Just realised that Light and Day by Polyphonic Spree "borrows heavily" from Alec Eiffel.

Apple Music on form this afternoon, moving from Front Parlour by McCartney into the astonishingly good The Chauffeur by Duran Duran

Today's book ad on FB

Almost nothing gives me more of a Proustian rush than the thought of unwrapping a new pack of TDK SA90s and illegally obtaining some great new music. Yet another thing that streaming has stolen from us.

Once again 7/10 was far too generous for this rancid organisation. www.opendemocracy.net/en/libya-eu-...

It has long been apparent that far from being an asset to this country, the BBC is actively harming our society. Can't wait for it to die. Solidarity with Robin, and all who speak out against bigotry.

My transport plan is simple: a lifetime ban on driving for anyone with a DUI, turning drunks into a powerful constituency in favour of dense walkable neighbourhoods

It is obscene that Ince has been forced out of his non-news, non-politics-focused role at the BBC for opinions like "trans people should not be eliminated". Fucking monstrous.

This is where we are. A publicly-funded organisation which routinely platforms vile and dangerous individuals is now too craven to continue to employ a man whose main crime seems to be to point out, in his own free time, that maybe being shitty to other people is a bad thing.

Teaching myself to write right-handed, and doing it on hard mode with a stub-nibbed TWSBI Eco fountain pen.

An absolutely brilliant read, by Kate Mossman, on a plane crash that never was. Features Bryan Ferry being extraordinarily calm. www.newstatesman.com/long-reads/2...?

Dame Judi Dench crying as Lady Macbeth sounds like old dial-up internet.

“widely regarded as one of the area's most colourful and recognisable characters," “prominent figure in the football casual scene during the 1980s “recognised for his robust political activism and outspoken criticism of the current government," Yeah, I’m getting the picture here.

It's fitting that the cover on AI mindlessly apes an earlier creation and also displaces workers while elevating Silicon Valley plutocrats.

'Let it Snow' with all the positive lines removed

It would be very instructive for someone to do a comedy bit where they tried to cover sport like politics writers. "It seems that - sorry this is really for the nerds folks - he may have torn something called an 'anterior cruciate ligament' which is a bit of pipe in the leg, to you and me hahaha"

The thing is, this sort of discovery is really common in investigations because you have to be really familiar with a process to effectively trick it. My favourite example? I was doing an investigation into fraudulent invoicing and went down to the records room to look for potential invoices.

I wonder how hard it would be to plug IRC and a Usenet server into Active Directory and make a Teams-That-Doesn't-Suck

What does it mean, if the national equality body aggressively pursues discrimination; if the energy regulator rubber-stamps huge price hikes; if the water authority does nothing about shit in the rivers and the press regulator occasionally ticks off a newspaper? What is the purpose of “regulation”.

Turning this on on MacOS has gotten rid of most of the things I dislike about its UI, especially in Safari.

I'm pragmatically in favour of EU membership despite it being a fucking awful organisation in many racist and capitalist ways, but these people absolutely will not accept yes for an answer. You can campaign for Remain all you like, but if you only give the EU 7/10 you as good as campaigned for Leave

Time to break out the Guaraldi

Mozilla is using Google's proprietary LLM Gemini to overwrite Volunteer translations. That's not only a great way to destroy goodwill but also to poison your community. What are you doing @mozilla.org and why is it always some "AI" shit?

Saw a suggestion to turn on greyscale mode on my phone to make it less appealing to use, and I prefer it. I really don’t know whether to leave it on now

Goodfellas. Brilliant movie, but Joe Pesci's performance unnerved me so much I never want to see it again.

Bad news, I've charged my Kindle.

I think I’d also be slighty happier if I bought wired heaphones and a portable DAC and never had to look at a Bluetooth config window again.

They originally thought he had lupus

There is an energy field connecting all living beings, except for you.

Altman's aim is to eliminate the labour of his nanny and have the baby looked after by a robot which will both lie to it and tell it where to find knives

My life would be measurably better if I replaced all of my MicroUSB devices with USB-C.

#OtD 9 Dec 1959 British government Operation Legacy memo ordered the destruction of official files containing evidence of colonial crimes and brutality. The operation was highly successful as few in the UK know of its crimes. Learn more about Empire: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/ins...

Just saved a YouTube video to my Watch Never list.

(see also Driving Test bookings) 🎶It's beginning to look a lot like state failure Everywhere you go (Or my alternative jingle 🎶The country that's just given up)

HR departments countrywide need to start treating gendercrit employees as potentially hostile. As soon as you are required to interact with one, you dust off the rulebook, you dot every eye and cross every t, and you assume bad faith at every turn. They are a threat to every organisation.

Wearing a mask in a waiting room, reminding my subconscious brain every five seconds that I’m not suffocating, remembering the COVID scolds who told me that it wasn’t a problem because of physics. Psychology >>> physics, lxds.

this is why I want a book called “Bügge’ which is the post-Brexit British lifestyle book. How to grill a rat over an old bin, etc

This is an issue @polphilpod.bsky.social addresses excellently in his essay about Reactionary Centrism, but the short-form summary is that once you accept that 'Centrism' is its own ideology, and as prone to radicalism and fanaticism as any other, everything else all falls into place.

he's making a list he's checking it twice he's setting a reminder on his phone he's seeing a new email notification he's checking social media he's forgetting to set the reminder he's waking up in the middle of the night realizing he completely spaced it

Helping my mam clear some stuff out. I told her exactly what I was going to do next and why, and we agreed, and then she did a "oh, just do this first" and five minutes later tried to change the plans again and I've been a lump of stress ever since. She really doesn't get how messed up my brain is.

Obviously HRV has its issues as a sole measure of body stress, and obviously Garmin Body Battery is a number abstracted off of that, but still, guess where I started drinking booze on this chart.

Just listening to the @LBC news, and it occurred to me - why do they read out the ftse100, and exchange rates, as if these make a difference to the everyday person? Maybe it’s time to add CO2 levels, or global temperature increase, or climate change deaths, so we’re all more informed?

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By the age of 26, Vince Clarke had formed and had hits with four different bands.

Oh. Oh!

My brain just decided to sing "gonna have to face it you’re a victim of love" at me, ffs

This is a wonderful video. VFX artists try to recreate a shot from Fellowship of the Ring; go on a spellbinding journey of magic and loss. Gets surprisingly emotional towards the end.

I used to joke about people going early, but have done an about turn into the past 5-10 years. Life is hard and people want to cheer themselves up.

This feed used to have all the Bsky dev accounts in it and now it just has the official ones. Can’t think why. bsky.app/profile/did:...