Have just ordered a brand-new Fairphone 6. I usually buy mobile phones second-hand, but there are none on Le Bon Coin. I guess that's a point in the Fairphone's favour: people who get them are happy with them and want to keep hold of them.

I woke up to see the news. I am aghast. I can't believe the FIFA peace prize has been disrespected like this. Is nothing sacred anymore?

I have acquired a reputation at work as the regex wizard. 🧙‍♀️

My right shoulder is rather insistent that I should buy an ergonomic mouse.

Andrew Tate has ideas about what bitches want but speaking on behalf of the bitches: this is what we really want

In this Spotify era, where every song is available at all times but the artists earn diddly squat, I find myself more and more often listening to real radio stations where the playlist is curated by actual human music lovers and suited to the season and the time of day.

It's kind of hard to let go of negative personality traits when you suspect those traits have made your career. From '5 Harsh Truths About Success from an Only Moderately Successful Person': www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-iL...

I hope @channel4tv.bsky.social has posted a guard around wherever @thehornesection.bsky.social are sleeping right now to ensure that no one within a half-mile radius should be so foolish as to make any noise that might wake them from their well-deserved slumber before midday.

The real Millennial Pause is the time between Tiktok being launched and posting your first video there, and it should still be growing.

I made some gifs that I posted on social media a while back that no one interacted with or commented on, so I assumed I was just churning out duds. But I've recently seen people reposting these gifs. People liked them enough to silently download them I guess.

I don't speak the language this billboard is in, so when I first read this I thought a new insult had just dropped. "Donald Trump is an absolute buscase."

Just got a new oven and to test it I decided to make use of a madeleine mould I have never used. Was a bit intimidated by all the recipes declaring themselves to be the one recipe that never fails, which insinuated that madeleines are easy to fuck up, but my very first batch turned out perfect.

I guess one difference between me and Elon Musk is that, if I was gaming an AI to say these things about me, and everyone could see that I had done this, I'd have simply no choice but to set myself on fire.

We have forcibly installed the Stupid Machine in all of your homes but, of course, under no circumstances should you trust the Stupid Machine.

So the Pluribus will move heaven and earth to make non-Pluribus people happy, no matter the danger to themselves? The Pluribus virus seems like a great way for a conquering alien species to make sure they have a few billion willing slaves ready for their arrival.

I have successfully learned the names of all the non-Alex members of the Horne Section. It'll come in useful one day.

There will be no gotcha moment. The Right will just say men have a perfectly natural attraction to youthfulness and Trump's fans are going to be overjoyed they can now overtly lust over teenage girls just like they were overjoyed they could be overtly racist, sexist & homophobic.

A pet peeve of mine is when characters in a work of fiction are genius-level actors, able to live a consistent lie and improvise complicated details as needed, with no training or background that might explain this skill, without their mask slipping an inch until it becomes useful for the plot.

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

Trying to set up my li'l linux server and having a lot more trouble than when I did it a couple of years ago because the helpful guides I found back then have since been completely drowned in a sea of AI-generated sites with false information.

Forget Trump, who is the carnival barker. This is what we're really up against.

In short, the problem here is not that Signal ‘chose’ to run on AWS. The problem is the concentration of power in the infrastructure space that means there isn’t really another choice: the entire stack, practically speaking, is owned by 3-4 players. 11/

C'est une dinguerie. La page officielle de la maison Blanche.

@reformexposed.bsky.social Morning. Thought you would like to help get this out.

“An essential condition today for entry into the upper echelons of Conservative party politics is being willing to at least pretend that you think taking Britain out of the EU was a good idea. This is a never-ending lobotomy for the Tories” Brexit will always ruin you in the end. on.ft.com/4nZ6DBt

I wonder how many dog crucifixions Eric has been to.

So on the one hand people are upset at Bsky for proposing somewhat vague rules that mean mods could ban pretty much anything they didn't like, and on the other hand people are upset at Bsky because the mods haven't banned someone who hasn't yet infringed any rules but posts things people don't like.

You can use a buttercup to tell if you like butter or not. To find out if you like primates you need a chin pansy.

Aldrich said: “How many WhatsApp messages in a row is too many? Where’s the sweet spot between ‘I like you and wish to cultivate a friendship’ and ‘dear God stop before this person takes out a restraining order’?”

ASDA was named after it's founders: Agnetha, Senny, Djörn & Anni-Frid

Almost all the anti vaxxers I know are perfectly happy to recreationally snort lines of powdered white chemicals of decidedly dubious origin.

One of life's most deliciously satisfying moments is seeing the hard proof that that person you deeply suspected was fucking with you was, in fact, fucking with you.

every Friday news drop is like

Shocked but not surprised to learn how many ~titans of industry~ who probably think of themselves as brave ballsy businessmen are actually cowardly pieces of shit when it counts.

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

Electric Light Conductor

The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social "There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”

So now I've had to add "Groyper" to the list of stupid shit I shouldn't need to know about but now, alas, do.

I keep saying this. The Right fundamentally are *not* hypocrites. They believe in double standards. For them, double standards are correct, inevitable, and desirable, because the idea that certain groups are better than others and should therefore have more rights is the basis of right-wing ideology

This is vile. Local guy speaks to Sky News about the impact of asylum seekers protests. Watch what happens and share widely

Graham Linehan arrives at court

Possible causes of your problems. It’s a diagram that (sadly) still seems relevant in 2025, so reposting a year and a bit on.

I was travelling in Europe earlier this week and I saw many ads for Dubai chocolate, something I'd never heard of before. The ads proclaimed the chocolate was "now viral on Tiktok" which was the first indication I shouldn't touch it with a bargepole. The 15€ pricetag was the second indication.

RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.

make YOUR difference!

Why is considering the ethics of people you’re giving your money to so way down the list for most people, I genuinely don’t get it. Look, I know it’s not simples to stumble on the perfect corporation run and owned by saints, but you can avoid paying obvious massive arseholes without too much effort

Mary Shelley doesn't get enough credit for not only anticipating the silver-spooned narcissist techbro who recklessly creates technology without thinking through the consequences, but also for knowing that said techbro would be an absolutely terrible father.