If we solved our dependency on oil, a lot of very rich people would suddenly become poor people.
If we solved our dependency on oil, a lot of very rich people would suddenly become poor people.
I’ve only just realised how much Kylo Ren looks like Snape
I’m reading Pratchett chronologically as well, but started from the beginning as I couldn’t exactly remember which ones I’d read before. I’m just finishing Mort now. I’m slightly slowed by the fact that I feel I have to buy them in order from charity shops. Makes it feel like Fate has a say in it
Gin is just middle-class vodka for people who don’t like to admit they have a drinking problem (and I say that as a gin-drinker)
HOLMES: I can tell what kind of fruit is going to grow there WATSON: How on earth can you manage that? HOLMES: It’s a lemon tree my dear Watson
If I remember from her autobiography, VCM did some standup comedy when she was very young. This might be from then
Man, I’m good at Worlde samwhere.dev: X/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟧⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟧 ⬛🟧⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟧⬛⬛⬛ 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟩 (Congrats, etc)
The recruitment process is a form of marketing that targets the exact kind of person you want working for you. There’s loads of companies I haven’t even bothered applying to because friends had a bad experience interviewing there
Astral are doing such good stuff right now that getting rejected by them feels CV-worthy.
Everyone is “flawed at best”. There’s no one that isn’t flawed
A weird thing in the Culture Wars, is that the left hate the left more than they hate the right
To be fair to Elong, if AI and robots wipe out humanity, they WILL have solved hunger, disease and poverty
He’s got pretty good taste then! I might suggest that for my next birthday
I can still to this day sing the theme tune to Golden Girls. I think the 6-7pm slot on Channel 4 in the early 90s was the apex of American comedy
Donald Trump too…
Ah, Ghost Town – I once took ideas from @rathergood.bsky.social and @drivelsieve.bsky.social and ruined this song with some goats #totp
Magit in Emacs is `git add -p` on steroids It’s worth using Emacs just for that
The quality of the Apple App Store has got so shitty that they can’t believe someone would upload an app that isn’t some sort of scam
When you think about it, it’s kind of obvious that Zippy and the Daleks were done by the same person
Why do you think just in the US?
Worldwide or just in US?
I created this so agents can just do `taidy .` and it formats all possible files. Claude Code uses it all the time for me. YMMV github.com/Singletoned/...
“I’m leaving today”? “These vagabond shoes are longing to stray”?
AI is amazing for throwaway code, where you have an one-off outcome that you need to achieve that you will never do again
I'm 100x on some stuff that I was 0x on before. Mostly side-project tools that I didn't have the bandwidth for Like Taidy, an omni-linter that formats any type of file: github.com/Singletoned/... (by calling whichever other linters that are installed)
You can solve almost any problem by just lowering your expectations
Yeah, I find it weird how they only offer junk food though. Not even an apple or banana
Have you just given blood? I picked those last time I went
Dance Me Up is a terrible song even by Gary Glitter’s standards. And how mind-blowing is it that this person turned out to be a wrong-un
If you have an accountant and it’s low volumes of mail, they are often willing to forward it on. That’s what I do
Quitting programming as a career right now because of LLMs would be like quitting carpentry as a career thanks to the invention of the table saw.
It astounds me that still no one has taken narwhal genes and put them in horses to make genetically modified unicorns
If you think a benefit of homeopathy is hydration, you are just as bad as the guy who thinks eating apples is homeopathy
Is eucalyptus oil particularly good for that type of thing?
Thatcher did have a point when she shut down the mining industry. She may have done it badly, but if she hadn’t, the Labour government after would have shut it down
Ah so frozen ready meals are healthier then?
Do you mean freezing dried pasta and rice, or cooked pasta and rice?
