We're going to be back in a years time, with them needing to raise income taxes and being a year closer to the next election.

The new number one priority of the Labour Government

Been looking forward to this one landing. Well done @andrewatkinson.bsky.social

Ok, so Fate of Ophelia is the first Taylor Swift song that has earwormed me since Style on 1989.

You'll get promotion after promotion at big tech companies for spunking billions of dollars up the wall, but you'll never get a promotion for saying "Here's why this is a bad idea, I can save you billions."

A dog that knows it's raining outside

I know nothing about Dr Who, but, for Londoners, the phrase "Going For Dinner With Billie Piper" is the absolute best way to remember the order of the vertical streets running east to west in Soho (Greek, Frith, Dean, Wardour, Berwick, Poland) and has saved many a late night out

A very worrying escalation of online harassment. Somebody has used a video of me saying "racism in football is a game of two halves" + put a fake voiceover on it saying "what I would say to the girls of Rotherham is it is a game of two halves" x.com/EuropaIneffa...

I don't know what assets #SWFC can sell right now to pay off the creditors. The chairman owns hillsborough and the training ground, and they cannot sell any players until Jan.

It'd be nice of Downing Street would wholeheartedly condemn the Lam mass-deportation stuff, but it's also an enormous failure of the centre-right to maintain a cordon sanitaire against this slide.

Trying to think of a more inhumane policy that a mainstream party has floated in my lifetime, and I'm coming up blank.

Here Lam explicitly sets out her proposal - which is official Conservative Party policy - to deport long-standing legal permanent residents who have *ever* claimed any benefit, including the state pension or child benefit (even if the child is British), or who earn less than £39K.

"I warn you not to fall in love with someone from another country. And if you do, I very specifically warn you that she mustn't take maternity leave."

If you're looking for posts about old LucasArts point and click adventure games it's Loomscrolling

Decided to tackle the pile of boxes of "stuff I've bought, and should keep the boxes for in case I decide to sell it". Lots of idiocy here. I still have a box for a DJI Air 2s that I lost in a ravine three years ago.

The market cap of Volkswagen Group, a company that makes a lot of cars that don't blow up, and sold about 5x the number of cars Tesla did last year, is £50bn.

Modest proposal: BBC BRING BACK 'TOMORROW'S WORLD'. Science, tech, environment reporting are woeful currently. Something that blasts excitement about what a golden age we're in of discovery (vaccines, computing, space exploration etc etc) but can also be a trojan horse for warnings on climate etc

Is there some regulatory reason we're still installing USB-A sockets on new public infrastructure in the U.K.? @ianvisits.co.uk

Currently taxiing to the runway in Greece, so of course my brain decides this would be the best time to read about Helios Flight 522

Is there a word for the phenomenon where if someone asked you to write down the lyrics of a song that you had not heard for ages, you wouldn't be able to do it, but if you were asked to sing along you would recall the words just in time to be able to sing it.

Sensational scenes in the pub quiz lyrics round tonight, where one of the songs in the round came on immediately after the MC had finished reading the question. Large groans from patrons gave the game away. It was Especially for You by Kylie & Jason btw.

This chimes with me too. Had a request from our support teams that they need better documentation for our Config. Could have used a tool, but didn't want to introduce a dependency for something that was really small. So I gave myself an hour to see what I could do with Claude.

I go to the same pub in my mums village every time I go home, purely just to see if they've fixed the lock on the sole men's cubicle. That motherfucker has been broken for nearly a decade now.

Not Simpson's, but whenever someone lays out an apocalyptic scenario at work I drop this Partridge quote. Doesn't quite land when most of your colleagues aren't at least 40 and British though.

I'm no fan of Mahmoods policy on ILR but this is just completely dishonest framing of it.

The three year olds nickname for me last week was 'Big Winker', tonight that's changed into 'Big Wonker', and I think we can all see what direction this is headed in.

This also works for hangovers

Big Suze not being super chipper this morning, but the restorative effects of a walk in Glen Rosa are well known

Blades finally get off the mark, with their first win, and first goal in over 9 hours of football.

Rescinding Indefinite Leave to Remain status from people that have had it for years is a disgustingly immoral policy.

The peak British sandwich

Aside from any accessibility issues, the Liquid Glass in iOS26 just looks really naff?

"But we always kill those good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok. Jesus murdered; Martin Luther King murdered; Malcolm X murdered; Gandhi murdered; John Lennon murdered; Reagan.... wounded" Bill Hicks

If you can't beat them, join them.

Nearly shat myself when I logged on to a forum chat feed. Thankfully these were two unrelated conversations. Thoughts to the deceased's family.

I have four medium tees where the customer changed their mind about size. They usually take 5 working days to produce but these are ready to go tomorrow! All are brand new, with labels. If you’d like to buy one of these, please DM me.

Approaching the dog days of summer on Arran, where it's too cool to dry anything indoors, too wet to dry anything outdoors, too warm for me to stick the heating on, and me being too tight to stick the tumble drier on.

BlueSky is really poor for sports. WhatsApp groups lights up. "Did you see that Szolobslai strike for Liverpool? No video on here, but multiple camera angle on twitter including the ref cam within minutes

GRIIIIIIIIMMMBSY!!!!

There's a boat load of people working in the AI space that quite frankly, should have their access to a computer revoked.

Everyone knows the current number of buses to own is N +1.

What .gif comes up when you type your name

Looked up something on ChatGPT. Said I should include a library that didn't exist in my code. So far so standard. ChatGPT provided me with the source for this which was a Stack Overflow answer that had also been written with ChatGPT. Great work guys.

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