2. Sprouts because every recipe I've ever seen to make sprouts taste "nice" (or, better, "gone") is even better with nearly any other brassica; & Grapefruit because in these precedented times I do not feel the need to raw-dog my mental health any more than I would cross the road without my glasses.

Monica@softtail65.bsky.social · 2d ago

There are 12 that I absolutely won't eat. 🤷‍♀️ What about you? 🤔

Every so often I remember the Edinburgh International Festival exists, which - like a 90s boyband - has been entirely eclipsed by its fringe.

I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.

I think, some days, of a post I saw on livejournal - if not before - that used a trick of paragraphs to fool you to thinking it was just a post, but sadly, you're already toast, for it's, in fact, a verse of hallelujah.

On the plus side, Phishing training is working. On the minus side, yes our provider did send a change of bank details notification via non-standard template "From" an otherwise unused email domain with their company MD's name on it. Our Accounts (who cc'd me to check it out) 5pts, Theirs -50pts.

pong? no thanks. we don't need more straight white protagonists.

Now may be the best time to say, if you've just got back from watching the Odyssey and you're looking for an RPG for an epic Greek mythology campaign (with added management of your party's polis), look no further than Aegean: www.aegeanrpg.com

Aegean — Mythic Roleplaying in ancient Greece

AEGEAN is a tabletop roleplaying game about a group of mythic heroes building a new, free city on the shores of the Aegean Sea. There are neighbouring cities to trade or war with, monsters to kill, go...

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People who confuse orzo with rice find it’s an impasta.

When the weather gets hot, please take special care for the goths in your life. With their floor-length coats, platform shoes, and velvet capes, it’s hard for them to thermoregulate as we do.

If you're at EMFCamp and see a guy called Nige helping in the kitchen, say hi from me. My partner's dad is crossing the streams...

"Body Count: 21 (counting the ape killed by the hot dog-fingered primate)"

“Oh actually, that isn’t what that number means” is one of those low-level warning sounds that generally results in the information equivalent of an earthquake.

Phoning me up in order to put me on hold is one of the most annoying anti-patterns in customer service of the modern era. I'm not going to call out exactly who did this, but it's a building society with branches all over the country.

My idiot dog is making me make better life decisions, because he is going to be wherever I am, so I am forced to go downstairs where the air-con is, instead of at my computer, so he doesn’t overheat out of a desire to be closer to me. The fucker.

“The idea of forcing my child to work out how a can opener works from first principles so they may access the beans is a commentary via metaphor of the ‘self-made man’ fallacy and was not a literal exa…..”

Dmitry Grozoubinski@explaintrade.com · 4w ago

Instead of X's Community Notes, Bluesky should allow us to add an explanatory note to our posts to walk people through the joke. "No, I am not actually a monster who lets my poultry wander across roads full of traffic. The chicken and road in question are imaginary, part of a joke setup premis..."

GOG literally have a project to preserve games by selling them as complete downloads DRM free, knowing full well that means piracy will eat into their profit, Humble have even more impressive sale prices than Steam, and EA and Ubisoft... also exist.

A repeating job that fails 1/3 of the time. Or, as it turns out, 3/9ths of the time, because there are three public subnets and 6 private subnets, and it picks the first from an unordered list. I'm just thankful it's Friday.

Anyone Can Fall In Love, the 1980’s single of the Eastenders theme.

Neon Genesis Ewangelion@ewacat.bsky.social · last mo.

Ok if I wanted to change our national anthem how would I go about it. I've had enough. It is awful. We gotta upgrade this rubbish urgently

Getting packages checked against keys that aren't hosted by the same system that might have just sent intercepted packages should not be this difficult.

I had plans for this evening, but then I got absolutely nerd-sniped by my PDF library system getting stuck, and it turns out someone used JPEG2000 in the wild. Incredible scenes.

Numbers go up :(

meaning no disrespect to op i had to check and make sure this was real and it is, the rhizome man truly wrote this in the three ecologies

Susan Stryker@susanstryker.bsky.social · last mo.

“Just as monstrous and mutant algae invade the lagoon of Venice … in the field of social ecology, men like Donald Trump are permitted to proliferate freely, like another species of algae, taking over entire districts of New York.” —Félix Guattari, 1989

Break-fast and move things.

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

Today I work up at 5:00 to take the dog for a walk, came back, went back to sleep, woke up again around 13:00, wrote a single email, went back to sleep, woke up at 17:30. I'm glad I'm on holiday this week, so I can became basically nocturnal while the daystar rages.

Do I think that Andy Burnham might be a better PM than Starmer? I do. But it's a sliding scale down from there through Stamer, Badenoch & Farage. It wasn't a high bar to clear and he's tripping on it already. He's demonstrated the moral stability of a well-lubricated weathervane.

Founder of Ubisoft, Claude Guillemot, has died in a plane crash. In his honour, an icon has been added to your minimap about 60km west of Nantes.

One the one hand, we should be nicer to people. On the other, Keir Starmer's government has banned me from public toilets.

Robert Saunders@robertsaunders.bsky.social · 2mo ago

For Fathers' Day, Keir Starmer posts a photo of his own father, who died in 2018, and a non-political message. The replies are a torrent of vitriol & cruelty, all with hundreds of Likes. We complain a lot about the quality of leadership, but there's a huge problem with the way we treat politicians

lots of people saying "they're the same" but the difference between a bad joke and a dad joke is that one isn't obvious and the other is apparent

trickykat@trickykat.bsky.social · 2mo ago

sorry i said i was going to make a dad joke, I meant a bad joke