From a carol I'm singing this year; "If you’ve any maids within your house, as I suppose you’ve none; they’d not let us stand a-wassailing so long on this cold stone." This is a great insult from the 1840s, honestly.

Verified-unused slogan for a dice making organisation who sells individual or multiple dice. £8

I wonder if the leaked OBR doc publishing an hour early, likely due to a time zone mismatch on the server, will finally see the end of the time changing daylight savings nonsense, that would be nice

they think it's all OBR, it is now

Someone clever at taxes please explain to me why Petrol/Diesel cars wouldn't also be taxed per-mile. Seems like a really strange thing to target specifically? EVs already pay VED so no different in that matter

excuse me????

same same

damnit I'm old enough to have misread that as SCART then wondered why the hell a 50" QLED would have that

It's really rude that when I don't order anything, magical little treats don't arrive at my door.

obviously not a good farmer. cow is very small

Mild Annoyance Against The Machine

There's something very objectionable about buying IT accessories which are frequently thrown out as e-waste. No, I can't find any e-waste for sale locally. Yes, it's probably worth the money. No, I don't like it.

Once again we have underestimated the quantity of sweets required for trick and treat, so the offerings are getting gradually stranger We're now on microwave popcorn, sugar free Tango cans, and two raw potatoes I suspect the potatoes will be a hit tbh

If your "clear all notifications" button creates a new notification/toast that I must dismiss, I truly hate you Looking at you, Slack

just wrote a 300+ change PR which invoked no comments at all from github copilot

AWS is down, post hog

Apple TV+ is rebranding as Apple TV, so to avoid confusion, the current physical device which is primarily for watching things will be rebranded to Apple Watch

Fair play to the couple on Grand Designs who said they couldn‘t afford fancy 3D renders while designing it Next shot was of course the fancy render Grand Designs made of it. Maybe slightly late for them but I respect the hustle

_sigh_. Just asked an AI agent to improve the speed of a tool based on the performance profiling I had done. It removed the profiler, which sped it up by 20%, and declared success. Thanks great

oh wait one more. it did, somehow, make the best possible drawing of a chibi donald duck:

*gasp*

Fun to wake up to find Imgur completely blocked in the UK, presumably because of the OSA Took all of 5 minutes to set up a policy-based VPN tunnel for those domains, but at least the children are safe

I will quietly reiterate my points here on ILR. 1. It is _very_ expensive - Family route, anyway. 2. This has very literally caused my Canadian wife to expedite her citizenship process ASAP. 3. She, and I, will naturally be voting against anyone threatening the I in ILR. bsky.app/profile/dunc...

_sigh_ the one control I use the most, "change the volume on an AirPlay device" is now behind an additional click in Apple Music on Tahoe

Tool reviews, summarised by AI

Calling my health insurance is such a blast "If you're calling about your BONES, MUSCLES or JOINTS, please press 1." Just a great sentence, honestly

i saw someone point out that the selector for time on iphone alarms is actually just a really long list and not truly circular. everything i’ve known is a lie

Man, I just got absolutely got by an ad. The video ad demonstrated the product then it was ONE CLICK Apple Pay. No account, no nothing. It arrives next week

The kids are alright

The walking pad I bought has WiFi! BTLE! But interestingly for a cheap one, Apple Watch support? Upon receiving it, said support is "You're on a treadmill, your watch will work in that scenario by selecting Indoor Walk" I don't know if I feel tricked by marketing or stupid for not realising that

A review of an app called "air horn"

Pleased to report a dream where someone was trying to tell me an "easy and simple recipe" involving four different bowls for prep; I was so annoyed that I woke up

I've discovered a new genre of content creators to hate: people who buy retro stuff to get it working again (good) but don't do ANY research about how BEFORE THE VIDEO If I wanted to watch an idiot try and reassemble a 90's PBX I would buy my own e-waste, sort it out

Thanks google AI but I meant to type “shut”…

Chef’s kiss 10/10 no notes. #FacebookNews

What is the point of an "Online installer" which downloads gigs of application, only for the application to then require further large updates? C'mon.

What kind of emergency do you think it’ll make when I press this

As you get older and have used more online services, you eventually just get more and more “we’ve updated our terms of service!” emails until no other kind of email can survive in the wasteland of your inbox

Why is nobody talking about the great Jalapeño Popper shortage

I'm new to the world of Wearing Glasses and how tf do people keep these things clean, I swear if I stop looking at them for 5 minutes they have fingerprints and dust on

I didn't realise the API token "Name" field would be emailed to all of my colleagues whenever my IP changed. I will probably not learn from this

Unlike CEOs and other executives, individual contributors understand concert OPSEC

great. good. i'm glad it's the best hoe. that's all i do. no less would be acceptable

golf bats

bought a used car today in such a chaotic manner that the sales guy was legitimately confused, consider this an achievement to be honest

one of my GP medical event records is listed as 1909 instead of 1989. how can I use this to my advantage as a relatively healthy 116-year-old

no

I’m stuck inside waiting for a Royal Mail van but a large red car keeps driving by. Think it’s lost, but I am going to start throwing rocks at it

Fucking keep it