Johan Halse
@johan.hal.se
From Sweden. Principal hobbies are driving my children to various sports and then standing around
Wait, wait, hold up a second. I just found out that lemons are not a natural fruit but a deliberately cultivated hybrid between citron and a bitter orange. Guys! Life didn't give us lemons we made them ourselves!
For me, no trip to the toilets of a major London train station is complete without seeding another adventure using available materials…
Angus Dunican@angusdunican.bsky.social · 7mo agoBored? Why not get rid of an old loyalty card in your wallet by planting an 'inciting incident' somewhere in the wild
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these fucking guys, man. “surely there must have been some mistake” “nah bro we did that on purpose and our company culture is so wild this is a normal thing to say on the public Internet”
So, whatever else may be happening, we are living through a time of serious destabilization. I think the future is in fact far more widely open than it has been in a very, very long time
If we do this enough times does Meta go bankrupt and get sold to The Onion? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/t...
Meta Ordered to Pay $25 Billion Over Cambridge Analytica Privacy Violations
The penalty, one of the largest levied against a tech giant, stemmed from a lawsuit by New Mexico claiming the social media company had misled users about their data privacy.
nytimes.com
shitposts aside, this one is serious, my loves: if you’re just waking up and you have any service online running PHP 5.4 to latest, you need to take it down RIGHT NOW and don’t put it back online until after it’s patched absolutely catastrophic vulnerability dropped in the middle of the night
we gotta bring back shame, man society doesn’t work real well without consequences for being an enormous piece of shit in public
© Taylor Schultek. 'Aberration.' Oil on birch panel, 2025. 61 × 45.7 cm.
A few new works today. A pair of clear, innocent eyes quietly looking at you. What could be on its mind? #shouxinsketch #petart #animalart #illustrationartists #pet #sketch #sketchdaily
Reading some amazing political doomerism this morning. As if humanity didn't climb out of worse holes. The divine right of kings, people! The only way is not up, but that is nevertheless *one of the possible ways*.
In the spirit of "writing more" but definitely also firmly in the "I don't know who this is aimed at other than myself." I found this useful, for me. schembri.me/writing/agen...
Agentic Boredom
Is anyone else uninterested in all of this?
schembri.me
Big Tech Is the Biggest Bankroller of Trump’s Ballroom. "Nvidia and Apple gave the most. Each committed $25 million …Microsoft and Palantir committed $10 million each. Amazon, Meta, Cisco, and ServiceNow gave $5 million each … $22 million came from Google’s settlement of Trump’s lawsuit"
BOMBSHELL DOCS: Big Tech Is the Biggest Bankroller of Trump’s Ballroom
WASHINGTON, DC — Today, The Tech Oversight Project blasted Big Tech companies for bankrolling President Trump’s White House ballroom after a bombshell Washington Post investigation revealed the full l...
dispatch.techoversight.org
First published footage of a russian jet Geran-4 killed by a Vampire system of Ukraine’s 208th Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade. Rocket-based short range air defense, that was the answer all along.
Portfolio Day? #PortfolioDay! I'm Hannah, an illustrator and part-time skeleton in the West Midlands, UK. Fantasy is my reality, and it can be yours too. 🌱 hannah.spikings@gmail.com
If you’re not FIFA, keep scrolling… … … You gotta fuckin’ tone it down. We all know how to manipulate him into doing corruption but this is way too obvious. You, Tim Cook, and Switzerland are on notice. Hold it down and just buy his memecoin and a golf membership like everyone else.
If you have a Ruby Central membership, please consider cancelling it and investing in Ruby conferences and gem maintainers instead.
puppy@duckinator.bsky.social · last yr.Hey, #ruby folks! I've been one of the #RubyGems maintainers for the last decade. Ruby Central has forcefully taken control of the RubyGems organization on GitHub, the `rubygems-update` and `bundler` gems on rubygems[.]org, and more. You can read the details here: pup-e.com/goodbye-ruby...
I really had a blast at Rails World. Amanda & crew can never get enough praises for pulling such a great event. However it ended up on a bit of a sour note for me as I'll most likely won't go to Austin next year. 1/9
Because the entire UK political and media apparatus is on twitter reading the firehouse of bullshit jettisoned from the US and thinking that's what's most important to people who live in Midsomer Norton.
Tom Roberts@tpgroberts.bsky.social · last yr.Sorry, why is the ITV morning bulletin leading with Charlie Kirk's Widow giving a call to arms?
1/ MEMOIRS OF A MOBIK, PART 2: Three years after he was mobilised, a Russian medical orderly with the callsign 'Ukol' talks with a fellow 'mobik' about his experiences. He describes the chaos and carnage he found when he was sent to fight in Ukraine. ⬇️
One of the downsides of running conferences. Allowing your desktop be seen by others.
Shitty news cycle? Hit da bricks! - go outside - make a song - buy a new instrument - declutter your house - donate stuff - do that long term maintenance task that doesn’t take that long but you’ve been putting it off because ughck