You first.

All I want is a world where the hyphenation-correction of the royal nonce's name is not a sodding headline. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The man's lack of self awareness is utterly staggering. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Einfach erbärmlich.

How on earth can you end up even worse than Change UK? www.bbc.com/news/article...

Kudos to Todoist. They're at least giving long-time subscribers the option as to whether or not they pay almost double the current subscription to pay for the company's AI desperation.

*whispers extremely quietly* Queer spaces in Berlin, and their owners or organisers, generally could not give the slightest of fucks about accessibility or comfort for those with disabilities.

Husband got me some new books. ❤️🇮🇪

During my run in the park today some poor dude collapsed. Another person and I called the ambulance who took him away. The notable thing for me that literally every person that passed stopped and asked if they could help (rather than just gawking). Must remember: deep down, people are good.

Also was super lovely to meet and chat to @sebi.io this week. Genuinely lovely dude. Follow him if you don't already. :)

pssst. a man of my word the first droidcon London talk is now live! we join @zsmb.co to learn about all things hot reload! youtu.be/gWlLGfbsHfk?... #dcldn25

Fictional deaths that traumatised me the most. #dcldn25 #droidcon @benkadel.com

Petition to ban "aus betrieblichen Gründen" as an excuse for anything on the grounds that it means fuck all. Might as well say "it's delayed, cos it is".

Maybe Brits are just super angry there's at least one extra step they need to take now to bash one out and that's why Labour's lead will never recover. Maybe they're not actually that racist and are just pretending to be because it's easier than admitting to being really upset about wank obstacles.

Some of us from #dcldn25 popped to the new 90s themed bar in Covent Garden. Basically, it's like they 3D printed my midlife crisis... It's really cool. Anyway here's @benkadel.com looking as suspect as usual (the entrance to the bar is via a pepsi machine in a fake video store).

I can hear the champagne bottles opening at Green Party HQ from here. What a dumb decision.

Yesterday was my dad's first anniversary. It's been an odd year. After he died I made my way to City airport for my flight back to Berlin. I kept getting quite vivid sudden memories, so started writing them down (heavily recommend this as grief management technique btw). Here are some of them...

Most grateful to everybody who came to my #dcldn25 talk on system design interviews. There's a lot to cover and it can be a little dry, but the questions afterwards were very thoughtful and really added something. So thank you. ❤️

Ok let's go! #dcldn25

Hey all you lovely people at #dcldn25. Do design systems interviews fill you with dread? They did with me too. And now I do a talk on it. "Systems Design interviews for people who hate Systems Design interviews" will be at the TechLead summit at 14:35... in 30 mins. :)

Something so important: #dcldn25 videos will be accessible for all on YouTube whether or not you attended the conference. As tech again moves away from openness and sharing, making knowledge accessible is so vital. ❤️

The man himself ❤️ @gregfawson.bsky.social #dcldn25

Good morning #dcldn25

Ok London gentrification has gone too far now.

See you soon @droidcon.bsky.social #dcldn25 #droidconlondon

On Reform's Danny Kruger's reported complaints about parties being 'LGBT-supporting', a Lib Dem source says it's "disgraceful and completely unacceptable." "Farage's MPs clearly have views that are completely out of step with modern Britain." He "must confirm if he agrees with these comments."

Where my #DCLDN25 Bluesky folk at? #droidcon

but if this doesn't tickle your fancy, I'll also be speaking about #Compose as an architectural foundation for #Multiplatform apps in #DependencyDen if the other rooms get too full 😉 #droidcon #DCLDN25

@zacsweers.dev will be speaking about dependency injection with Metro, the recent successor to Anvil 🎉, @spght.dev on obfuscation techniques for Android, and jamescullimore.dev on Wear OS, and how the next wave of Wear OS apps can be a little smoother for everyone, #droidcon #DCLDN25

@droidcon.bsky.social London has such an amazing line up, which can make it difficult to choose, which talk do you want to go to?! If you find yourself around at 16:10 tomorrow, you'll have some incredible speakers to choose from... #droidcon #DCLDN25

We just defeated Nigel Farage’s Bill in Parliament to tear up people’s rights and withdraw from the ECHR. Farage wants to do away with the Britain Churchill built and turn it into a version of Trump's America. We stopped him.

I remember wondering, in my youth, whether bird flu would affect me and the answer back then seemed to be "unless you're rubbing birds in your face probably no". So I thought ok whatever. It feels like I have more skin in the game this time.

Klein-Kampf.

If a non-white non-billionaire said this Starmer and Cooper would be frothing at the mouth. This is incitement. Simple as that.

Doing pretty much the same journey I did a year ago today to try and get back to the UK to see my dad before he died. My brain doesn't usually put much mental stock in anniversaries, but yeah this feels weird. A lot has changed in that year.

Person: "Please, help, I'm being murdered!" 999 operator: "What, no way, they can't do that, that's illegal!"

I finally met @amandaofsteele.bsky.social for a crow walk at Tempelhofer Feld today and she is as cool offline as she is online. ❤️

I bet you don't even have a favourite photo of your old school. Here's mine.

okay that’s funny

If you're investing your energy in insisting that vegan sausages should legally be prevented from being called sausages I'm looking forward to you never using the "don't we have more important things to worry about" excuse ever again. Oh, and you're a dickhead.

Me when I got to Berlin: "God I wish I could speak German so I could communicate with them with their language and feel I belong here." Me today: "If I talk to them in English they'll assume I can't understand what they're saying in German and that's sorta fun so..."

Caerphilly result, from a progressive rather than partisan point of view, is great. 1. The more people wake up to the power of turning out/voting tactically the better; 2. Given Lab still has four years in gov't with a big majority, the more it is terrorised away from regressive policies the better.

This week was hard to deal with, there were so many civilians killed, two journalists killed, kindergartens targeted. There were good news in terms of sanctions & equipment, but it doesn't stop drones & missiles. At times, I don't know how to keep reporting on that constant flow of horrors.

Plaid winning that by-election reminds me of all the times Labour characterised Plaid and the SNP as basically-the-BNP with a lazy "all nationalism is abhorrent" (or to that effect). Sorta funny in hindsight given this is the most foreigner-hostile Labour government in my lifetime but there we are.

Sulu ❤️

Cuomo needs to Google Zac Goldsmith.

The thing that surprised me most here is that they had the recording light in the first place. Seems odd that a company that harvests your data in any way possible puts a warning sign up when you want to record someone.

It's sort of hard to push the line that nobody is above the law when you allow presidents of either colour to randomly pardon whoever the hell they want. No real democracy should work like this.

Was very very lovely to catch up and the feeling is most mutual. ❤️❤️❤️