“Toaster” isn’t a good metaphor. Maybe like calling up customer support, and the person on the other end has access to your file and notes, but if you ask them why a previous rep did something all they can really do is make up plausible answer. And also every turn you get transferred

My cartoon for the latest @newscientist.com

in a few years we’re all gonna have some kind of direct neural interface surgically implanted in our skulls, and the way you use it to do real work is gonna be by imagining your hands on a fucking typewriter keyboard

Robert Pattinson's Batman is genuinely one of my favorite autistic characters I've seen in modern fiction. He's not the autism representation we deserve, but he's the autism representation we need. Or whatever the line is. (It's also just the best take on The Batman we've gotten in cinema tbh)

This site is a bunch of interesting folks but also the last hanger-ons to the idea that progress happens through snarky pile-ons. May they one day form a completely disconnected cluster

There was actually a time quite recently when the Young People still used Tinder (Published around the time of Dawn Chorus Day)

I really hope someone asks me to do this one day

it's kinda weird that all the software i am expected to use for work are all written by distributed teams, go, python, postgres, linux, chrome, k8s etc and despite being told "the best teams work in an office together" i don't know of any software i use that's actually written that way

Ah, Ghost Town – I once took ideas from @rathergood.bsky.social and @drivelsieve.bsky.social and ruined this song with some goats #totp

Quitting programming as a career right now because of LLMs would be like quitting carpentry as a career thanks to the invention of the table saw.

I love when you order food in a foreign restaurant and the head waiter gets sent over to warn you about the meal, and check if you want it There is no way I’m not having that now

This is literally an old Viz comic strip:

The word “login” comes from throwing a log attached to a rope with knots overboard a ship to see how many knots go by over time (see also, knots as speed). You’d then put that info in the “log book.” You’d “log in” on a regular basis. This wasn’t from 1959, it was likely from 1689! Etymology baby!

The makers of Breaking Bad used 62 episodes to tell a slightly worse version of a story Steely Dan told in 4m38s in Kid Charlemagne. If you watched Breaking Bad, you lost.

Michael Spicer: No Room. Returns on Wednesday 30th April on Radio 4 at 11pm

None of these is anyone's favourite tool. I guess "Works with the shitty tools your company forces you to use because of a one-off backhander a decade ago" was too long

He’s a real threat from deep

Time to read up on the French Revolution?

On this date in 1794 was born famed orator Edward Everett, who spoke at Gettysburg for two hours before Abraham Lincoln took two minutes for his own remarks. Everett was entirely gracious: "The fuck, Abe? Did you write that shit on the back of an envelope at breakfast? Fuck me. I'm dead."

Did you know this???

Today, on Libero, Tariq Panja, Miguel Delaney, James Horncastle and I talk Champions League and how it can be improved, and ask whether clubs have DNA, while proving our DNA is to be embarrassed by events happening between recording and publication. pod.fo/e/2c52a7

As a cyclist my problem with the online cycling community is that it is mostly white privileged men who desperately want to be the victims for once. It’s why they can’t ever accept any responsibility or admit any flaws

Got to keep up with the Joneses over here on Bluesky

For Americans who didn’t get the joy of living through the Truss/Kwarteng budget, this is the point where the government starts to call the stock market left-wing and/or woke.

Thought experiment: If a narcissist orangutang punches all your friends giving them 20-40% bruises all over their bodies, but the same orangutang only punches you so bad you get 10% bruises because you kissed his hairy, orange ape arse - is that something to feel good about? Just asking for Britain

Penknife Magic Tutorial!🤫

"I sometimes lived at Michael Mann's house" RIP Val Kilmer, it was really funny that you and Marlon Brando fucking hated each other. Two chaotic legends.

Which film do you think you’ve probably watched the most?

Lady Day, ie nine months before Christmas Day. Until the mid-C18th this was officially New Year’s Day in England (which must have been inconvenient). Combined with the loss of eleven days in September 1752 with the move to the Gregorian calendar, this explains why the tax year starts on 6th April.

Elbows up, Canada!

My daughter thinks that "work" is a game I play on my laptop and gets upset that I won't let her play it

Best way to end the Ukraine War? Every European country puts feet on the ground in Ukraine, battle ready and in reasonable numbers, dares Putin to attack them and Trump/Vance to back them. Call Putin’s bluff like this - he’d back down in days and the US would have the isolation it craves.

I'm utterly certain that in the Skynet era when AI is wiping out humanity with robots, those of us that said please and thank you when using ChatGPT will be allowed to live as slaves to the robots, rather than dying like dogs. Which will be nice.

This really looks like @geoffnorcott.bsky.social www.reddit.com/r/tesco/s/60...

My 2p is that being the focus of even a mild twitter storm (as we used to call them) is traumatic and it would be worth studying. People come out of them either cowed or doubling down. It's like we've collectively invented a spell to mutate dickheads into actual baddies.

I did a thing.

My proposal to move the Stutterers Conference back a month from its usual May slot have been dismissed as jejeune.

Plying my trade, offering my services. They say comedy is a results business so here's some results. Could also do with an agent #comedy #jokes #comedian #standupcomedy

Assassins Creed: “Hey we’re a game about cool ass falcon assassins that jump from the rooftops like ninjas!” Me “Oh that’s cool!” Assassins Creed: “Also there’s a modern day sci-fi plot connected to it that sucks! Bad writing every time!” Me “oh that’s stupid” AC “yep! ruins the whole idea”😎

Hooray! The courier has just brought me my new Prometheus action figure. Signed, sealed, delivered.

There's a car showcase in Victoria Centre, Nottingham. As I was picking up my meds they decided that'd be the ideal time to show off how loud the horn is. Cue me having a meltdown as I entre Boots. Im a crying wreck. Lovely pharmacist sees me and offers me a water served in this baby:

orpheus would never have turned around to look at eurydice if he’d had a smartphone

One little thing I’ve learned that’s stood me in good stead: if someone’s asking a question or seemingly seeking advice, and you think you have an answer or solution for them; ask a follow up question first to make sure you’re barking up the right tree

It was weirdly exciting to see @gunnerblog.bsky.social referenced in medium.com/@tomwhitwell... which was referenced by @timferrisss.bsky.social

̶M̶a̶n̶i̶c̶ ̶p̶i̶x̶i̶e̶ ̶d̶r̶e̶a̶m̶ ̶g̶i̶r̶l̶ Regular autistic woman (wearing an elf hat) Watch the full Daily Tism sketch show here: thedailytism.com/the-daily-ti...

Trying to get rid of something on Freecycle! youtu.be/COTMfF8MQ7k

This is an incredibly gatekeeper argument “I know what it means to actually create, but you don’t, because you are afraid”

Shifting the NHS away from treating sickness sounds much more like a Tory plan. I can see how leaving people to die would save money though