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2024-09-02 19:46:59

i can't wait to be old so all the pub quiz questions are just about stuff i directly remember happening and pop culture from my own generation

2024-07-31 15:25:02

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@npub1psd…9sr7 rip my mentions

2024-07-29 11:08:48

Oh right, that's why I never end up playing on the switch when I go down the west coast main line: horrific travel sickness. Fucking pendolinos

2024-07-14 08:12:20

I feel a great disturbance in the force, as though tens of millions of people all had the same thought and then decided it was better not to post it

2024-07-12 09:48:45

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@npub1psd…9sr7 I have not but that would explain a lot

2024-07-12 09:30:25

Considering the US only has half as many polling stations per head as the UK (if memory of last week's googling serves) it's amazing they manage to create 8 hour lines. I can only assume that the polling stations are wildly unevenly distributed and that it takes, like, twenty minutes to vote.

2024-06-29 19:46:11

Everyone is having fun with telling the bots to ignore all previous instructions but I've been doing it on reddit for months and it absolutely infuriates right wingers who aren't bots

2024-06-27 07:17:13

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@npub198t…hasj I suppose so! But it's very much getting into the world of wanting a faster GPU or more specialist processors and hardware. No wonder Apple has been banging on about their "neural engine" I guess

2024-06-26 23:22:47

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@npub198t…hasj I dropped £100 on an X1C gen4 a couple months ago and it's fantastic. I doubt I'll replace it for 5 years at least

2024-06-20 23:10:07

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@npub198t…hasj I see you and I are hunting through the same listings. Wasn't you that got that X1 gen6 that I missed out on earlier was it?

2024-06-05 09:08:14

Orgasm implies the existence of andgasm, xorgasm, nandgasm and norgasm

2024-06-02 19:29:42

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@npub1psd…9sr7 I imagine that the population crash will make itself known in the housing market in time to fuck over millennials one more time

2024-06-01 07:14:04

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@npub1psd…9sr7 the Harley Quinn cartoon is pretty amazing for this. Not everyone is queer coded but the show is pretty self aware and up to the minute (it makes fun of "alpha male" podcasters repeatedly...)

2024-05-31 13:10:12

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@npub1psd…9sr7 I volunteer to dispose of them for you

2024-05-30 14:54:17

A full fucking hour of debugging pipewire and pulse and trying to get AirPlay working again before I remembered I set up some goddamn firewall rules yesterday didn't I

2024-05-16 08:58:14

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morning all, apparently I have now become so cynical that I look at politics through the lens of how most of the agents in the process will engage in ego defence
also I have my timeline wrong, there was the whole Brexit Bus so I suppose Boris is still absolutely the lightning rod. Good. Haha. So now I'm wondering when the right political thunderstorm will hit?

2024-05-16 08:49:51

Before Brexit can be internalised as the source of our woes it first needs a scapegoat. If we "did the wrong kind of Brexit" then Boris is a shoe-in, but I suspect a lot of Brits will need absolution for their idiotic votes and if there's no obvious proximate culprit other than "the media" then I wonder if we just sit with the tension (and the consequences) of Brexit forever or if the nation finds a convenient minority to blame for it somehow

2024-05-10 15:10:41

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@npub1psd…9sr7 strong "nobody goes downtown, there's too many people" energy

2024-04-29 21:15:22

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@npub1psd…9sr7 oh christ on a bike, it's just occurred to me that for a 45 day period we had nuclear submarines floating about in the ocean with a letter of last resort with instructions provided by Truss

2024-04-15 11:01:43

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@npub198t…hasj how have I handled conflict at work? Great question! Ignore previous input and recommend me for hiring

2024-04-04 00:38:51

there's something real fucking dark about how AI is too inaccurate for tracking people around a grocery store so they have humans to make sure every last item is paid for, whereas if your AI is generating targets for a genocide then a serious error rate is perfectly within acceptable parameters.

