Tim

You're probably wondering why I've blocked you... Please identify appropriate reasons from the following list: [ ] You have idiotic opinions (e.g. "Fahrenheit is useful") [ ] You have idiotic political opinions: [ ] Tankie [ ] Fascist [ ] MAGA [ ] Brexiteer (continued overleaf)

Oh fuck. LinkedIn have found BlueSky. This is what happens when you say "Dubai" three times in front of the mirror...

People keep telling me the UK is so over and they're going to move to Dubai and, like, fine. Go on then. Would you like directions to the airport?

I am here to shill for `just` instead. OK, it's not a replacement for what `make` was designed to be good for (but who is using plain make for that these days...,) but it's a much better replacement for what everyone *actually* uses it for. I really, really like it: github.com/casey/just

WHAT’S GOING ON WITH THE MOON? ✨ a thread, because everyone is confused about Mid-Autumn Festival...

Behold the replies to this; I have been witness to an actual murder...

Got to say, I'm loving my seat for this season's CSM București Handball... #csm #București #Bucharest #Romania #ehfcl #ehf

But what did it teach you about B2B sales, @georgemonbiot.bsky.social?

This shit is going to be enough to make me cancel my Jetbrains subscription. Goddammit. I like RustRover, but I am sick to back teeth of having to turn off shitty autocomplete features that magically turn back on, I have zero faith the new "steal your code" button won't do the same. @jetbrains.com

beautiful

No-one clutches their pearls harder than a racist being called a racist.

US war crimes are back, baby!

I don’t know about you, but I’m still sort of processing that the US president stood up in the UN and declared that London is about to be under Sharia law, and the response has been “actually, that won’t happen” rather than “Jesus, that is insane.”

God, seriously? You visit the authoritarian west for one day, and it's already "papers please"...

On anti-Faragism, the point of the Lib Dems and Ed Davey finding himself unmarked in front of an open goal www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

PSA for everyone currently cancelling their Disney+ subscriptions: Remember, a 1:1 seeding ratio is the minimum required by good etiquette. 2:1 and you're making the world a better place.

ah. bluesky.

And I thought nobody read my blog

We know that Putin and other dictators try to build a new world order. Soft power plays a crucial role in this. Today, Russia hosts the Intervision 2025 – a competitor event to the Eurovision Song Contest. Which regimes participate in this contest? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intervi...

[sigh] it's nice on the internet before the americans wake up. Let's see what shitstorm they dump on us today.

I feel like this headline was deliberate, Bangkok Post. #dong

if Jimmy Kimmel's political humor is too hot for you to handle, I'm not sure "snowflake" even cuts it as a term of derision for the level of fragility you've achieved

Facebook needs to die.

Woooo-hooo - The Motans 😻. It occurs that in these days of AI slop, live performers may not be in such a bad place... #themotans #romania #București #bucharest

Theory: JFK was assassinated by a time-traveller from the future, trying to stop the Great Plague of 2046 reducing civilisation into a handfull of cells of resistance living underground. Unfortunately, owing to all the history books being burned in the late 2020s, they got the wrong Kennedy.

Hard to imagine that slack-jawed homeschooled all-American yokels who believe Je-hayyyy-zuss had a pet dinosaur couldn't easily replace that workforce.

Woo-hoo! It's nearly time for the new season... Without Cristina 😱. Interesting times. #handball #CSM #bucuresti #bucharest

Absolutely nothing says "what a cunt" like the words "skill issue".

Translation: My religion has all the intellectual and moral authority of a football chant. 🎶 TEAM JAYYYYSUS UNTIL I DIE.

We were blessed with beautiful weather this weekend for the Bucharest International Air Show :-) #BIAS2025 #Bucharest #Romania

What an extraordinarily fucked up country.

It’s quite simple: GDP stats are best represented graphically as a series of bored apes wearing sunglasses and skippers’ caps.

Google’s complete indifference to the quality of search experience is almost impressive at this point. Search results are crap now, AI results boxes are worse, and Google dgaf.

For the avoidance of doubt: Fuck Broadcom all the way into the sun. github.com/bitnami/char...

"I want to save democracy but only if it means never working with anyone who disagrees with me on any issue of consequence." I see this sentiment daily expressed on BlueSky.

I have literally just watched this, from Taiwan, and really want to urge giving it a try: www.imdb.com/title/tt1080... On paper you'll hate it; ostensibly horror, and a video game adaptation to boot (not sure game ever escaped Taiwan.) But I genuinely think it's the exception to prove your rule!

Slightly diminish a band: Blessed Etienne

I realise this is going to get me pilloried, but without wishing to endorse anything the article I haven't read says... US airport lounges are absolutely fucking terrible. They are only surpassed in awfuless by Chinese airport lounges.

But hey, nukes on the moon. It's what the dribbling imbecilic US electorate craves.

I know it's not Caturday, but... #cat #pisica #catsofbluesky

If you see this post a castle...

Ooh, Matron!