Fresh on my #blog: "Book Review — Boring Girls by Sara Taylor" Natural Born Killers meets Thirteen by the lead singer of The Birthday Massacre thomasrigby.com/posts/book-review-boring-girls-by-sara-taylor/

This museum exhibition has the strongest point-and-click videogame room energy.

Writers: here are ten free and easy ways to add a dash of visual interest to your blog posts without resorting to AI imagery (which signals to readers that your blog post is probably also AI and there’s no need to bother reading it): 1) A thoughtful photo […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

TOILET ROLL DISPENSERS IN PUBLIC BATHROOMS SHOULD HAVE A LARGE AND CLEAR GREEN/AMBER/RED INDICATOR FOR THE PAPER LEVELS

good morning to everyone except the single guy in the nearly empty cafe who took the only 4 seater table to himself forcing the four of us to cobble together two two seaters

#til I learned the word "Mustelids" — a family of carnivorous mammals including ferrets, badgers, and otters. Lovely word! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustelidae

JAMES CONNOLLY 110th ANNIVERSARY In the early hours of May 12th 1916, #JamesConnolly, was taken by stretcher from Dublin Castle to the stonebreakers yard in #Kilmainham Jail, strapped to a wooden chair, and executed by a #BritishArmy firing squad. James […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

Great news subversive.pics contributors! subversive.pics now contains ads! Every time the gallery rebuilds, there is now a message from a random sponsor! If you want to make your own ad, you can! send me a 400x150 jpg. i will only accept ads that point to […] [Original post on merveilles.town]

Fresh on my #blog "The design is not the spec" #technology #design #development #softwaredevelopment #webdesign thomasrigby.com/posts/the-design-is-not-the-spec/

if you listen to albums on shuffle, don't

I just finished Sayaka Murata's delightfully odd "Convenience Store Woman" as recommended by @alice_digest Review up tomorrow. Will need to think what's up next; what could follow that‽ #wwwwednesday #bookcommunity #bookstodon #books

I came up with the term "inclusive front" to mean the band of people who care about the web's inclusivity. It's a play on words; we largely work on the front end, but I feel we're also like a political 'popular front' ( […] [Original post on front-end.social]

"Introducing Gemini for Home" How about fuck no?

Hi 👋. I am Janine (Obsidian Urbex) from Manchester, England 🇬🇧. If you are interested in: 📷 Photography 🔦 Urban Exploration 🏚️ Abandoned Places 👩‍💻 Active Bloggers 🤓 Nerdy Girls Then maybe you should give this girl a Follow ✅ I share my adventures here on […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

Can web developers stop fucking with scroll bars please? No website is so beautiful that is justifies losing the ability to see how far the page scrolls down. I don't give two shits about your design vision.

If you are having a quit the tech industry and become a farmer day: The Kindling Trust (Manchester food non-profit) have a couple of job vacancies. https://kindling.org.uk/news/join-our-growing-teams Community Food Hub Co-ordinator, Stockport, full time, £26k […]

@nelson nelson started a new a bottle of milk when we already had one open

Fresh on my #blog — "Things that make me go yay!" #gratitude #lifestyle #reflection thomasrigby.com/posts/things-that-make-me-go-yay-2026-04/

I wish people selling stationery online would stop labeling notebooks as both "9x14cm" and "A6" because they are not the fucking same

Anyone else use the verb "ravel" to mean "roll [sleeves/trousers] up"? The inverse of "unravel"

Fresh on my#blog — #weeknotes: 2026-W17 in which I complete mandatory work training and observe the most epic goose. Not at the same time. Sadly. thomasrigby.com/posts/2026-w17/

You're always ahead of the pack I drag behind You possess every trait that I lack By coincidence or by design You're the monkey I got on my back That tells me to shine

Happy April 25th to all who celebrate #misscongeniality

when people say "pushing Marxism on the western world" like it's the worst possible thing 🙃

i love a little drama, let's start a bar fight

This week's #tunetuesday has us asking #whatshallwedrink; songs referencing a cheeky beveragino. Enjoy a bit of Terrorvision 🍸 song.link/y/8hLQCA2h8kA

How many girls are riding their bikes to school is a better measure of a country's success than GDP. Tells you about so much more, about education, gender equality, road safety, the environment... #kiatikakiapono

Fresh on my #blog "New and new-to-me music 2026-W16". From lush pop to microtonal mathrock via swamp witch. Yep. #music #newmusic #newmusicfriday thomasrigby.com/posts/new-and-new-to-me-music-2026-w16/

I solved today's #tiledwords puzzle! 😎 “Slang for good (or cool)” 🕒 1 minute, 40 seconds 💡 0/3 reveals used tiledwords.com/puzzles/2026-04-17

Easter is better than Christmas because I just had a rummage in the left over chocolate cupboard and found a fucking Cadbury caramel egg

I wanna be old and gross with you Matching tracksuits on a treadmill Stretchy skin, green tattoos No regrets, I'll fade out with you

I am racing towards the finale of Tomi Adeyemi's "Children of Anguish and Anarchy" (which I insist on calling "Anguish and Agony" for some unbeknownst reason) which is the final book in the trilogy. I have really enjoyed the series but it's been heavy going at some points so I'm looking forward […]

I'm trying to watch a movie on my laptop but it keeps glitching and buffering and crashing. the movie is The Signal (2014) and that, friends, is irony.

Recently I read a post by some jackhole techbro who wants a default automatic feed algorithm here just like Big Social™. Opening the door for AI bullshit is not even the worst part of this idea. Folks, all of us here ARE the algorithm. Personal curation is a feature, not a bug. We make […]

Happy 20th anniversary to Neil. Still banging out the tunes

Fresh on my #blog — "Weeknotes: 2026-W15" in which I, once more, curse Microsoft and tiptoe lightly through forget-me-nots #weeknotes thomasrigby.com/posts/2026-w15/

Danny Go is a better musician than Will.i.am

Fresh on my #blog — "New and new-to-me music 2026-W15" #newmusicfriday #music #newmusic thomasrigby.com/posts/new-and-new-to-me-music-2026-w15/

Simpsons

ten year old me would be very surprised at how little i care about the moon landing

Fresh on my #blog: "Book Review — Children of Virtue and Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi" #fantasy #westafrica #youngadult #books #bookreview thomasrigby.com/posts/book-review-children-of-virtue-and-vengeance-by-tomi-adeyemi/

i was today years old when i learned "lily the pink" is not a Beatles song #til

I know I'm learning because I feel stupid and angry

"fuck you very much" to microsoft for making me actively dislike developing

A pastel icon set, Inclusive Sans, and Catppuccin Mocha is all it takes to make Calibre look like a modern webapp

Late last night, I finished "Children of Virtue and Vengeance" by Tomi Adeyemi, a rollicking good fantasy about magic and class and oppression. It's book 2 of a trilogy so I'm starting "Children of Anguish and Anarchy" today #wwwwednesday #books #bookstodon #bookcommunity #fantasy #magic #ya

Minute Cryptic - 30 March, 2026 "Temp receptionist and intern, between jobs?" (5,2) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 1 under the community par (74,350 solvers so far). www.minutecryptic.com/?utm_source=share

It's that time again! Yes, I am once more trawling the UK Government Petition's website and looking through the list of those petitions that were rejected. #petitions 1/n