Me to me: Why would you ever ask a question on here? Me to me: it will be different this time

He did it again for the 5 year anniversary

📯Huge Opportunity for Public Space Improvement Do you want to see a joined-up #BeeNetwork in #GreaterManchester? Then have your say on this impressive proposal for Seymour Grove. It's ambitious on paper, but local Councillors need confidence that there's public backing to approve it.

is anyone else getting tired of the victorian / middle earth aesthetic discord has been using? guilds were fine but this is a little excessive

The process of making a good photo: 1. go to far off place and take photos 2. develop film 3. return to far off place to take good versions of those photos

A night shot on the Ashton Canal in Manchester. Happy with how this looks, given it's a handheld shot. #photography

Billboard sprites will never *not* be a useful optimisation.

vx-underground: Discord Zendesk breach is 1.5TBs of age verification photos. 2.1 +million photos Spent this morning try to cross-verify, as news about the breach is going viral on Twitter

Say hello to literally the only protesters outside Tory conference this year

They brought the post back lol. Finish the job. Ban Singal. Rescue your platform.

Surprisingly yet pleasingly complex - the tile elements required to reconstruct a Roman roof over the House of the Faun, #Pompeii. Beautiful watercolour, pencil, and ink illustrations by Pasquale Maria Veneri dating to 1843 on display in the National Archaeological Museum In Naples.

This amazing article from @vic-parsons.bsky.social via @wearequeeraf.com shows the absolute criminal state of trans healthcare in the UK. Scotland has a 224 year wait for a first appointment. Yes, you read that right. www.wearequeeraf.com/gender-clini...

every single time, jesus - 60,000,000 people signed the petition 'stop murdering babies' - the government responded: 'we are committed to baby murder for inscrutable government Reasons' just take down the petition website, come on, i disabled the google news feed, you can do this, i believe in you

Cool that the Bluesky CEO is succumbing to Musk's curse: being a needy loser, but not the exact kind of needy loser you have to be to write funny posts.

“My wife went to Riyadh to see an edgy comedian” “Jimmy Carr?” “No, she went of her own accord”

if wrestling is fake explain this 🤼

DEUS EX REMASTERED!!? Why was I not informed immediately?

it's been long enough now that i feel like i can break my silence on this: samsungs (allegedly) $200-$200K bug bounty program paid me just $5000 for the "High Severity" vulnerability that would've allowed me to supply chain attack their whole cloud environment. maia.crimew.gay/posts/i-hack...

There's a wrong way and a right way to report this

A surprising number of people seem to regard Nazism as an understandable and natural reaction to heavy eye makeup.

Stairs

Have you been in an accident that was your fault? You may be entitled to compensation! Here at Taylor And Taylor-But-Younger, Attorneys at Time we can help you win the settlement you deserve from that entitled prick Past You!

Congratulations to the newly elected Leader of the Green Party of England & Wales, @zackpolanski.bsky.social

Before you jeer at Sir Keir for campaigning as a progressive, then governing as a bigot panderer, consider this: that upon being elected party leader he was possessed by the ectoplasmic malice of his former master, the bearded warlock Jeremy Corbyn.

Age verification laws for social media go far beyond just impacting people under 18 or restricting adult content — they make it harder for all of us to access information and speak freely online.

Look what they did to Notepad. Shut the fuck up. This is Notepad. You are not welcome here. Oh yeah "Let me use Copilot for Notepad". "I'm going to sign into my account for Notepad". What the fuck are you talking about. It's Notepad.

I really hate the term "sideloading". I preferred the original term, which was "installing software on a computer that you own"

Taking my camera to today's pride parade turned out to be a great opportunity to practise my photography. A 🧵 of hastily chosen photos from over 600 I took today. 😅 #manchesterpride #photography

I love our town fair day, but there's always one violent idiot who has to ruin it for everyone, trundling around making threats.

Dig this--They Might Be Giants performing a live set on KEXP! youtu.be/EBXpmwI1rIg?...

Yesterday Evening in Manchester #photography #manchester

I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

In my experience there are three kinds of fantasy magic novels:

Every UK petition is like this

When I found a pub with an inverted normal map. (If you understand what this means, you have to repost.)

GM is growing fast. We will expand @BeeNetwork over the next decade to meet the needs of our bigger economy. BUT There’s a limit to what we can do on a congested surface. It’s why I am asking TfGM to start planning for an underground for GM around a remodelled Piccadilly.

I’m petrified about today’s science news. Genetically modifying crabs to have cheetah genes? This could go sideways fast.

It's not even 7:30am but this'll probably be the best web page I see today thick-coins.net

I discovered yesterday, in a mass email sent at 3am, that I will not be receiving the roughly £40,000 that my publisher Unbound/Boundless owes me for pre-order sales of The Paradox Paradox. The payment for five years of work, gone. #unboundless

Misinformation: A Telegraph guide 1️⃣Find apparently shocking stat: EV fires "up 77%" 😱 2️⃣Always round up ("nearly double")🤔 3️⃣Downplay context: There are 105% more EVs🙉 4️⃣Sideline wider truth: EV fires 5-6x *less* likely🙊 5️⃣Add quote to cover yourself🙈

If the producers of Question Time wanted a true representation of political views across the spectrum they could have a panel of Starmer 2016, Starmer 2019, Starmer 2021, Starmer 2023 and Starmer 2025.

applying for jobs again

How are things with me? Not bad! I mean, the island that appeared on the lake does seem to be moving closer, closer each day, a dark form taking shape in the mist. But work's good and I'm feeling OK except when I find myself gazing at that accursed island, drawing ever nearer. How are you?

The reality of claiming PIP: a 🧵 1) To claim PIP you have to describe in excruciating detail all the ways you cannot function. This means that you are forced to think in very detailed terms exactly how disabled you are, which often has a devastating effect on the mental health of the applicant 1/?