Reading this made me reaslise that markdown is actually a thing, that people thought up, rather than just some bastardised ad hoc stuff people did by default. My mind is not exactly blown, but definitely slightly expanded.

This opinion is correct.

My problem: I revived @clickbaitrobot.bsky.social as re-enactment, as in posting old posts, but it's reminded me that I do still see headlines and want to fuck with them with code. So do I mix new ones in with that? Or have a new account for it? But called what?

Nah, he was obviously secretly Green as Teenage Wildlife is clearly the backing track to Heroes recycled.

If you write javascript to replace "the markets" with "the spiders" then financial news makes much more sense

Referencing other films has got a bit tired I think. Yes it was fun in Spaced / Simpsons 30 odd years ago, but I find I switch off a bit now when I notice it in new films. Like I quite enjoyed The Substance until the last 30 mins and it did a speed run though Carrie & The Fly. Make your own story.

My date is going well

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People fleeing shitter has at least shifted the needle on Fesshole on Bluesky and finally pipped it over 100k, as it was stuck on 99k for bloody ages. Anyway, refugees should follow all my terrible accounts, especially @grokofshit.bsky.social and @tinfoil-matt.bsky.social as they're the most recent

Just been reminded that Craigslist exists and had a nose - it's still an amazing place

I'm the PA to a CEO of a very large global corporation. It's been an eye opener for me, the guy can't do the simplest of daily life tasks, like make a cup of coffee. If there was an apocalypse he would be the first to go - that thought keeps me going.

There's endless minor conspiracy theories about Fesshole "the admin writes them all""they're all written by code" but fair play to this guy, this is a new one, that I haven't been able to google and cut and paste the 10 lines of code you need to auto post some social media

It's as clear as day watching the video filmed by the Ice officer who shot Renée Good, that he killed her in rage after feeling mocked by her partner. That's what this USA administration has enabled & defending. Also the the implicit message is: if you fancy doing a murder with impunity, join Ice.

The Right Is Getting Better At Cunnilingus And It's Making The Left Nervous It's 9:00AM

Nelson Mandela's Long Walk To Freedom - The Text Adventure. "Look" The road ahead is long. What now? "Walk" You so far have completed 0.0001% of your walk to freedom, what now? "Walk" You so far have completed 0.0002% of your walk to freedom, what now?

You know when someone quote tweets something and it says [blocked] and you wonder what the beef is? Well there's enough stuff in the 'view source' to work it out and I just coded a shit bookmarklet to jump to that post, simply coz I SO wanted to know what the beef was. I will never publish this.

It was about time that someone wrote a book about Bowie’s grunge band

Twitter user’s first day on Bluesky: “This place sucks, where’s the button to create sexualised images of children?”

Quite sad my optician has retired. I mean fair enough, he's 80, but as you get older you meet fewer and fewer people in work situations where it feels a bit paternal/nice uncle. He made me feel like a big kid. Enjoy your retirement you lovely man.

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Concerning. Looking in to this.

Just looked up a QI fact and Wikipedia disagrees. There's a slightly better social media project in all of this, should they ever could arsed to do it, where each fact gets a reference number and a website with footnotes, sources, and the ability for people to argue the toss and correct stuff.

Me when I see someone starting a novelty comedy bot

We should have nICE agents in the UK. That go around helping old people carry shopping and children cross roads. *SENDS TWEET*

A reboot of Dallas that focuses on the dark rituals used to bring Bobby Ewing back from hell.

If you’d all voted for Neil Kinnock, like I said in 1992, we wouldn’t be in this mess

So into Pluribus that I've started watching old Vince Gilligan episodes of X Files. And damn X Files was good, if you avoid the story arc stuff and just enjoy it as a beautifully made, monster of the week show.

It’s a shame Prince Andrew‘s old girlfriend was an actress and not a musician because she could’ve played *wait for it* a koo stark guitar

Got an appointment reminder from Specsavers saying “looking forward to seeing you” Yeah rub it in that you have eyes that work.

My tip if you spend a lot of time on BlueSky and also write an internet newsletter that occasionally uses titbits from social media is open a second account and DM it stuff you think useful. It's better than bookmarks as you can add notes. Ok just a tip for me then.

Seen this quote do the rounds recently: Diplomacy frequently consists in soothingly saying, “Nice doggie,” until you have a chance to pick up a rock. I'd suggest an update for current times: Diplomacy consists of saying nothing and hoping the bully doesn't notice you and picks on someone else.

Regardless of all our thoughts on AI, it’s a very weird thing to do to stick one of the most famous brands in the world in the bin, without being taken over from a hostile bid by Elon Musk

Just said to the cat, who meows A LOT, "you're such a mewer, you're Frank Mewer" then had the depressing thought maybe there's a thing where people think an old person has dementia, but they haven't, it's just their incessant word play is based on culture that's so old, the jokes are impenetrable.

“Can I have one of your delicious South African steak bakes, please”

I’m finding I’m getting much better results with home-made curry by roasting veg and meat separately then assembling on the plate with curry sauce - rather than throwing everything in a pot at once.

The online safety act was pushed through by Big Magazine hoping to revive sales for retro wanks

Very glamorous picture of a lady sitting on the bog

Does anyone know Adam Curtis? I would like to give him the shot list from Madnesses video The Return of the Los Palmas 7 and see if he can spin up a convincing v/o on the spot. Maybe this could be a round in a panel show aimed slightly loftier people than the ones they actually make.

A t-shirt I had aged 8. It basically says "shit" on it which I thought was the coolest thing ever. Still do actually.

Dance at the US President and get regime changed. Which makes quite liking Love Actually a revolutionary act.

Made some naans that actually tasted like naans

PS from this account's admin. * Fuck Trump and his enablers * Always vote for the most left-wing candidate that has a chance of winning * And please follow @grokofshit.bsky.social

Never google those charming books you read as a child

If there ever is a 5 minute warning, the small silver lining is that a couple of quite irritating people will be vaporised whilst making an emergency podcast about it

I saw this headline and found myself mouthing "because they're greedy bullies" and that's the answer isn't it? You could dress it up in more complicated language but you don't need Cracker to unlock this case.

Chris Barker's logo helping sell the idea here. I said to him, "You haven't DMed me saying the logo is shit and you'd do a better one yet, you're slipping" and 12 hours later he was "try this" I couldn't resist baiting him and it worked out for me. Thanks @christhebarker.bsky.social

This Incredible Optical Illusion Will Trick Your Brain Into Seeing Lawrence Llewelyn-Bowen 22nd Mar 2016 🔁 13 🩶 13 [url]

seems bad

You should all spend more time putting synths into low pass filters and less time thinking about Trump, because nothing you can think or worry will impact the boulders that are falling down the hill that might or might not hit you, and synths through filters are rad.