Helping an older relative change bank. The document capture just does not work. Messages that do not make sense. Zero options to report an issue or do it another way. These companies make a fortune. Sigh.

Here's how a spike in energy prices proves I am right about everything, by everyone.

"The purpose of a system is what it does" Anthony Stafford Beer

The first false spring has passed again. Only a couple more until true spring.

Got around to watching Bugonia, just wonderful. One thing that struck me was, there's only 3 main roles and yet the performances are so good and the shifting tone so well orchestrated that you hardly notice.

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (reality of experience) and between true and false (standards of thought) no longer exist.” Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

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"In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was once directly lived has become mere representation." Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle

"All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind." Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations.

No you just read 150g of flour as 450g .

Thinking of this song today. youtu.be/a5N68RIZM8c

Finally got to see Sinners. Very good. Never has something cried out for a stage musical version so much. They would be printing money.

Is Mark Carney really not going to make a counter offer for Greenland?

Every time someone on the Traitors apologises to the person they're voting for or says something like "you'd make a great traitor" or "you're playing a great game" a thousand pounds should be taken off the prize money.

Someone screams investigate Excuse me sir, it's a little late Let us pray

Forgive me I have deleted the tracking parameters you added to the share link So invasive Tiresome And long

Any @proton.me people out there? Any good?

Happy new year everyone. Back down the design systems mine today. youtu.be/H42OD97yuWY

I wonder if Donald Trump could do something about auto play trailers. Surely someone should be getting bombed for that.

Blessed solstice to all! Feels like it has been particularly dark this year. Brighter days ahead. "Vines, leaves, roots of darkness, growing, come with your seasons, your fullness, your end" www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53238/...

As someone expecting delivery of a parcel I want a 4 hour, non guaranteed delivery window So that I can wait in all day hoping it will turn up at some point

Estate agent friend says it's a busy time of year for her. Apparently enough people get caught having affairs at the Christmas do that it's a serious business driver for them.

It being Christmas, I've had the horror of ordering items online for delivery. One single item = 15 emails.

It's a competitive market but getting gig tickets is up there with the worst experiences on the internet.

Started typing the letters "co..." And the auto suggestion was "coping strategies". Probably fine.

1 December means it's time for @amymcnichol.bsky.social great essay series @allconsuming.bsky.social Trust me. www.ithoughtaboutthatalot.com/2025/christm...

"Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else." Rest in peace Tom Stoppard.

Hi, Spotify here again. We noticed you've used the pathetic number of audiobook hours we give you. Why not give us even more money every month for access?

no, I don't wanna download another fucking app on my phone

Another tale of inconvenience Britain. I could just drive next time I suppose but feels unnecessary when there are trains available.

Go to train ticket machine. Select day return. Apparently seat reservations are mandatory on the next available train and it's full so computer says no I can't buy a ticket. I just want to buy a return though. No staff around.

Well they posted them. Headliner on at 9:35. Some of us do have jobs tomorrow and trains to catch you know. Ah well. Karma for complaining.

Venues and promoters, this is your regular reminder to post the fucking set times.

Yes but what does "open all day" mean? 9 to 5? 12 to 12? Just put 24 hours I beg you.

Hilariously about 5 minutes after this I finally managed to get a ticket for Turnstile tomorrow night. It really does take a lot of watching the page though.

Getting a ticket on @twickets.bsky.social has become pretty much impossible for popular gigs. They're just gone in milliseconds. Even when I happen to be on the page and am pressing buy within literally a couple of seconds of the listing appearing it's already gone.

Ohhh JSON scheeeema ohhh JSON scheeeema

As a VS Code user I want highlighting and selecting specific bits of text to be very awkward and fiddly So that I can have a right laugh

As a Spotify user I want the audiobook listening time indicator to be well hidden and randomly disappear So that I can find it harder to keep track of the meagre amount of audiobook listening I am allowed

Reading Puffin books slogan, 'Stories that last a lifetime', my daughter jokes "does that mean you die after you read the last page?". Truly my child.

Dream last night of trying to use apps with various deceptive patterns. Never should have left that job at the bookshop.

Nice conversation. Rewriting the WCAG is also one of my dream jobs.

"I believe life ends with death, and that is all. You haven't both gone shopping; just the same, in my new black leather phone book there's your name and the disconnected number I still call." RIP Tony Harrison. www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti...

Not sure about this JIRA rebrand.

As someone curious about the sentencing remarks in some high profile legal cases I want to have to download a file to read them So that I don't bother and move on to something else

As a parent I want people to upload pictures of my child to AI birthday card greeting tools without asking me So that I can wonder what else they're doing with the images

As a Spotify user I want release radar to be littered with random compilations of old tracks So that I can find it more difficult to see what came out this week

Love to fill in a form every single time I visit the dentist.

Is there anything worse than trying to deal with HMRC? Just an overcomplicated mess of crap.

For the love of all that is good and holy. Anyone involved in gigs please post the approximate set times promptly.