Dear Youtube, fuck off with your slight delay before letting the "includes paid promotion" thing. that steals my click. appear.

Ukrainian President Zelenskyy reports from Kupyansk, where Ukrainian forces conducted successful counterattacks. Nevertheless, it is quite a move. That man has balls of steel.

I'm very happy to hear that Larian is making a new Divinity game I spent an astonishing amount of time over my 4 play-throughs of the prequel

Putin literally spent last month claiming Kupyansk was captured.

Laughing at this rightmove recommendation for St George's Hill, mostly because I lived there for a bit in my 20s, and it's about a mile outside St Georges Hill. I'd not thought about the place since my parents mandated me to attend an incredibly tedious Residents' Association meeting.

As I've not seen anyone post this, India is leasing a knackered old USSR era sub for $2bn. I'm struggling to understand exactly why India wants a knackered old sub, it could signalling to Washington that India is not to be bullied, or so they can study the technology.

Putting my old moth eaten programmer hat on I'd get a computer to scrape FB for UK nativity plays, and then grab the video duration without making even a computer suffer the contents. In case anyone feels inclined to ask, I am actually quite fun at parties, on account of starting the dancing

Just popped my knee, again, in my defence I was trying to dance to this on carpet, wearing slippers

Ahh, childhood

If AI Nanna isn't quietly slipping you some cash, or peddling illicit sweets, is she really going to be that interesting?

Friends sometimes ask me why I won't use WhatsApp, I say it's due to not having anything owned by Meta on my phone, but it's more that I have no interest in encouraging people to feel entitled bother me.

I did wonder how European far right nationalist parties would feel about being openly supported by a foreign power, taking dark Russian money is one thing, but public support from the Trump regime might be a bit of a blight

In pleasing Slay the Spire daily news, five (5) Champion and a Beyond Perfect

Is it a "the country's going to hell in a handcart" or a "everyone in world wants to migrate here" kind of day today?

My parents are increasingly more irresponsible than I was, at my stupidest, in my teens They went to their place in France which has terracotta tiled floors Ma fell over, banged her head, pissed herself; Pa tried to pick her up, and slipped on the soggy surface, and banged his head on the floor

it's a bit sad to see people commending AI for doing things that computer scientists had already solved long before AI, and have been in available in open source python packages for decades.

Russia has terminated key military cooperation agreements with Canada, France and Portugal, including Soviet-era and post-Cold War deals signed in 1989, 1994 and 2000. The move was approved by Prime Minister Mishustin.

Feel this has been one of the more miserable nights of #totp in a while.

There are two parakeets and two magpies sharing a tree outside my window. I know I should be used to them, but the London parakeets are always a pleasing sight.

Quote for today's negotiations: "The aggressor is always peace-loving; he would prefer to take over our country unopposed." Carl von Clausewitz in "On War," 1816-1830

Have admire the confidence of an administration that is terrified of allowing proven fact checkers into the country

One of my favourite people has just volunteered to take me out for dinner on the weekend. Anyone know anywhere nice but not needlessly pricey in/around Wimbledon/Colliers Wood?

I feel sorry for Americans, the way they pronounce "shallots" means, when they've finished dicing them, they can't get the catharsis that comes with saying "and that's shallot!"

One thing you'd think the algorithms would work out is that if you've just bought/watched/listened to something, the chances are you're not in the market for similar things for a month or so I'm still being offered CPU coolers long after I got one that worked, and stopped looking for a new one

Good luck to Creative Assembly in their attempt to reboot their brand. I reckon you've fucked it by spending 15 of the last 25 years slowly juicing your customer base with many unimpressive games, and Paradox levels of nickle and dimming on your DLC.

Seems like a very good reason to make Russia Muscovy again. No eternal retaliation if there's no eternal Russia, win-win.

Maybe, encouraging people with mental health issues to seek help comes with the side-effect that more people end up on medication, and doesn't mean there's been an over-diagnosis, rather than it was under-diagnosed in the past. Sertraline saved my life.

Discovered a long lost half valium tablet whilst tidying up, so I ate it I shall either dift off to an amazing early nights sleep, or end up shit posting with the gaue abandon of someone who's had their anxiety reduced by 50%

"... without any great generals to speak of, Generation X was reduced to naming weapons systems after the TV series they watched on wet weekends in the 80s"

It appears the new employers of @disappoptimism.bsky.social have a strict social media/phones policy

trolling is a art

Unless one understands how whales think, I'm not convinced you can accurately assign meanings to the noises they make, and understand it as a 'language'

Received my "Merton Community Crime Newsletter" from my "local Conservative Team" Having read both sides, I'm sorry to report there is no crime news at all It's mostly bleating that their various "costed" plans for the London Assembly weren't implemented (because they are in opposition)

If I was the Green party I'd be a bit worried about importing the culture of crank left factionalism from the activists abandoning Their Old Party.

I'd nearly forgotten that the SWP existed. All wrong 'uns, in my experience I could be persuaded that not every member is focused on capturing grass movement structures through entrist takeovers, but the ones I've met, mostly, were

If I were Tory leader I'd simply avoid saying things a 12 year old RE student would know to be bollocks.

As ever she doesn't bother to do her homework, churches took tithes from their parishioners and distributed alms at the parish level.

Listening to an interview with a North Korean refugee, and have just realised "the homopase" she keeps on mentioning is "the home office"

You should see how they all do with making a clock... updates every minute, and somehow most never get any better at it.. and those that do, will not necessarily in the next minute. clocks.brianmoore.com?ICID=ref_fark

In good things news, the bottle of "Mogu Mogu Mango" I thought was thick mango juice, is actually chunks of mango just small enough to get through the bottle neck, in thick mango juice, and is both ludicrously yummy and properly filling. Highly recommended.

Thinking back I had more whiteys to Hawkwind, than any other band. They'd play free concerts, when cider was cheap and people set up bucket bongs for their shit soapbar

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen Half Man Half Biscuit The Fall Lou Barlow NoMeansNo Revolutionary Dub Warriors

The History Reclaimed folks want the stuff they learnt at school to be what is still understood to be true, it makes no sense for the sciences and it makes no sense for history. Unless, of course, you think the purpose of subject of history is national myth building, rather than informing students

I got it wrong when I was 8, but regularly surprised that serious well-educated British people say something closer to "island" than "ire-land" when discussing things in Ireland.

I've accidentally become a little bit hooked on Talking Feds with Harry Litman I don't live in the US, but he does such a good job of exasperatingly explaining every Trump regime legal action is guano

This weekend my friends have insisted I try Stormworks: Build and Rescue, and I have so far spent half my waking hours trying to build a tiny lifeboat that I want to be self righting and fortunately it provides all the sensors, and logic gate functionality for me to automate much of the system

I know it's not the most important thing, but when did BoJo get his motorbike licence?

There's a GOP congressman called Brian Fitzpatrick which always reminds me of the old joke which I'll transpose: "the happiest Irish gays: Brian Fitzpatrick, and Patrick Fitzbrian"

think this @gametheory101.bsky.social thing is quite a good explainer It is quite long, but I think worthwhile