Beloved internet comrades in focusing really intensely on the wrong thing: What are y'all hyperfocusing on right now? I am politely requesting to be nerdsniped about your current weird passion.

Slept just badly enough where it feels like I have been lightly but solidly slapped all over with a dirty shoe.

They made a Toxic Avenger remake with Dinklage playing the lead and none of you told me about this?!

your own / edible / jesus

Wait, when did they enshittify Geoguessr?

I’m at the free hair store now, how many did you need?

I’m at the free hair store now, how many did you need?

I don't know what happens when we die, but I hope I get shown a supercut of clips showing all the improvised tools I've used throughout my life.

Please help me try and find the most haunted item in this auction. My first suggestion: this lifelike clown helium balloon cover that *definitely* does not come to life to hunt down young lovers to an 80s slasher soundtrack www.the-saleroom.com...

Guess who got into the recycling bin?

I'm just about to sign up for a cool, weird CityLit course so wanted to share my referral code in case any of y'all want £20 off online short courses (I would also get £20 off) citylit.mention-me.c... I'll share some examples of courses in my wishlist in the replies

If you're learning programming skills: Igalia is taking applications for a program paying you to work on open source 💰 Fully paid grant program 📆 450 hours of work with a mentor from June 📍Global remote program 🎓 Open to students or self-directed learners 🚨 Applications close April 3rd!

I would do this 3 month volunteer residential Scottish wildcats conservation role in a second, if I had a UK driving license. Like a writers retreat, but the output is more tiny baby wildcats instead of a novel.

love that the only types of cat toys are: - ball with bell - simulated murder - drugs in stuffed animal

Incredibly specific job klaxon if you are: 🇬🇧 looking for a UK remote role 💻 where you can use your programming and data skills 🛠️ and do some hardware hacking too 🐈‍⬛ also if you like cats, omg this is a weird cat tech job (Cat Scientist - Emerging Welfare Technology, £49k, apply by April 3)

Hey who wants to see the best, worst thing. TEETHBRUSH www.tiktok.com/@long...

Love the ouroboros of finding a service that works really well, it getting bought out by private equity and hollowed out and having to see if someone has built a new version of the service yet. True innovation.

If you're a current undergraduate/recent STEM or economics grad in the UK who is looking for work and you're into trains, I have incredibly specific good news. The Rail Safety + Standards Board is hiring for 2x 13 month contracts working on cool research.

I know that blog posts are more useful than social media threads but I am posting social media threads to avoid working on my website.

Job hunting is hard and 2026 is already a lot, so here's a thread some tech for good (or at least less evil) tech jobs I found in my wanders across the internet🎁

Supporting a jobhunting friend and becoming increasingly unhinged as I explain all the unspoken job hunt lore. Oh yeah, there's a weird set of specialist language conventions and a bunch of process secrets you need to learn to get this job. They have nothing to do with actually doing the job.

Can't sleep, so doing some data cleaning at 4:45 am.

This isn't a tech job, but I want one chance to do my life over so I have the skills to do this Antarctica-based role researching seals

Sure am glad I adopted cats. Very cool and good to have a fun sized version of an apex predator who screams in your sleeping face as part of a household complaints process.

In researching things to do, I found that UCL's Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience has a comedy club, with brain science themed comedy nights. Next event is in April!

Just got nerdsniped by one of my smartest, hottest friends who asked if I already knew that Spanish speaking countries do Tuesday the 13th instead of Friday the 13th for their unlucky/spooky date combo and now have to muddle through Spanish language wikipedia articles to try and work out why

I'm back from Italy and am so excited to report discovering "Tex", a limitlessly unhinged Western comic that ran 1948-67 ✅ Absolutely wild character name choices ✅ Cowboys but also magic? Sure. ✅ Bigfoot ✅ Hey wtf why are there Pinkertons in this en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Doing research for my tech for good jobs posts always makes me want to yell at American companies that list "remote" roles when they mean "remote US". Please y'all, other countries exist.

Hello internet friends and friendly internet strangers. Things are rough out there and we gotta pay bills, so here's a thread of tech for good* roles for all y'all looking for work right now. *or just less evil, I hope!

Woke up today needing to learn everything I can about the history of the Silk Road, which feels very much like a genderswapped version of dudes who turn 50 and get really into WW2 history.

Global remote, 🚨paid🚨 open source grant program from @igalia.com for folks to learn more about Linux, Graphics, JS DevTools, Multimedia + GStreamer or Web Standards. - apply by April 3 - €7k for 450 hours over 3-6 months - uni students or self directed learners www.igalia.com/coding-exper...

Happy Kentucky Meat Showiversary for those who celebrate! For non-adherents: mystery meat(?) just fell out of the sky in 1876, multiple sets of people tried eating it because entertainment was different back then en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Hey this isn't hopepunk, I don't think, but what is this vibe called? Asking so I can search for more things that feel like this.

As Isreal renews open war with Lebanon, @distributeaid.org has tourniquets, water filters, and wheelchairs already on the way to help civilians survive. We also prepositioned hundreds of shelter nursing kits to help mothers and infants fleeing the bombs. Donate to fund the next shipment 👇

Spending my first day back at home being really chill and normal (manually adding Japanese language books from the 1950s into my library system)

Last of my Istanbul cat posts. Please enjoy this improvised rain shelter for cats which someone in Sultanahmet made from a loveseat, cardboard, plastic sheeting, an umbrella and love.

Gee Bill! How come your mom lets have two Finnish PhD dissertations on Pokemon?

Choose your fighter. (It’s a cuddlefight)

I am very bad at learning languages but very good at context and not getting stressed about friction in communicating, which seems to be just as useful as being good at languages.

I promise I will go back to posting about computers or data or open course soon but there are so many cats here and they’re all very good.

Coin operated vending machines dispensing kibble for streetcats are my favourite shared infrastructure discovery this week.

Please, Mr Polyester is my father! Just call me Tuna.

Hey uhm, this is a trap, Y/N?

Please admire this grubby baby who looks like a novelty salt shaker made out of resentment.

Bad news for me, I am increasingly tempted to start learning an agglutinative language

Focusing on learning the most important Turkish words first, which is why I know the word for milk cake (Trileçe) is a loan word from Spanish.

Ran into a local celebrity in my hotel lobby. She’s so gracious with her fans!

I am a weird little freak for gummy sweets and these are the best I have ever encountered. Platonic ideal of peach gummies. Turkey remains undefeated at peach flavoured foods.

In Istanbul for some meetings but also to see how many different cats I can pet in a single week.