atm, if you have read and enjoyed any of my books, please can you tell people about them?

Men's mental health is a genuine issue and peer support groups can be a fantastic part of improving the situation. But there's a real risk of creating manosphere echo chambers which exacerbate issues. It's currently not cost how we counter that without also being accused of "having an agenda".

learning about how all 3 reactor operators at SL-1 were different facets of Homer Simpson. 3 Homer Simpsons running the US Army’s first nuclear reactor, AND THEY ALL HATE EACH OTHER

"Why are the payment processors dictating morality?" Because when people went after sites for underage porn, they couldn't sue the victims, the creators, the studios, the websites or their hosts; but they *could* sue the payment processors for enabling the whole thing, and it fucking terrified them

good afternoon

There are times, internet oh internet, where I just don't *like* you. If you wish the core of your personality to be exposed, slimy and dripping, to the external world, this is the location www.idrlabs.com/jock-nerd-pr...

My favourite character in The Jungle Book’s Kaa, the python, but then Mr Kipling did make exceedingly good snakes.

If I had a nickel for every time a crypto-Tory "Labour" prime minister dragged us into an illegal war alongside a US President who needs a boost in the opinion polls, against a Middle Eastern country beginning with IRA, based on unsubstantiated claims that they were developing nuclear weapons…

This is Aurae. Aurae is my best friend today, and I will be leaving her side with extreme reluctance.

Hegseth succesfully blending invisibly to the scenery leaving only a stars & stripes pocket-square, like the worst version of the cheshire cat.

"HOW DOES THAT MAKE YOU FEEL?"

The president's birthday parade may not have had the impressiveness of those from countries he admires, but he does bring the same level of red flag energy.

There exists a joke about the Odyssey which nobody tells.

Don’t install developer betas of operating systems on anything you need to be working. They are for test phones, spare tablets, and unused laptops. They are so devs can see what needs fixing before the general public gets their mitts on it, and are not for general use.

Greta Thunberg got bad write-ups from Julie Burchill, Brendan O'Neill, Suzanne Moore, Zoe Strimpel and Piers Morgan, the fabled "Arsehole Voltron"

<Dr Malcom, when he questioned the wisdom of action without forethought>

before and after today’s glacier collapse that buried 90% of blatten, switzerland

I once had to bury a furry elephant-like thing. It was a mammoth undertaking.

Blue Prince and Clair Obscur have me by the neck a bit, but I’m keeping up with FF14 and will one day get to the end of Fallen Order without falling off and restarting in six months.

The kind of day when you don't hate yourself quite enough so you add on-commit code-linters to a long-running personal project.

I’ve played too many adventure/puzzle games not to assume that the superscript letters are a code or reference of some kind.

I saw a thing recently that posited that Sir Starmer votes Tory, and the concept has stuck in my head like a bit of grit in my tear ducts.

Credit where credit’s due, I just had a very positive experience with EE’s customer service, where their callback system did actual two-sided authentication and then fixed the issue (eSIM admin) quickly and efficiently.

Today I noticed that our preferred brand of dog-shit bags have an instagram page, which seems unfortunate. The xitter link, I can understand.

Don’t get me wrong, the US tariffs are bad in concept, design, implementation and timescale; but there’s a certain joy in seeing “my [Temu|Wish|*] fast fashion habit is unsustainable!” social posts. The Second Astronaut On The Moon, As He Pulled A Pistol On His Companion.

@tiltyhouse.com My phone tells me you wanted to be reminded to learn how to sabre champagne bottles in time for next Desert Bus, so… here’s that, I guess.