LX
@lxgrf.co.uk
Roboticist, tabletop geek, stargazer, failed musician.
Obviously I'm selecting 'Prefer not to say' on any field that's an option. Gender, sexuality, age, email address, existence. I'd prefer not to tell you a damn thing, but here we are.
October 4, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Obviously I'm selecting 'Prefer not to say' on any field that's an option. Gender, sexuality, age, email address, existence. I'd prefer not to tell you a damn thing, but here we are.
Suddenly needing to check my email for a login code whenever I log in to anything feels like being punished for other people refusing to use password managers.
May 15, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Suddenly needing to check my email for a login code whenever I log in to anything feels like being punished for other people refusing to use password managers.
Sometimes I have imposter syndrome. And sometimes I hear an advert that basically says “Is the world too noisy and overwhelming? Buy our kettle, it makes soothing sounds!” And I realise that EVERYBODY is an imposter and nobody really knows what they are doing. Only an imposter would make that advert
April 17, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Sometimes I have imposter syndrome. And sometimes I hear an advert that basically says “Is the world too noisy and overwhelming? Buy our kettle, it makes soothing sounds!” And I realise that EVERYBODY is an imposter and nobody really knows what they are doing. Only an imposter would make that advert
It was just one straw, I don’t know why the camel is being so dramatic
April 17, 2025 at 7:53 AM
It was just one straw, I don’t know why the camel is being so dramatic
Ever downloaded a kindle book as a file you can actually transfer around and store and keep? Ever been vaguely surprised that Amazon let you do that?
Yeah, they're taking that feature away on Feb 26th. Get them downloaded now.
Yeah, they're taking that feature away on Feb 26th. Get them downloaded now.
February 20, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Ever downloaded a kindle book as a file you can actually transfer around and store and keep? Ever been vaguely surprised that Amazon let you do that?
Yeah, they're taking that feature away on Feb 26th. Get them downloaded now.
Yeah, they're taking that feature away on Feb 26th. Get them downloaded now.
Never mind the chorus, the TITLE sticks in your head.
Manic Street Preachers - If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next (Official Video)
YouTube video by ManicStPreachersVEVO
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January 30, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Never mind the chorus, the TITLE sticks in your head.
“Nay”, he whispered, horsely.
January 30, 2025 at 5:57 PM
“Nay”, he whispered, horsely.
Fridge Raiders are just chicken Wotsits
January 30, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Fridge Raiders are just chicken Wotsits
None of the common livestock animals (horses/donkeys, cows, sheep, goats, pigs, chickens) are native to the Americas. I have this information and don't know what to do with it, so I guess I'll just pass it on. It's your problem now.
January 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
None of the common livestock animals (horses/donkeys, cows, sheep, goats, pigs, chickens) are native to the Americas. I have this information and don't know what to do with it, so I guess I'll just pass it on. It's your problem now.
Nowhere does the Dead Internet theory feel more real than LinkedIn. I genuinely can't work out whether the blandly hype toxic positivity is ChatGPT output, or just indistinguishable from it.
January 28, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Nowhere does the Dead Internet theory feel more real than LinkedIn. I genuinely can't work out whether the blandly hype toxic positivity is ChatGPT output, or just indistinguishable from it.
Minotaurs in D&D get a racial bonus to escaping from labyrinths, and this annoys me more than it should.
January 26, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Minotaurs in D&D get a racial bonus to escaping from labyrinths, and this annoys me more than it should.
She sells shell companies in the Seychelles.
January 26, 2025 at 2:02 PM
She sells shell companies in the Seychelles.
Got frustrated with Facebook showing TWELVE posts from pages, groups, and people I have never interacted with between every post from a friend, and found a way to filter them out.
Revealing that they do it because my friends don't really post anything anymore.
Nor do I, to be fair.
Revealing that they do it because my friends don't really post anything anymore.
Nor do I, to be fair.
January 6, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Got frustrated with Facebook showing TWELVE posts from pages, groups, and people I have never interacted with between every post from a friend, and found a way to filter them out.
Revealing that they do it because my friends don't really post anything anymore.
Nor do I, to be fair.
Revealing that they do it because my friends don't really post anything anymore.
Nor do I, to be fair.
My favourite part of this very real photo, accompanied by CCTV footage of the cybertruck just exploding out of nowhere, is how nobody is questioning why a cybertruck would just explode out of nowhere.
