lol r u kidding me

In a day of good news, this is right up there

A year ago today, we had a really terrible election night, and because I know how people fall into despair I sat down at 11pm and wondered what I could tell you. I told you:

Thank you, New York City. Together we made history. Now let’s get to work. transition2025.com

I just watched Mamdani’s first video about building his administration and, friends? The smirk, complete with zoom in, when he says ‘Welcome to the transition’ should get a daytime Emmy.

everybody gets twenty-four hours to lib out with impunity, tonight is the cringe purge

today we joyscroll

This person took this when they called the race

My all time favourite glow up is @themerl.bsky.social 30 years ago I endured a primary school visit to see rusty trowels, and now I’m subscribed to the podcast, up on absolute unit discourse and planning a return visit. Might even take a selfie with some trowels.

Still can’t quite get over the fact I took a Masters in crime and thriller writing, to learn the intricacies of a plausible plot, but in real life a ladder up against the Louvre just works fine.

I remember my dad proudly producing ramshackle shelves, shattering plaster walls with 6 inch nails, and using industrial glue to reattach buttons, and thinking ‘I hope I never have to live with such botch jobs, that started out with such hope.’ But my husband has got into vibe coding, so alas …

Amazing how often people ask me how a guy is from my acquaintance across my career and after a moment’s pause, I find myself replying ‘I like his wife’.

Franz Kafka writing Steam reviews

🎵 🎵 "Freed from desire, mind and senses purified ..." 🎵 🎵

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

Having to take a sick day. Hopefully my coworkers believe I was Raptured.

. put baby in pelican mouth. Put Baby In Pelican Mouth.

I see the world unfortunately continues to be Tremendous Content

On the same day in the Telegraph:

Ace Attorney OST but make it City Pop? YES PLEASE: youtu.be/PeBkXhfchb0?...

Travis Kelce originally planned to propose next week, but moved it forward to avoid the Silksong release window.

I just read on Wired about the plan for ‘solid gold nav bars’ on US gov websites, and leaving aside all the actual accessibility problems that will likely result, that is objectively _hysterically funny_.

A lot of my work as a CSS consultant could be framed as "CSS framework dependence cleanup specialist" so get that bread, folks

They fired all my friends who were experts at doing this so that they could hire corrupt vendors to do this poorly

My job has been ‘Vibe content cleanup specialist’ for years, it’s just before the Vibe was ‘underfunded’ and now it’s ‘underfunded but the robots will magically write it’

New job title just dropped on LinkedIn “Vibe code cleanup specialist”

Currently enduring a work relationship with the poster child for corporate Dunning-Kruger. Meanwhile, a friend of mine is a practising Buddhist and telling me about her own journey of letting go of pride, and the confluence of these events has taught me i’m too petty to ever want enlightenment

Heads up, I’m seeing a lot of spam adverts like this in news articles, designed to look like they’re part of the article itself and hiding “sensitive content”. If you tap through there’s an immediate attempt to collect bank details. Scam advisor gives it 1/100 rating, which is obviously very bad.

I generally hold no truck with nostalgia but it’s hard not to wish everything wasn’t quite so very fascist in so many places.

New ‘And you’re surprised?’ upgrade just dropped.

Based on Israel's own data: "Between March and June, Israel allowed just 56,000 tonnes of food to enter... less than a quarter of Gaza’s minimum needs for that period. Even if every bag of UN flour had been... handed out... starvation was inevitable. Palestinians did not have enough to eat."

It most certainly does not relate to the formulation or development of government policy! Sigh. Someone drop a line to the ICO

I continue to write every tech bro I’ve ever met into this book, as a corpse.

This, by @drewmagary.bsky.social, is a very succinct and very droll summary of the Epstein scandal www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...

I’ve had a moderate allergic reaction to _something_ in the last 12 hours, and now I have to work out what it is. It’s like the worst kind of mystery

No context needed for this I reckon

these particular horrors continue

Our anthology call-out for writers in the North of England is open. We're delighted to have received a few submissions already! There's plenty of time to submit until the deadline at the end of September, so get scribbling - we'd love to read your words.

cant believe i have to do the job i applied, interviewed, signed a contract for and have been doing for three years, again today.

Weiters, describe your WIP in the worst way possible: the worst guy on every team is murdered and everyone on the team could have done it but didnt except for one of them who did

Just imagine having been born with every advantage imaginable except even average intelligence. And one of the advantages is you never have to suffer the consequences of that.

my nightmare would be to discover the dossier written for Hitman when he's sent on a mission to kill me. Not because I fear death at the hands of Agent 47 but I know Diana Burnwood would make me sound like the dumbest piece of shit imaginable. she would read me for filth

I know it’s very gauche to come out with a ‘I knew it’ when something popular is revealed to be horseshit but I read (DNF) The Salt Path a good long while ago, got to the bit about them being forced out of their house, and instinctively thought ‘i don’t believe this is how it happened’.

P G Wodehouse is still an S-tier holiday read.

It's so weird how everyone who says they're "politically homeless" is a far right winger who lives in NY or CA and still wants to get invited to parties

This is a story I've been wanting to write for so long — how a teeny, tiny gaming controller became an essential tool for med students.

ER doctors: when it inevitably happens, leak the x-ray

socks: model’s own

i love my computer wife adobe premiere pro and the adobe creative suite line of products