Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

I'm not a violent man, but I WILL confront any arsehole I see pointing these at me in public.

I cannot foresee any situation outside of actual psychopathy where I'd want to delete a WhatsApp message only to leave in its place a "This guy just deleted a WhatsApp message!" message.

I have seen Dubai. I worked at King when Candy Crush broke and they were absolutely swimming in money. Taking the whole company to Dubai was just one of the things they did with it. It was a horrible place in every sense of the word. I'm glad to have seen it. I will never go back.

I feel sorry for zero of these people, except maybe for the Bollywood folk, who ironically are not making a song and dance about it.

"Just be yourself in the interview!" I was myself in an interview once and not only did I not get the job, but the company told me to never apply there again. This is true.

I often hear Americans say "on accident" which grates my ears horribly since across the pond we say "by accident". Is this an accepted and normal thing to say across the whole county, or is it just some areas that do it?

The US killing one and hundred fifty school children in a single attack on Iran has apparently been universally decided to be a non story by the Western press. Not front page news, not in the highlights, instantly memory holed. Profession and institutions worse than worthless.

"Come here and I'll bomb some fucking peace into ya!"

These people are extremely weird and talented and this amazing song SHOULD HAVE MORE VIEWS! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsZ7...

These raider caches sure are getting hard to find ... And what's with all the rats? #arcRaiders

I love writing the final act of a book. You know where you're going, and the task is to get there with maximum emotion and drama. Where themes congeal, and arcs complete, and people finally get what they need but not what they want. A pity it takes 2 years of plotting and fretting to get there.

I have an ongoing joke that the weather in Dublin, no matter when you look, day or night, year in year out, is always around 12 degrees and rain. And checking today's weather, Dublin does not disappoint:

Was quite pleased with this photo I took today.

Who is the dick who wrote a chapter of a book where he did something so heart-wrenchingly mean to a character that it made me cry? Reader, I am that dick.

"Spongebob? Yeah, I knew a Spongebob. From back before ... THEY came."

My most controversial opinion (especially here in Sweden) - Instant coffee is fine. Often as good as or better than the office-standard brewed coffee. Not as good, obviously, as a well-made coffee from a big shiny Italian machine. But fine.

Have just made it through Stranger Things season 4. My head hurts. Unsure if I'm willing to sacrifice another 10 hours of precious life to season 5. Advise me, internet people. Should I just drop it and move on, and should I persevere?

Be careful sprinkling those umlauts everywhere, people. In Swedish, they are vowels with their own sounds. (From www.instagram.com/helenahallbe...)

Oh, the grand old duke of york He ██████████████████ He ██████████████████ And he ██████████████████

I'm not a sport person, but I AM (partially) a Swede...

Ironically it's just a really good ad for Pirate Bay.

It's Sunday, when extra offerings are made to the gods of planetary consumption (long made they devour) in my building's garbage room. Today's discovery is not an item I will take and use, for once, but a nice artistic juxtaposition.

Star Trek needs an Andor, which will take the whole thing seriously (no muppets) and tell a gripping story with universal truths that just happen to be set in that universe. Can we have a Star Trek Andor please? Please?

I love people's hobbies. But things like cooking, walking, hanging with friends, exercising, metabolising oxygen - you know, the stuff every human does to remain alive - are not hobbies. I'm sorry, but they're not. Tell me your weird stuff. Your dark and secret loves. Risk ridicule. I'm here for it.

Not a bad old view from the office right now.

I would rather burn in hell than ask ChatGPT to create an amusing caricature of me and my job to post publicly.

Just looked up who shared my birthday and it was quite a surprising number of awesome people. Including: - Helena Bonham Carter - Peter Cushing - John Wayne - Matt Stone - Lenny Kravitz - Isadora Duncan - Lauryn Hill - Miles Davis - Stevie Nicks

I'm putting my kindle fascist e-reader out to pasture and I plan to divest myself of amazon, downloading all or some of "my" books first if possible. And I need an alternative, with some reasonable way to buy ebooks for it. I'm keen on the Kobo Clara BW. Anyone have experience of this? Yes or no?

You're not producing a novel with AI. You're using an algorithm powered by other people's stolen novels to lie and pretend you're a writer. Being a writer requires WRITING, you pathetic fucks.

I'm sick of hearing about "innovation". We don't need more innovating, we already have all the tech + knowledge to save the planet, feed everyone, and be happy. The problem is the handful of fuckers with all the money who don't want us to. True innovation = taxing and imprisoning billionaires.

Getting my free milk carton planting pots ready for seed season. They work very well. And no wasted space!

Cancelled my Audible account (and I lost some unused credits, but hey). The highlights was the "Reason why you cancelled" field where I got to call Bezos a dome-headed fascist arse-licking fuck. Which is always fun.

My annual springtime ritual: "I need to buy lots and lots of seeds for planting!" Looks in seed box. "Ah. It appears I already own all the seeds in the world."

Gervais is such a knob.

Found this excellent little guerrilla art piece in Stockholm yesterday. Placed near the most dramatic view in the city, which I assume is the point. Love it.

I must say that getting a shoutout on @odpod.bsky.social for my email on Gaelic Football a couple of months back was possibly the highlight of my 2025. It's one of the very few Swedish language podcasts I listen to and you are a fool if you're A) A Swedish speaker and B) Not on board.

That feeling when a character in your book just says something, out of nowhere, that fixes a massive looming issue. Can't beat it.

january 30th: a partially formed mr. blobby stands by the perimeter fence and screams for thirty seconds before disappearing

This doll I rescued from the garbage room is definitely not haunted. #hauntedDolls

Move slowly and clean up after myself.

Love this.

I've started referring to superhero movies as "big boy cartoons" and I suspect it'll make me very popular.

Can I define middle age? Well, I have 100s of computer games and books and instruments and access to literally every TV show and movie ever made but instead I'm happily sewing my torn underwear and listening to the radio.