Today’s win is accomplishing something in AWS (setting up Simple Email Service) and not taking four days, tearing my hair out, to do it

I don’t know who needs to hear this (yes I do it’s everyone) but you’re allowed to have fun with your own existence. You can enjoy it, make it art, take the piss out of yourself, laugh at and enjoy and be absurd strange little creatures all you want. In fact I recommend it.

sending 418 FOI requests to all uk city, borough, and district councils, asking for data on complaints about antisocial/bad drivers or excessively noisy cars to build a “how antisocial are drivers in your area compared to the rest of the uk?” tool while also trying not to get my email marked as spam

sinpit halloween was such fun. loved using esp32 + wled to make a sexy little light up outfit. we also managed to break into cruz defying street-long queues

It’s been more than a decade since we learned that car manufacturers like Mercedes and VW were using ‘cheat devices’. In that time thousands have died prematurely in the UK alone. So why no action? www.whatthelawdoes.com/p/sixteen-th...

mushrooms in a forest while walking the peg dog

espresso machine was not pouring. narrowed it down to a blocked metal filter bowl thing. tried the usual to unblock it (vinegar soak etc.), no dice. put it on the hob for 30 seconds and the steam inside, between exit and entrance holes, forced out the stuck bits. win 🏆

Seeing him and the conference finally rise to this is quite something. You can see the surge of confidence in the speech as he realises, hey basic antiracist rhetoric is popular and I believe it too! Glad the message has sunk in.

Great Global Greyhound Walk 2025 @ Pennington Flash, Leigh! Soooo many beautiful greyhounds

the peg dog giving so much comfort to an incredibly drunk and out-of-it felix <3

getting ready for sinpit. yom

This is very good. Very well pitched and sensibly placed.

shaved my legs again for the first time in months and i forgot how wonderful it is

5 mins into Logic Pro 11.2 and Flashback Capture has already saved a hook I failed to press record for

Information has been leaked about China's advanced propaganda infrastructure, which uses artificial intelligence (AI). It has the ability to engage in political activities and target politicians. It is a powerful tool for information/cognitive warfare. cdn.vanderbilt.edu/vu-web/clien...

Getting carpets fitted today and have shoved everything from the target rooms elsewhere… hoping the fitters don’t knock over any Leaning Towers of My Stuff All Over the House (TM)

Key replacement of a Yamaha CVP-207 Clavinova from 2001 - the thought that went into this design is incredible! Two hidden screws to remove the top panel, four to remove digital panel, intuitive key removal and replacement (they pretty much just slide on and off when the keyboard is removed). 🎹 ❤️

official silliest picture of a greyhound i think in the world, ever

chaotic set of signs

Maiden voyage of the world’s crappest trailer actually went really well and only required one adjustment (moving from a single pivot (triangle) to a dual pivot to stop oscillations)

Want to take more things to hacker camps but too cheap to buy a cargo trailer for your bike? You surely won’t regret making an extremely dangerous, heavy, and generally awful one instead

Noticed the public transport card readers in Amsterdam localise their in/out message depending on UK card or Dutch card (at least). Nice touch 🚂 🇳🇱

apple music automix in ios 26 beta 4 is peak. packing for WHY2025 in music bliss rn

downing a cup of three raw golden yolk eggs before bed does hit different

travelling back from cruz ft. the peg dog

i love inflatable snail robot

arriving back from le club at 9am just in time to sign for a neighbour’s parcel

Data published this year shows 20mph on London borough road resulted in: 📉40% drop in fatal collisions 📉75% fall in kids being killed 📉34% fall in people being killed or seriously injured. Great to see Enfield making their streets safer with 20mph 👍👍 #VisionZeroLDN

hangover cup of tea featuring (jealous or judgemental?) greyhound. yes that is a pint glass next to it

Upcoming blog post on felixweber.co.uk - "Reclaim Digital Democracy: Private Platforms Controlling Public Discourse". Gonna be tough to research, source, and write this one without sounding like a conspiracist ;)

Potentially groundbreaking court ruling against #meta: "A German court has ruled that Meta must pay €5,000 to a 🇩🇪 #facebook user who sued the platform for embedding #tracking in third-party websites." "This may very well be one of the most substantial rulings coming out of Europe this year […]

This is analogous to coming up with killer world-changing ideas when drunk or high, and then you look at what you wrote down later and it just says "give birds roller skates"

Why do you zone out after two minutes of another corporate PowerPoint?? 💩👎 Now on the blog - research piece into why PowerPoints are so insipid and stultifying, and how to fix them ;) 📖 Check it out -> felixweber.co.uk/powerpoints-...

This is a great step towards further awareness & adoption :)

Watched Stalker (from the Strugatsky brothers’ “Roadside Picnic”) straight after HyperNormalisation by Adam Curtis the other night. Feel like this… is one of the more odd rabbit holes for a Tuesday night

if only i spent the same amount of effort on taking care of myself as i do on stupid endeavours like attempting to write a DNS stack exclusively running on ActivityPub, i’d probably… have less time for the stupid endeavours

@gitlab.com why is your sign-up so awful :/ first six rounds of 'move the train to the right co-ordinates' gets old fast, then _another_ six rounds of it when adding a phone number two minutes later… let's hope there's not another when adding a payment method

New (super brief) blog post up! Things To Put in a Slow Cooker With Chicken Drumsticks 🍗 "9 - A Selfie Stick (Extended) - This one also doubles as a stirrer, and often comes with a remote flash option."

Marina’s PRINCESS OF POWER absolutely kills… especially I <3 U and EVERYBODY KNOWS I’M SAD

A man stirs the pot. “It’s a metaphor,” he says. The frog is sweating. The frog is informed that this is due to a natural variation in temperature. “He’s clearly boiling the frog,” say the other frogs. All books about frogs have vanished from the library.

BREAKING: the EHRC has formally abandoned its contention that employers need to provide single sex toilets. goodlaw.social/4npg

Meta and Russian Yandex engaged in unprecedented internet tracking practices, likely illegal with EU data protection law. localmess.github.io

whale banana #tildagon #emfcamp

Late nerd… #WHY2025 tickets and travel sorted (much to the dismay of my bank account) (but much elation and excitement for me)

Mega easy, takes 30 secs, find your MP with writetothem.com and just copy paste!

Always demotivating when you spend so long at the gym on squats only to be out-assed by Tesco value mushrooms… 🍑 🍄‍🟫