ran into a friend at a cafe who mentioned his wife is having an emotional affair with chatgpt, missed that the "chat model was much hornier last spring," and that they're getting divorced but her chat & his chat negotiated the terms of the divorce over several weeks. They were together for 18 yrs.

most cafe conversations blend into the background for me, but as soon as a man starts the “do you use ChatGPT? I’ve started using it for…” conversation within a 10 table radius, I feel my brain short circuiting

Google got tired of waiting for Apple to add a number row to the default iOS keyboard

I love this workaround for quiet back streets that cross slightly busier roads. So many streets have this layout, which makes pedestrian or cycle crossings difficult or confusing. Leaves bikes and pedestrians looking out for cars while also each other. From plans for Newham in London.

Melbourne train map for 2026 has started appearing on trains (not online yet), and it sure has a few ugly choices. Some suggested fixes: www.mobiletechjournal.com/2026-melbour...

I know Skype is dead, but it’s now sending this push notification daily

Canals are closed, and I have a wedding to attend in the south of Portugal in a few weeks. So I’ve decided to take it slow and go (mostly) by train. Sadly only one sleeper in the mix (Paris to Bayonne). With a flight and a ferry later in the trip to get back to Oxfordshire via Dublin.

As Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo put it: "A city where you can get let go of your child's hand"

Reasons I forget to pack something on a trip: 1. Didn’t write it on my packing list 2. Wrote it on my packing list, but forgot to check said list

don't interrupt our firmware update, but if you do, no need to worry!! 🥺

Somehow the last music festival I attended was in 2019. So a lot has changed. What mainly blew me away wasn't just usable phone speeds, but better speeds than I've had anywhere in the UK www.mobiletechjournal.com/festival-tec...

When I see this as a top review term for a restaurant; I have to see what's going on

Just finished reading the latest from @keithhouston.bsky.social and give it my absolute recommendation as the definitive book on emoji history. Don’t let the huge set of references and citations fool you, it’s an easy and interesting read. Goes deep where it needs to, without going off the deep end

Impressed at the dedication to World Emoji Day from this Wikipedia editor

Also, a place called Hertingfordbury is apparently a real English village and not hallucinated by AI

Counting the days until radish becomes a sex emoji

Something fun about Hertford is that Hertford East station is north of Hertford North station

The stronghold that Lotus Biscoff has over the UK is immense. What do they know.

not a great year for new emojis tbh

New Clockwise episode with @amanda.omg.lol and @jeremyburge.bsky.social!

Grabbing a coffee or wine at the Helsinki Library (Oodi); so calm. What a lovely space for adults and kids alike.

Someone panicked while making up a British sounding name

Half the minibuses in Hong Kong don’t have seatbelts. The other half have this friendly reminder.

If you were up early, you might have caught me featured live as part of the Aus Open morning show

App Store reviews for the Australian Open app are filled with elderly people leaving feedback about the tournament itself

thanks to everyone who has sent me this

new alter ego just dropped

one of my first appearances on the BBC and this was the image they put up behind me #tbt

haven't had the star in Mario Kart in forever

I can feel the STRESS in the person typing this (and the typo in the apology 😅)

A list of apps that should not require setup of a PIN in addition to username/password + FaceID: - all of them

POV: my laptop in December 2016

Banking and government apps: security is our #1 priority Also banking and gov apps: please now bypass your randomised, autosaved password with a four digit PIN!! oh no, we won’t save this one. So make it easy to remember. Maybe like your phone or card PIN. We love security.

Short of having public forum mods proactively wielding the ban-hammer, this is the next best thing 💪

In honour of @ologies.bsky.social figuring out her Bsky login again, here is a bit of our chat from last year’s Curiology (emoji) episode vm.tiktok.com/ZGd29Lo4J/

impressively, every sentence in this email makes me more nauseous than the last

you wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me

I hope this email finds you holding space for the lyrics of defying gravity 👉🤏

I don't think we need messaging apps to have a Memories feature (and we definitely don't need notifications about them)

We need to teach the older generation that group chats are a future commitment. A burden. Not to be created lightly.

Let's get on with some of these??

doesn't miss

@anelf3.me I didn’t know about your pro brutalism views, but I’ll let it slide

One of Melbourne's few dutch style intersections is close, but misses in two ways: 1. Splits the small-ish bike lane into straight and left arrows on approach. Makes it feel fiddlier than necessary 2. On approach, a red light means no movement for bikes. Should allow left turn (w priority to peds)

Thanks to friends’ parents, I always know when I appear in print

IYKYK ☹️

Today in 'clearing up old Unicode oversights'...Unicode 17 is due to add skin tone support to 👯👯‍♀️👯‍♂️ and 🤼🤼‍♀️🤼‍♂️ in 2025. Total of 150 new sequences required. blog.emojipedia.org/draft-emoji-...

Decent bus stop bypass in Melbourne by ANZAC station. The use of colour leading up to the crossing helps flag a change in pace, and the printed instructions are clear. IMO the crossing itself could have been wider, but that's fairly minor given the decent sight lines. More of these please.

Sorry for the noob question but...Bluesky Mac App?

Rare Burnley group stopping patterns just to keep the morning interesting