iOS 1 user interface still in prod spotted today when paying for a bus ticket in Sweden…
Simon
@hangry.horse
🇸🇪🇬🇧🏳️🌈🇪🇺 Infosec database toucher. 🚣♂️🪚 rowing, gardening, learn-it-once-and-move-on DIY 📍Cambridge (but sometimes also Värmland 🦅)
3h transfer in Copenhagen Kastrup and all my Danish stereotypes happening at once: • someone nearby reeking of alcohol • same person having lounge beer before 10am • constant smell of smokers • people speaking DANISH
Feeling positive about my plants as I go away for a bit. Managed to setup a watering swamp/rainforest of sorts, using a pond liner and some old garden wall bricks from the rubble heap.
having google's spellcheck on search go from "did you mean: x" to an AI going full condescending "you likely meant x, here's all about x" is definitely a step back
Oh my god I finally made it. Fuck you apple health this is the worst mini game 0/5 stars
Got a garden with several healthy trees and forever being harassed by tree surgeons offering quotes to get rid of them. Tells you something about how much average people don’t appreciate trees…
”I just wanted to follow up on my previous email in case it got lost in your inbox” Actually, it went into my spam folder. As it should.
Turns out my new work phone number must have been someone else’s in the past. I switched on iOS call screening to encourage people to reveal who they think they’re calling. The result… 🥁
House of the dragon has far too many characters that are essentially the same if you're only paying half attention to what's going on
For the past few years, my Apple Music library has had this ongoing bug where the album art from a random file gets added to something else. It’s still ongoing and I spot new examples of it happening every time I listen to music not from a streaming service
Shoutout to the maverick order picker at Morrisons who substituted my coriander with parsley. No one will ever know.
monk parakeet (Myiopsitta monachus) - this guy's invasive in Europe, but just look at him/her! :3
Lmao, being a dual EU/UK citizen travelling in the EU is such a mess now. Travel on your EU passport so the EU doesn’t hassle you: airline is confused about why you don’t have an ETA travel on U.K. passport: EU wants your fingerprints and makes you stand in long queues
So I’m at the modern art museum in Malaga, and I was ushered into a screening room with a video of a lady eating a cake. How long to I need to stay to not seem rude? 😭
Apple chat support: refreshingly not AI, but also totally clueless? (I'm following up on a previous case where I was overcharged for a clearly named type of repair. This guy/girl is really struggling...)
Is there a word for when your partner has work in a nicer-than-home location and you just follow along? It's ok, but I'm not sure I could ever solo holiday for real
Had to double check this wasn't a @linuskarp.bsky.social production somehow
Gerry Doyle@mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 2mo agohey quick question, am I having a stroke
Caffè Nero: (intentionally puts boring books on their shelf so people leave their interior design alone) The bf: “That’s Alastair Darling’s autobiography!” (Steals)
RIP Anthony Head. Here's a bit out of one of the better Rocky Horror Picture Show live performances, where he's one of the legends taking turns as the narrator, having an absolutely cracking time with the audience (at 1:40:30 if the direct link doesn't work) youtu.be/55PQ8CQsNqg?...
Rocky Horror Show
YouTube video by HydroSnail
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Brought a T-shirt with paint/unknown DIY stains on it to work today. How’s your day going?
Also, what demented weather forecasting model predicts that the rain clouds would just approach Cambridge and go “nope” and 180° turn?