Tom Parslow
@almostobsolete.net
Acceptable code typer. Sometimes-ok food cooker. Brighton liver-in. SaaS company haver. Staff member for two cats.
Was @almostobsolete on Twitter before all that stuff. Am currently @almostobsolete@mastodon.me.uk on Mastodon.
Was @almostobsolete on Twitter before all that stuff. Am currently @almostobsolete@mastodon.me.uk on Mastodon.
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So Liz Truss had a good first day at Cloudflare…
November 18, 2025 at 3:59 PM
So Liz Truss had a good first day at Cloudflare…
Love how cloudflarestatus.com is already like "outage? what outage? nothing wrong with CloudFlare today!". Really glad I put a link to that in my email to customers today as part of the explanation of what happened earlier today. Thanks @cloudflare.social!
Cloudflare Status
Welcome to Cloudflare's home for real-time and historical data on system performance.
www.cloudflarestatus.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Love how cloudflarestatus.com is already like "outage? what outage? nothing wrong with CloudFlare today!". Really glad I put a link to that in my email to customers today as part of the explanation of what happened earlier today. Thanks @cloudflare.social!
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cloudflare's on-duty IT staff bangs on the doors which I have padlocked from the inside as I calmly break open lava lamp after lava lamp and drink the contents
November 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
cloudflare's on-duty IT staff bangs on the doors which I have padlocked from the inside as I calmly break open lava lamp after lava lamp and drink the contents
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when will the lesson finally get learned? #cloudflare
November 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
when will the lesson finally get learned? #cloudflare
November 14, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Went to contact Stripe support today and found there doesn't appear to be any way to do that. Just an LLM AI Assistant that can only tell you what's in the public documentation.
As my (and many many other) businesses rely on Stripe that's pretty terrifying. Seems so short sighted.
#stripe
As my (and many many other) businesses rely on Stripe that's pretty terrifying. Seems so short sighted.
#stripe
October 4, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Went to contact Stripe support today and found there doesn't appear to be any way to do that. Just an LLM AI Assistant that can only tell you what's in the public documentation.
As my (and many many other) businesses rely on Stripe that's pretty terrifying. Seems so short sighted.
#stripe
As my (and many many other) businesses rely on Stripe that's pretty terrifying. Seems so short sighted.
#stripe
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How Grok turned into Hitler – a short explanation.
July 10, 2025 at 12:49 PM
How Grok turned into Hitler – a short explanation.
So Grok has done a Tay except this time the owner is happy about it 😐
July 9, 2025 at 6:07 AM
So Grok has done a Tay except this time the owner is happy about it 😐
It's true
"why does restaurant food taste better than food cooked at home"
The cook does not care if you live or die and uses salt and butter accordingly
The cook does not care if you live or die and uses salt and butter accordingly
July 5, 2025 at 10:48 AM
It's true
First try making my own dumplings (including the casings). Filled with pork, garlic and ginger. Fried to make the bottoms crispy then steamed the rest of the way. A bit lumpy and misshapen, but delcious!
Ate with some steamed pak choi (not pictured) 😋
#cooking
Ate with some steamed pak choi (not pictured) 😋
#cooking
July 4, 2025 at 7:52 PM
First try making my own dumplings (including the casings). Filled with pork, garlic and ginger. Fried to make the bottoms crispy then steamed the rest of the way. A bit lumpy and misshapen, but delcious!
Ate with some steamed pak choi (not pictured) 😋
#cooking
Ate with some steamed pak choi (not pictured) 😋
#cooking
Really enjoyed it but also... yeah good question
So... is 28 Years Later a prank?
July 4, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Really enjoyed it but also... yeah good question
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Have all the regular attendees of the Spectator Garden Party condemned their friend Rod Liddle, supporter of Golden Dawn, the Wehrmacht, sexually assaulting young girls, and now the mass murder of young people?
Bob Vylan update: apparently calling for the mass killing of young people is fine if it’s in the Spectator.
July 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Have all the regular attendees of the Spectator Garden Party condemned their friend Rod Liddle, supporter of Golden Dawn, the Wehrmacht, sexually assaulting young girls, and now the mass murder of young people?
Saving this one for the "and back then it was just a joke" collection for a few years time
mattress startup CEO testifying to congress: ya'll are sleeping on the real existential risk posed by next gen mattress tech. so comfortable owners won't get out of bed to eat. naysayers haven't even tried the latest mattresses on sale now in our showrooms. researchers at my mattress safety institut
July 4, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Saving this one for the "and back then it was just a joke" collection for a few years time
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it’s absurd that NYT forced him to delete these skeets, which … convey the factual information that Zohran Mamdani is, in fact, a man of South Asian descent who was born and raised in Africa, and that the pseudonymous source of the hacked material is a white supremacist eugenicist.
July 4, 2025 at 3:05 AM
it’s absurd that NYT forced him to delete these skeets, which … convey the factual information that Zohran Mamdani is, in fact, a man of South Asian descent who was born and raised in Africa, and that the pseudonymous source of the hacked material is a white supremacist eugenicist.
First time making my own pasta. Don't have the equipment so just rolled out with a rolling pin. Made up a sauce as I went along with shallots, a white wine reduction, chick stock and lemon juice (not sure if sauce has a name, but is delicious). Pleased with it, good texture and very tasty 😋
#cooking
#cooking
July 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
First time making my own pasta. Don't have the equipment so just rolled out with a rolling pin. Made up a sauce as I went along with shallots, a white wine reduction, chick stock and lemon juice (not sure if sauce has a name, but is delicious). Pleased with it, good texture and very tasty 😋
#cooking
#cooking
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I just voted against proscribing Palestine Action, a civil disobedience group, as a terrorist organisation. But I'm furious that in doing so, the government forced me and others to vote against proscribing two other clearly terrorist groups. Cynical and dangerous from govt.
July 2, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I just voted against proscribing Palestine Action, a civil disobedience group, as a terrorist organisation. But I'm furious that in doing so, the government forced me and others to vote against proscribing two other clearly terrorist groups. Cynical and dangerous from govt.
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My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com
June 30, 2025 at 2:40 PM
My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com
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This is THE tweet of all time
June 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
This is THE tweet of all time
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Every single picture of Peter Thiel makes him look like the guy in a zombie film who's hiding that he was bitten.
June 26, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Every single picture of Peter Thiel makes him look like the guy in a zombie film who's hiding that he was bitten.
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They were at the negotiating table until bombs started dropping
June 22, 2025 at 10:34 AM
They were at the negotiating table until bombs started dropping