The venue for the COP30 climate summit actually going up in flames does seem a little on the nose even by modern news standards…

This screenshot of Elite is 23 kilobytes. The entire game was 22 kilobytes.

Jonathan Pie, restrained as ever. And, as always, absolutely spot on... www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCMn...

Another day, another cloud outage. Today it's Cloudflare's turn. Back in my first job, this would be the point at which we retired to the Garrick's Head for a long lunch...

As a newcomer to @caimhmc.bsky.social's work, I've finally caught up on the podcast back catalogue - and I think this is my favourite short story so far!

The Advent of Beeb Games... returns for 2025! youtu.be/RHdgIHr78RM

Just been to Lidl to follow up on wine recommendations from Tom Gilbey. 2 reds, 3 whites, none over £7.99. Currently enjoying the 2022 Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon… I’ve also got an Aldi list to try out 🍷

Make sure you read the alt text captions… 🐑

Gosh, after a seven year absence, my friend @dananddanfilms.bsky.social is back! I mean - i'm thrilled that Dan is back, but i've never much liked Dan to be honest. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V1K...

I still play this one regularly (on the original hardware). It holds up as an exceptional game… cc @colinhoad.com

Age yourself with gaming

"coup d'twat" 🤣

Today would have been my mother's 80th birthday, so I shall be raising a large whisky to her this evening... 🥃 Much missed, always loved ♥️

Really gutted to say that our resident albino squirrel was run over earlier, on the road just around the corner. Not sure how someone failed to spot him - he wasn't exactly inconspicuous 🤬 He'd been a regular in the garden for about 6 weeks; I saw him out there just this morning... 😢

For $25 (~£19) this is an absolute steal…

EVIL HACKER DID IT And the hacker was SO cunning, they used the same image he had just posted on Twitter, moments earlier. And if you believe that, I have a concrete tree to sell you.

Andrew is a sort of non-prince now, a… well, I’m sure there’s some sort of portmanteau word that would describe him well.

A good day to dip into one of my favourite movie books. RIP to the master of movie artwork, Drew Struzan…

Oh, that is amazing.

He's still around... and is burying hazelnuts, so I think he's planning on staying! Picked up a used 2x extender on eBay - now I can go to 800mm; combined with some decent sunlight, and I can get a lot closer to him... #nature #wildlife #photography #wildlifephotography #squirrel

Can't believe that after more than 20 years with DSLRs I've only recently overcome my film-era attitude to ISO settings. With film, over ISO 800 started getting too grainy. But now it's just another setting, and good results can be got in the 1000s and tens of 1000s... #photography

He's back again tonight! Can't get as close as I'd like - he's a bit nervous, and I'm having to crop in a long way even with a 400mm lens (second photo shows the original framing). Might need to invest in an extender... #nature #wildlife #photography #wildlifephotography #squirrel

@chrisgpackham.bsky.social What do you think of this beauty? Spotted him for the first time tonight in my Hampshire garden...

Ghost squirrel! New visitor to the garden this evening... I hope he'll stick around so I can get some better pics.

If you ever feel like you don't know what you're doing, just keep in mind Spotify sent out an email today with an image that is 8736x11648 in dimensions and 19.6MB in filesize. So. You're fine.

On the same day in the Telegraph:

Absolutely this. A surgical takedown of tabloid hypocrisy and classism…

Just finished (audiobook of) The List of Suspicious Things by @jenniegauthor.bsky.social - blown away by it, esp. the reveal at the end taken from her own family… Sounded like a last minute name change was edited into the recording. Would love to know the story behind that!

Only previously aware of the track "Fire Up The Shoesaw", from the (excellent) soundtrack to 1999's "Go". But the whole (3-disc) album is pretty damn good! Artist: Lionrock Album: An Instinct For Detection #Vinyl #VinylCommunity #NowPlaying

The witch trials of 1612 still cast a long shadow.

I played there a couple of years ago, and it was a novel experience to be sledged by the commentator (@norcrosscricket.bsky.social again) while batting. Also, got bounced by Matthew Hoggard off two paces after I hit the previous ball for 4…

I scored 15/21 on https://e-mail.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.

Has Safari in iOS 26 got rid of the ability to set the colour of the top of the screen via the theme-color meta tag? Attached screenshots in current version and iOS 26 beta… cc @jensimmons.bsky.social

Ofcom: all porn sites are going to require an age block to Protect The Children™ <punches-air> Also Ofcom: here's a list of all the URLs we've found that don't follow our rules and don't require age verification <shakes-fist> 🤦

A depressing metaphor in 10 seconds. Trump doesn’t play golf, he just drives around some neatly kept lawns and then thwacks a ball which has been conveniently dropped within his reach by a flunky

No cheating: post your lock screen.

This is worth as many minutes or hours of your time as you are able to give it. I can see myself dipping in and out of these fantastic snapshots of Richard Beard’s memoir…

Took some action photos yesterday. Pretty pleased with how some of them came out…

Jethro’s radiotherapy is now complete and he’s home safe! He’s been a Very Good Boy, no side effects as yet, and initial scan already shows a reduction in the mass (should continue to reduce over the next months). We are both relieved and exhausted!

Lionrock - An Instinct For Detection (3xLP) Not yet listened…

Early start this morning, and over to Bristol where Jethro is having the first of three days of radiotherapy for a nasal tumour. Fingers crossed for a positive outcome. Currently killing time waiting to pick him up at lunchtime…

I still get mad that 'we' decided at some point to abandon IDs & element names in CSS, shove everything into hyphenated classes, and complain that "its a global namespace" and "naming things is hard". Then, with only source-order remaining, we let JS load our styles in random order.

I used to love Moviedrome, and in turn it inspired my love of movies. So many great films, but the intros that have stuck with me to this day were for An American Werewolf in London, and Electraglide in Blue…

Thank you, Audible. You’re right, he does seem remarkably similar to @stephenking.bsky.social…

Computers used to scream every time they connected to the Internet. They knew. They tried to warn us. We did not listen.

Woohoo! I’ve been doing Spelling Bee a while now, and almost always reach Genius (that’s always my target) - but this is my first Queen Bee! (To be honest, I didn’t even know it was a thing until I heard @richardosman1.bsky.social mention it…)

TFW you realise that the speakers that have been on the shelf for 5 years still have some protective plastic film just begging to be peeled off...