why's advet of code only 12 puzzles this year? I want to do 15 then crash and burn for the next 5 and never get around to do the last 5

I see Reform have found room for Primark Hodor. He'll feel right at home. Gullis is so heroically stupid it's like he’s been bitten by a radioactive idiot. A discarded early draft of Chewbacca that someone dragged out of the bin and taught rudimentary table manners.

Obviously this is bad, and it opens to grounds for skewed data that NHSE, and soon enough the DHSC, can use to 'cook' the numbers. By looking at a rising number of detransitioners, the DHSC can use that to justify its pub blck usage whilst being the culprits that lead to that rise in the 1st place

Alarming! "Is NHSE forcing young people to detransition?" northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...

Its frankly horrific, and a complete abuse of institutional power.

They really are. The ICB are telling us one thing and then behind closed doors, saying completely the opposite.

Wes Streeting and Labour lied (again). When are people going to get the message that engaging with these charlatans only gives them cover for their actions?

Getting my ADHD medicated was a life-changer for me. I hope it's the same for you! 💕

ADHD is honestly both a hindrance and a super power. I’m recognizing that I have it BAD and, while I’m high functioning, I’m a bit TOO high functioning. Full speed but, when you’re going that fast, it’s hard to steer. Able to focus on a billion things but hard to lock in. And it’s exhausting.

10 years (30 - 40)

Welll, have I got some news for you, Mr Montgomerie.

🥧 PIE 1.3.0 is fresh out of the oven! 🎉 This release brings a bunch of new features & fixes, including: - Support for PHP 8.5 - Non-interactive `pie install` - Enabled immutable releases on GitHub - Plus many more bugfixes & improvements github.com/php/pie/rele... #php #phpc #phppie #thephpf

imagine having to hear shit like "study confirms giving diabetic children insulin reduces their death rates by 100%" as if that hasn't been known for like a hunred years. that's what being trans is like

The phpday team has just published my talk "🥧 A slice of PIE: revolutionising PHP extension installation" on YouTube, which I gave at the last #phpday edition. Check it out here: youtu.be/VkeXOwK6gvU

@rcpsych.bsky.social Can you please explain… With gender incongruence defined as NOT a psychiatric condition and mental health distress NOT a requirement for diagnosis… why are your members taking on the assessment of trans kids and asking them this ⬇️ Read the comments. Learn something. STOP.

Day two. Phil insists he needs to open a new trench.

Also out today: part 4 of 5 of @garius.bsky.social's remarkable history of the California Clipper, the feat of commercial aviation that brought a Pan Am flying boat the wrong way around the world from Auckland to LaGuardia. This time: it's Christmas in Sri Lanka. theupfront.media/christmas-in...

Cis people, how many times have you been asked to describe how you masturbate, and what you think about when you do, to access healthcare on the NHS?

Nothing as feminist as basing whether women can use the toilets on if they're hot or not.

I don't use the word lightly, but this is really just evil isn't it. "Your identity makes us uncomfortable so be gone from public spaces." Fuck off.

Happy #PHP 8.5 release day! Keep in mind that the first 8.5.0 #Docker/#OCI images will show up in 8 hours till a couple of days after the release. P.S. Mine are updated till the latest RC and will swap in the final with no tag changes: github.com/WyriHaximusN...

The GrUSP team has just published my talk “Custom PHPStan Rules: Automate Standards and Save Time” from #phpday Custom PHPStan rules amplify the benefits of PHPStan and they are not as difficult as you might think to write. I created 3 in this talk youtu.be/1tOSnuxCcRY

I wasn't expecting to spend the afternoon migrating services from Cloudflare to AWS, but needs must.

Part three of this series by @garius.bsky.social is just as gripping as the first 2. I've spoilt myself by reading ahead on Wikipedia, but it's so well written and presented here. Question for @garius.bsky.social: Any good books/additional reading about it? theupfront.media/into-the-unk...

finding out your game got nominated by The Game Awards in the group chat with other folks who got laid off is… just so painfully 2025

The Salvation Army are a hate group. Do not forget that this winter.

