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emotional support peacock tiny dog guardian fragile software development™️ modular synthesizers & acoustic guitars he/them

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the through-line from trump-orb.jpeg to this is just curse upon curse

05.03.2026 21:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

life should be more like when an animal chooses to sleep on you and then they have a little dream

05.03.2026 18:26 👍 68 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0

innit

05.03.2026 17:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

i am going to punch a hole clean through a datacentre

05.03.2026 17:30 👍 20 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

They killed 180 children and their teachers in a double-tap strike on a school. The girls were 7 to 12 years old.

05.03.2026 04:33 👍 4377 🔁 1808 💬 101 📌 30

Jodorowsky's Dune 🥲

05.03.2026 14:49 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Over the past year, every single time one of the apps or services I use suddenly became less reliable and more buggy, I never have to look far for the "Claude is amazing and now writes most of my code" post for the devs involved.

04.03.2026 10:46 👍 1950 🔁 701 💬 18 📌 17
the worm moon blood moon is peeking out over the top of the hill, looking over a football (soccer) field illuminated by floodlights

the worm moon blood moon is peeking out over the top of the hill, looking over a football (soccer) field illuminated by floodlights

worm moon blood moon: "what on earth are you doing to those tiny spheres?"

04.03.2026 12:55 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Here's the thing: I believe that you deserve to have access to high quality products and services. You deserve to use products and services that are safe, secure, well-designed and not destroying the ecological, informational or social environment.

04.03.2026 11:16 👍 46 🔁 4 💬 3 📌 1

Little
Lump
Loaf

04.03.2026 11:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

this mf put these in the wrong stinkin order didn’t they

03.03.2026 23:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

LiveAwesome
LoveAwesome
LaughAwesome

03.03.2026 21:09 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

i'm stoked for zach getting the bag & a sustainable future for the project but i gotta say the rebrand does make me feel a little sheepish about this 11ty tattoo he convinced me to get a few years ago

03.03.2026 20:22 👍 41 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0

en pee em ex!

03.03.2026 15:51 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
i am wearing a teeshirt showing a cell from Don Hertzfeldt’s groundbreaking animated short, “Rejected” (2000). one of the characters’ spoon is too big, and the other is a banana

i am wearing a teeshirt showing a cell from Don Hertzfeldt’s groundbreaking animated short, “Rejected” (2000). one of the characters’ spoon is too big, and the other is a banana

we have deployed The Shirt

03.03.2026 13:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

this also works for modular synthesizers

03.03.2026 13:52 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

somebody needs to tell these lads about Jesus's whole love thy neighbour turn the other cheek schtick because if they do manage to summon him up from the ages, i can't imagine he'll be terribly pleased with any of them.

03.03.2026 13:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

this rules

03.03.2026 02:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That is *all* a chatbot offers: unaccountability.

A drone-strike on a nursery being just as unaccountable as a waymo running a red light, with just as little consideration at all given to it legally or ethically.

28.02.2026 13:35 👍 274 🔁 55 💬 1 📌 1
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Bruce Lawson's personal site » App certainty and interoperability: Apple’s pinky promises to CMA

Here's the consultation i mentioned at #sotb26 I'm not kidding when I told you that the regularlors love to hear from developers rather than lobbyists. Doesn't need to be a structured doc. You can be anonymous. They simply want hear to your view. brucelawson.co.uk/2026/on-appl...

28.02.2026 21:55 👍 25 🔁 18 💬 0 📌 0
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Welsh Cakes I feel that if I’m talking about Welsh Cakes, I should really introduce them first by their proper, Welsh name, Picau ar y maen, which simply means “cakes on the stone”, and the stone being the flat g...

As is only right and proper, Welsh Cakes are #RecipeOfTheDay, with thanks to Heulwen Williams who let me play with her granny’s recipe. Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 www.nigella.com/recipes/wels...

01.03.2026 11:01 👍 740 🔁 140 💬 23 📌 13
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a cartoon monkey wearing a pirate hat is playing drums in a band Alt: the pirate who is a monkey plays a rimshot riff on the drum kit and rolls his eyes
01.03.2026 12:03 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The German Government is now advising people to stock up on cheese and sausages.

They've called it the Wurst Käse scenario

01.03.2026 11:56 👍 66 🔁 7 💬 7 📌 0

most excellent

27.02.2026 22:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

i replied hungry 🥲

and then i regretted engaging at all so i blocked the chud.

27.02.2026 20:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

but yeah, talking about it like if i did some unconscious bias awareness training i might be less against it is patently stupid

27.02.2026 20:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

i mean, they are correct, i am against AI, i think it is a technology that immiserates us as a species.

that's not like a meme take though, I, unfortunately, know quite a lot about it!

27.02.2026 20:33 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Somewhere in the midst of the javascript frameworks and the nonsense valuations and the shitty AI features and the RTO plans and the godawful union busting, we forgot how much *joy* there is in making websites. Whatever happens with work from here, we need to get it back.

22.04.2025 17:41 👍 66 🔁 18 💬 2 📌 1

i need to get better at the Kirby thing

27.02.2026 20:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0