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Mike Lee
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👨‍💻 #Writer and #Designer
🔗 https://mikelee.me.uk

👴 36 ☕ #British 🏳️‍🌈 #Gaymer
❄️ #Leftist 🔶 #LibDem
🧠 #AuDHD 🍙 #LearningJapanese
🧑‍⚖️ #AceAttorney fan
🥚 #Tamagotchi collector

🎮 #Gaming: @criticalchicken.com
👁️ #BBUK #BBAU #BBSky: @beingbigbrother.blog
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LOOK HOW SMALL MY YOUTUBE MINI PLAYER IS 😁😭
August 1, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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四月には、明るくて寒い日でしたか？👀

#LearningJapanese
#JapaneseLearning
A screenshot from Duolingo's Japanese course. The sentence 「時計が十三時を打っていた」 has been translated by the user as, "The clocks were striking thirteen."
July 21, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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All I did was search for "grimace emoji". Because Microsoft broke the Windows 10 emoji picker.

And Bing gave me 🦷 #Teet
One of those search engine "knowledge box" things. Not an AI one, just a really garbled one about how "The Grimacing Face emoji depicts a face with clenched 🦷 Teeth". The box is titled "🦷 Teet".
July 14, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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TWO:

I also have a "Selfies - Gross" album, for photos like the attached, that I send to my best friend. (omg she is so lucky)

But about HALF the pictures in the album are just... normal selfies? Maybe not my BEST selfies, but perfectly ordinary ones.

So, yeah, I'm not very kind to myself. 🤔 3/3
A disconcertingly close-up image of a man's face with patchy moustache, black heads, and bloodshot eyes all on display. The man has a deranged, faraway, slightly duck-like look on his face.
July 10, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Microsoft®️ Copilot, explaining why Copilot Vision isn't working for me. 😅
A screenshot of a Copilot response: "Microsoft does have a bit of a track record when it comes to teasing functionality that doesn't fully land across all accounts or regions simultaneously. And Copilot Vision seems especially prone to this strange limbo where the UI rolls out ahead of the actual capability."
June 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Hey, at least it gave us one of the best newspaper ads of all time.
KFC's full-page newspaper advert, featuring a takeaway bucket labelled "FCK". "We're sorry. A chicken restaurant without any chicken. It's not ideal. Huge apologies to our customers, especially those who travelled out of their way to find we were closed. And endless thanks to our KFC team members and our franchise partners for working tirelessly to improve the situation. It's been a hell of a week, but we're making progress, and every day more and more fresh chicken is being delivered to our restaurants. Thank you for bearing with us."
May 14, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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#Google updating its 'G' icon for the first time in 10 years: 9to5google.com/2025/05/12/g...

The gradient is a bit 'Instagram', but this bodes well considering #MaterialDesign Expressive is due to be announced this month.

Flat design is gradually dying! Nature is healing! 🙌

#GoogleIO
An image comparing the old and new versions of Google's "G" icon. The new version replaces the four separate coloured segments with a blended gradient.
May 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Via Lemmy 😅 #Gay_IRL
A screenshot of an online advert. A man in a high-vis jacket is smiling. Text reads, "Take loads at the touch of a button. Amazon Relay. Sign up now." Underneath, someone has written "WHERE IS THE BUTTON?"
May 12, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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I was hoping for something based on the "crosshairs" promos – they're so clean! I get the feeling that's what the brief was, but somewhere along the line, someone went rogue and decided "squares" was the most important part to carry over. 👀
A screenshot from a Sky News promo. Footage of tanks is framed by a pair of tasteful, white crosshairs. Text nestled into the corner formed by the crosshairs reads "Red Square, Moscow".
May 8, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Oopsie news.sky.com/story/politi...
A screenshot from Sky News's live blog: "UK to give concessions on food and agriculture imports from US. Sky News business correspondent Paul Kelso understands the UK has agreed to give some concessions on food and agriculture imports from the United States to secure an easing of export tariffs for the car industry.
May 8, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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This #ITVNews headline really tickled me 😅
An ITV News YouTube video thumbnail under the heading "Top news". Text accompanying an image of black smoke and red-clad Cardinals reads, "NO POPE YET"
May 7, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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This is surely the closest Sir Keith has come to saying "Trump can't be trusted; we're all fucked"? 🤔
May 2, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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So... was it popular, or wasn't it? 💀 Honestly this clickbait, content-farm shit riles me up way more than AI slop.
A screenshot of a "Leicestershire Live" clickbait article, with the headline, "ITV axes popular quiz show after just one series amid low ratings"
May 1, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Wanted to test out the #AI "compose" thing on my Samsung phone, so I asked it for a welcome email for an LGBTQ+ surfing club's mailing list. 🤷‍♂️

