Every single time I get a rare, quiet moment to myself, I use it to remember something embarrassing I did a long time ago

Folks who don't use music streaming services: where do you discover new music and curate playlists? Thinking of binning Spotify

Thus starts and ends my clinical ADHD journey in Scotland, because I'm not desperate enough to kill myself and am, therefore, not worthy of help from the NHS

Prohibition never works, but that didn't stop the UK's Online Safety Act

Prohibition never works, but that didn't stop the UK's Online Safety Act

Will someone think of the deals politicians are making? Opinion  You might think, since I write about tech all the time, my degrees are in computer science. Nope. I'm a bona fide, degreed historian, which is why I can say with confidence that the UK's recently passed Online Safety Act is doomed to fail.…

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I would like to get off the Growth At All Costs ride please. If we could spend some time on the Ticking Along Nicely Making Cool Stuff attraction instead, that'd be swell

Every UK petition is like this

Electricity transmission costs across the UK, note they are negative in the south of England, most expensive the north of Scotland. Yet zonal electricity, which might redress some of this, has been rejected. This is holding Scottish industry back, and consumers will ultimately be paying for this.

Just learned that in Vi you can use 'zz' to scroll the editor view so that the cursor is centered. So i immediately remapped {,},n,N to always center the cursor after a 'jump'. Feels great! I'd be happy to hear about your favorite vimrc configs! #vi #vim #vimrc

i've been hacked?!!! someone keeps spending all my money on vintage furniture and motorcycle parts

'The current energy pricing system doesn’t work, and zonal pricing is the only option on the table that would fix it. There is no other plan - as can be seen by them scrabbling around now to try to cobble one together.' via Common Weal www.commonweal.scot/...

The failure of the UK Government to adopt zonal pricing plays politics with power — Common Weal

Ed Miliband is reported to have ruled out switching the UK’s energy transmission and distribution network (“the Grid”) to a system of “zonal pricing”, according to the Guardian . If this is your first time hearing about this, the current grid system is largely based on reliance on coal and gas. It

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Had to bring this banger over from Mastodon.

So Starship Ship 36 just detonated *before* the static fire test - fueled and waiting for the test. Looks like the top tank lets go and sets off the whole stack. It would be bad enough if it let go during the static fire test, but it just blew up. And it's cooking off the fuel tanks on the pad.

Where are we on the, hypothetical, Mass tech layoffs to Cyberpunk dystopia pipeline?

The real problem with AI art is it is all one specific genre. Theoretically it's a really broad concept: art that's created by an artificial intelligence rather than an organic one. In practice, it's oversaturated pictures of people with freckles who look like they've been dipped in cum.

i think it’s Good for a person to occasionally scroll feverishly on one of the Attention Apps for multiple hours, ideally until they’re dehydrated and their eyelids and teeth ache. it replenishes the spirit, the Salt of a man. our bodies and minds were designed, nay: honed, for just such a purpose

Such a nice day that I went onto the balcony to play video games. It's such a sun trap I basically cooked myself in the 15 minutes I was out there lol lmao even

Publish your sites directly from Figma! Let AI write your blog posts! Vibe code your authentication layer! Eat protein paste instead of food! Stop showering and shit your pants! 🎉 Path of least resistance 2025!

Great post by Andy here. Designing in the browser forces you to consider state. Recently I've seen things like cart buttons with no design for what happens when you click it. Does it open a modal? Navigate away? Prototypes in the browser bring this to the fore. piccalil.li/blog/the-tim...

The time for designers to learn to code is now

With design tools further commoditising and sanitising expected creative output, the time for designers to be able to stand out is very much here. I think for some, learning to code is a good route fo...

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"you can stand out as a designer by learning to code. I’m not talking about writing production code with developers here. [...] I’m talking getting a good understanding of How Things Work" Wisdom (as ever) from @bell.bz piccalil.li/blog/the-tim...

The time for designers to learn to code is now

With design tools further commoditising and sanitising expected creative output, the time for designers to be able to stand out is very much here. I think for some, learning to code is a good route fo...

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I would recommend the TOTAL METAL exhibition, on the history of Swedish Metal, at kulturhuset in central Stockholm. It’s super fun, even if you’re not a metalhead.

It's a self-facilitating media node kind of day.

a woman in a yellow shirt is walking down a sidewalk next to a man in a blue shirt

Alt: a man in a yellow shirt is walking down a sidewalk with flip-flops attached to his head. Another man rides a tiny bicycle down the street

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TIL you can actually uninstall facebook from Android phones and not just the updates

Born to irradiate my noggin. Forced to DIY a solution

Jillian@nogoodwyfe.bsky.social · last yr.

hey uhh what’s going on with the red LED light therapy people