I know not everyone appreciates the wind, but every day when I see electricity prices like this, I can’t deny that I do feel a bit smug.

Something as simple as chucking an AirTag in a suitcase is really handy when flying. Reassuring to know the bag is on the plane before we takeoff, and useful to know whether it’s on the way to baggage collection when you land…

This must be a watershed moment. The government's continued use of X is no longer simply negligent. It is an act of conscious assistance to violent extremism.

The brilliantly funny Michael Spicer. If you like this, I might dig out his Christopher Nolan sketch which had me in tears. Real Support from Actual Racists https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmeOXYE_axE

If you’re in the UK and haven’t heard about Slow Ways, this is a great effort to map and improve accessible walking routes between our towns & villages. Worth a look, even if only for awareness rather than than financial support. https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/slowways

Well done Octopus- it’s clearly going to be a windy day tomorrow ! Time to charge all the things!

#RIP “Breaking: Tom Lehrer, the Harvard-educated mathematician whose brief side gig as one of America’s favorite satirical composers captured in tune some of the anxieties and absurdities of the 1950s and 1960s, has died, according to the New York Times”

Really pleased to see my old home town (Halifax) listed here. What’s not mentioned (because presumably to readers of a Yorkshire publication it’s self-evident) is the close proximity of beautiful countryside to all of these towns. https://mastodon.social/@YorksBylines/114663154177360998

Mothers of Toddlers For Unleashed Untrained Rottweilers Say “No, No! Bad Doggie!”

[The BBC] is appeasing itself to death. Yep. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/01/consistently-appeasing-platforming-right-bbc-undermines-own-survival

Very happy with today’s Agile Octopus rates! Got the car charging all day today…

Does this mean that the PM should be sacked from the BBC, like Garry Lineker? UK, France and Canada threaten action if Israel’s offensive continues as first aid crosses into Gaza in weeks – Israel-Gaza war live […]

Incredibly depressing day. I've spent my entire life being told by British governments how dreadful immigration is. New Labour did it. The Coalition. The Brexiters. Now Starmer. All of them accusing the ones who came before them of failing to clamp down. The same old vacant mean-spirited bollocks.

Another fascinating #geoweirdness thread: https://en.osm.town/@opencage/114479452821617795

Today in news that sounds like clickbait but definitely isn’t! https://mastodon.social/@kwas_na/114472186253175702

ANALYSIS/COMMENTARY The Lib Dems: Have taken control of 3 county councils, more than they've ever managed before. Won more seats than Labour and the Conservatives (nearly as many as both of them combined in fact). Now control more councils than the Conservatives. Beat Labour in the national […]

People are saying we should write jumble words to mess up the training of AIs; I say we should just write sentences like those of the length Jane Austen would write, that have such non-local structure and nested clauses that, what with the drift of attention and the window of tokens, the LLMs […]

“Heating systems in Europe are unique and have a variety of hardware and software requirements that make it challenging to build for the diverse set of homes” What Google means is “we only want to develop for one (American) setup”. Are they really so incompetent that they can’t figure out what […]

BBC News: “the president paid tribute to the Pope, appearing on a balcony accompanied by his wife and a giant rabbit”. Did anyone in the presidential media team think about how this might look to anyone outside the MAGA bubble?

I’ve got a strong suspicion that I’m the only person in history who’s ever asked this, but does anyone know of an iOS Podcast app that works in landscape mode? I’ve tried a bunch of them, & they all resolutely stick to portrait layout even when my iPhone’s on its side. I’m embarking on a […]

Can’t believe Life of Brian is only #31! https://beige.party/@Tattooed_Mummy/114369469191412078

“While in previous years the Army would likely have noted the historic first in an announcement, that won't happen this time. Under the Trump administration, the department has prohibited anything that touts diversity, equity, and inclusion, per the AP. “ […]

So if Trump’s team calculated that China were imposing a 67% tariff on US goods, and now they’ve increased those, does this mean than Trump Will have to re-run his calculations and increase his own correspondingly? I feel for the poor (literally!) US consumers, faced with more and more taxation […]