This isn't the sort of club I had in mind...
Subject: Welcome to the Surf Club! Hey there! So stoked to have you join our little surf crew. We're all about good vibes, catching waves, and celebrating who we are. Expect updates on meetups, beach cleanups, and maybe even some sweet surf tips. Things might get a little salty, but always in the best way. If hanging ten with us isn't your thing any more, no worries! You can unsubscribe anytime – no hard feelings. Can't wait to see you out on the waves!
April 27, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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I'm pretty happy with #OneUI7 so far. But... is "text that's snappy enough to fit on a widget" REALLY too much to ask of a $270 billion company? 💀

Here, Samsung, I'll fix this one for free:

"A bit warmer today."
A screenshot showing various sizes of the One UI 7 Weather widget on Android. The text is truncated on every single one, reading, "Today's temperatures will..."
April 11, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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They don't make 'em like this any more
April 2, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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Spent hours writing #JapaneseLearning notes in the #reMarkable app, only to turn on the actual tablet and find it can't display Japanese characters. 🤦‍♂️

Thankfully the app can export PDFs, so it wasn't a *total* waste of time…

#reMarkable2 #LearningJapanese #MildlyInfuriating
An off-screen photo of my Japanese study notes, with all the Japanese characters replaced by boxes.
March 29, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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"Teh Chancellorz cutz are so random lol xd"

Via The i Paper 👀 liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/hav...
A snippet from an article in "The i Paper", which misspells "The" as "T-E-H". "This is simply tinkering around the edges. Teh Chancellor has made almost the smallest cuts she could possibly get away with: on top of the benefits savings announced last week, the additional reductions in public spending look more like a gentle squeeze than a chainsaw attack."
March 26, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Top #1 Japanese learner and then won the diamond tournament a week later... Duo better watch out, I'm coming for him... 👀

#LearningJapanese #JapaneseLanguage #Duolingo
My Duolingo year in review. "I'm a top 1% Japanese learner on Duolingo!" – my streak is 214 days, I have 81,300 total XP, and I spent 4,199 minutes learning this year. "I won the Diamond Tournament!"
December 9, 2024 at 5:03 PM
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The #SkyNews ticker has accidentally broken over two lines, and they don't seem to be able to clear it. 🤭
November 12, 2024 at 3:43 AM
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So pure ✨ #SexValues
sexvalues.github.io
My "Sex Values" quiz results. Attraction is 92.9% Masculine vs. Feminine. Sex Drive is 84.4% Hyper vs. Hypo. Dominance Axis is 58.3% Dominant vs. Submissive. Deviance Axis is 87.5% Pure vs. Deviant. Affection Axis is 62.5% Hedonism vs. Affection.
March 9, 2024 at 9:55 PM
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Hmm. This makes me feel worse about falling off the wagon recently. 👀 But also better about jumping back on in the new year. #Duolingo
My Duolingo 2023 Year in Review. I'm a top 1% Japanese learner on Duolingo! 78,188 total XP. 5,911 minutes spent. 1,901 words learned. 189 longest streak.
December 12, 2023 at 9:46 PM
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Great first impression from my new NHS therapists
A screenshot of an email. Subject:Private and Confidential Dear {Patient Name}, - Welcome to Xyla Digital Therapies. We have now received your referral from your {Type} or other healthcare provider.
October 29, 2023 at 11:36 AM