www.maptap.gg August 6 100🎯 94🏅 99🎯 98🎯 98🎯 Final score: 980

I have been using a thick quad lock case on my phone for over a decade at least, but recently started going case less and by god has it made a difference to battery life

My low stakes conspiracy theory is at least one train a day from Glasgow gets terminated at Preston and they're having to come up with increasingly outlandish reasons why.

Greg Jenner (Historian)@gregjenner.bsky.social · 3d ago

My train to Glasgow is having to terminate at Preston due to *swans* on the line. Yes, really. 🦢 (Luckily I’m getting off at Preston)

I had the best intentions of coming home from a party at 1am, and dear reader it was 5:30 when I eventually got home. This was a mistake

I would be running a chippy in Northern Ireland and have 20 illegitimate children in the same village

Revan@revan.eurosky.social · last wk.

Enough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?

This article had me nodding along strongly in agreement until it started discussing saying sayonara to net neutrality

The UK has worse mobile coverage than Romania. Why?

Operators blame planning rules and low prices for a lack of investment

ft.com

YESSSSSSSS www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Fifa World Cup: Uefa to boycott tournament if Gianni Infantino's investment plans go through

Uefa will boycott Fifa's tournaments if investment proposals from world football's governing body president Gianni Infantino go through.

bbc.co.uk

It happened to us, they knew we were desperate to wrap things up by a certain date, and we ended up dropping by 10k. Still pisses me off when i think about it.

Sky News@news.sky.com · last wk.

More people are being hit by gazundering - here's what it is and how to protect yourself

"I'm not going to let our main living space become monopolised by kids toys. "

Zach Weinersmith@zachweinersmith.bsky.social · last wk.

Hey parents of bsky: What are some theories of parenting you were very confident in right up until you had your own kids?

My contribution to the Odyssey discourse is I don’t understand why twice this decade, filmmakers have chosen to fuck with Odysseus' reunion with his dog Argos, when as written it packs a devastating emotional punch.

Spoken to several tourists this summer who have come to Arran to escape the heat

Extreme heat drives demand for Nordic ‘coolcations’

Scandinavian destinations in demand as scorching temperatures hit Europe

ft.com

He looks like a toddler that's is either in the process of, or just competed, shitting their pants.

Twlldun@twlldun.bsky.social · 2w ago

“I’m not saying my mother-in-law is fat, right, but when she sets an exclusion zone around the Malvinas, she sets an exclusion zone *around* the Malvinas”

www.maptap.gg July 23 91👑 100🎯 99🎯 99🎯 98🎯 Final score: 980

Had this sitting in my unread tabs for ages, and finally got round to it. It's a banger and by god I hope it's true joelgouveia.substack.com/p/the-death-...

The Death of Spotify: Why Streaming is Minutes Away From Being Obsolete

Jimmy Iovine just called the Death of Spotify. He might be right.

joelgouveia.substack.com

POV: You have the sea to yourself for an evening swim

Has he ever thrown a kettle over a pub though? That's the real trophy.

Scenes across the world right now

Two data points now, that World Cup finals held in the US are shite .

Shame England didn't qualify so the fans could boo the shit out of this

What an absolutely nuts game that was

I thought this had zero chance of coming in after the first half

The UK Government could use the Highways Act to prevent pavement robots from operating at all. Instead, they tacitly allow local trials and are speeding up legislation so we can have many more pavement robots, as in the US. Can’t wait!

Just had meeting with kiddo's school. She has been fully supported, treated with full equality & dignity for years. All of that changes from September. Full segregation & humiliation across the board. The school staff cried in the meeting. This will absolutely lead to children's deaths 1/2

Argentina just played rope a dope on Tuchel.

My new obsession is a freemium mac app called WhatCable, and a label maker www.whatcable.uk

It is genuinely unreal how quickly we've gone in this country from the right saying "We should only revoke citizenship for the most serious cases of terrorism", to "let's revoke citizenship of anyone we don't like the look of".

David Higham@oldtrotter.bsky.social · 3w ago

The Spectator going full on ethnonationalist

One of the most exciting infrastructure projects in Britain right now. If we could build tunnels like the Norwegians we could build new motorways and railways so cheaply that they could be self-funding. The biggest prize is Manchester to Sheffield. www.thetimes.com/uk/transport...

Explosives could deliver northern boom via cheaper Pennines tunnel

Start-up says Scandinavian tunnelling methods could cut the cost of a proposed dual carriageway connecting Sheffield and Manchester by as much as 90 per cent

thetimes.com

Agree with the last sentence, and I'm finding Claude in particular much better at producing sensible #fsharp code than it does C#.

Krzysztof Cieslak@kcieslak.io · 4w ago

Since we can generate as much code as we want one could think that programming languages and ecosystems doesn’t matter (“just rewrite everything to X”)… But I think reverse is true. Good languages, good compilers and good tooling is absolutely huge value for agents…

Antonio Rattin, bad boy of the 1966 World Cup, and former Sheffield United Scout has died. In 1978 he recommended 2 players to the SUFC board, and in a display of Yorkshire parsimony, they bought Alex Sabella, the cheaper of the two. The other was Diego Maradona en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio...