Apart from anything else, I learned how to unfuck Word's autonumbering in that class. @akivamcohen.bsky.social has joked that if I ever need to get another job, my cover letter could just say "I know how to unfuck Word's autonumbering" and that would probably get me to an in-person interview

As if I didn't have enough reasons to keep the Paypal Honey extension turned off in iOS Safari. (ALL the extensions forced on me in iOS Safari are off, and i have no reason to add any new ones. Just saying.) techcrunch.com/2025/09/30/p...

Every Indian naval vessel is either named after a 98 hour research binge into esoteric mythology or after a 0.2 second glance at whatever object was on the table at the moment

Time to pitch the film where a group of female pals, kicked out of the services for having the wrong genitalia, start planning to rob the high security facility where the fungible payroll and deniable cash is kept. Working title: The League of Gentlewomen.

Daily bunny no.3093 will not be stamped, filed or numbered!

War ravaged Portland

Ian Dunt being excellent - if on Substack - about Starmer's version of ID cards as an example of the folly of making concessions to racist populism. substack.com/@iandunt/not...

I’m seeing an awful lot of sealions in the ID discourse on here. Far more than in other conversations. Make of that what you will.

Confidential Note: Jewish. To be kept out of key occupations. - Poul Anderson, “Sam Hall”. Published 1953

There is much, much more I could post here about the current fuckwitted attempt to bring ID cards back to the UK, but I think I'd better save it to write to my MP. Not sure he's talking to me after I called his party out for being TERF-controlled, but needs must.

Autism is not a birth defect. Nor is it a disease. It is a difference. Those who claim to be able to cure, or want to “cure” autism are afraid of difference. Like racists, misogynists, homophobes, transphobes, ad nauseam. Resist.

Bird bandits! #Fluttervision

(Taking notes. There are some absolute bangers in here and some of them may be due for a rewatch.)

Megatokyo webcomic artwork fredrin.artstation.com/projects/q9o... megatokyo.com #webcomics #manga

Your reminder that Facebook, which Meta became, was put together by Mark Zuckerberg and his bros to rate the beddability of their fellow women students. That it’s now marketing underage girls to middle aged men is not surprising.

Yesterday I nuked the Windows partition on another of my Thinkpads & replaced it with Windows 10 IoT LTSC. Now I have a clean Win10 system, no Modern apps, no Windows store, no OneDrive, & it'll get updates until 2032. The download & the tools to activate it are here:

I and many others have got rinsed over the past year for having assumed that Keir Starmer knew what he was doing, back when he was first elected Labour leader, but I feel like in our collective defence he at least didn't turn up in a clown car that was actively on fire from the very start

Go home, Bluesky moderation, you’re drunk. It doesn’t even have female-presenting nipples.

Hoo boy! Another call from “John” at “Amazon” about the payment for my iPhone 15 having not gone through and can I please give my card details. I suspect a recorded/AI setup here.

Led by Donkeys, arrested for projecting material that’s in the public domain, have a donate button on their site. Legal costs may be heading their way. Drop them a few quid if you can: donate.ledbydonkeys.org Actions like theirs are a key part of the narrative of #resistance - they need our help!

Does my box of SCART cables, FireWire cables, Palm Pilot docks and far too many RCA connectors bring me joy? No; but it gives me a sense of security that one day I shall be able to answer a cry for help.

Igor! Stop watering the brains and start polishing the switches. We’re back in business!

"DOCTOR SCOTT!" "JANET!" "BRAD!" "DOCTOR SCOTT!" "JANET!" "BRAD!" "ROCKY!"

This is a good day to watch a film that says punch a fascist and never give in to the Far Right.

So we've gone from the shooter was trans to the shooter's bullets were trans to the shooter's roommate was trans to the shooter listened to a musical artist that sometimes mentions trans people

Hey hey hey, @taliskimberley.bsky.social, @tomsbrown.bsky.social and @hookland.bsky.social - look what fell through my letter-box today. Ta muchly, all of you.

If the legacy media had reported honestly the scale of the Trans Pride demonstration, they would not now be able to represent the Far Right demonstration as a sign of imminent democratic collapse and civil war.

What poster did you have hanging on the wall as a child? (Roger Dean was or less obligatory among my peer group)

Pleased to see Britain can still get some things right...

Bianca Castifore is in fine form at #TheLastNightOfTheProms JK, it’s Louise Alder singing the Jewel Song from Faust. And doing a beautiful job with it.

26 years since we lost the moon. Remembering the 311. #breakawayday #space1999

Pocket Princesses 428: Long Life hacks

Good morning!

If you want to see a fine example of a well-designed website for a writer/voice artist/award-winning ad creator, check out John Ashbrook's new site. (You might also enjoy the content!) johnashbrook.co.uk

'Appen they're a bit thick... "Don't worry too much about planet-warming emissions, the US Energy Secretary has told the BBC, because within five years AI will have enabled the harnessing of nuclear fusion"

This is me looking smug only because I turned on the “add descriptive text” flag. The number of times it has reminded me are… substantial.

Larry the Downing Street Cat for US Ambassador.

For those who need it:

It's cool how Labour nailed it's colours to the Peter Mandelson mask despite the fact that as an MP he saw his majority in Hartlepool fall every single election and was so universally-disliked that on Spitting Image he was portrayed as a worm with a face BEFORE THEY EVER GOT IN TO GOVERNMENT.

I see some of you dragging a shit take from the fascist site over here to dunk on it, a) why are you still on the fascist site to find that shit, b) why are dropping shit onto this site, c) when you dunk on it you just give it a new audience. Leave shitty fascist takes on the shitty fascist site.

Spent the morning checking the outer door seals and fitting new ones where needed. There's a definite chill in the ear and even with climate change it still tends to get colder in the Autumn.

This is one of the noteworthy Lost Disney films. I can see the joins where they called the child actors back for reshoots and they’d so obviously grown, but as you say Jonathan Pryce. And Jason Robards. And a criminally underused Pam Grier…

Two hours free electricity over and above what we normally use thanks to Octopus. The dishwasher is on, and the first of two loads is in the washing machine.

I have reviewed Nick Clegg's book 'How To Save The Internet' and Tim Berners-Lee's book 'This Is For Everyone' for The Observer. I, er, really really did not like Nick Clegg's book: observer.co.uk/culture/book...

Doctor I trust more than RFK Junior.

Not being able to "subscribe to" the position that "trans women are women" is, in fact, rank transphobia. (which tallies with the idea of bringing George Galloway on board, jesus wept)

Pocket Princesses 427: Nice Buns

I personally think that arresting people currently awaiting trial for assaulting a child from a minority group, because they've repeatedly and explicitly called for violence against that same minority group, is exactly the right thing to do.