London’s not all bad. I like the shared personal use infrastructure like the docked rental bikes and the free range puppies.

Wild to see the same folks who were hard-pushing RTO for personal connections in work are now hyping that workers are going to be replaced with AI. Almost like the message doesn't matter and they're gonna pick up any tool to undermine worker strength and confidence 🫠

60% sale is on right now for Oxfam's online shop, including extremely exciting used books. Please buy some so that I don't buy them all. Save me from myself. onlineshop.oxfam.org...

Fellow homebody holiday types: can y’all recommend me your favourite, most unhinged movies? I’m talking Hot Frosty* levels of weird movie, please. *a Hallmark channel quality romcom where a snowman comes to life as the love interest.

An Aomori Tourism org made a Tetris clone to promote their locally grown apples via an in browser game 🍎📱

Doing some admin chores that feel hopeful in different ways that are difficult to articulate.

Please give me access to a Time Machine, I want to show the Muppets Christmas Carol to Charles Dickens. I’ll give it right back after.

Early Christmas present from me if you're reading this and you're a: - Senior web developer - In London - Really into books and libraries - Looking for work rn I am excited to inform you that the British Library is hiring a new head of web development ce0752li.webitrent.c...

Very rare tech for good Klaxon: @torproject.org is looking for someone to lead the team that handles their project and grant management functions. - Global remote (with US embargo location exceptions) - $120-130k USD - Peerless privacy geek cred

Starting to think about 2026/7 meetups, events and conferences. What are y'all looking forward to next year? 👀

In theory I love how relationships shape how we think and communicate through close contact with others, but I find myself saying “gosh” more often these days than I would like.

Finally the days will start edging longer and lighter. Appreciate how jarring it must be for my equatorial friends to watch as each year sees me grow slowly, grimly unhinged as the days shorten and the giddy in small stages as light and hope returns.

Thanks to people like you, this year we’ve made a hard world a little gentler We delivered menstrual products to 5,000 women in Gaza. We distributed 1,110+ HRT kits to people across the US. We helped 250 families survive after the LA fires Your donations helped do that. distributeaid.org/donate/

All my storage hard drives are roughly the same age, which feels very much like having multiple pets who are the same age as each other. Future heartbreak is inevitable, but it's all gonna land at roughly the same time and with the worst possible timing.

Bad news, [internet] besties! Got an amazing night's sleep and am in a profoundly annoying good mood. Flee while you can. This is your only warning.

Internet hivemind: y'all got any recommendations/big feelings about WiFi SIM routers? Trying to get internet set up in a weird space where SIM is likely the best approach and would love to piggyback on your research if you've already had to do this.

Build a tram everywhere. Build commuter rail for every medium city. Make intercity travel that doesn't go via London non-shit. Improve tourist economies (and perhaps more than tourism?) by making rail trips to the seaside cheap, easy and fast with trains.

This is like one of those 3D eye-puzzle pictures but every time you look at it you discover a brand new, inconceivably cursed detail.

Splitting my Indonesian language study time equally between formal study and watching silly online videos, to see if I can balance out how stilted and formal my textbook is making me sound 🫠

I'm a longtime Firefox user who has worked at both the Mozilla corporation and foundation. But I tried out @vivaldi.com last week when I needed a Chromium based browser for a task and have found myself using it more and more. First time I've switched my daily driver browser in...quite some time...

Redoing my website, internet hivemind: what do we think about including a blogroll style section linking to friends' websites?

He's already broken one child lock off the bins. I am so tired.

Having an extremely me morning and was delighted to find my Minor Mlabri book has a printed sheet of corrections tucked into the front

Remembering the time a primate keeper at the zoo heard me say I'm afraid of monkeys and she told me about how the chimps will sometimes try and sneak sticks into the indoor enclosure to sharpen the use to try and stab the keepers through the bars. Delightfully terrifying bias confirmation.

