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Aero/Space Software guy, flannelled fool in the summer, Earth-bound misfit. (he/him)
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Google's intelligence is so good that it notifies me of my flight half an hour before takeoff. Which is often after I'm already in my seat on the plane. Still, thanks, I guess?
I would work out if I had a group like this
“why is the birth rate falling” because you hate women you absolutely rabid squirrels. this is your own fault
Which means his last test was Ganguly & Dravid's debuts? Not a bad test to end, given the batting he got to witness.
'Rapture' comes from the Latin 'rapere' meaning "to seize and carry off." 'Raptor' also comes from 'rapere.' We hope neither carries you off today.
Autistic and neurodivergent people deserve far better than a government looking to prevent their existence, let alone one that will invent fictitious ways to do so that puts everyone in danger
Thanks to a bunch of idiots, my head is going Da Da da da da da Da dada da da da All the time from yesterday. m.youtube.com/watch?v=on8D...
The NYT liveblog on the autism press conference is a fascinating read -- largely because it's written by health reporters and not political reporters. Look at how direct and appropriately shocked these posts are! www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...
Seconded.
Under the moonlight, you see a sight that almost stops your heart
There's going to be a lot of really fucking horrible people giving mums/pregnant ppl grief even in this country over Cpt Brainworm's latest Reckon, isn't there. Let that preggo have a paracetamol, if the kid ends up knowing a lot about Ford Fiestas, that is both unconnected and cool.
Will everyone please stop telling Corbyn and Sultana to throw their weight behind the Greens, I’d quite like the Green Party to succeed actually.
Just say it's bad. You don't have to accept their premise. The only reason to accept their premise is if you agree with its aim.
Next time just @ me!
Technologically advance two bands: SR-71 The XB-70s
This is me at any age
This coming Friday is Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov Saves the World Day. So you can plan accordingly to hug a non-microbial life form in celebration.
Tied for first:
What movie do you consider perfect?
Lib Dems: We have 12x Reform's MPs, can we have the same coverage? BBC: But Reform has 2x your poll rating. If there were an election tomorrow, they'd be running the country. Lib Dems: So you're putting their people and policies under scrutiny, right? BBC: Lib Dems: Right?
Are we there yet? #Art #Capybara #Moped #Scooter
My first workplace in the UK has a bean-to-cup machine and used Taylor's (Harrogate) coffee beans. I don't know how but that coffee was so good I started getting withdrawal symptoms on the weekend. I'm not even a major coffee fan, normally I'll go with instant but that was something else.
*A Centrist restaurant consultant walks into a pizza parlor* "I can't understand why you're not doing more to get people who hate pizza to come in here to complain about your menu"
Boooo! (At the earth's axial tilt not you)
This makes me realise how few sitcoms I've watched, making the ones I truly like an even smaller list: The Good Place Brooklyn 99 Fisk Yes, Minister Zabaan Sambhaalke* Friends Schitt's Creek M*A*S*H* *Mind Your Language, Indian version There are some (Allo! Allo!) that I loved as a kid but...
*Spouse* Can you gently agitate these eggs for a few minutes? *Me, to eggs* You were once dinosaurs! What happened to you?
Wait just realised we have the same pattern which means we almost certainly made the same mistake! Ha!
Man, you're fast! I had to take a couple of long pauses to work it out! I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Sep 21st 2025) in less than 30 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com
For those who pay attention to UK politics, the Liberal Democrats and #LDConf A bunch of TERFs tried first thing this morning to impose a transphobic policy on our internal elections (they wanted to exclude trans women from the gender balance criteria) They failed, spectacularly.
Definitely hate that the colours are nearly identical. There's no mistaking the diet version, why is zero so much like full fat?!
Roses are red, Violets sublime,
Happy 71st Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past.
Indian media is reporting that Microsoft and JP Morgan Chase are asking their H1B and H4 visa holders to return to the US immediately. m.economictimes.com/nri/work/mic...
Like, they don't know folders & sub folders because phones/tablets do storage and search for you. They ask "AI" what their own tattoos mean because they're worried their explanation isn't good enough for their peers. The words "bit torrent" means nothing to most of them. Those are your millennials.
A lot of people are quoting the People's Front of Judea in the comments but this is also reminiscent of the Election Night Special. Namely, the Silly and the Very Silly parties
I could only have some on a day ending with Y
The comments on the song on YouTube used to be a goldmine. "Are doors and windows a luxury in Ireland?!" "I used to sing "I'll show you mine you show you yours" as a kid out loud in front of my parents!!"
Was going to re-subscribe for Only Murders. But, I guess not.
The marvelous thing about this short opinion (which you should read in full) is that it is a reader’s lament. Any writer or editor who has been forced to get through a tedious manuscript will relate.
If it can skip the west coast where my friends and family are, and go inland where it's just a couple of cows in a field I think it would be crazy to quit Indian food...
Fabulous conversation at nursery pickup. Other Parent, looking tired: Is Ivor singing “I’m Still Standing” at home? Me: Er, no? OP: Mine is. Constantly. Me: Could be worse? [Child in question emerges from nursery, runs to parent] Child: “I’M STILL STANDING YEAH YEAH YEAH” OP: *rolls eyes*
I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".
Looks rough. That’s why it’s important not to eat filmth.
Lower 48 makes it sound in my head like there was a warning for places like Nebraska and Wyoming and *insert obscure US state name*...
Evergreen skeet.
