who the hell is responsible for increasing contractors' tax admin by 4x and forcing you to use commercial software or an accountant instead of a free service built into gov.uk

Still looking at EVs and still not prepared for a whole new world of complexity and subscriptions around charging

If appliances and vehicles in and around this house could just stop fucking dying for five fucking minutes pls

Two different buckets are evaluated side by side. (pails, in comparison)

Just seen a quote that says of Eurorack modular synthesis: "a serious cocaine habit is more economical"

Sorry, had overwhelming desire to do this in response. But–

You know when you're buying a used car and all the sites you use sort of blend into one but you're using them so much you've internalised where on the page the location is and where to find what packs are installed and the quirks of the sorting and filtering?

That's a long way to say "plausibly deniable money laundering"

"The US-Israel war on Iran is draining the global carbon budget faster than 84 countries combined." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Race condition happening where science is advancing faster than anyone can believe and the political order that made it possible is simultaneously disintegrating out from under it

I mean, it's just you that's glad. I'm thinking of someone else right now, and when *they* die, it's going to be billions glad and parties in the streets, and a special private party just held by their wife.

Tooooo many car things. And WeBuyAnyCar are a bit chancer-y.

Again, if Reform's opponents can't work out how to beat this guy, then they really have no business being in politics at all. The most target-rich politician in the UK

Looks like I've been booked to shoot the biggest anal beads in the world

I've had enough of AI-generate dart

The dissonance from U.K. schools is maddening. My child can’t have her phone out in school time - to “protect her from screens and social media addiction “ So why am I being sent a consent form so an outside company can “use her image,voice and work on TikTok and other social media “

An album of Icelandic quirky pop covers done by the Swedish Chef out of The Muppets called Börke

The creatures outside looked from man to pig, and back from pig to man, but already they were like "fuck it, anyone fancy a pint?"

More of this on here

see? here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared

FFS I did not have "set up.your car like a new computer" down as a chore for the evening

Anyway today Golf received a firmware update and now we can't see its charge state from our phones 🤡

Not now, Another Unsustainable Bubble

I'm going to have to pull the two tea-bag trick. No, not *that* two tea-bag trick.

Haha oh god I finally get all my paperwork in (yes, I had missed a quiz with over 100 multiple choice questions on it) after managing to sit down with someone who's known me since childhood and I get an email to say my ADHD provider has been suspended for Companies House irregularities...

This week is ... not going well.

Not now, dependabot. (today is a really bad one, like the HTTP library we use has seen a major update and it's broken 118 specs. This is just pointless busywork you can't schedule for)

This is beautiful. Don't think I'm wearing my "smart" watch to bed tonight.

There is no spectacle VAR cannot contrive to ruin

Watching a CL game on the execrable Amazon Video (not my account). The stream is 30fps. It's the only time it's acceptable to turn motion smoothing on on a modern telly

I think I first posted this about a decade ago and the only difference between now and then is now I don't even text the apology

Confiscate 99.8% of Andreesen’s net worth for the public good, wait 20 minutes, and then tell him his memory of ever having more than $4 million is false.

Chaser

Shot

quote with a game that has a 10/10 soundtrack

maybe if companies aren't seeing huge boosts in output from genAI adoption they'll learn that the bottlenecks on delivery are very often not to do with the speed of individual contributors. let's wait and see

No I don't watch No Scrubs Scrubs is a show that aired in 2003 Showing us the regular lives Of two medical guys Named Turk and JD

Oo, I like a bit of Dire Straits. Single-handed Sailor was it?

Hello. I’ve finished The Meece’s interpretation of Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus. *collapses in a heap* (If anyone can advise on iPad colour settings to put a kind of old fashioned green tinge to it I’d be very grateful because Lightroom doesn’t want to do anything for free any more.)

Locate it in Finder, then Get Info and change its association from XCode to a sensible text editor before double-clicking

Imagine if Bez out of The Happy Mondays was in 'Allo 'Allo. Completely unchanged episodes of 'Allo 'Allo, he's just dancing in the background of the café regardless of ep

Timothée Chalamet / Has never done any ballamet

The worst side quest of my MPhil is the notes folder I've labelled "contagion", which is about this. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#SundayPixHobbies Making small things.

Well here's a first. I've got a non-alcoholic Merlot and I'm ... enjoying it.

Richarlison has a tattoo of a footballer on his back. It is a tattoo of Richarlison.

Never mind VAR getting involved in corners, second yellows need to be in the remit #lufc

Not now dependabot it's Mothering Sunday

My Chinese solar battery inverter co migrated me off an old android app a few months ago. They've now relabelled the new app "Classic" and say it's going away in May. The new new app has an AI agent as a friendly little gas flame with eyes. And a massive picture of a house for no reason.