Working on a project that's loosely but well organized, with really motivated people all communicating well. I love this. I want everything to be like this.

Language learner friends: I've started using LangRead for single word click-to-translate lookups for reading support and love how useful the export function is. I can import the words I've just looked up while reading to Anki/Clozemaster to actually learn them.

My fellow comrades who are helplessly interested in everything: Y'all got any tools, techniques or tips for building and managing queues of things you want to read, watch, etc?

This new unit in my language class is about one of my special interests. Thoughts and prayers for my tutor who has to deal with how intense and weird I'm gonna be while we talk about workers' rights.

This is my polite request to be allowed to drink the Santa juice. Please give me some.

This is my polite request to be allowed to drink the Santa juice. Please give me some.

Testing out Vivaldi for when I need to use a Chromium based browser and so far, really impressed. ✅ All the optional setup gubbins on setup where tabbed off by default ✅ Default search is privacy friendly ✅ Pink theme available ✅ No AI nonsense I didn't ask for and don't want

FRIENDS it is now the LAST DAY that you can SAVE SOME DOSH when you buy MINDFUL DESIGN. it is a VERY MASSIVE video course that covers the FULL DESIGN STACK and you get to STARE AT MY FACE for TWENTY SEVEN HOURS or sth. now i will SHUT THE HECK UP and NAP FOR A WEEK. piccalil.li/mindful-design

My (beloved, long suffering) Indonesian tutor just banned me from applying personal pronouns to abstract concepts, things or animals* until I'm more fluent, because saying things like "I love her" about a cute cake sounds weird at my level 🥲 *yes, even if I love them

Having a really exceptional day for focus and working effectively, going to make sure I spend it on what really matters (being a weird little goblin about language study).

Doing some deep thinking about how to best support new programming learners with their search skills after the enshittification of search is not making me a happier or more hopeful person.

Date night✨🦷

Brutally early for the Open UK awards dinner, because I love being early for everything 🫠

In a really good mood and gearing up to make it y'all's problem via the magic of the internet. If you can read this, it is already too late.

This seems really specific, but if you're: ✅ A security engineer ✅ UK based ✅ Looking for work ✅ Someone who loves cats There's a remote role open now at Cats Protection that you might want to check out:

Every year on my birthday I do social media pet court and today is the day 🎉 Reply with a photo of your pet and tell me about their crimes to recieve my faultless judgement and their sentence (if applicable). 👩‍⚖️🐾

Every year on my birthday I do social media pet court and today is the day 🎉 Reply with a photo of your pet and tell me about their crimes to recieve my faultless judgement and their sentence (if applicable). 👩‍⚖️🐾

May I please have £300k for this very Hobbit-coded 14th century watermill. It's a wildlife conservation area with otters and living here would fix me. www.rightmove.co.uk/...

To not reinforce bad behaviour, I ignore my cats acting out for attention...unless they're doing something so dangerous or so destructive that I'm forced to step in. After a long period of pattern matching, they now smash glasses and performatively chew plastic when they think it is mealtime.

Super normal and chill way to sit, little man. Very reassuring and not haunted at all.

Learning passive voice in Indonesian and my homework included an example with exeronative cop voice (Kaki demonstran itu tertembak.) and I am scrambling to find the vocabulary to learn more about its use in Indonesian because I am very chill and normal.

I love Anki. I want so badly to love to use Anki but the UI makes me understand why the owl app is so popular. Can anyone recommend me a flashcard app that doesn't feel like pulling teeth?

If you apply for and get this job after discovering it from this post, you're contractually* bound to make them give me a free workshop, their workshops are so cool *this is a joke. Unless...👀

Thinking about a deeply chaotic way to practice informal written Indonesian, should I make an insta account for my cats and detail their many, many crimes for language practice?

Setting up a new (secondhand) computer and this short, beautiful time before I'm logged into apps that send notifications is an active delight. This is why I used to love computers.

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