@apiln.bsky.social another entry for the "you can't park there mate"series www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/scottis...

Happy Fenton Day to all who celebrate. Jesus Christ, fourteen years. youtu.be/3GRSbr0EYYU

I watched the ep. of the BBC Girl Bands documentary on last night, and c'mon even if Girls Aloud said no to being interviewed for the show, how do they not even get a mention? Madness. The biggest girl band of the 00s and we get some sort of narrative it was all Sugababes vs Atomic Kitten.

In the UK and I couldn't find these in Settings even with a VPN. What worked for me was to click on @moderation.bsky.app where I was able to turn the label off

The snow was coming down sideways today on the tundra. Perfect weather for sparring polar bears. #BearSeason 🌿 #mammals

In Valencia, Spain, Las Fallas festival marks the arrival of spring in March. Each neighbourhood create a grotesque sculpture, a Ninot, representing bad things or people from the past year. The Ninots then get burnt, fire as a symbol of purification and renewal. #BurnBabyBurn #WyrdWednesday

Isn’t technology wonderful? Back in the 80s, people could only listen with disgust as Frank Drebin went to the toilet with his radio mic still switched on. NOW we get the whole thing in video.

Massive 10 day sale from the 5th–15th November 25% off our 2025 releases Up to 75% off our back catalogue So dig deep into our catalogue and pick up some incredible LPs, CDs, Tshirts, Books and even Tarot Cards at great wallet saving prices. Get digging here: rocketrecordings.com/collections/...

sorry but this is a valuable service for those of us who walk to *get to places* and do so at a pace. nothing wrong with shining a spotlight on inconsiderate walkers.

@wyrdwednesday.bsky.social I was in Valencia, Spain for a couple of days during Las Fallas festival and it fits this week's theme perfectly - so hopefully someone local posts about it, otherwise I'll try and find a good link to share.

Now planning for the "Life in the UK" test. Has anyone got a copy of the book? I found a PDF but would like to check it's legit. Please share!

Now planning for the "Life in the UK" test. Has anyone got a copy of the book? I found a PDF but would like to check it's legit. Please share!

The IT support manager just went and did a reply to all when he shouldn't have and I'm very tempted to reply Hi Jen

Insane that there's no standard for liquid cooling - its widespread adoption in datacenters is desperately needed, but liquid cooled HW from different manufacturers will require different size pipes. I don't even know if the requirements for the liquid vary across manufacturers, could be.

Hate November, hate Mondays, trying to make today a little better by treating myself to steak + chips from the local steakhouse and a doughnut from Tantrum. Likely to skip dinner tonight now.

Very sad news from Shawlands. RIP Freddie.

I helped at a school's careers fair yesterday and we had one big fail in that we'd brought Haribo sweets. Unlikely there'll be kids chapping at this tenement door tonight but it's happened before, so just in case, I stocked up on VEGAN (and therefore halal and kosher too) sweets.

Birds but they get spookier each time. 🎃👻 Enter if you dare...🚪

FRIDAY!

Following months of trying to get us to use Copilot in any shape or form, the training dept is now sending us an invite to a "Critical Thinking" session, or, as I like to call it, "Do Not Trust the AI". 🎉

I passed, who'd have thought?!

Minority representation on TV causes outrage From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

Irresponsibly posting my location on social media

Really good Halloween films that you can watch for nowt on the iPlayer. Thread >>>

You've just made me realise what the true north-south divide is.

If you are in the habit of saying "Hillary was right" or "Kamala tried to warn us", wait until I tell you about Karl Marx

Swan on the fucking line at Glasgow Central.

So I've agreed to travel to a work event, and it turns out the daily schedule starts at 8am. 😭 And my speaking slot will be between 8 and 9. Germany. I'm gonna have to petition my company's event organisers to organise all events in Spain from now on.

I can't unsee that supposedly real photo 🫣

I might be about to antagonise the whole Indian subcontinent as well as Italy with this post, but curry leftovers taste great served with pasta. #FusionCuisine It has to be a veg based curry, and suitable pasta shapes (not spaghetti!), but don't knock it until you try it.

Very helpful field guide

I just went and took the English test that's required to get a passport and this was farcical, IT issues meant that the pair that went before me and the lassie I was paired with had to do it twice as the recording failed on their first attempt 😯

A moth got into the shelter tonight and it was the event of the season.

This goes approximately 1000x harder than it needs to

omw to steal your dalmations

Weird, I spent a week in Croatia with my sister once, and I got totally hammered twice and yet didn't come back with nazi tats. One time involved local guys at an outdoors club, and the 2nd time was a Tom Jones gig - we got there 7-ish, he came on stage 9.30pm, pints cost £2. Here's proof

Today I read a tech proposal that had obviously been written by an LLM, and why do I know that? Because I actually took the time to read some of the details and it would have you run MS Azure on Nutanix and put Intel CPUs in AMD servers and VMs become baremetal nodes with 24GB RAM each. 😭

Sorry about the technical interruption, will now resume normal service with this cover by Spiritualized, now avail on the 12" Crazy EP youtu.be/XHWQgnnhUow?...

I didn't really encouter anything affected by the AWS outage today but reading the likes of UK banks and HMRC have been affected and FGS ever heard about DR planning? go all public cloud if you like, but multiple instances in multiple regions just like you wouldn't depend on a single DC if you were

someone on a call looking to make some AI tool and looking for a better name than their potential candidates inc. APE and ooft don't pick APE, although some might say it's Totally Mexico! on this note, I'd never checked the urban dictionary entry for that and it's a cracker.

Really enjoying the Die Spitz album - and they're playing at King Tuts in Feb, part of a UK tour! Get your tickets early. youtu.be/A3jlQYljat8?... For all I've read about them, I'm surprised no-one seems to have drawn the obvious parallels with ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead

Of course women don't like the cybertruck. Women only want one thing and it's a walking castle in the waste, powered by a fire demon, with doors to kingsbury, porthaven and possibly Merthyr Tydfil

Crylaughing at a lot of stuff because work's been crazy and it's better than only crying or getting angry at stuff i cannot change.

Izunyan, a fashionable cat-like fairy who enjoys changing clothes and eating mandarin oranges, is the mascot for Izumiya Shopping Center in Osaka.

The spell checker only caught 3 misspellings in 3 lines of French and all 3 errors relate to the English spelling.

During WWII, there was a female-only Soviet night bombing aviation regiment. The sound they made as they glided got them nicknamed "Night Witches" by Germans. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_W... #WyrdWednesday They inspired this song by Wolf People: youtu.be/kmKt76_wtHs?...

Tell me your most unhinged opinion about broken doors.

TIL that the aggro af wasps you see in late summer are worker wasps who have finished their nest tasks and are all out seeking sweet stuff and raising hell for the locals with the last days of their lives while waiting to die, wasps are basically just the insect version of retired Brits in Spain