I'm not gamer coded enough to read 'glhf' as an acronym so every time I see it I read it like ‘gluhrf' like the person's brain just shut down for some reason.

Star Trek having more than one plot line about a species being pheromonally sexy to the point of distraction makes me think that only asexual people should be allowed into Starfleet.

My wildly specific pet peeve is inaccurate depictions of the Clifton Suspension Bridge. So many logos and graphics draw one half and then mirror it to the other side, when in reality the bridge is incredibly asymmetrical.

Wild to zhink zhat zhere was a moment in time when you were za youngest person on earzh

ough our new air fryer is so cool,,, ↖️ just cooked two greggs pasties in a third of the time it normally takes

Oh boy I can't wait for zhe iPhone 18 to drop

Watch out for men in suits. They are the worst kind! #anticapitalism #EatTheRich #FeedThePoor #capitalism #capitalists #MenInSuits #activism#capitalism#anarchism #socialism

[Bass-boosted yinglet TF]

Folks are talking about their ConFuzzled events publicly now so I figure I'll do the same. Anyone attending CFz feel up for a game of spelling? 👀

Windows PC has seemingly decided it doesn't like my HDMI switcher anymore. It works up until it starts showing the Windows loading screen, at which point the display cuts out. Windows is fucky with my other monitor too, in a different way. Frickin' Windows.

Periodic update on the state of my laptop.

I’ve seen this same graffiti (same symbols, colours, marker style and shape) in Bristol, Manchester and now Glasgow. Who’s doing this??

And back in the day we had programs like Trillian, which meant that your friends were simultaneously using MSN, AIM, YIM, ICQ, Skype, and IRC all at the same time. https://retro.social/@ifixcoinops/116044075808744432

in 2017 a popular twitter game was to type a partial phrase then see what your phone auto-completes it with. this proved so popular that it is now the only business model in the US.

furcoña

Why’s it so Scottish up here

Oh lawdy we flyin’ (soon)

Starfleet Academy 1x05 starts off so high school comedy wacky but the last 20 minutes or so is so fucking feelsy oh my god.

Study of nearly 6,500 people finds that trans people have no physical advantages over cis people after only a few months of HRT. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/trans-athlete-womens-sports-advantage-b2913479.html

Pokémon #81 is Magnemite ya dumb AI thing

Rice is fun cuz how often do you get to eat hundreds of something in one meal?

🗃️ Oh yeah, GOV.UK analytics for January is up. https://beeps.website/govuk-browser-data/ Interesting now there's enough data in there to see some long term trends happening. Use of mobile devices is up by 6-ish %. Desktop and tablet devices have fallen by 5% and 1% respectively. Safari's […]

It doesn't happen often but it's pretty neat when you find a bug with a new, novel browser and get to report it. https://github.com/alphagov/reported-bugs/issues?q=is:issue%20author:querkmachine It's more neat when they actually fix it, too. Credit to Firefox for actually being on the ball […]

I don't know if the owner of this is on fedi, but I wanna drop a link to their website cuz it's one of the most fleshed out, aesthetically beautiful personal sites I've come across in a while. https://mathie.gay/ I actually prefer it to my own website in many ways (which is a lil ironic given […]

thinking about cohost again. rest in power, eggbug. :ying_cry:

I've added a new little section to my website where I'm collecting interesting links about web design and development. https://beeps.website/stash/ Gonna give it an RSS feed eventually I'll get to it shhhhh

[AI nonsense] At least getting a sensible chuckle out of Cursor's head of engineering releasing a vibe-coded RollerCoaster Tycoon clone where even the included demo save is a barely functioning, nonsensical mess.

Noticed a lil pattern. My first fursona was used for two years (2006–2008), second for four (2008–2012), and third for six (2017–2023). So noodle has to last until at least 2031. That's logical, right?

I tried making poached eggs this morning for the first time in ages cuz I normally fuck 'em up, but they all came out damn near perfectly. Feeling like a poached egg god right now ngl

Edgar Allen Poe's Wikipedia article starting with this is a heck of an oof. > He is the first well-known American writer to earn a living exclusively through writing, which resulted in a financially difficult life and career.

[UK news, transphobia] Ahh, another news story about a TERF claiming discrimination because a business didn’t want their custom. Funny how these people insist that safe spaces can only exist by excluding people, but when someone tries to create a safe space for trans people by excluding them […]

If I worked for the BBC I'd have to change my name to pips.

Dukat: Seriously Miles. All you do is bitch. Miles: I happen to complain the perfect amount for someone in my situation.

I guess when you consider that I'm a developer who really likes user interface design, that I also quite enjoy systemising designs into design systems isn't that weird.

I looked at the word 'speed' too much and now it doesn't look like a real word. Speed. SPEED. s-peed.

Between Invincible, Fallout and The Boys, Amazon Video really is the super gory adaptions of other properties streamer huh

Mentally confusing Gilbert and Sullivan for, er… Kiefer and Sutherland is normal, right?

jesus christ that do be how it be, though Source: https://fxtwitter.com/deeoxie/status/1990380430739304547/

It's Squirrel Appreciation Day once again, so it's time to appreciate the @olive 💚 Art by @tuxedodragon

I’m hosting a game show at ConFuzzled this year! Absolutely early days, no commitment, but anyone here interested in being a contestant? 👀

Do balloonies sleep with CPAP masks so they don't deflate overnight? :ash_thinking:

[data design, US politics adjacent] The infographic in this post is a neat way of visualising the differences of (often quite nebulous) economic and demographic data. It's one thing to say "Average income in the US is n% lower than the OECD average"… and another to say "If the US met the OECD […]

A lot is an historical measure of weight, equivalent to 1/32 of a pound (half an ounce, or 14 grams), so actually to possess a lot of something is to have a very small amount of it.

There's one thing about Apple's ecosystem that bugs me, which is the inconsistency of cross-device access and control. Apple TV can be remotely controlled by iPhone and iPad (but not Watch or macOS). Watch can be remotely controlled via an iPhone (but not iPad or macOS). iPhone (but not iPad) […]

The Lord of the Rings trilogy features High Elves because They R.R. Tokin’.

[ukpol] Love this. Mr Jenrick MP wasting no time in blaming the previous conservative government for fucking things up. HE WAS **IN** THE CABINET OF THE SUNAK GOVERNMENT. How thick do they think we are???

They should do another series of Short Treks. Star Trek seems like a universe that'd be fertile ground for an anthology series.

[Star Trek: Starfeet Academy (S1E02)] oh my god the exocomp's name is almond basket

I now have an iPad with a keyboard cover and wow using it kinda like a tiny laptop (or, dare I say, a netbook of old) is kinda whole different experience. It’s neat.

For an issue that specialists have always said cannot be solved by machines, there's an awful lot of "use AI to fix accessibility for you" nonsense going around. Don't believe the grift, y'all.