January 1, 2025 at 10:08 PM
My favourite part of this very real photo, accompanied by CCTV footage of the cybertruck just exploding out of nowhere, is how nobody is questioning why a cybertruck would just explode out of nowhere.
The fact that Redditors have staunchly refused to learn how Markdown works over the last 19 years (and the new site actively hides the option from you, annoyingly) makes it so much easier to spot ChatGPT copy/pastes. Gippity LOVES Markdown. If their post is nicely formatted, they didn't write it.
December 20, 2024 at 4:06 PM
The fact that Redditors have staunchly refused to learn how Markdown works over the last 19 years (and the new site actively hides the option from you, annoyingly) makes it so much easier to spot ChatGPT copy/pastes. Gippity LOVES Markdown. If their post is nicely formatted, they didn't write it.
Sanderson has his 'always another secret', but Pratchett remains the king of 'always another joke'.
I've only just now noticed that the dwarf who brings the printing press to Ankh-Morpork is Gunilla Goodmountain.
Goodmountain.
Gutenberg.
I've only just now noticed that the dwarf who brings the printing press to Ankh-Morpork is Gunilla Goodmountain.
Goodmountain.
Gutenberg.
a bald man in a red shirt wipes his face with his hands
ALT: a bald man in a red shirt wipes his face with his hands
media.tenor.com
December 20, 2024 at 10:46 AM
Sanderson has his 'always another secret', but Pratchett remains the king of 'always another joke'.
I've only just now noticed that the dwarf who brings the printing press to Ankh-Morpork is Gunilla Goodmountain.
Goodmountain.
Gutenberg.
I've only just now noticed that the dwarf who brings the printing press to Ankh-Morpork is Gunilla Goodmountain.
Goodmountain.
Gutenberg.
What it looks like when someone drops a pin on the map
December 10, 2024 at 10:24 AM
What it looks like when someone drops a pin on the map
Stafford Beer famously said that the purpose of a system is what it does.
It follows that the purpose of the Loud Environment Warning on an Apple Watch is to let you know you are using a hand dryer.
It follows that the purpose of the Loud Environment Warning on an Apple Watch is to let you know you are using a hand dryer.
December 10, 2024 at 10:20 AM
Stafford Beer famously said that the purpose of a system is what it does.
It follows that the purpose of the Loud Environment Warning on an Apple Watch is to let you know you are using a hand dryer.
It follows that the purpose of the Loud Environment Warning on an Apple Watch is to let you know you are using a hand dryer.
If you see this, quote reply with your first anime ever
November 26, 2024 at 11:06 AM
If you see this, quote reply with your first anime ever
Science: Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Engineering: Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall bend that lever.
Engineering: Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall bend that lever.
November 25, 2024 at 12:08 PM
Science: Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Engineering: Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall bend that lever.
Engineering: Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall bend that lever.
Viewer discretion is not advised.
November 25, 2024 at 12:05 PM
Viewer discretion is not advised.
The Triton statue in Valletta, Malta.
November 18, 2024 at 1:09 PM
The Triton statue in Valletta, Malta.
Why am I only finding out now that during one of Shackleton's more gruelling Antarctic expeditions, all three men had to keep reminding themselves that they were only three, and not four? This is horror GOLD. Straight out of the Magnus Archives.
www.rsgs.org/blog/sir-ern...
www.rsgs.org/blog/sir-ern...
Sir Ernest Shackleton and T S Eliot’s ‘third man’
Amid T S Eliot’s long and dauntingly bleak poem, ‘The Waste Land’ is a curious passage describing two people who are attended by an invisible companion. How was this phenomenon, now known as ‘the thir...
www.rsgs.org
September 12, 2024 at 5:31 PM
Why am I only finding out now that during one of Shackleton's more gruelling Antarctic expeditions, all three men had to keep reminding themselves that they were only three, and not four? This is horror GOLD. Straight out of the Magnus Archives.
www.rsgs.org/blog/sir-ern...
www.rsgs.org/blog/sir-ern...
Oh have I got a top-notch #graphcrime for you today. This is ART. I can't decide whether my favourite part is "Can Do" sitting entirely off the axes, or the fact that two thirds of the things on the legend don't correspond to anything on the graph.
September 2, 2024 at 9:48 PM
Oh have I got a top-notch #graphcrime for you today. This is ART. I can't decide whether my favourite part is "Can Do" sitting entirely off the axes, or the fact that two thirds of the things on the legend don't correspond to anything on the graph.