Mad Mads: "There's one thing that Nigel Farage excels at and that's campaigning". The public: youtu.be/6AwXKJoKJz4 #BBCLauraK

Pretty baller move of #BBCLauraK to dress up as a former Prime Minister for her first interview with Keith this year.

Well I don't know about you, but I'll certainly be spraying a bit of WD40 on my panic-room door hinges this evening. Night night everyone x

There is 1 in 5 chance that Maduro comes out with Trump for this press conference. 1 in 10 that it's in a Hannibal Lecter-style mask. Ever the showman. #Venezuela

I think my greatest concern about this whole #Venezuela mess is that it really undermines the weight that the FIFA Peace Prize™ may have previously carried.

Fuck me #2025 was shit. And this cheese that someone gave us at Christmas is frankly unforgivable. How do the divisions work if it's just one big lump? They don't. Anyway. Onwards and upwards.

Meanwhile, just 1/2 a mile down Ecclesall Rd, another ongoing collaboration between 2 different local artists enters another (arguably less constructive) stage:

Downtown Clay Davis? Sheeeeet. It's been quite a rollercoaster of a day for #TheWire fans:

Someone - who I vaguely recognise but can't quite recall yet - really did a number on a wall down our way. A huge improvement to a very dull stretch of road in which the neighboring Wetherspoons (ugh) was a highlight. Hope it remains fresh. #Sheffield #StreetArt

Refused are finally fucking dead. So glad I got to see these guys play a few years ago, albeit in Nottingham supporting some completely forgettable dross landfill band. stereogum.com/2483507/refu...

Ctrl / CMD - A Ctrl / CMD - C In text editor: Ctrl / CMD - V Congratulations. You are now a |337 h4x0r. #pwnage #Epstein #RoyalFamilyUpdates www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Got my first Christmas present from the kids. I wonder if dyslexia is genetic? (This shouldn't be allowed)

Imagine being responsible (i.e. paid) for promoting activities in your city and when discussing a Christmas event not putting *any* mention of the year in your online press releases. #SheffieldIsSuper

Can we get a supply of top buttons to the #SaturdayKitchenLive studio, stat - before I have to cancel my licence fee? Alternatively: fans of middle aged man chest, you're going to have an absolute treat on BBC 1 this morning… fill your boots. #prude

I didn't have 'fonts' on the "things that are woke" Family Fortunes 2025 board, but there you go. ping: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Meetup using their yearly roundup as an excuse to push their app. It's my data lads. They think they're McDonalds. Hate paying for this service.

We're just having a social this month. Taking it easy 🍻 - Come along and join #FrontEndSheff for a low-key xmas hang in town on 18th December: www.meetup.com/front-end-sh...

What a thing: LLM-only pages for #AI / ML consumption - aka web developers will do _anything_ to avoid producing semantic HTML: www.searchenginejournal.com/googles-muel...

Love this #PS1 -influenced merch campaign from Bleep. They certainly know their audience: bleep.com/select-your-... #SpookyRichard

#BBCLauraK asks Piers Morgan about male roles in society and the first thing he mentions is 'The Barbie Movie' - jfc lol aren't the levels of cringe too much to guarantee yet another invite?

The 1.0 launch of #OrionBrowser feels like a good thing for the web. I've been playing with it for a while & it's got a lot of potential. Can't wait for them to churn out the promised Linux version: blog.kagi.com/orion

#AI is not a substitute for junior developers. Junior developers are how you grow senior developers 🌱

This is tomorrow! (Thursday 26th November) - Last #FrontEndSheff Meetup of the year: 🧩 Webcomponents time-traveller Jack Carey 🐛 Caterpillar and code-quality enthusiast @andycarter.dev 🎟️ www.meetup.com/front-end-sh...

I knew it. I'm not going mad (this time). My neighbourhood is getting rinsed by O2! It's cool that #Sheffield is doing this.

Just watch Rainman (1988) for the 1st time in 25 yrs. Allegedly about a fella with autism but it takes 57 minutes for a train to appear and then it passes without comment. Barely recognisable to me: 1⭐/5 (This post made with nothing but love 🚆x)

Slammed the brakes on last week to avoid peds crossing. Stayed on the bike but I think that's what did my back & I figured out I've ripped my back brake apart. Would have been more economical to just plough on and - with flashing lights / luminous pink jacket - I'd still have the moral high-ground.

Replaced the RCBOs in my fusebox/consumer unit. Difficult. Mindset of the (possibly drunk) electrician who originally wired it up was similar to the mindset of the web developer with 1MB CSS files.

