#FitPrince is at @kingsheadtheatre.bsky.social in London 2 Dec-3 Jan 👑 As we believe theatre is for all, each performance has 10 tickets at £10! They are filling up quickly so get one while you can, and join us for a ridiculous ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ festive outing. 🎟in bio

There are only 64 days left in the year. Hexidecimally speaking, of course.

Interesting opening talk from @kestr.al at @devopsdays.london, “Code is Never Neutral”. I am also reminded of Drew DeVault’s blog post drewdevault.com/2020/05/05/W... #devopsdaysLDN

Huge thanks to everyone at @devopsdays.london for such a warm welcome this morning. Was a real pleasure to get to talk to you all and open the show at #DevOpsDays. I really enjoy one person's desription of my talk as "sufficiently depressing." I want that on a t-shirt. Or perhaps as a tattoo.

“If you deploy to production, you’ve change the world” @kestr.al kicking off @devopsdays.london - great energy and a reflective topic to begin. #DevOps #DevOpsDays #London #ThatAgile

I’m here, I’m queer, I’m the bringer of existential fear. #DevOpsDays @devopsdays.london

Alright #DevOpsDays, I’m excited to chat with you all about how software has a duty of care to its users. Catch you for the opening @devopsdays.london talk at 10!

I moved three weeks ago. I should stop beating myself up about still having boxes to unpack. Right? Right.

Do you remember?

Join @kestr.al for the launch of Tubelines, their incredible new poetry collection, at events in both London and Glasgow. Accessible venues, free tickets, and loads of fantastic poetry. reconnectingrainbows.co.uk/events/

Come and see my book launch in both London and Glasgow! On Saturday 4th October (www.outsavvy.com/ticketshop/0...) and Wednesday 8th October (www.outsavvy.com/ticketshop/0...) respectively. I'll be doing some reading and some talking. Accessible venues, free tickets, all welcome!

If you're looking for a good Robert Redford film to watch, Sneakers (1992) is excellent. Somehow a hacker movie and a mob story rolled into one, with comic genius from Dan Akroyd and one of River Phoenix's last film roles too.

So excited that my new book is now available for pre-order. It's full of poems I wrote whilst sitting on the London Underground. Yes, I'm that weirdo at the end of the carriage with a notebook and pencil. I've probably written a poem about you.

Re-watching Hackers (1995) tonight to celebrate THIRTY years since its release (on September 15th 1995). Snack suggestions welcome. Anyone know where I can find some Jolt Cola™? It is THE soft drink of the elite hacker, you know...

No you don't understand, Apple *did* unveil a new folding iPhone. It's the iPhone Air - so thin it'll fold in half like paper in your pocket.

Little girl running up and down the train carriage yelling “I am broken I need help” in a monotonous voice. “Everything alright?” I ask the parent with her. “Aye,” they reply, “she gets like this whenever she’s pretending to be a robot. Thank god she hasn’t started acting as if she’s ChatGPT!”

When will normality return after a house move? Signed, the person currently living in box hell.

I have officially reached the “maybe I should buy a sawzall” phase of life and I think I’m ok with that.

The only thing that any website needs to verify is that a given user is not, in fact, Anish Kapoor.

What is our penchant for letting corporations control us when free alternatives exist? See also: I hate having to check six different corporate-controlled websites to see what people are up to.

We're pleased to announce that pre-orders for @kestr.al's upcoming poetry book - Tubelines - will go live on September 1st! Please enjoy this preview of a poem from the book. It was written on the underground after Trans Pride two years ago. More info at reconnectingrainbows.co.uk/tubelines-pr...

If it's really hot in your house today, just delete your System32 folder. That'll cool things down by at least ten degrees. www.theverge.com/science/7582...

The AI-generated spam texts I get are getting more and more ridiculous. "Hi this is Zaralara from The Goat Agency and we think you'd be a perfect fit for roles at our Goat Agency. Please WhatsApp me for all that the Goat Agency can do for you." Thanks, Zaralara, but I don't work with goats.

"Trans rights are being attacked from every angle; it feels like standing under the shower head, facing the spray, trying to snatch a breath when it's simply not possible." No new newsletter yesterday, so instead I'm sharing one I wrote last August: www.genderbent.co.uk/in-search-of...

