Last night on the bus: Phone lady: "Are you even listening to me?" Bus driver: "Everybody on this bus is listening to you. Can you tone it down?"

honestly if you’re booking so many flights you need an AI agent to do it for you I think you should urgently reassess your ecological impact

I’d love to know what the people writing pasta directions use to cook the stuff because not once have I seen it cook in less than twice the time stated on the pack. “11-13 minutes” says the pack, I’m 20 minutes in and you could still stab someone with one of these pasta bows.

I can't believe that after all that, popups won

Who amongst us hasn't been tempted...

One of the exhausting things about the current climate is when the weird conspiracies about how Facebook terms are so they can take your niece’s birthday party photos and turn them into coffee table books for public sale or something turn out to be true.

The infuriating thing about these headlines now is that “AI” has lost all meaning. Is this a machine learning model trained specifically to flag potential airspace conflicts before they become a problem (good, eases controller load) or an LLM set loose to respond to ATC calls without enough context?

Rami Ismail (رامي)@ramiismail.com · 3w ago

"You're absolutely right, there was indeed another commercial jet on the runway. That's my fault, I should have checked before assuming that runway was clear to land on. Since the runway is now closed, let me know if I can help with anything else. Do you know how runway numbers are selected?"

Yes. And I was saying the same thing in 2015 about 1995.

MasterCard Lola Powertrain Engineer@stuckfuelnozzle.bsky.social · 3w ago

If you could roll every app and website back to 2015 era spec people would be flabbergasted at how much more functional it was

You will never in a million years guess what this is a direct response to.

Prizmarina Zafiro@gatozafiro.bsky.social · 3w ago

Putting your mouth close to the anus of another human being is not very hygenic, even if they have recently showered or cleaned up, fecal traces will always be there

god i love videogames. have you heard about "places"? they are called locations

The Free Market: a wholly owned subsidiary of Old White Dudes LLC.

We should have a systemic nationwide campaign of making it socially unacceptable to ride bikes (motorised or otherwise) on pavements. Anytime we see a grown adult who's too scared to ride their bike on an empty residential road with a 20mph speed limit, heckle them for a being a massive coward.

Crap pick and mix, insufficient jelly snakes and cola bottles.

My proposal - any company that employs people for little enough money those employees need social benefits gets taxed 2x the amount employees are eligible for (not what they claim, because then they’d just strong arm employees into not claiming).

silverwuffamute@wuffaf.at · last mo.

Anytime this is the case, where employees are compensated so poorly that they must rely on SNAP or other benefits, that means that you are subsidizing THE COMPANY. Amazon is making YOU pay for their employees because they refuse to pay them a living wage. finance.yahoo.com/economy/arti...

For unknown reasons (which I can't be bothered to diagnose) the Bluesky app on my phone isn't letting me log in with an error message about the password being wrong. The same one I just used to log in here. Anyway, guess I'm on an enforced less Bluesky period.

I broke the golden rule and allowed my phone into my bed, now I’m here at 0017 when I was all set up for an early night 90 minutes ago.

Listening to @originstorypodcast.bsky.social on Section 28 and I’m once again reminded of the two secondary school teachers we had in year eleven who decided to risk their careers and criminal prosecution by taking what now seems a totally uncontroversial stance that being gay is fine.

Against all odds, EVE Online has made the decision to move on from Python 2.7. What excuses are you making to keep yourself from overdue changes in YOUR life?

What Dolly taught us is that it is in fact possible to be wealthy beyond your wildest dreams of avarice but still be a fundamentally good person with a strong moral compass, and the only reason more rich people aren't like that is because they don't want to be.

“First Westerner to ever officially design a Pokemon during his time at Game Freak” is quite a niche achievement but well done for wearing it with pride anyway.

VGC@videogameschronicle.com · 2mo ago

James Turner, the first Westerner to ever officially design a Pokémon during his time at Game Freak, has rejoined the franchise after 4 years. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/james-t...

Fuming at this nonsense. There probably is a legit documentary in examining whether the modern world exacerbates the effects of ADHD, I have little doubt it does. This isn’t that though, this is some grifter being handed a national stage to tell people to just suck it up and get better.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2mo ago

The Great ADHD Myth? review – the most controversial show of the year is here

The Law of Unintended Consequences (2025), Section 7, sub-section (4)(d). I laughed and laughed.

Hey @rejectpetitions.bsky.social fans, I’ve decided it’s time the petitions website team were allowed to just say mad petitions are mad. Sponsor my petition to do just that: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/77...

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Played some Big Walk with the Discord, having already done the opening hour or so with one other person I was dubious it would scale to 8-12 well but somehow it does. Much more chaotic but in a very entertaining way.

Honestly quite up for a Thunderbirds ttrpg. Each player is one of the Tracy brothers, and because being John Tracy on Thunderbird 5 would suck that’s the GM who relays messages from around the world.

SprintingOwlDesigns@sprintingowl.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Okay. You have unfortunately been hit with the curse that makes you adapt a work you liked as a kid into a ttrpg. What thing are you adapting?

today on the normal island the prime minister banned disposable BBQs then texted every person in the country about it :))

The little seen case of “It’s not clear what you’re asking the government to do” in which it’s actually unclear.

Rejected Petitions@rejectpetitions.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"Introduce measures to deny abusive "Karen" behaviour" https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/777607

Big Walk GOTY