Counterpoint to all the news about flights being cancelled. This is a realtime view of the small slice of sky over my house on the path in towards Heathrow and Europe

Shit day all round. Racists voted reform and cunt Farages' face is all over the MSM. To top the day off after weeks as a shorts-wanker I'm back in trackies. Ffs

I really don't know where to begin

Rant about all car firms and especially VW. Why do you: 1. Hype new cars that will not be available for months 2. Have websites with zero facts just bollocks about lifestyles 3. Employ showroom staff who know *nothing* about said cars Thank you for your attention to this travesty!!!

Legal minds of BlueSky (and @davidmuttering.bsky.social and @barristersecret.bsky.social ) please advise if my civil suit for punitive damages against my car workshop for not returning my seat back to the position I left it will succeed? Huge mental anguish as it will *never* feel right again.

Well... #1 son just packed all his stuff into a van and headed North towards Manchester. Was fine until I saw his bear "snowy" which he got when he came home from special care 32 years ago. Oof.

Do manufacturers really think we don't notice when they reduce the materials in a product? The latest 2 I've noticed are kitchen towels and greaseproof paper. They both suddenly felt like half the thickness they used to be. It's the physical manifestation of enshittification. Bastards.

Five shows to get to know me: The Good Place Lucifer Starfleet Academy Pluribus The Expanse

Do the IT and customer care C-Suite denizens understand how much business their decisions to replace actual people with AI assistants lose? On one insurance website I could not select a correct address no matter what I did and there was no option for other contact. Cost them £150 today. Twats.

Just finished Starfleet Academy. Just awesome. Was prepared to hate but it drew me in and kept me. Hopefully renewed soon and not as far away as Pluribus S2 seems to be.

@cait.bsky.social dis u Adonis?

Nice!!

Avoided the Alex Pretti video until now but just watched the BBC version. He was pepper sprayed, pistol whipped and on the ground surrounded by the cosplay Delta Force and then (as far as I could tell) shot 8 times. Simple execution by state militia.

Hello, Carol. This is a recording. At the tone, you can leave a message to request anything you might need. We’ll do our best to provide it. Our feelings for you haven’t changed, Carol. But after everything that’s happened, we just need a little space. This *is* poetry, fight me.

- Led Zeppelin - Alice Cooper - Meatloaf - Kid Creole and the Coconuts - Robbie Williams

@pinotevil.bsky.social saw this and, who else could it be for..

REPOST ME YOU COWARDS.

Lord Reith would be so proud of BBC co.uk FFS BBC

Tripe Pacific Rim Aga-fucking-doo

What's up with ladybirds ATM? On my kitchen door count at least 10 at any given time. Is this a remake of The Birds but less scary?

Chuckle brothers reboot looks *really* shit

Seems to me that Ed and Zack have the opportunity to do the funniest thing: merge their parties and re-brand. I humbly offer these options 1. Glib Dems 2. Dem Greens

Anyone who thinks that digital id is to reduce immigration needs to give their head a wobble. This is about control of all citizens. Once the card exists it will spread to areas and uses inconceivable now. Also bet Palantir get the contract to deliver and operate. Cha Ching!!

Lol England. This morning big coat - just now had to come inside after reading in the garden because I was burning 😁

1. IT operations and change management 2. Flight simulators 3. Recreational boating

BBC news really need to start spell checking their articles, "Illegally" really isn't spelled "Mistakenly" 1/10 must do better.

@captainfanny.co.uk any relation?

LCD Zeppelin

Took me a long time to do it but finally deleted my Linkedin account. I had no use for it other than stalking people I used to work with but whenever I did log in I would get angry/annoyed at all the self-centred and corporate puffery. Meta free, Twitter free and now LinkedIn free. Aaand breathe.

A tale of todays' internet in two parts: Yes I know it's free but not worth giving my data to someone else to read 1 headline. I'd actually be less annoyed if it was paywalled because then the value proposition is clear.

In today's installment of the world is fucked: my son just told me he and a mate from up north (UK) met in Amsterdam because it was cheaper for them than travelling up/down. Privatisation ftw.

Another damn immigrant doing crimes against arr kids. Unless he had legitimate concerns....

Please explain to me how this makes any sense at all.

.....but still enable Israel's war crimes by selling them arms, refusing to honour ICC arrest warrants and arresting pensioners for risking making people think they supported an organisation classified as terrorist for <check notes> actually doing vandalism. Nice one politicians.

Stood next to Noel Edmonds on an airport bus from the plane to the terminal - he looked miserable with ninja level rbf.

@katmabu.bsky.social thought you'd landed *another* film role! Kat-El ftw 😃

I rest my case

Just watched a livestream from the FlightSim Expo currently happening in Rhode Island. Fair play to Austin Meyer (founder of the X-Plane product) - he stood up and called out that many European members of the team would not be present as they did not feel safe travelling to the US. Way to go USA.

Wake up babe - new Black Mirror episode just dropped. Every citizens' DNA print taken at birth and entered into Palantir databases so US Healthcare can start constructing premium payment schedules nice and early.

@danneidle.bsky.social Stumbled across a briefing about MTD which as far as I can see hits me (non business return filer) in 2027. Immediate reaction was annoyance - partly due to quarterly returns but mainly about "approved" s/w. Immediately sounded like a grift to sell subscriptions. Thoughts?

Dear company that I bought a vanilla commodity from: FFS please stop hounding me to review how I felt about buying that widget. NOBODY cares. If it was crap I might snark on social media or write a review but aside from that, the more you chase. the less likely I am to post. Leave me alone FFS.

This does seem relevant today - National Guard taking a wiener