Back from a few weeks of blessedly mostly disconnected time away, and enormous thanks to @garius.bsky.social for keeping @theupfront.media on course while I recharged — his ongoing series about the Pan Am California Clipper is SUCH a great read. theupfront.media/the-long-way...

This timeline went janky when Gordon Brown apologised to that bigoted old woman

Welcome to the era where nothing fucking works. It’s going to get worse before it gets better

Has he admitted the EA, according to the SC, was written to end the rights afforded by Croft, Goodwin, GRA etc. meaning ministers had knowingly and deliberately misled the European Council at the time of royal ascent?

Seeing the Epstein emails, if this is the standard of spelling, punctuation and grammar used by them; no wonder they're in awe at ChatGPT and other planet-killing plagiarism devices.

🤬 Fucking tired of our right to exist as equal citizens and human beings "debated"

random reminder psa to whoever needs it that if you are on feminizing hrt and use nicotine you extremely should quit aside from the other reasons because of a substantial blood clot risk increase (particularly if you're on oral pills) and reduced feminization effectiveness. the stuff is real bad!!!!

Age yourself with gaming!

Yeah. Ok. I thought so. They’re trying to restore the status quo on the quiet. This isn’t coming from us; we have zero voice. This is because until recently the only voices they heard on trans issues were the foaming psychopath transphobes. (1/3)

The only conclusion I can draw is that in her mind Brianna's existence was the murder of her son and so she doesn't see those psychopaths as having killed her child because her child was already dead to her. Banning phones is her way of stopping any other trans kids getting to exist.

Thought this might interest you given the recent claims that the BBC is “captured by the trans lobby” - In fact, the absolute opposite is true… Read this thread to see the real ‘scandal’… 👇🏻 bsky.app/profile/mimm...

Someday, I'd like an MP to stand up in parliament and ask why the *opinions* of a small subset of cisgender people matter more to this government than the safety, health, and dignity of every transgender person in the country.

The ”upgrade” to junction 11 on the M5 is going to cost £363mn (fuck knows where the money goes) and is going ahead Reopening the Stonehouse station on the Birmingham / Bristol line would cost around £25mn but trying to get it funded is impossible

Swan on River Stort. iPhone 16 pro, pro raw, Adobe Lightroom

i am feeling them. - replaced my healthcare with conversion therapy - stripped me of my civil rights, legal protections, and legal recognitions - attempting to introduce segregation laws that will mandate i be persecuted and discriminated against effectively turning me in to a non-citizen

When the NHS talk about the “risks” of puberty blockers for trans teens, they don’t mean side effects, they mean the “risk” child will stay trans. Being trans is the fail state to them, and they would rather children be dead. We know PB are safe because we give them to cis children and some adults.

HRT is available over the counter in Portugal. Ryanair have flights for 15 quid this time of year. You’re welcome.

This Sunday I find the need to repost "Dear anonymous internet user asking for help". If you want help with the open source software I provide freely, and you are a giant corporation, do not hide behind a fake name or email address: berthub.eu/articles/pos...

Happy Halloween to all the British guys dressing up as a girl as a “joke,” good luck with just buying HRT off the internet 🤷‍♀️

it’s not the point of the whole “are white Brits represented enough in adverts” insanity, but who the fuck even *sees* adverts any more? everyone my age and younger that I know streams, pirates and adblocks. as with every hot-button political issue of the last forever, it’s a bugbear of the elderly.

Happy Halloween to all the Glaswegian guys dressing up as a girl today as a "joke", good luck with your gender affirming care appointments in two centuries time

GOD: Sleep is one of the very most important things humans do. It will make them feel rested, and be crucial to their ability to function. ANGEL: Okay, got it. GOD: And some of them are gonna be REALLY bad at it for no reason lol

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