"AI is a force multiplier!!!" Yes but some engineers should not be having their force multiplied. It's like giving a tank to a gerbil.

Happy boxing day to all who celebrate! It seems to get earlier each year.

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: petitions.getup.org.au/petitions/fr... @getup.org.au

Well that was rather splendid.

me when an ai tool offers to "help"

This weekend's @theipaper.com cartoon #TIME #TimeMagazine #ai #personoftheyear

Accessibility changes take little effort and benefit many. Last month I switched to Atkinson Hyperlegible and haven't looked back. johnsy.com/blog/2025/11... Meanwhile, questionable decisions are being made elsewhere… www.cnn.com/2025/12/10/p...

Just me? #pluribus

Happy National Crossword Solvers Day to all who celebrate, especially @habaneroofdoom.bsky.social , @dontattempt.bsky.social & @lrlr.bsky.social for helping me to form a healthy habit.

Ru-roh

These young rookies and their memes! #f1 #SixSeven

This! 👇

www.theguardian.com/books/pictur... I sense @tomgauld.bsky.social has been spying on my online purchases and bookshelves.

The first rule of Crossword Club: tank told it's messed up to keep mum about (4,4) Crossword Club.

From the people who revolutionised personal music players and mobile telephony! It's amazing! www.apple.com/sn/newsroom/...

Impressive visualisations here. I am glad I checked out of Twitter.

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Our local council sent us a PDF with a URL and a QR code in it. The URL wasn't clickable, my computer doesn't know how to handle QR codes, and my phone was in another room. Rather than walk to the other room, I created johnsy.com/QRTY/ . I'm sorry / you're welcome* * delete as appropriate.

Minute Cryptic - 31 October, 2025 "Stalked in bed, werewolf returned after we drifted off?" (6) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 1 under the community par (3,595 solvers so far).https://www.minutecryptic.com/?utm_source=share I enjoyed this one so much I created a visual clue.

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

🕸️ Happy Halloween! 🕸️ Now please remove your plastic spider webs! au.news.yahoo.com/tragic-disco...

Annoyed by commuters playing their shitty music at full volume? You can buy USB-C headphones for £2. Grab a sack of them and hand them out to sodcasters everywhere. shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/10...

For a pilot study in 2022, scientists fitted 5 Australian magpies with tiny trackers that could only be removed with a magnet or scissors. Within 10 minutes, a female had successfully removed the tracker from a younger bird, and 3 days later, all of them had been removed.

To put it more bluntly: newsletter.goodtechthings.com/p/when-every...

Oh no, someone’s torn the cover off my dictionary. And they’ve ripped all the pages out of either end.. It just goes from bad to worse!

Blogged: What Running 10 Marathons Taught Me About Being a Social Media Influencer johnsy.com/blog/2025/10...

This is absolutely correct and I agree with it.

johnsy.com/blog/2025/10... I made a thing. Just for fun.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... Top headline writing! 👏🏼

Bravo! 🎉

It's day four of the Great Cycle Challenge 2025 and I've logged my fourth ride. I have also logged my first swoop on magpiealert.com . Blood, sweat but no tears (or beers). That's got to be worth a dollar or two, right? greatcyclechallenge.com.au/riders/johns... Thank you for your support. #gcc25

Minute Cryptic - 27 September, 2025 "Dressing naked pair for clip" (5) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 2 under the community par (3,820 solvers so far). www.minutecryptic.com?utm_source=s... Feeling pretty chuffed to solve a @dontattempt.bsky.social clue.

I've been out of the Ruby loop for a few years now but I am finding the whole #RubyRapture saga so sorrowful. When I first started working with Ruby, my fellow developers had MINASWAN stickers on their laptops. en.wiktionary.org/wiki/MINASWAN

@stevecooganfan.bsky.social www.heritageconcorde.com/bristol is wonderful. Recommended.

Farage wanting to kick people out of the country because they migrated here made me angry and made me think about which best of British people and things wouldn't have happened were it not for the brilliance of immigration to the UK.

@andrewhunterm.bsky.social wgx.github.io/guardian-hai... The news In haikus

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1653

open.substack.com/pub/anntelna... Powerful.

As a lifelong Deep Purple fan who is currently and belatedly binge watching Stranger Things, this hits all the right notes. youtu.be/nO7YM5Q1AXk

'They're toxic but popular' say businesses at the 1932 Berlin National Workers Party conference

Palpable cognitive dissonance. The number of (fellow) immigrants I have heard expressing anti-immigration sentiment is incomprehensible and disturbing.

Well deserved. This book was a hit in our household

beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea... It turns out that I don't yet have enough LEGO.

Listener “John of Coburg” deserves credit for coining the word for someone who attracts undue praise: a SCAPEGLOAT

"Incredible facts about Barrow Island" are well worth a read. Wonderful journalism.

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte... Nope. I forbid my data to be used for this. I'm open to convincing on the promise of an 'H' on the forehead.

Why is Albon parked halfway to turn 1, while the rest of the field are on the grid? #HungarianGP #F1

Eric Idle must have updated his initials following a data breach.

I had forgotten that formatting email signatures in iOS was such a pain and worse, I had forgotten how I had dealt with this previously. So now I have written it down. johnsy.com/blog/2025/07...

www.bbc.com/news/article... Hands up who is surprised by this? Yet I have zero expectations that the lawmakers in Australia will be paying attention and learning from this experience.