Just outed myself as a lefty on my local village WhatsApp chat after someone posted a Facebook boomer post about the state subsidising Somali families with 10 kids

Apps. Absolute privacy shitshows

Just went in a cafe where every table had a dog, and it took me nearly 15 minutes to leave because of all the scritches I had to do.

Updated X Feature list

Which footballer do we think lived here? HT @helenlewis.bsky.social www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...

I wrote this to a mate the other day 'Trumps world view is basically, "why as the president of the most powerful nation on earth, should I have constraints on exercising that power"' I didn't think he'd spell it out so cleanly a few days later!

Worlds most beautiful dog

Made the mistake of buying a £7.50 bottle of wine from the coop, revolting. Feels like a tenner is the absolute bare minimum you need to spend these days

Interestingly @bsky.app appears to be blocking results for the Minneapolis murderer from recent search results

The good banter outcome here is for every EU country to exercise their national sovereignty with regards to X and flood them with compliance requests.

What is technology so shit these days?

It has been an absolutely unreal start to the year weather wise on Arran. Three days of this weather so far. (And yes I will be getting in the Beach sauna)

This eating game from Star Wars: Outlaws is a strong contender for the worst mini game ever

Thought I could handle spice. Thought "how spicy can an extra extra spicy wasabi cook at home bento box be". This damn near blew my head clean off. Had to chuck a load of double cream in it to calm it down.

One of the most interesting books I read last year was "The Unaccountability Machine" by @dsquareddigest.bsky.social which details the tendency to create processes or orgs to take the fall instead of people with real accountability. You can see these everywhere once you start looking out for them.

There is, to my mind, no justification for the continued use by the UK Government of X as a platform for official comms. There hasn't been for some time, in fact, but if the latest developments around AI-generated image abuse and CSAM don't change the policy I really don't know what will.

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Just finished with a client working on U.K. Rail and none of this shit is surprising for the industry.

Along with a fuckload of disruption too! Raise bridges, expand tunnels, modify platforms to deal with a different loading gauge. No biggy 🤡

Just checked what lists i was on using Clearsky, and yes this tracks

Pretty sickening to see the domain of the deceased security researcher Dan Kaminsky being repurposed to serve AI slop

Love reading books by American authors about statistical accuracy who get fundamental things wrong about the constitutional makeup of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland.

Was working in a bar and I had to tell Samantha Morton her Coutts card had been rejected.

This is what the entire internet used to be. Just page after page of maniacs putting maximum effort into something totally inexplicable simply because they wanted to. This is what they took from you. floor796.com

Tangential opinion. Where has nobody made a car seat that is actually easy to get in the car, without you banging your shins, head on the car. I have spent £50 on a car seat, I have spent £300 on a car seat. Equal number of shouty cunts and fucks were said while installing each.

Killing a Victorian child by showing them the score on day 2 of an Ashes test

I would get Ancillary Justice picked up again.

Find someone that looks at you like my dog looks at pubs in my mums village.

7:39 am and the four year old is still sleeping. It's a Christmas miracle

They've only gone and merged it while I was away. No comments either. Not even a LGTM. Reduced our test coverage (which wasn't great to start with) by 7%. Absolute clowns.

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Love this still The hint of a smile cracking across Joshua's utterly unperturbed face, contrasted with the horror on Paul's as he realises he's about to get smacked into the 25th century.

Mixed feelings about this. On the one hand think I think I £100 is too much already and I'd prefer to be able to set a custom amount, on the other, I hope banks do offer that option and set a sensible default, not just lifting the limits entirely. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

They've added 20 more files today, one of them with 3000 lines in it. Genuine response I got , when I asked why there was no tests. "We don't need to write tests, as this is Java code converted to C#, and we know the Java code works, as it's been working for 17 years"

🚨 Personal News Klaxon 🚨 After 18 years as a contract software engineer, I've decided to to go perm. I'll be joining TradeKart as Lead Engineer in January. Excitingly, I'll get to develop in #fsharp all day long! We'll be hiring throughout the year too.

Every day this guy just plumbs new depths of disrespect

Me: it's important to respect your reviewers time and submit small PR's The offshore team: here's 107 files changed and no tests

Once you see it, it's hard to miss it. Statements condemning violent attacks targeting Jews that don't actually mention "Jews" or "antisemitism". This is a choice — and it's central to the crisis. My newsletter, out now.

The least well known of these films, The Sure Thing, is a great teen comedy, and probably second after Grosse Pointe Blank on my list of favourite John Cusack films.

Got a new clackety clack low profile mechanical Keyboard for travelling with (Keychron K3 Max) and I think I prefer it to my 'proper' mechanical keyboard at home

What an incredible man

Listing to Dolly Alderton talking about Friends on the sentimental Garbage podcast, I thought this pair were a caricature of British upper middle class twits when I was growing up, yet to my Southern privately educated wife, they're basically a documentary.

“She participated in a TikTok "Devil trend" on Saturday, Dec. 6, in which she asked ChatGPT to reveal her biggest flaws and insecurities. On Sunday, Dec. 7, Tracy was found dead by local authorities in her apartment.”

Is Star Wars Outlaws worth buying at £18?