ngl it is beginning to get on my tits a bit that people seem to think that if you're one of the cool kids you should be exempt from moderation

Back in the Underworks

I never want to hear another Alan Partridge joke as long as I live

Probably one of the bigger issues for Bluesky PBC is that they did the "decentralised social network" thing in a way that means end users were able to treat it as a centralised social network that Bluesky PBC is responsible for, which is what they actually wanted.

Depressingly plausible.

Torn between my hatred of Paddington The Dignitas Bear and my general contempt for Matt Forde's "comedy"

Hmm, the local cinema is showing Twilight today. I could go to that, or I could do something more enriching and pleasant, like seeing how much broken glass I can eat in one sitting.

Describe your Bluesky account in a single image

You know I don’t think there’s a stupid internet word I hate more than “neurospicy”.

I had a weird dream that the Conservative Party, which rejects the idea that there should be money available for things like 'basic policing services' or 'care for the elderly', has committed itself to a colossal new state deportation project which it has branded by association with Donald Trump

Hey everyone, why not take part in my new viral posting game, take a song title and replace all the words with wordless shrieking

Every so often I check in on Mastodon just to see what's happening and the answer is always Linux + the sort of earnest political posting you see on here on the Discover tab, and then I close Mastodon and forget it exists some more

chat which kind am I

The iPhone 17 Pro Max feels lovely in the hand, but unfortunately Apple took the bold decision to fashion the exterior out of Teflon polished with baby oil so I’m deeply uncomfortable with it being out of a case

This would have been a more credible statement if he said he was repeating the words of a lion he met after walking through the back of a wardrobe

Right, that's it. I'm founding a new populist party of the centre called Go Outside!

Halfords are playing Maroon 5

Got all the way to Lidl and found out my bike lock had fallen out of my bag en-route so I had to go straight back home

Regret to inform everyone that Robbie Williams is approaching prompt criticality

Lady Gaga should have stuck with RedOne as a producer

They have a karaoke booth on Virgin Voyages. Good thing I never used it or they’d have deliberately sunk the boat with no survivors

Leaving a 1* review of Fuller's 1845 on RateBeer because it made me sing "Sumire September Love" out loud

This song is my karaoke standard, as in I can sing it from memory and I do it every time. If you'd like to know what that sounds like, just imagine Vic Reeves doing it in the "club style" from Shooting Stars but Vic Reeves is also the screams of the damned in hell www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUmG...

H-O-T-T O-G-O This song sounds like YMO H-O-T-T O-G-O Production by Hosono

Banger. First heard this song at a Virgin Voyages blackjack table. Asked the table if they had any idea what song it was and the dealer quickly told me that I was welcome to Google "touch me baby, touch me touch me touch me" on my phone in my own time.

Birds of a Feather by Billie Eilish is top 5 of this list btw, definitely not no. 1 but it's up there, so is Telepatia by Kali Uchis

Unfortunately the Fame Academy was closed down by Ofsted because it turned out the people it turned out weren't famous at all.

Imagine not liking Running Up That Hill. What a song. You'd have to be a complete wrong'un.

I quite like singing it's just a shame I sound like Thom Yorke with emphysema

Third beer time which means that it is now officially Watching Stupid Nonsense On YouTube O'Clock www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzoH...

Walked to Sainsbury's to get more beer and on the way back ended up walking behind a girl with a RealTimeTrains pin on her backpack, meaning I have a community in Norwich after all of weird train timetable people

Fuck it it’s a drink supermarket ales and listen to synth evening now youtu.be/TrA05vpuOtw?...

Ranking the four beers I got from Sainos the other night 1. Fullers 1845 2. London Pride 3. Old Crafty Hen 4. Hobgoblin Ruby The loser is Sainsbury's themselves for not honouring the 4 for £7.50 deal the shelf said they had on

I’m the guy who is fleeing platforms for Mastodon because I hate mod drama

Me 🤝 Gordon Freeman “The Citadel sucks, it’s full of arseholes”

Decided I'm going to kill the Cogwork Dancers

I sort of agree but also I'm not sure the right people to run a social network are the people who would willingly take over a social network

Good morning www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-tX...

Alexei Sayle - Ullo John Gotta New Motor (Part 4)

I really don’t like contempt for non technical users

I think both Jay and the people yelling about Jay have some good points but also literally nobody is doing themselves any favours, *particularly* Jay because she is an actual visible public figure. There, there is my milquetoast boring centrist opinion.

Bellroy's "Region" field on their address form has one of the most deranged selections I've seen, I think it's just to wind up people who are really interested in local government subdivisions

if your response to this - a basic statement of sympathy about an attack on a synagogue - is to bring up Israel, please delete your account

The replies to this are making me physically ill.

Scan have said there’s no fault because the system POSTed, despite the actual issue I reported being “system won’t wake from sleep without being power cycled at the PSU repeatedly”. So that’s great

Couple of things here: crypto boosters need to contend with just how much easier they have made these kind of extortion scams - almost as if it were feature, not bug, of the tech. Also, cannot be coincidence that these hacks are ramping up as Russia’s economy is feeling the sanctions squeeze.

@ianbetteridge.com someone’s breaking the law here

Agree with this. British society is overwhelmingly pretty much “live and let live”, and the exceptions are pretty much just that, exceptions.

cannot overstate the degree to which like, no normal person in the uk cares strongly about trans people either way btw. like, the reason the media manufactured moral panic is working is because it has convinced lawmakers that people care about it, not because it has made people care about it

You don’t actually have to both sides this. The Jewish community in the UK is not the Israeli government. You can just condemn the murder of two British Jews killed in their place of worship and you don’t have to say a single other thing.