Looking forward to IKEA doing a range called President where everything is gaudy and gold and falls apart at the slightest bit of pressure.

I was explaining the @pocketcasts.com debacle to my partner and they were surprised that I expected to pay once for an app and then use it forever. And these days that's mad but it wasn't before. Back in the day, paying 20 dollars for the right to use a piece of software forever was normal. (1/3)

If I see some prick in a public place pointing their fucking Facebook sunglasses at me, there will be a ruckus.

I agree @pocketcasts.com - It's cynical and shitty. I also bought the ad-free version years ago and am now faced with another f**king subscription to remove ads ONCE AGAIN. No thanks. After being a loyal user for years, and having recommended your app to many, I'm now moving to something else.

Of all the things that would make me excited about a new telephone, a couple of millimeters of reduced thickness is not one of them. Who are these imaginary people fretting about phone thickness? Just keep it the same thickness and improve the battery, you gobshites.

It's so obvious to anyone that "Mount Doom" is a shit name I feel there must be an in-world reason for it. I'm guessing the volcano had an awesome Quenya name but when Sauron took over the area he pulled a Trump "Gulf of America" kinda thing and so Mount Doom it was (as everyone sighed).

This is why everything sucks. It's not trans people. It's not immigrants. You are being robbed blind before your eyes and those same people also own all the tech and media networks to tell you that the cause is not them

I was up to no good at the weekend.

Oh do fuck off.

I do love the videos from @acollierastro.bsky.social - equal parts physics, star trek and rage. With an "aha!" moment thrown in. This new one on Dyson spheres is excellent. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLzE...

Well he won't make that mistake again*, it's gonna be a fella under the table with a microphone pretending to be AI from here on out *he absolutely will make this mistake again

Weird that pirate bay has now become the most ethical of places from which to get movies and tv shows. I wonder if they have a subscription model...

Mark Zuckerberg will never be anything other than a prick.

That's an excellent multipurpose excuse right there. "I'm sorry that I neglected my family for years but I allocated resources elsewhere." www.pcgamesn.com/crusader-kin...

Age verification: You could get a packet of crisps and some change from 10p in a currency that no longer exists.

Sorry those people who see I've followed them and think "Wait wasn't this guy already following me" and the answer is yes but I saw a post from you I liked and went to follow you and saw right as my finger was moving that I already did and so unfollowed you in error and had to follow you again

One of the ships of the Galactic Summoning Flotilla attempting to break the criminal blockade of the Ziontis genocidal entity, currently murdering thousands of civilians in Pralestine Mayor. #shiptember #spaceship Digital color over notebook pen doodle.

The good thing about the Kelvin timeline is that it allows us to erase those god-awful movies from reality (and our minds) without affecting the rest of the Star Trek universe. A surgical snip, into the bin and never speak of them again.

I bought a digital album lately on Bandcamp. Downloaded the MP3s. It's amazing. No arsehole interrupting my songs to sell me stuff, no crap UI, no supporting of fascists. I can even pop it on a USB stick to play on my stereo, all the songs, in order. Bliss. Remind me again why we abandoned this...?

Is having a fucking stupid tan part of the fascist experience now?

Was Bunny Carr any relation to Jimmy Carr? I mean, I could wiki it, but occasionally you just want to reach out to humans.

In Sweden you don't cross your fingers to summon good luck - you hold your thumbs. Are there other international variants of that out there? What do the Bhutanese do, for example?

This video from @jasonkpargin.bsky.social has to be one of the most insightful thing I've ever seen. I've watched it 3 times now. youtu.be/l5KyjYUtXyY

Been baking my own bread for years and now I fear the next step is approaching. God help me I want to start milling my own flour.

AI "adoption" in a nutshell. From www.instagram.com/eleanormorto...

"And the Oscar for the best Skarsgård in a starring role..."

Reminds me of the Traveling Wilburys releasing Vol 1 and then following it up with Vol 3 just to annoy people.

AI is not going to take your job, but some idiot CEO who thinks it can will take your job, and try to make an AI do it, and fail, then try to make other workers do it in addition to their jobs, fail again, and finally hire a junior at half your wages to do your job half as well.

Now THIS is how to sell a game to me! Who doesn't love a lighthouse?

You know you're in for a few days of intense plot pondering when you realise you've put your characters into a situation it seems impossible to get out of.

The computer also used to scream in horrific agony when you connected to the internet, and I feel like we should have been more aware of that early on.

I've stopped worrying about AI taking my job since it can't even reliably count how many of me there are.

Look at the size of that potato I grew. Potato for scale.

Poems needed.

So where does the thing come from where people rate things in tiers named S, A, B, C... Is that an American thing? What does the S mean?

Definite Mortal Engines vibes here...

If you like speculative fiction books, you need to be watching this man's youtube videos. I've found some amazing recommendations through his channel. youtu.be/v5Wb5MsYSgg

So I guess in the future we'll be tweaking our computers to say stuff that's untrue, write bad code and steal all our creative output, just to get that authentic 2020s AI feeling.

It is bizarre that so many Swedish companies happily use terms such as DACH and Benelux to describe geographical markets but always refer to the UK and Ireland market as "The UK". I point it out, they nod, and then they do it again...

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.

These days I view anyone who's going to the US when it's not absolutely necessary as basically insane.

A sweet shop in Stockholm has adorned its window with these enormous degenerative AI images. The longer you stare, the weirder it becomes. You almost have to admire their nerve.

I sold a story to an American SF magazine a few years back and they posted me a cheque, in dollars, to Sweden. It would have cost more to pay my bank to cash it than it was actually worth. I still have it...

Nobody really thinks that even if Trump is convincted of something that he won't just pardon himself and get the supreme court to rubber-stamp it, do they? I mean, come on.

Old man here: What the fuck does GOAT mean in the way it's currently being used everywhere?

I suspect that in the near future there will be entire social media accounts devoted to exploring the world's vast, abandoned and decaying AI data centers. Sort of like that wrecked star destroyer in Force Awakens.

Are you a supervillain or alien race who wants to destroy the Earth? Because now destroying the Earth is 100% off! Yes, it turns out the ruling species is doing all the work for you and you get to watch, for free! So don’t hesitate, this amazing (and frankly baffling) offer will never be repeated.

I found these flavoured dates in the shop today. And I can't help noticing there are many brands of date currently available. Like, a LOT. Are dates having a moment? And is it everywhere or is it just a Sweden thing?

I'm liking how the "Why we left Earth" bits in the excellent Starship Alexandria podcast with @emmanewman.bsky.social and @aptshadow.bsky.social are becoming slowly madder. In the latest episode: bees. starshipalexandria.com