Can I get £3,750 off my new Food Puma Crossover? Sure. How about financial help with a new cargo bike? About that… www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I went to Sheffield Print fair at the weekend. 2nd year in a row. I love this. Some truly great local artists. Not _quite_ on the same level, but I was inspired to finally finish this in my lads room 🐙 - my 1st mural!

Chat GPT prompt: "It's November, just put some random military stuff up there" #BBCLauraK #sombre

My girl is in a choir. I just bought tickets to see her in concert with her mates. Cost me more than when I saw f'kin Radiohead. She's okay like and I know she doesn't have the complicated history with Israel… but still. They were supported by Asian Dub Foundation. Financially devastated. #parenting

Right. Don't want to get too political, but is this perhaps the first vaguely positive thing that we can pin on TikTok since crawling out of whichever pit of hell the Chinese state apparatus cultivated it in?

Announcing our November #FrontEndSheff Meetup (last of 2025): - Jack Carey takes us 🎶 baaaack in tiiiime with 'An adventure in web components' - @andycarter.dev uses literary classics to talk about code quality with 'Ulysses versus The Very Hungry Caterpillar' 🎟️ www.meetup.com/front-end-sh...

Just popping in to leave a quick message celebrating the death of Dick Cheney 🎉

Nothing so pathetically tragic as being a being an Interpol (supported by Bloc Party) person, living in a Bloc Party (supported by Interpol) town.

Today I hit 2x art exhibitions in #Sheffield - Comparisons are bad form, but life is short: - A Leg Named Brian: Memoirs by Pete McKee - Earnest, heartfelt & TIL a kids football could have a class system of its own - Modern Toss: 21st Anniversary - Dismissive, disinterested. It felt like home, yeah?

Luke's slides for his excellent @expo.dev #ExpoRouter talk at #FrontEndSheff : expo-router.lhowsam.com

Tickets still available for #FrontEndSheff this Thursday (30th Oct). We gots: - Alex Efthymiou talking all about routing in #nextjs - Luke Howsam on routing using @expo.dev Looking forward to seeing you all this week for a thoroughly spoopy time 🎃 www.meetup.com/front-end-sh...

Wake up babe, a new reason to hate Justin Trudeau just dropped. Or alternatively to hate Katy Perry. At this point I'm really not sure which way round it is. Wish them well I suppose? (This account is now Hello magazine) mhtntimes.com/articles/kat...

#BBCLauraK asks political car crash victim Kamala Harris whether the King of the United Kingdom inviting Trump to tea felt "Cheesy or queasy". She'll be standing in for Alan Carr this week on Rupaul's Drag Race next week to invite the girls to play 'Cheesy or queasy' there too.

They arrested that nutter who the accidentally police let out. Tabloid editors must be furious. Reckon if he'd been better at hide-and-seek then they'd have been able to have a nice easy week "speeking there brainz" about what this means about all sorts of issues. Sorry, lads.

Wes Streeting MP is going to put iPlayer on tonight and watch back #BBCLauraK 's "look at your tiny red bar" comment whilst… [FULL POST AVAILABLE TO SUBSCRIBERS]

This literally #shitposting #KingTrump video is his most complementary fantasy - but is anyone talking about how even here, his big fat face can't fit in an oxygen mask?

Costing 132 million dollars and the death of Jared Leto's career and all we got in return was that #NineInchNails album. Was #Tron worth it? Every penny.

Some raren potential good news. Hopefully those branches placed right outside Job Centers will be the first to go. #parasites #ukpol www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Usually I'd be complaining about how it costs £200 for an extra 8GB of RAM in the new #Mac M5 Pro in 2025 - whilst still excited to replace my increasingly tired M1. But since #Tahoe Apple have made hardware costs far for the biggest concern.

Very sadly, this article from @theverge.com is perhaps one of the best explanations of current US politics I've seen in quite some time: www.theverge.com/policy/79849... #shitposting

The good news: The paint behind my radiator is wonderful now. Really, spot on. A joy to behold. Some of my best work (you're welcome, spiders). The bad news: My floor *is* somewhat moist. #rollercoasterDIY

Was sat in the pub near people discussing the following: - People in their 20s who go to 2025 Oasis gigs are awful - People of any age who go to 2025 Oasis gigs are awful - People called Ian are boring - Going to sleep listening to Moby That's a good hit rate. I wonder if they'll be my friends?

This analysis of last years Google data leak is fascinating: #Google uses Neural Image Assessment to algorithmically score subjective aspects like beauty & composition. Finally my "no uggos on the website" line in all those #SEO audits receives justification. www.hobo-web.co.uk/the-definiti...