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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

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/...

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

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!

"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...

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.

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

Born to irradiate my noggin. Forced to DIY a solution

Me after commenting 'ship it' on a Jira ticket that's been outstanding for 8 weeks

Considering responding to LinkedIn ragebait about AI from some venture capitalist and then deciding not to, followed by realising LinkedIn is a content farm of shit opinions is very freeing, emotionally.

In my lane. Centered. Moisturised. Happy. Vibin' Then Andy happens

Vladimir, STAHP omg lol I'm so sick of you 💀 you're so annoying DONNNNT lol no really like cut it out lol u always take it too far anyhow you wanna play cod later lol

The UK has got to be the only country in the world that is politically held hostage by like 15 newspaper columnists that basically nobody reads

I know a lot of the misconceptions about LLMs are just political conflicts playing out, but I wonder if we couldn’t have avoided some of the bullshit if we had understood this technology as “guessing” rather than “answering”

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"Your parcel has been lost to The Void"

If a job ad doesn't have the salary, I don't share it. I know many others do the same, so frustrating that this practice continues

"we're using tailwind to solve our CSS problems" very cool i'm using cigarettes to solve my stress problem

*stumbling in, caked in grime, clothing frayed and with a thousand yard stare* It's bad news. This still isn't the year of Linux on the desktop

we may never recover from the irreconcilable brain damage dealt to us by the leaden fist of Agile Methodology

Nobody wants to install your stupid app. Have a functional website instead.

We live in Scotland, there is no reliable voice assistance.

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but 2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but 3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So 4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

Should probably just stop looking at my pension app for a bit tbqhwy