Foolishly watched one youtube short featuring a man who plays Warhammer 40k and his hot wife, and it turns out that is not just a channel but a *genre* of youtube shorts. I don't even play Warhammer. Leave me alone, algorithm.

Hate freeloaders who join in the New Year's Eve countdown for the last 10 seconds. I've been doing this all year. Where were you back in May

if a member of your party gets lost in ikea you cannot spend one single second looking for them. they're already dead. the ikea is testing you now.

I find the huge collective effort to build open protocols and free software truly heroic. It's an uphill fight against the most powerful people in the world. Most people aren't aware of the work, don't find it heroic. But they would suffer if the work wasn't done, so the movement does the work.

Just read a thing that said nobody knew at the start that Facebook could become a global surveillance machine, and I was part of a movement that saying exactly that within a year or two of it launching, and I don't know how to recover this history and make people interested in it.

So many institutions in ~~British public life~~ are currently in this objectively weird spot where they've quiet quit their actual responsibilities to focus on niche obsessions and yelling slurs, but still expect the people who came for their stated mission to keep tuning in and applauding

Ooo remembers that month or so when multiple Labour MPs, ministers etc thought DOGE was an amazing idea they all wanted to copy... what were all that about www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Both sides of the street on that block are No Stopping Anytime (pic1), making it ideal for Waymo to abuse and even put in their app as a drop off spot (pic2) bc what do they care about a few $108 tickets a day when they lose > $8 million a day. Cheaper to eat tickets than obey law or optimize AI/sw.

I've only watched two days but so far this is absolutely riveting.

when you insult me you're insulting the award-winning team of dozens of puppeteers and special effects wizards responsible for bringing my baffling physical presence to life. so maybe think twice about your careless words

If you’re in the UK & are so inclined, from Dec 25 to Jan 5 you can get the Kindle edition of THE RIVER HAS ROOTS for 99p as part of their 12 Days of Kindle event! This means in the UK you can also get that price matched at other etailers, like Kobo! Merry Christmas! www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...

What are the specific pain points that prevent you from switching to Linux or have forced you back to Windows? Trying to collect as many as possible. Specific productivity software, etc.

Bird Hunted To Near Extinction Due To Infuriating 'Fuck You' Call

We are giving my wife’s Xmas present a go today. Cigar Box battle mat - yes I have given up on subtle hints, URLs are better 😂. A Very British Civil War, with the Red Clydesiders attacking the Duchess of Argyll and her fascist pals. Xenos Rampant rules.

The revolution is just about on, with the Red Clydesiders enjoying the Duchess’s house. The militia managed a flank attack with heavy losses. But Duchess led a counter attack and secured that flank. However, the fascists crumbled and the Moroccans and arm car were too slow to come up. 🚩

I cooked xmas dinner: Roast lamb Triple-cooked goose fat roast potatoes Carrots and parsnips braised in garlic and herb butter and beef stock Fried green beans, fried kale My best gravy yet Gran's clootie dumpling with custard

Thing is, why does AI need this when no other roll out of a tech has? Lots of things need more power and manage just fine. I think tech-capital is used to the way software products scale, they barely have any marginal cost. It is demanding the same of the real world.

Alasdair Gray would have turned 91 today. Happy birthday to the artistic and literary gunslinger, the Riddrie Kid; his words and imagery echo off every wall in Glasgow...

Sadly that video going around isn’t in NYC or ICE.

I'm at the "here's a list of dozens of peer reviewed research papers that debunk every possible GC claim" side. linktr.ee/rhinostransr...

Imagine it being easier to just pay the 8 billion dollars and it won't affect you in the slightest. Man what have we done lol

there's no rules between the 26th and the 1st and that means you can post the geological map of Scotland

By comparison, here's Houten, a commuter town on the edge of Utrecht. Similar profile. • 3 to 4 storey housing on the doorstep of the rail station • Pedestrianised street perpendicular to the station, supporting heavy footfall for... • Mixed use development around the station

It's not the only one, but Newton is my really big bug bear. Acres of land. A station with two rail lines and ~5tph each direction through the day. But what's being built there? Miles of low density sprawl.

a tragedy? in my commons? it's more likely than you think!

big challenges appreciation post

Glasgow has 15 subway stations. Just look at the land use around these two! It's shocking. Should be dense housing and commerce, or dense employment. Instead we have a huge motorway junction and like a car dealership and some warehouses that could just as happily be on the outskirts.

This is what half this website sounds like: bsky.app/profile/zas....

The only place and time you should hear Grimes philosophy is at 4am at a flat party. She is kinda cute and you're high but it is slowly dawning that she's mad as a box of frogs. You don't really want to go home yet. Maybe she'll pass out?

Ordered an A3 inkjet (Brother, of course). I am going to print so many TTRPG player aids.

I think we failed to communicate that the tech left, the free software people, the Linux nerds - we were trying to protect everyone from computers. Computers are dangerous. We came across like we just wanted to impose More Computer But Weirder on everyone.

We used to have a culture of hating "the suits" :( They bought us.

This is literally what the Telegraph campaigned for.

“It’s still hungry … and I’ve been stuffing worms into it all day.”

Experimental evidence that students are more likely to contest grades when they are delivered by an evaluator with a female-sounding name. "These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."

On fucking christmas?!?!

merry Christmas one and all abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

I have determined that braising carrots and parsnips in butter herbs garlic and stock is the best thing to do with carrots and parsnips. Merry Christmas!

This is, by far, my favorite Terry Pratchett quote.

[Image shows an illustration of the burning of Roehampton Estate during the Baptist War, by Adolphe Duperly; a colonial building is in flames whole Black people, mostly armed with what look like farm tools, rise up]

And Tiny Tim, who is often treated as a punchline but who had a concrete aesthetic program and whose version of “In the Pines” is fucking HAUNTING AND POWERFUL,…

This is the most beautiful Christmas story.

Did you know that each region of Ireland has its own figure who traditionally delivers presents on Christmas Eve??

this is pretty wild.

Christmas dinner on a brompton

And to the extent that military history is taught, like any other kind of history, it happened to all types of people, not just white men. For instance, the military history of Reconstruction would be fascinating right now because it is where different modes of military governance was at play.

Sometimes I forget to say obvious things out loud. The whole point of the Peggie case now is to see if this tactic can be made to work. Just knocking out one more peg of our democracy.

Teach this