Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

A story in three parts

Glasgow City Council has a whole sovereign citizen FAQ whoever wrote this was so very tired glasgow.gov.uk/whyyouneedto...

Me [in a nail bar]: pint of nails, please

Do any of the #Belfast and #NorthernIreland folk have any hotel recommendations for Belfast? A London friend is coming to Belsonic 2026 and I’ve no idea. And yes, I’ve warned them about Belfast’s chatty audiences.

The email has found me running through the reeking crypt, pursued by a gurgle of rotten laughter. I *must* reach the coffin before the sand runs out. I am the last of the team-building exercise still alive, Dom from HR has just been lost to the mechanical spider with eight black garnets for eyes.

My friend was charged £600 this week to have his geriatric, dying cat put to sleep. Plus another £100 if he wanted the ashes. A large group bought out his local vet and jacked prices to the moon.

BREAKING: “There is no doubting that the impact of Brexit is severe and long lasting” says Chancellor Rachel Reeves It’s about time!

Take a few minutes to appreciate Drew Struzan creating the original artwork for THE PHANTOM MENACE. Truly a master at work.

The majority of the population does not meet this standard.

IMAGINE if Brits retiring to Spain or Thailand were told to take a language test.

Alright bluesky let's see if we know someone with the right hobby. I've got some wooden model shipbuilding stuff - passed down - tools, lots of small pieces and parts, guidebooks, a half-built ship, etc. Is there a forum or such where I could find someone in the area who might want them?

The irony is that today is also International E-Waste Day. Wonder how much this will contribute to the pile.

Really REALLY starting to understand the tech landscape today as the age of "loss of consent". My settings don't stay set. Features are forced on me either forced upgrades or by inclusion with a critical security patch. I increasingly have ZERO CHOICE in my interactions with computers.

Today is Ada Lovelace Day.

We should be asking this c o n s t a n t l y.

Researchers pointed a satellite dish at the sky for 3 years and monitored what unencrypted data it picked up. The results were shocking: They obtained thousands of T-Mobile users' phone calls and texts, military and law enforcement secrets, much more: www.wired.com/story/satell... 🧵👇

Milestone: 12M does not want to look at the toy shop catalogue for Christmas. #TheCatsInTheCradleAndTheSilverSpoon

Delighted to be talking to Geoff Dyer and Joe Dunthorne tonight at Crescent Arts Centre as part of @belfastfestival.bsky.social. Some tickets still available. See you there!

An acquaintance was showing me a funny video on his phone yesterday and I noticed that his WhatsApp had two interestingly-named groupchats: The Lads The Lads (No Declan)

it's kinda weird that all the software i am expected to use for work are all written by distributed teams, go, python, postgres, linux, chrome, k8s etc and despite being told "the best teams work in an office together" i don't know of any software i use that's actually written that way

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Drama! Boy got new football team kit and they’ve changed his number. He is not happy. “5 is a midfield number!”

Vodafone has stopped working in a huge technical problem

Ooof

Got my NIDC 2025 ticket. I should really have gone before this. www.nidevconf.com #NorthernIreland

As Above So Below 2 teaser just dropped.

I needed to get a key cut but it couldn’t be done because what the locksmith was working on was a copy (probably of a copy) and none of the three attempts he made would open the lock. The only solution was to throw away the lock and start again. Just a thought

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

We used AI

"We just use root"

“I had previously assumed a 10-year depreciation curve, which I now recognize as quite unrealistic...Based on my conversations over the past month, the physical data centers last for three to ten years, at most.” futurism.com/future-socie...

U13 football returns after the storms last week. We’re on the pitches near where my old school used to be. It was demolished and rebuilt a bit to the side about 15 years ago, but it’s still the old stomping grounds.

EuroTrash is coming to TalkingPicturesTV from 12th October. 12:50am - It's the #1990s again!

toughest game of Guess Who? ever

From the Trenches: The Great Software Quality Collapse. techtrenches.substack.com/p/the-great-...

American leader wins Nobel Peace Prize. Excellent news.

Cognition is like strength. Use is required to not just gain, but maintain. The more thinking and cognitive work we offload, the duller we become as a result. It's like deciding you'll use a mobility scooter without need and then figuring out a year later that you can no longer walk.

"The best way to read him would be with all your devices on the other side of a locked door." Me on Nobel literature laureate László Krasznahorkai, a writer who "fits into the Nobel mould so fully that if he didn’t exist, the committee would have had to make him up."

UK's Central Bank Warns of Growing Risk That AI Bubble Could Burst https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/10/09/1012240/uks-central-bank-warns-of-growing-risk-that-ai-bubble-could-burst?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

I mean he’s not wrong

Useful comparison

Had a very angry chap in a big van tailgating and flashing his headlights at me for 15 minutes on the way to work this morning. What gets me is that his company name is plastered all over his van. I won’t report it this time but I’m never buying anything from Ambulance.

Reckon I should make the effort and actually go to #NIDC

Me on Mother River. As Amazon reviewers would say, the additional star was for the one story I did like.

This lurid headline is about British tourists no longer getting away with overstaying in Schengen. Or being 'illegals', as it's often called in the UK.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.