In 2025 I turned 41 and got my first salaried job with colleagues for over a decade. When did everyone else get so young?

Feels increasingly relevant.

Hello everyone. Dropping in to tell you I've opened an Etsy shop. I'm starting off by selling 3D printed backlit photos... or at least, I'd love to get my first sale and review to get things kicked off. They make lovely gifts, should you be shopping for one! Shop at www.etsy.com/uk/shop/3DPr....

Immediately suspicious of these spring rolls

This is the hardest I’ve laughed in a long time.

Google always understates links.

All back to usenet, I reckon.

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Me listening to my normy friends' opinions on Transformers One.

This website has just been "reactivated" in the last 24 hours after "Google shut it down". They say they'll be posting fewer news articles and focus on "complex commentary, recommendations, discussion, and opinions". No mention of their plan for ongoing celebrity nude content.

This site is still begging for donations under threat of closure. They're about 33% of the way toward the target they NEED to hit or they'll shut down FOREVER, tomorrow! I predict (a) they fail to hit their target, (b) they don't shut down and (c) they'll run the same grift this time next year.

Continuing down the "sad independent publisher" rabbithole... I've just seen the publisher of this site asking for donations since their traffic has, supposedly, dropped from 100,000 visits a day to 700. Can't claim to have checked all their rankings but those I have seem to be holding up.

There's an "independent publishing" guy on the other site complaining that his "independent entertainment news and geek commentary" site has lost most of its traffic and that means SEO is dead. Thing is, this site has been bolstering its traffic by optimising for celebrity nudes for years.

Got my Bluesky ranking (bye bye Twitter). My handle is a .me domain that redirects to my business site. Interestingly (for people who's job it is to be interested) Google has described the listing with the opening paragraph from my business site. No doubt someone clever than me can explain why.

The response to this story over on LinkedIn has been WILD to witness. So many business wankers circling the wagons to protect one of their princes.

Big fan of SEO consultants that tell other SEO consultants that the trick to being a good SEO consultant is to stop doing SEO and become a brand consultant. Very helpful people.

I have unapologetically loved so much of the Marvel series. Even as the reliability has dropped off in recent years, I'm all in on it. But it will be so funny to watch James Gunn and DC totally eat their lunch in 2025.

There's probably a discussion to be had about the general audience of podcasts and the utter bullshit that is sold on so many of them. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Tory Desk now, with Colin Poppshed.

Just completed a productive working lunch while eating a steak, as one does when they are not a wimp.

My printer can do Warhammer, too. 3D printing is awesome, guys.

I don't generally have many opinions about transforming toys these days but I find the way this new toy is a bit bad to be a bit more bad than the way the older toy was a bit bad. If you see what I mean.

It's all computer game critters and Black Country punk this year I'm afraid.

So I hear there's a new car from Jaguar.

Anyone managed to make an AI platform do a good job of keyword mapping? Spent a couple of hours last week trying to get ChatGPT to review a list of keywords and assign them to the pages on a site but it was either beyond its capabilities, or my prompting skills were lacking on that occasion.

Upgraded the printer so I can now print in multiple colours. Set it to work on a figure of Unit 01. The head alone took nearly 12 hours overnight 😬

Random strangers on the internet can be so friendly. Day made.

@dannyashton.com You've probably seen this already but I did a double take last night while watching We're In Hell's video on the dead internet and BAM, outta nowhere, you're on my screen, stretching over some air purifiers. youtu.be/5gNLViWfCA0?...

That was easier than expected.

Although she's a bit too young to play the Poppy Playtime games herself, this year the kid has become enamoured with the Smiling Critters characters via their presence on YouTube. Christmas is coming but there are no decent figures of these guys yet, so I'm printing them instead. This is Dogday.

So who do I pay to have my posts appear above everyone else's on this platform?

When you find yourself in a "starter pack".

Followed all the SEO types back here like a little online marketing lemming, haven't I. Hello all.

Been working on a little board for my little army men to have their little fights on.

Alan Partridge is emerging as one of the most squeaky clean presenters of the 90s-00s. And he shot a man on air.

Redesigned the single page at slingshotsearch.co.uk. It's not much but I made it and I think it looks nice so I'm pretty happy with it. Might even keep on working on it and see if I can finally get it ranking for something, who knows.

Every single award ever.

Got bored of painting cloaks and metal, decided to go with something fleshier next. Here's the start of a Nurgle army. These poxwalkers were pretty fun to paint. Good job too as I have 14 more to do.

Been painting again. Meet Belisarius Cawl. This is easily the most complex model I've ever put colour on. Completed over the course of a fortnight, it really pushed me and, while the result isn't exactly perfect, I'm pretty pleased with how it's turned out overall.

Started painting Warhammer 40k Admech about 4 months ago. Up to just over 1000 points now, this Skitarii Marshall is my latest effort. Pretty happy with how he's turned out, feels like I've brought everything I've learned to the table while painting him.

Feels like a safe space here so I'm just going to say it... I really liked Secret Invasion. Particularly enjoyed the Welsh baddy.

Kicking off my BlueSky with a shot of my most recently finished mini, a 3D printed not-Hulk. Hello, BTW. Nice to see you here.