Whatever else you may think of them, you’ve got to admit, #ledbydonkeys have a sharp sense of humour! https://syzito.xyz/@fkamiah17/114242573740951267

There are more of us than there are of them. About 250M more. #presidentbystander #signalgate #whiskeyleaks #endtrump #endmusk #agentkrasnov #republicansownthis #doge #gopkakistocracy #norepublicanseveragain #USpol

TIL the difference between ’collision’ and ‘allision’. Everyday’s a school day 😀 https://mastodon.me.uk/@DreadShips/114139851479430875

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Take my money… https://mastodon.social/@macrumors/114112079621377017

I found this on the internet. It is very funny.

“Governor Trudeau” is part of the Trump administration’s ethos of pathological insecurity. A weak person is constantly compelled to insult and belittle others, even allies, to show “strength.” An actually strong person isn’t. Bullies are weak, as are their sycophants.

But I thought they hated the concept of working remotely? 🤔 https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mxc7liuon6iq5gzapmmwkq22/post/3ljlp4lxzfc24

Now that’s a cracking idea!! Of course, there realpolitik at play too, but it’d be one hell of a move! “Career defining” even. https://mastodon.green/@sticklandtim/114084066923246948

Do anti-vaxers vaccinate their pets?

For no good reason I was thinking about our daughter's long stay in the psychiatric hospital. There were a lot of patients on the ward (possibly about 2/3) who never got any visitors. Where we're their families, spouses, parents, children? Not to mention freinds? The ward staff were delighted […]

I’m browsing listings for 2nd hand TVs and of course they’re all measured in inches. But it made me wonder- presumably the rest of Europe use cm for the same purpose? (Most of them have never used inches as a unit of measure). But all the model numbers include the inch dimension of the screen- […]

I’ve never heard of the #spinerace but now I have, all I can say is… the utmost respect to those crazy people who’re setting off tomorrow morning, and I hope they’re all ok in a week’s time. What a race! https://mastodonapp.uk/@aroundthehills/113811875356522009

If you're new to #mastodon, #welcome. I really like it here. I hope you will too. But getting started here can be tricky. Here's what can help: 1. Follow hashtags. You can do that here, and anyone who uses a followed hashtag will appear in your timeline, it's a great way to meet folks with […]

I’m sorry #OctopusEnergy , but wtf is happening with tomorrow’s electricity rates?? 70p-£1 per kWh all day??? Hoping this is an exception…

For anyone listening, the film Carry-On is neither funny, nor packed with inappropriate 1970’s jokes. It’s more of a poor-man’s Die Hard. But the obvious clichéd ending did make us all roar with laughter. But at the film, not with the film. https://mastodon.me.uk/@peteralee/113704032856150652

Settling down to watch a Netflix film called Carry-on. Assuming it’s going to star Sid James, Kenneth Williams and Barbara Windsor…

I thought so too, but I’m already getting used to it and I think I prefer it now. https://zeppelin.flights/@sixcolors/113670544198227370

Funnily enough, I’ve had about a dozen of these fake PayPal invoices in the past day or two. I was wondering if it was something I’d done to prompt them- at least now I know I’m not alone! https://mastodon.laurenweinstein.org/@lauren/113664267836440509

@chojubo #remindmefaster is, after several years, still one of my most used apps, so thank you for developing it. However, the long-hold to remove an hour from the due time doesn’t seem to work as well as it used to. Is there another way to quickly deduct an hour from the due time?

This: https://toot.community/@fak/113613253168035465

Bloody Hell- beaten by #whamageddon already!! Ten past 10 am on 1st December has to be the quickest time I’ve ever gone out 😠 Thanks a lot Greatest Hits Radio 🤣

“When even #uksnow has left Twitter…” I can understand them going where the majority of the users are, but it’d be nice if they could take Mastodon inputs too. https://martinh.net/@m/113505679983671655