This just unlocked all sorts of nostalgia for John Peel, Festive 50 and my several year obsession with HMHB.
"Who the fuckin hell is Nigel" indeed.
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This just unlocked all sorts of nostalgia for John Peel, Festive 50 and my several year obsession with HMHB.
"Who the fuckin hell is Nigel" indeed.
Agree, and yet the latest horrendous immigration reforms are always round the corner to remind you of your starting point.
To the tune of "What a wonderful world" by Louis Armstrong
So we're basically down to the religion edition of Top Trumps?
High school policy is mobile phones are not to be used or seen in school. Confiscated and handed back at end of day if they get spotted, although school allows children to bring them.
Thanks, yes hopefully we'll get it right, but it's going to be something we'll keep revisiting as she gets older.
My yr 6 child is holding off getting a phone at the mo as "she wants more time to crochet" but I will be using screen time when she does get one & she's expecting it to be restricted too. Under no illusion this is the complete solution, but that's where conversation & education fills the gaps
Given my poor self control, I've purchased a getbrick.com to properly lock down my screen time, but if I understand correctly, screen time is similarly non-overridable when you're a parent setting it on your child's phone.
If them to record how me send DM?
If I was a budding hooligan, I'd be asking for a bit of clarification before I committed.
I mean, yes he's got to explain it to the American people, but he could also maybe do the rest of the flippin' world the same courtesy, seeing as tho we're all going to pay the price.
In a scarcity of hermit content, I was only reading this weekend at Yorkshire Sculpture Park how wealthy landowners used to employ hermits to live in little grottos on their estates. Then I see this!
Maybe 2026 is the year of the hermit.
Just turned on #bbc Radio 4 and a brief discussion on definitions of anti Islamic hate speech have been twisted into Trans hate and mention of that awful GL fella.
So angry that Trump and Netanyahu can just kick off a war on a whim, with all the deaths and pain and suffering and then lumping the rest of the world with terrible financial burdens.
All to give their domestic ratings a bit of a boost?
Got me one of those www.getbrick.com devices to help me moderate my social media usage and well, the world seems to have gone on fire since I last checked in on Bluesky
I have all my fingers and toes crossed that Starmer stands firm on not wanting to get us actively involved in offensive actions. To see our country named alongside US and Israel in the war against Iran would be a matter of national shame. Especially as we hear about schools & water plants being hit
I'm very much a subscriber to the 3 different kinds of friends:
Friends for a reason, a season or a lifetime.
Friendships take work and care on both sides to maintain, and I'd be the first to admit I'm not very good at it. However sometimes, lives just drift apart and that's fine too.
I knew someone in the mid 2000s who refused to rotate or crop his digital photos because it would resave the jpg and degrade the quality.
Hooray for metadata these days
It's a thought-provoking article. My mum's had breast cancer & was recently contacted by a cousin who'd also had cancer & tested +ve for CHEK2 gene. Mum asked me if she should have test but she's already such a medical worrier I said it's not worth it for the stress. You can't unknow once you know
AI generated slop image of a smart and minimalistic office with bikes mounted on the wall. Only the bikes are incomplete, missing front forks, handlebars, wheels etc.
Can't argue that this would indeed be a space-saving way of mounting bikes alongside an office space, but maybe only if you're from another dimension
Yes I know there are bigger problems out there in the world but finding out I need planning permission to convert half my garage to a utility / office without changing any of the external appearance is annoying to say the least.
I've been unemployed for a few months. I now set myself pretend jobs to prevent the rot setting in. My son thinks this guy is funny, which is a good enough excuse to make something. Any requests?
As I was preparing my change request at work yesterday, considering what the impact of my change would be, the likelihood of success, how it would be rolled back if it went wrong, all to be reviewed by a group of my peers for a flipping BIOS update, I thought about what Trump gets away with
The lad over the road who once squared up to me after his dog chased my daughters and who eventually apologised and shook my hand a year later has just knocked on the door to borrow a SIM card removal tool. Redemption arc complete, I guess ✨
#LoveThyNeighbour
"...also we've assassinated any potential successors by mistake"
🎤: "Excuse me madam, I'm reporting on a new shocking anti democratic phenomenon called discussing politics with your friends and family. Can you confirm you've never experienced anything which impacts your life or those who you care about which has influenced your voting decision?"
Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.
Yes, for now. Still lamenting the end of WimWitch but I'll get over it eventually. Still rolling out ye olde SCCM task seqs until we can get rid of DirectAccess for something more modern
Reminds me of actual scenarios I've seen at work where someone uses AI to create document or presentation from a few bullet points and another person uses AI to summarise it back down again