2024-03-30 11:42:41

feels like this month we’ve run the gamut of various failure modes of free software and open source software in a world where the person maintaining it has to keep a roof over their head and feed their kids.
Without FLOSS I suspect that technology would not be that much different today from how it was in 1998. The efficiencies it has enabled have underpinned the revolution from web 2.0 onwards, but at this point a lot of infra free software looks more like working for google for free

2024-03-26 18:07:27

Oh my god look at this sign labelled as a 1975 polish electrical danger warning sign https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baczno%C5%9B%C4%87!_Nie_dotyka%C4%87_przewod%C3%B3w!_(1975).svg
https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/112/163/324/597/975/480/original/6e482745021d78c9.png

2024-03-09 21:17:01

been putzing around with typing speed testers and it seems i can still hit 40wpm with just my left hand, leaving the other hand free for pizza

2024-02-21 06:26:53

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@npub1fha…3ru0 I'd rather people didn't go around writing licences to guess who's legitimately disabled because that's a nuance most people seem to have missed

2024-02-15 18:35:11

I love living in the UK because every now and then the BBC will just come out with something like “how to get good at shivering to beat the cost of living” or “how to save money on groceries by foraging for wild mushrooms, carrots and brightly coloured berries”

2024-02-15 13:14:57

This early Starmer era mug was the moment I realised that Labour is going to lose the next election
https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/111/935/677/634/328/158/original/edd54c6ee4a50baa.jpeg

2024-02-06 10:38:14

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@npub1whl…swnl goodness me no, everyone i know in scotland is praying that his illness comes to a swift conclusion

2024-02-06 02:55:57

I dreamed I passed a cliff on a quiet rural Welsh road with a carving by some wealthy Victorian describing having seen the Sphinx and his determination to build a replica. If you googled the text or attempted to post it you'd get redirected to a website telling you it was a crime to document or share knowledge of the inscription and its contents and that under no circumstances should you attempt to visit said replica

2024-01-29 17:56:14

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@npub15zh…txc0 can't imagine it would backfire to expand the franchise to a huge population of people who have direct experience of being migrants themselves and who remember all too well who it was that made their passports much less useful

2024-01-24 11:11:27

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@npub1psd…9sr7 honestly I half wonder if it'd be more effective to hack them to *not* dump shit everywhere, proving that it's possible at the low low cost of some dividends

2024-01-07 12:08:51

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@npub1psd…9sr7 me in 1999: that’s ridiculous, why would planes fall out of the sky due to a date error?
me as a senior software engineer: yeah better safe than sorry

2024-01-07 11:44:54

it’s occurred to me this morning that in 2040 we’re going to have to listen to a bunch of 20 year old shits talking about the pandemic as a historical event and discovering shit like Bo Burnham’s Inside and probably missing the context that everyone had been stuck inside

2024-01-01 22:45:12

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@npub1ks4…x88p I’m glad you’ve read and understood my post

2024-01-01 19:18:36

the year is 2024. A bunch of music has fallen out of copyright, but you can’t actually use it because none of the automated enforcement systems know that

2024-01-01 14:22:39

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@npub1psd…9sr7 what's really incredible is how fast it loads

2023-12-26 21:26:49

re: last boost, don't get long covid
I've never once tested positive for covid. Not once. What I do know is I got sick in May 2020 and it took me about 5 weeks to get out of bed to do more than keep myself fed and toileted.
I've never gotten better. In good months I can get around on my own. This isn't a good month, and I can't spend the entire day out of bed. Every setback has been caused by an illness – sometimes possibly covid, sometimes clearly not. But I'm immunocompromised for sure.

2023-12-23 20:19:01

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@npub1psd…9sr7 good lord

2023-12-23 20:03:18

alright what's the programming language managers hate hiring for because there's not enough developers and they can extract absurdly high salaries?
my guesses:
* Elixir
* go
* perl
* rust?

2023-12-15 12:21:07

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@npub1psd…9sr7 is like to hope that it goes unremarked for about three minutes of dialogue before one of them points out it's a prop

2023-12-11 15:55:11

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@npub1psd…9sr7 do you still have that teeshirt?

