Ryan Vamps

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I can’t post it because the PHP situation has broken the site and also the format would likely break Bluesky but real ones know: Octopus Pie: Jane Goes Home

How can they pedestrianise Oxford Street *overnight* and we can’t get George Square done in five years?

For once I would like to go viral when I actually have something to sell.

Bluesky has four kind of users.

Halfway through watching Scarpetta and we don't talk enough about how everything is science fiction now. Oh, you're writing a police procedural? It's sci-fi. You're watching a horror flick? It's sci-fi. That folk-punk band you like? Your toothbrush? The sky? Sci-fi. Everything's science fiction now!

I am too unemployed to have people I don’t know and cannot hold responsible reminding me Worms Armageddon exists.

We have found it very easy to destroy natural ecosystems which makes it seem like they're extremely fragile. But they are also extremely resilient. Nature bends towards renewal; we just have to get onside

Without commenting on whether LLM feedback is useful (I certainly wouldn't ever ask a chatbot for that kind of feedback), I want to point out that when it comes to improving your writing, getting editorial notes on your work is distinctly inferior to offering criticism of *other* writers' work.

Love it when bus companies are like, surely nobody would be travelling on a stormy night like this, we might as well cancel the last bus and let our lads go home early, we can’t forsee this impacting anyone who, say, might otherwise have to walk 50 minutes in freezing torrential rain; love it!

I wish all ticket companies that force you to download apps to get your tickets a merry bankruptcy.

Sickos.jpeg @sqiff.bsky.social

Cynically, I believe that every country thinks if it gets its fossil fuel ducks in a row now, theirs will be the only petrochemical empire to survive what's coming, and perhaps they've all been at this long-term fatalism since maybe the 1870s. They're wrong, of course.

“We now turn to the BBC’s technology correspondent reporting on the PHP security breach.”

We should try harder to make the world smell nicer.

Wish someone would release patches for my vulnerabilities

Helluva day to decide you want to build a new website.

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why chicken cottage logo not baba yaga

Good. I’ll feel more secure about this as an example of hopefully one of many significant turning points against GenAI in the arts once a statement goes public via their own channels, but this is the result all our griping aimed towards and I’m glad it’s happened.

Just like for years I thought nonce was a general-purpose insult until it was pointed out to me it had a very specific meaning, I've just discovered chud particularly refers to particularly dull right-wing nutjobs. Shame, it's got a great mouthfeel and I would like to apply it more gratuitously.