Liam Blizard

Liam Blizard

@blizard.io

Software engineer living on the Isle of Arran 🏴󠁧󠁒󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 with my wife, daughter & dog. Likes being in the mountains, under or on the ocean, or in the stands at Sheffield United. Codes in C#, F# and Swift blizard.io

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A very solid winning 40/60 in the local pub quiz. Think the cheat code was that our team was formed of a young boomer, young Gen X (me) and a young millennial.

I have met quite a lot of cool or fucked up people through Airbnb, it was a blast for a few years. I can't remember the last time I actually met a host though, everywhere has lockboxes now.

K. Thor Jensen@kthorjensen.bsky.social

it's hard to describe to young folks how cool airbnb was when it first launched. just weirdos and spare rooms for like twenty bucks. we stayed at a guy's house in oregon who was a "bear safety expert" and when we asked him what to do if a bear attacked you he replied, completely seriously "i dunno."

He is such a galactic dickhead

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Ramaswamy put up a very powerful Ad about a mother saying that her daughter, Acton, is a liar, and much worse. The Press is trying to get him to 'take down the Ad.' Frankly, anybody whose mother spoke about daughter that way would normally lead to the daughter being precluded from serving"

Assuming this is true, it is quite mad that the US' treatment of billionaires have created a situation where a private citizen is essentially running their own foreign policy in a war zone that the US is involved in, and is also the primary funder of the governing party. That's fucked up.

Exhibit A for why Labour won't be getting my vote at the next election if they continue on the path they're on.

Jordan@jordanpfot.bsky.social

What a heartless, cruel thing for an elected representative to say.

Gold standard BlueSky reply guy here

ericliddel.bsky.social@ericliddel.bsky.social

Nice gesture and all that. But, I'd really rather the military spend their time developing drone technology, rather than achieving Olympic standard shoe shines and synchronised shoe slapping into the pavement.

I only played my c64 through a black and white TV for years. Complete revelation when I was finally gifted a colour

Dave Atkins@uncledavesoldsaws.bsky.social

My answer to this question on X: I reached 17 watching only Black & White TV. We learned to find truth in gradients of gray.

Just absolutely fucking crushed the opposition at a TUI resort quiz. Only one of 50 teams to get one question, to which the correct answer was "Tekken"

50 pages into Emily St John Mandels latest, Exit Party, and it is another banger. My favourite current writer.

LF Lightning-Barugh@cheeseford.bsky.social

Another cafΓ© doing an AI flyer that looks like all of the others. People saying they won't eat there, others saying why blame small businesses for using AI? Yes, of course, the environmental cost, but mainly, it looks shit. How much for the ball bearings on an armadillo, topped with matchsticks?

At an all inclusive resort for the first time in my life, and not having to pay or sign anything when you get a drink is a curious experience. Developing a theory that that is what life is like for the billionaire class. Someone else always handles the money, so their entire life feels all inclusive

Approaching the point at which my wife will get exasperated with the amount of guitars I have. Managed to fool her this time with the excuse that my hands are too small to play some riffs so I SIMPLY MUST HAVE a short scale fender Duo Sonic, but not sure how many excuses I have left But look at it!

I've sent Claude Code off on a big ol refactor, and without prompting it's started doing TDD. I'm quite impressed

I have a group whatsapp chat set up for the sole purpose placing football bets at the weekend that is now digging into the minutiae of Andy Burnhams pension reforms. You love to see it.

One reason to ignore Ed Zitron on AI is that he appears to not know basic stuff about how the products of the companies he's criticising.

Ed Zitron@edzitron.com

How did they materially turn around their costs so suddenly? The product they sell must have suddenly - in the space of mere months - both accelerated its revenues while massively reducing its costs in a way that doesn't seem possible given 2025. I guess we'll find out

Finally got Eden emulator and lossless scaling running on my steam deck so I can run Tears of the Kingdom at 60fps like god intended

Maritime law does not fuck about www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/3... "A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for life."

legislation.gov.ukAviation and Maritime Security Act 1990An Act to give effect to the Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts of Violence at Airports Serving International Civil Aviation which supplements the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful...
Steve Peers@stevepeers.bsky.social

"Tommo" was arrested on suspicion of four possible crimes, say police www.hampshire.police.uk/news/hampshi...

Me to that one lad that fucks up the group acca every week.

Jim Pickard@pickardje.bsky.social

Rory Stewart turning to stare weirdly at @pronouncedalva.bsky.social on Newsnight last night

Straight to jail, do not pass go.

Emma Yeomans@yeomans.bsky.social

5. After around 30 hours at sea, the dinghy was intercepted by the RNLI and those on board transferred to two lifeboats. Two lifeboat personnel tried to secure the empty dinghy. Thomas yelled abuse and knifed the dinghy to deflate it - with a rescuer still on board.

20 yr old me was a complete catastrofuck, I think he would probably say what a boring dickhead I'd turned out to be

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I hadn't realised until now that both of those big Reform donors are from Sheffield. Didn't they fancy investing in Sheffield United?

Liam Blizard reposted

The Home Secretary should be relieved of her duties and the entire operational command of HIW Police should be subject to disciplinary action. Thugs are currently feeling empowered to attempt pogroms because police continue to be disinterested in preventing them. It really is that simple.

Leftback@leftback.bsky.social

Well at least we've heard the worst of this story oh wait the mob got into the hotel onto the floor the players were on and were knocking on bedroom doors. I think I'm moving to rage now. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Love that people are still releasing games for the master system in 2026. Also, this could easily pass for a Megadrive game.

Bad Computer@badcomputer.bsky.social

Razing Core for SEGA Master System is now available. The full version and demo are here: badcomputer0.itch.io/razing-core

You shouldn't need to be charismatic to run a political party. But if you're a charisma-free dickhead, then yeah, that's a major problem.

Jonn Elledge@jonnelledge.bsky.social

thought a lot about this quote

Another thing to note here is how exceptionally well built this TrimUi Brick Pro emulation handheld is for Β£85. You can get cheap, Chinese and good these days. You don't have to pick 2 out of 3.

Liam Blizard@blizard.io

Bank Holiday Monday vibes

PLUS 2 FUCKING SaaS PLATFORMS

Liam Blizard@blizard.io

Our kid started at school yesterday and there are THREE FUCKING APPS we have to download in order to communicate with the school. What the blithering fuck

The four year old is currently obsessed with Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (we skip The child catcher bits), and has made herself a replica