"More than anything, this book taught me to keep looking for the light in the cracks, the weird, beautiful resilience of people who keep telling stories." This week in 'Books That Built Me' I talk about the incredible Station Eleven by @emilymandel.bsky.social. news.kestr.al/btbm-station...

ICYMI: I wrote about absurd, self-contradictory, transphobic mess of the UK Government’s new RSE guidance! Instructing schools not to “encourage pupils to question their gender”, trans people are worried that this could even include acknowledging that we exist. magazine.gaytimes.com/uk-governmen...

Sat on the Thameslink. It’s just me and one other person in the carriage, who has the sound turned up loud whilst watching pornography. I don’t hate the cheesy muzak, it’s just a shame about all the grunting and slapping noises.

"If you’re somewhere in the middle, between griefs, between plans, between what was and what might be, consider this your gentle reminder: it’s okay to breathe." I wrote some thoughts on... well, I'm not sure really. Life? Beauty? Crumpets? news.kestr.al/breathe/

Proud to have contributed to this article written by @onqueerstreet.bsky.social about the new RSE guidance for UK schools and how it feels a lot like Section 28 all over again... magazine.gaytimes.com/uk-governmen...

I wrote down a few thoughts on why I'm not a huge fan of the new age verification laws in the UK. news.kestr.al/the-age-of-v...

Guess I'm not able to check my DMs here anymore. As always you can find me over on the fediverse.

Code is never neutral—every decision shapes our world. Join @kestr.al as they explore the ethical and political impact of software, urging developers to embrace responsibility in their work. #EthicalTech #DevOps #Inclusion devopsdays.org/events/2025-... Tickets: ti.to/devopsdays-l...

Seeya, Bluesky. It was fun, but privacy isn't just a feature to be ignored.

So 2025 is finally tbe year that Windows Vista's glass-like Aero styling gets adopted everywhere, huh?

Whip my ass like I'm a Llama and you're a Windows-based audio player from the late 1990s.

Fed up of people who are allies when it suits them, and then when the money runs out they go right back to suckle at the teat of the transphobes. Allyship is for life, not just for cloutmas.

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH. Our logo is a rainbow all year round, as we exist to support marginalised queer voices. If you've just added a rainbow to your logo today, please note that you need to cram 365 days worth of allyship and amplification of queer narratives into the next 30. Y'know, fair's fair.

Me, a vegan spy trying to blend in at a grill house: “uhhhh yes I’ll have my chicken rare please.”

Public toilet cubicles are often festooned with the poetry of the proletariat, but this is the first time in my life I’ve walked into one and the pen was provided.

Awkward Prods get married (but for real) at #edfringe In a move that is as joyous as it is silly, we - Linus and Joseph - are getting legally married on stage at the Edinburgh Fringe, 11.15 on the 16th of August at The Pleasance Grand - and you can be there! 👀More info in bio

AND THEY WERE ROOMMATES

Wow apparently last.fm is still a thing. Throwback!

Camilla doesn't want you to buy tickets to #UntrueDiana - she'd rather you spent your Bank Holiday Monday reading right wing newspapers and flirting inappropriately with your favourite married man. In case that's not your vibe and you'd rather defy her, you can buy tickets from the link in bio🎟👸🏼

When grief hits you hard at 03:45 so you turn to shitposting.

The second year of the new millennium was an incredible year for cinema. From Shrek and Lord of The Rings to cult classics like Rock Star, even bad tech films like Antutrust. But tonight I re-watched the best film of 2001 - nay - of the third millennium so far. Legally Blonde.

Started a new series on my newsletter called 'Books That Built Me' all about the literature that shaped me as a writer and a person. This week I talk about Habitus by James Flint: gaian.substack.com/p/books-that...

Yes, Lionel, I'd imagine dancing on the ceiling WOULD be quite a feeling. The blood rushing to your head would be enough to make your blood vessels rupture, and you'd slowly suffocate as your heavier organs compressed your lungs. But sure, write a disco song about it.

Wasted a really disturbing amount of time today on my "I'll just write a really minimal piece of ATP software!" project, because despite *explicit claims* in the docs, Bluesky at:// identifiers are *not* valid RFC 3986 URIs. I think I shall go throw a very polite tantrum in Bluesky's issue tracker.

Trespassers! on the Railway!

An incredibly provocative piece by my friend Dr Benjamin Gregory Carlisle on LLMs in academic (and general scientific) research. blog.bgcarlisle.com/2025/05/16/a...