Suddenly remembered that a friend has been contracting for the Submarine Delivery Agency

I keep being forwarded messages I should not have about a thing I should not know about because of a thing I made in case this specific thing happened. I'm not sure what's funnier - the people finding my thing and going "oh no", or the number of people quietly letting me know that it's happening.

Had a child describe me as "being like an excitable five year old" who quickly followed it up with "and I mean that as a compliment"

When you're small nobody tells you that you will inevitably get older and develop an interest in birds

Should I be worried

Found out something I built is proving to be very useful in one government department, and about to cause major drama in another

I have spent my entire day mentally writing a rant about the latest what3words nonsense and have no energy to type it

Selected my entire remaining to-do list and nuked the due dates. I will not be held hostage like this. You can't tell me what to do, list.

I beg you, please stop re-listing this for auction, I only have so much willpower

At that phase of "doing something quickly out of curiosity" where it is no longer quick, my curiosity turned to horror, and multiple friends have asked me to stop

Can we please stop maxxing everything

This is because they shut down the Matt Hancock app. He's got nothing left.

Installed a new bird detector in the garden. Can confirm: There are birds.

None of us have heard a nicked Lime bike in ages - not a click click or beep beep for weeks. Have they finally fixed the known vulnerabilities?

Asked the EMF workshops team to figure out the optimal placement of tables in workshop tents and got this in response

Sat opposite a man on the train with a cake carrier containing a half eaten birthday cake. Pulled into a station, another man got on with an identical cake carrier containing a half eaten birthday cake and sat next to him. The first guy then got off... BUT I DIDN'T SEE IF THEY SWAPPED CAKES.

I don't know why people say vibecoding is new, teledildonics researchers have been doing it since the 90s

I have an old email folder called "Do at some point" with 29 unread messages in it. I do not remember creating the folder, and it's been around so long that I am too scared to actually look inside it.

There is a special hell for people who update websites and needlessly break links

Absolutely normal slides from meetings I have in my free time "for fun"

I was recreationally reading the What3Words accounts and noted they'll need to raise more money soon, but surely they wouldn't dare run another crowdfunder given the hilariously bad financials. Well apparently they would. Here we go again. www.crowdcube.com/early-access...

I am on an intercity commuter train for the first time in 15 years. In a carriage of six people, four of them are on zoom calls. Another one called the vet. I am the sixth person. This is hell. What are we doing here.

Someone casually dropped a full mesh-connected multiplayer first-person-shooter for the @emfcamp.bsky.social badge, with procedurally generated map of the campsite. Wtf. github.com/webboggles/t...

Just imagine being sat next to this lot in the pub.

Resurrected another old bot: Get This Party Started, which posts every time someone attempts to register a new UK political party. @parties-started.bsky.social

Everything is terrible but Boards of Canada are mailing out mysterious VHS tapes teasing a new album so at least we have a soundtrack for the end times www.reddit.com/r/boardsofca...

My shower in Malaysia has an option I don't really want to try

Ed Miliband implies the existence of Ed Megaband

Remember my old bot that posted every rejected parliament petition? I've resurrected it on both Bluesky and Mastodon. Let the chaos begin.

Computers are hateful machines

Move last and hate things

If you're wondering how things are going, we just took ownership of an arcade cabinet running a DOOM mod where you battle mecha-spider Margaret Thatcher so

It's mine, I tell you. My own. My precious.

You know your hobby has got out of control when the monthly update zoom call has 40 people on it. And they are just the team leads.

I don't know how we're expecting to make a Dyson Sphere, the guy can barely build a functioning vacuum cleaner

Spotted by a friend in Hawaii

My local industrial gas supplier also wanted people to know this recently

When you leave your laptop on the floor and the robot vacuum sees it as a challenge

Rewrote the @emfcamp.bsky.social scheduler expecting a 2-3x performance improvement. Actually got 150-800x. We are now rescheduling the festival every second. Keep up.

VICTORY! Government to open up the Land Registry - bringing to an end a thousand years of secrecy shrouding who owns England. I’ve been campaigning for this for ten years: the new Land Use Framework, published later today, makes it government policy. 1/ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"We have been offered a moon", "are there safe places to burn effigies", "your payphone has been collected", "our researchers were surprised to find they did it on the toilet" and other such conversations I have had today

The person next to me is very slowly writing an email beginning "Please carefully look out for any typoos"

After six years of searching, I finally have one

A squirrel chewed through a piece of dyneema in order to raid our bird feeders and I'm finding it hard to be mad at such a well executed heist

Someone buzzed our doorbell just to show us their bum

We just wanted to go camping for a weekend. 14 years later I am calculating tickets-per-second.

This round of ticket sales has sold out. If you had a ticket in your basket but it vanished, some people have found that logging in lets them recover it: www.emfcamp.org/login We will re-enable ticket sales for those with vouchers shortly.

To those of you about to try and buy @emfcamp.bsky.social tickets: I wish you luck. There will be more ticket rounds, and the CFP will open soon.

This is the warning on the blood pressure monitor my dad just got. Exceptional work. Anybody know what the fuck it’s supposed to mean? Last line is especially ominous