Until recently it was illegal to sell bread in any size other than 400g and 800g
I assumed it was a play on The Man Who Sold The World, until I found out these were Trumpisms. Trump doesn’t seem like a Bowie (or even Nirvana) fan to me
In the 50s and 60s the credits were at the beginning of the film not the end. Even in 1977 George Lucas got fined for not putting any credits at the beginning of Star Wars
Although that’s almost exactly what we lost on Pepe 🤷
So Chelsea have lost about £70m on Kepa? That’s pretty impressive
Everything tastes better with more oxygen; our tastebuds need it to work properly. It’s why we slurp drinks to taste them
Also sounds like something Jack Reacher would say
Depends how you’re measuring underperformance. Rankings without an methodology are meaningless
He did a panel show on Audible a few years ago that I really enjoyed. I’m surprised he hasn’t been more successful
I think I just about remember Dairy Milk dispensers made of wood on Underground platforms. But it feels so bizarre and distant that maybe it was a dream
I miss Angus Deyton
If I remember Paul got a record score that night. Including some of his missing words round being in Danish and he still got them right
A lot of classical music is wonderful and pretty easy to get into, but then I’m coming from that as a white middle class man
I love when you order food in a foreign restaurant and the head waiter gets sent over to warn you about the meal, and check if you want it There is no way I’m not having that now
I miss panel shows. I used to really enjoy them. The only good ones left are on Radio 4 and podcasts (Pappys Flatshare Slamdown is a pinnacle of the form)
Do you know why Edward Woodward had 4 Ds in his name? Because otherwise he would be Ewar Woowar
Switching Caps Lock to Ctrl is the first thing I do on any new machine
All eggs are warm when laid
I do love finding out new ways to fidget
Happy Birthday @paulsinha.bsky.social ! 🎂🎉🥳
I’m not sure Andrew Lawrence attacking scousers is a good example of punching down. That sounds like the type of thing Lawrence himself would say
I hated this game. I had the demo, desperately wanted to play it but couldn’t get past the first jump, tried so many times.
This is literally an old Viz comic strip:
Because you don’t know how to do it
Have you searched for “gooner” on social media recently?
Croissants is like eating Greggs pasties for breakfast and spitting out the filling
David Bowie’s Young Americans is the only reasonable way to regain consciousness
Is that the same Goldfinger from the James Bond movie? If so, can we really trust the map?
What was the question?
I don’t fall asleep to audiobooks anymore because of the difficulty trying to find your place again. Instead I fall asleep to unimportant podcasts where I won’t care if ai kiss anything
If the RW press attacking Starmer makes him steer right, the sensible thing for them to do would be to keep attacking him
The word “login” comes from throwing a log attached to a rope with knots overboard a ship to see how many knots go by over time (see also, knots as speed). You’d then put that info in the “log book.” You’d “log in” on a regular basis. This wasn’t from 1959, it was likely from 1689! Etymology baby!
“An historian” would be normal in the UK even without dropping the “h”. Also USA is a former colony
You could probably make a pretty good business posting tricks like this and then selling the solution to people
Are you pro or anti scapegoating foreigners?
Do bear in mind that you are encouraging the bullying of someone who is very obviously mentally ill. I really think it’s a road we shouldn’t be going down
How come you’re never funny on Handbrake Off? You should give us a Gunners routine once in a while. (Love the podcast)
You have to give credit to Donald Trump for the fact that he was pretty clear in advance about all the terrible things he was going to do
Is Betty Friedan that one that did all those sexy dominatrix photos in the 50s?
If I could do anything I wanted, I’d make @audacityofdespair.bsky.social rewrite and refilm the last three seasons of Game of Thrones
It’s only £39 a year to join. That’s not bad to get a birthday card from a PM (when they are in power)
I used to use what was basically a clown horn. It was really effective. I think pedestrians ignore bell noises but jump at horns
If Starmer is going to force immigrants to read The Mayor Of Casterbridge, that feels unnecessarily cruel
“Haunting” does not make me want to play games. The last thing I want to be is haunted
From what I’ve heard, driving licence bans don’t have much effect on stopping people from driving. It just limits what jobs you can get
They should make papal succession hereditary like with the English throne
Bells have to be on a bike when you buy it, so any bike without one has had it removed
The makers of Breaking Bad used 62 episodes to tell a slightly worse version of a story Steely Dan told in 4m38s in Kid Charlemagne. If you watched Breaking Bad, you lost.
Yeah, I’ve found OrbStack to be a huge win, both for containers and “machines”, their VMish solution
In a culture war, the right are going to win, because they are better at hating and have no need to be logically consistent
Isn’t FE now basically compulsory as you have to stay in education til 18? I would have expected much higher numbers
I’m sure Everton would love to return to the days of 7th place being called The Everton Cup. There’s nothing wrong with being middle table
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I was sure it was going to be eaten by a crocodile 😔
Those who don’t fall into a neat left-right binary viewpoint get labelled centrists, and get criticised for not taking a side
I was going to do a Phil Cool comment, which seems to make me slow but original (which is about right)
Interesting that anti-AI is getting supported by the anti-vax, anti-global-warming people. That’s quite promising for AI
It’s weird that -ism sometimes means “really likes” (stoicism, Buddhism, alcoholism) and at other times means “hates because of” (sexism, racism)
Can you imagine the cost of processing all that audio just to slightly better target ads?
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Has anyone ever asked you?
The severity of a condition does not directly correlate with its effects on an individual. You can be severely disabled and cope with it. There are quadriplegics that climb mountains, they are still severely disabled
Around 80% of autistic people are unemployed