Has sending a marketing email with a subject line solely consisting of the recipient’s first name ever worked? Sure, it’s attention-grabbing, but also 100% guaranteed to annoy the target to a point where no engagement will result.

Some more iffy electrics left for us by the previous owner. I genuinely have no idea what’s going on here.

Logic apps, I am tired of your bullshit

Another weekend, another Toolstation visit

Ok, follow up question on that. Is she a house? ✅Yes -> probably totally normal, then. ❌No -> she will look very weird with a chimney on her.

My ”a mugs guide to Geordie dialect” mug has finally been through the dishwasher so many times that the red text supposed to show the Georgie words has faded, leaving only a confusing patchwork of random English words

Why are external monitors shit? It’s 2025

One more week of getting up at 6am to use the pool showers 😮‍💨

I could definitely be a brickie. Just look at this replacement half brick I just did?

A signup form allowed me to provide no gender, so I selected that option. I guess this is my title now?

Bye, old bathroom 🥲

Right. Let’s see if we can work out what this pictogram is telling us. Left: red background, easily recognised ’forbidden sign’. Don’t do the thing depicted. Don’t litter. Right: blue background, nothing is forbidden. I’m encouraged to do something? Use this cup to murder some turtles?

Did they fire everyone whose job it was to update o2 priority but forgot to shut down the app, or something? I just signed in for the first time in years and it’s all empty and crap

Spotted next to two recently dug ponds/mini lakes in Cambridge. Feels like the city council may have listened to @davegoulson.bsky.social 🙂

That’s a crazy amount of oil just for frying onions. Are you trying to kill me, bbc good food?

My Shokz headphones is one of my favourite pieces of tech, but who thought that "redail last number" should be something I'd want to trigger with a very simple button action? At least give me the option to disable call controls?

My unhinged opinion: these shouldn’t be painted

Pretty sure no bricklayers follow me, so I think this is safe to say here: garden trowel >> any other masonry tool

This was the original colour of our bathroom, apparently. Drugs as an explanation for a lot of things in this house makes a lot of sense now

Day 6 of house being re-wired: tremble, mortals, for I am become plaster dust incarnate! Cough cough

One of the tasks for this tool is not like the others 🤔 I'll keep an open mind, though

Robert Jenrick feels like the kind of person who'd tell you off for using an ad blocker www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I wonder how many people you have to get together to swing the Montenegro Eurovision vote. 5? 10?

Adventures in home ownership, part 1 of ?? The previous owner left us this absolute masterpiece - a mortared-in plastic socket box

Earth day is just a phoney day made up by electricians. Everyone knows you only really need live and neutral

I can't even tell if this is an intentional pun on Stanley Kubrick's name or not, but I laughed

Knew someone would have made this joke already, so I’m humbly reposting it instead

Apple logic: the button that makes your phone make a loud noise (startling your sleeping partner awake) needs to be next to the button you press when you go to sleep

As in, how paying tips is generous and manly, paying tariffs is manly? If they start comparing tariffs to tips, they’ll get 100% support, all yanks support it without question

"sometimes you have to take medicine to fix something", says man whose worshippers are infamously reluctant to get vaccinated

Pretty sure there was a Thunderbirds episode about this www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Coming into the weekend on two back to back days of gym, topped off with a covid booster. Sincerely regretting that I signed up for rowing this afternoon. But if a boat needs to boat, I’ll help boating it I guess 🤷🏻

Stocking up on silly mugs, because our dishwasher is now huge and we keep running out

TIL that you can tell virgin you're moving somewhere, and the poor guy at the destination address gets their internet disconnected without warning. I'm that guy, who's trying to do a day of working from home the day before a house move

The bird nest box I put up years ago is finally being used! Well, sort of

Tried to take down my house alarm without realising my internet was down, so when I tried to disable it first in the app, it didn’t actually register. Hello, temporary hearing loss 🫨

If your software loads in less than a second, maybe you don’t need a splash screen? Just a lil bit of thought leadership for you

Because images are blocked in emails, especially when in the spam folder, I've seen a lot of my messages there try to render something resembling branding using only unicide and font colouring. It's kind of cute, but still oh, so unconvincing

In-flight snack options still better than Ryanair

New worst front garden just dropped

It wouldn’t surprise me if LGBT folks are over-represented in infosec and threat intel roles. Many of us spent a lot of adolescence into early adulthood practicing elite level opsec with our own lives. Some do for their whole lives. That’s a serious transferable skill, is what I’m saying.

One thing you’ve got to know before buying toothpaste at Costco is how reliable is your partner? You’re signing up for *a year* of the same toothpaste. Unless of course he’s is a flake and gets his own Sensodyne from Boots a month in, abandoning you with the ever-paste, for what is now TWO YEARS.

Lmao. Being in the middle of a house buying chain absolutely sucks. Here’s a list of shit things it has inflicted upon us so far

Aw, they gave El*n M*sk his own holiday?

I've cancelled my spotify account and gone back to listening to what's on my computer/phone. One of my favourite things about playing it on shuffle is that I have the GTA 3 soundtrack in there, so occasionally I get a random insane commercial between songs

At this point, the main motivation for my cutting season isn't some health or aesthetic benefit, I just long for the day I'm free of the oppressive bullshit of the myfitnesspal app

Broke my French press, so I’m doing it the old fashioned way

Planned the cable runs, access points and CCTV points for the new house last night, and it's going to be glorious

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I hate that I needed to re-find a news story about the M*sk bullshit that's currently going on, and the only search term my brain would give me was "big balls"