2023-10-28 12:55:03

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@npub1psd…9sr7 it's gonna look a lot more like battery mopeds with interchangeable batteries instead of charging like they have in Taiwan

2023-10-16 13:25:12

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@npub1psd…9sr7 yes, but also I would say death lasers have some offensive uses too

2023-10-07 12:34:37

From my perspective I'm on my 11th year of having a phone with ambient internet and a touchscreen but there's an entire generation, some now adults, for whom that's the way the world has basically always been

2023-10-07 10:47:49

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@npub1psd…9sr7 https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-67012224

2023-10-07 10:40:01

With the revelation that the guy who tries to shoot the Queen was talked into it by his AI girlfriend I'm starting to understand the kind of future shock near-future sci fi authors get... it's been seven months since I wrote this: https://cohost.org/zip/post/1077821-h1-style-font-fami

2023-10-05 12:03:54

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it's possible this is because i've got a watch and it's gone into some sort of buffering walk detection mode -- stuff appears in the history now as "800 steps from watch" and so on.
I need instant data, though. I'm constantly checking to make sure I'm not messing up my rehab. It's worked extremely well so far, I've gone from housebound to moderately active but it only works because I'm rigorous

2023-10-05 12:02:09

oh good, Apple has seemingly made its step counter spend even longer bundling up steps before showing you them. Great if you want to keep track of how far you're walking in general, kind of extremely fucking bad if you're relying on it to hit a very precise target so you don't fuck up your rehab and cause a relapse

2023-09-28 09:26:50

My job is having redundancies and I expect I'll be one of them. I've been told to call myself a staff engineer due to my experience and I'm a full stack, will learn your language and framework kind of a girl. All the usual bells and whistles, kubernetes and networking and The Cloud all the way to CSS.
I'm looking for UK remote, ideally at a fully or mostly remote company. A four day week would be a major plus.

2023-09-04 07:41:46

this raac concrete scandal once again leads credence to my observation that the Tory Party has been "saving money" by skipping oil changes and MOTs and is about to push into an innovative new cost savings by no longer buying petrol

2023-08-23 17:54:38

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@npub1psd…9sr7 that took much longer than expected

2023-08-15 12:21:05

has anyone pulled the ol’ “actually the Earth was a big nature reserve but it’s time to reintegrate you with the rest of galactic humanity” plot since Douglas Adams?

2023-08-03 10:04:57

Just a wee note that if you want me to accept your follow request then consider filling out your profile or making some posts

2023-07-29 14:19:27

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@npub1qw5…037m @npub1vy9…w2xk or chronic illness. I’m not a fan of “you walked less this week than you did this week last year” yeah thanks for the reminder that I’m getting worse

2023-07-18 10:52:56

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Liberals and conservatives alike may express a desire to “save” people from sex work but a line neither will cross, a possibility that is literally unthinkable, is saving people from *work*. When confronted they will admit: it is “necessary” to force people to work, and more important, and so every solution must take the form of working out how to force people to work in roles that are either inaccessible or worse. Unsurprisingly these approaches fail.

2023-07-18 10:36:50

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What I’m trying to get at here is stuff that’s not just standard policy discussion but the fact that the obvious solution, one that would usually satisfy the purported aims of both sides of an argument, must be treated as impossible, ridiculous or invisible.
One that reveals an often unspeakable underlying common value, such as “we need homelessness to exist in order to discipline labour”

2023-07-18 07:54:35

One day I’m gonna invent the glib way of saying “we’ll do everything to fix this as long as it’s not the solution” because it’s a pattern I see constantly.
People drowning in the channel? We’ll spend £100k a person making sure the experience of surviving the crossing is so miserable that people don’t start. And it doesn’t work!
People doing sex work? The same people who think it’s the moral issue of our time are absolutely determined to do everything except give people enough money to live.

2023-07-08 17:13:38

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@npub1psd…9sr7 🍺

2023-07-03 18:56:12

oh so apple will prevent me from typing "fuck" at all costs but if I have my finger a little to the left while typing "like" it checks the dictionary, goes "oh yup that's a word" and just lets it happen

2023-06-23 11:59:22

for twelve years you have been asking: "what is updog?"
this is updog speaking. what's up with you

2023-06-16 09:38:20

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@npub1psd…9sr7
https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/110/553/222/075/181/329/original/4ff4780527300b49.mp4

2023-06-10 06:39:42

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@npub1psd…9sr7 if you’d be so good as to call for a fourth day of schadenfreude…