🎵Nice day to... start aga-ain
I gave my heart and soul to that place. Built entire sections for journalists pushed out of their home countries. When the writer I hired, Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi Arabia, they paraded me around as a symbol for press freedom. I put MY LIFE on the line to defend journalism and WaPo.
*Spanish guitar solo intensifies*
Always the summers are slipping away Find me a way for making it stay
There are two sorts of hotels. Those with plugs next to the bed. And all the other crap ones.
Pimpri Chinchwad is Pune, though?
All other tournaments: Group stage > knockout stage > finals ICC/BCCI cricket tournaments: Group Stage > Super Eights > Super Six > Shoehorned India-Pakistan game > Super Four > Eliminator > Decider > Super π > Terminator > Hey wow, Ind v Pak again what a coincidence!! > Super two > Final
Well. The RS is clearly feeling the heat. They could have saved themselves the embarrassment months ago. How did they ever imagine this wasn't going to get even worse?
Conservative-run Hampshire County Council has handed Stagecoach the gift of taking all the profit from the busiest most popular bus routes, even putting more public money into those services, and has given them a free pass to abandon everything else. www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk/news/2546993...
can't really begin to explain the extent to which I do Not want to be filmed without my knowledge by someone wearing smart glasses while out and about
coates is genuinely a generational writer
ah, well
a little distraction from this hellscape
If it's good enough for Hawkeye, it's good enough for me
What is happening in Gaza is genocide. While Prime Minister Netanyahu & President Trump have the ultimate power to stop it, Britain has agency too. The Government should do everything in its power to stop this genocide, get the aid flowing and help bring the hostages home.
The man who coined this is on Bluesky! I'm not tagging him as I'm probably not going to be in the first hundred to do so...
I remember seeing this thread on Xitter years ago...
Trump DOJ has deleted a National Institute of Justice study showing that “white supremacist & far-right violence in the USA outpaces all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism.”Per Wayback Machine it was there on 9/12 Fascists erase violent history for one reason—to repeat history.
Great thread, and not just for the phrase "that least likely Sea Lord, Sir Mix-a-Lot"
This sounds like any standard new build house tbh
I'm not the first person to have said that but I'm glad I'm not the only one! bsky.app/profile/adit...
It's still windsock to me!!
In breaking news: I've finally found out that the song that I've always heard as "gonna windsock my neighbour na na na" is actually "gonna withdraw my labour of love". As you were.
Quote.
*quote, dammit
If you see this, quite the energy you bring to Bluesky* *or don't, I'm not your mum. Jess might give you a stern look though.
The thing that gets me about this is that so many of us have known this for so long, and so many people have faced pushback for saying it, and even if by some miracle something changes now, there will not be an ounce of retrospective reflection from anyone at all who insisted it wasn’t
We always do this along to the song on the radio. Or when our playlist plays Spicks & Specks by the Bee Gees.
"Let me start my suit on defamation by telling you all how I'm the most famous and loved person that is or has ever been" SCOTUS: Give this man fifteen trillion dollars
Make a band even more alcoholic: Iron Meaden
i really do think "glorch" is a good contender for a word for "a computer fucking up because some dipshit replaced something that was working fine with some machine learning bullshit"
It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
A Chinese immigrant singing Bob Marley's Three Little Birds during the Great British Bake-Off because she's nervous is everything lovely. #GBBO
Make a band singular: M Person
One day, nearly 2000 years ago, a cat dashed across some drying tiles, somewhere near Hadrian's Wall. It's immortality of a kind, isn't it?
I'm glad that one of the parties with 2/3-digit seats in parliament is saying this, but fucking hell what are the others up to?
Thank you, that was well written. I hope it has some impact towards bringing us back towards sensible times. The "car mechanic problem" is something I intuitively knew but didn't know what it was called.
Make a band* singular Shania Individual
this didn’t happen at the height of the Brexit referendum. I don’t *think* it’s happened since National Front were at their peak in 1970s. This is organised racist intimidation & movement building, and it’s happening because Labour Party leaders have not opposed that campaign.
“You can’t run [xyz] on storytelling“ should be burned into the door of every meeting room on Earth.
Number one endangered species, innit?
Join.greenparty.org.uk
they should write his name as cause of death on every certificate issued
Agreed. It's self-defence, taken literally.
Some absolutely amazing images in the Reuters collection: www.reuters.com/pictures/par...
After a sweeping social media ban, Nepal saw its bloodiest unrest in decades. What has happened in Nepal is a warning to other democracies to tread carefully with efforts to contain online expression, writes Samik Kharel.
[the shooter is unidentified] the left must be purged with the sword [the shooter is, again, a compulsive masturbator who loved Hitler] I believe it was pascal who said that the heart has reasons that reason may not know
So this is apparently how it goes these days: (violence occurs) TRANSPHOBE: It's the evil violent trans people who have done this! (perpetrator revealed not to be trans) TRANSPHOBE: Ah! Nevertheless -
My amazing guide dog Jennie is the Westminster Dog of the Year! I couldn't be more proud of her. She is so much more than a guide dog; she's a good friend and my constant companion! She deserves all the treats and cuddles in the world! Thank you to everyone that voted! 🐾🏆
If Terry Pratchett's characters were ships, that one would be Nobby Nobbs.
The biggest crime of the tech industry has been gifting "daily standups" to project managers. I've never been in a project "standup" meeting that ended in five minutes. I've rarely seen one end in less than fifteen. (I'm in the sixteenth minute of a 15-minute scheduled call, why do you ask?)
WANT
Pundits are focusing on Kirk’s willingness to debate people while studiously ignoring the people whose basic humanity he was willing to debate