"Malort advent calendar" is already such an unhinged concept but every little window just having Malort in it really pushes it over the edge into something transcendently funny

yes yes we all know about the Edmund Fitzgerald, rest her soul, but did you know about the ship laden with explosives that sank in the mouth of the Thames in 1944 and could explode at any minute and which attempts to disarm keep failing

I will restate my modest proposal to save the BBC: ban the BBC from covering itself. Every BBC scandal goes huge, because every BBC News show wants to assert its independence by covering it prominently, even if several other shows already did. So it gets blanket headlines.

It is hard to beat the ROI of buying a super-king size duvet for your double bed

Aviva, August 2024: "Thank you for telling us about your new address. I've updated these details on our records and this is the last letter we will send to your old address." Aviva, November 2025: <mails pension statement to old address> 😱

Inspired by a general love of garlic, and @oldenoughtosay.com’s tweets, I made chicken with ~200 cloves (20 bulbs) of garlic last night Was it good? Yes Are we suffering slightly this morning? Also yes…

Happy Dependabot day to all who celebrate

I am proud to be a Fellow of the Python Software Foundation

@incident.io Hey qq please - when speaking, is the . (canonically) pronounced or not? “Incident dot io” or “incident io”? Thanks!

So much goes into this. For any internal tool nerds, we’ve written a bunch about what we’ve had to build here: incident.io/building-wit...

At @incident.io SEV0 watching @lawrencejones.dev show some of the internals of their AI SRE The product itself looks absolutely fantastic and incredibly powerful But the other thing that is a joy to see is the sheer quality of internal tooling they’ve built to learn and improve and monitor 😍

A nice piece of level trivia is the characteristically conservative judges involved with the High Court of Chivalry rejected 1189 and set time immemorial as before 1066 instead!

Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.

Under Over Over - West Hampstead So it's taken a while, but I've finally found a location where you can clearly see London Underground trains traveling over London Overground trains. The vantage point is at West Hampstead Overground station at the end of the platform.

Timeline cleanser. Isn't science amazing...

Great moments in redaction history.

The fastest way to make me pay for your newsletter is to start an article with this sentence

It’s been nearly 10 years since I lived in London but London Centric is still a favourite read of mine - hugely fascinating and insightful original journalism

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Welcome, new users. Posts on Bluesky are called skjörts. If someone re-skjörts you, that is a doppelskjört. If you respond to a doppelskjört, that is called a Trifect, and you cannot skjört again for nine hours. If you do anyway, that's a Time Clench. It's all very simple.

REUSE is fantastic tooling for software licensing - solves several challenges I’ve had in the past! reuse.software Great support for multiple licenses, automated checking, and annotating in-file or via config I recently did this for the first time for Samoyed in github.com/doismellburn...

Remake Face Off, starring Daniel Radcliffe and Elijah Wood, you cowards.

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At this point I'd like to make you all read "Identity Crisis" by Jim Harper. It's a great book, barely dated in over 20 years. He describes how your "identity" once standardised and in widespread use, will be increasingly demanded.

@thepsf.bsky.social Hey, was there an error in the recent election result posting? It said 13 seats, but pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-... says 4…?

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Three hours or so stationary on the M25 and the 2yo is being an absolute champion about it, bless him

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

i express opinions on this website every damn day and sure i also don't hold them all firmly or remember all of them but i can tell you one thing, i have never once advocated for racism or genocide or child abuse or killing people i don't agree with. i don't need to remember every post to know that

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As a general rule, if you are walking anywhere near a building and small pieces of stone start falling off for no apparent reason (nobody is pressure washing it), then get the entire fuck away from said building. Run across the whole street idk. A hard hat would not have saved you there

People act like being non-binary is a thing that only existed for the last 5 years like Fred Durst didn’t shout out “hey ladies, hey fellas, and the people who don’t give a fuck.” Back in 1999

Today's my birthday! I've got five simple requests, based on what I've learned over the last... 50 years. I hope you'll take a moment to give them a look. And thanks to everybody who's read my writing along the way! www.anildash.com/2025/09/05/f...

I am hardly a natural Rayner cheerleader, but genuinely furious that she's gone. Laurie Magnus's verdict confirms she acted on advice, she just missed the disclaimer saying she should get extra advice. Not just an honest mistake - a mistake literally anyone could make. There but for the grace etc...

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

Look at this response from Polanski to Sophie Ridge's attempted gotcha on flags To *finally* have a mainstream political voice standing up for racialised & minoritised communities being intimidated by the violent fash on our streets It's really not that hard, is it?

I don’t think a lot of people on the right understand that a lot of people on the left regularly hear people on the left spout opinions we too think are ridiculous, annoying and buzz-killing too, only we don’t then decide it’s worth destroying democracy because Tara thinks bin bags are classist

Prioritisation != Order of Execution: 1000x this - I wish I’d had this post for past prioritisation ~~arguments~~ discussions…!

🎉IT’S PUBLICATION DAY!🎉 My first legal thriller, #TheCutThroatTrial! The mutilated body of an old man is found in the street. Three teenagers nearby, caked in his blood. Each points the finger at the others. Each has his own story. Available NOW in the links below 👇

It's the first of the month, which is as great time as any to document something undocumented with a README file. Do it! I promise it'll be satisfying.

This is an incredibly powerful and important article by my friend and colleague Sarah Brown. If you want to understand why trans people in the UK are feeling so upset - read it! www.libdemvoice.org/why-are-uk-t...

What the hell is this nonsense from @skynewss.bsky.social ? Why are they even toying with the ‘political judiciary’ line? Dangerous foolishness from a respectable news outlet. @sophyridge.bsky.social any chance of an internal editorial chat… news.sky.com/story/politi...

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This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”

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***MY COUSIN VINNY LIVE-TWEET: THE RULES*** This lecture explores the cinematic classic 'My Cousin Vinny' through the lens of English and Welsh law. Contributions and observations are welcome, but I'm perfectly prepared to tweet the entire film to a wall of embarrassed silence.