I can’t see DeForest for the Trois.

The Bosch car battery selector has a VR feature which allows you to see how lovely a nice new car battery would look when installed on your sideboard.

The only reason I’m sitting in Schiphol airport watching a little mouse with clogs on for the foreseeable while I wait for Lucy is Nigel sodding Farage.

The EU is a colossus. So why is it cowering before Trump like a mouse? | Alexander Hurst

I wrote a paper years ago about the Roman law of slavery, and some American academic has just berated me for being insufficiently attuned to the moral issues.

You know you’re ancient when your social feed starts sending you ads for incontinence pants. Come back Beyoncé’s arse, all is forgiven.

I’m in a beautiful park near the Barbican having a ver pleasant cup of coffee. It’s popular with parents who have young children. I have learned that for 50p you can get a “babycino” which is a tiny cappuccino with sugar sprinkles on top designed to wean kids onto the hard stuff.

Slowly but steadily getting everything off my Google Drive and on a personal and a work NextCloud instance (managed hosting in Germany at Hetzner).

That is some huge effort (though rclone helped), but I'm trying to reduce my footprint on US services as much as I can.

An important statement from the American Bar Association. www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

I'm super excited to announce that we had a last minute panel accepted into the #FOSDEM main track on Saturday at 5pm in Janson! I'll be joined by @binford2k.bsky.social, Brian Proffitt, and Stephen Walli to talk about open source rug pulls, relicensing, and forks: fosdem.org/2025/schedul...

Although Edward Estlin Cummings was an accomplished writer, he signed his name with little ease.

It’s village Christmas party day. We had a lovely lunch involving School Governors. I have had a glass or two, and unaccountably I now feel the urge to listen to Marillion. Seriously?

So yeah the Spotty Rapping thing is happening. We did ok. Pretty well even. But numbers don't matter. What matters is you boogied with us. And for that we ❤️ you all

This is a tiny UPS which is basically just a box of rechargeable batteries. It’s ideal for broadband routers and things like that which don’t need graceful shutdown, where it would be useful to keep them running if there’s a short power cut or brown out.

Repost if BlueSky is now your primary social media site.

This is getting beyond a joke.

Thanks, Greenpeace, for providing me with a pdf form which is uneditable, so
I have to print it out, complete it manually, and then scan it in and send it.

Just completed the Bluesky email verification step. I’ve never seen one that relies on 36^10 permutations before.