It wasn't French and it didn't help the drainage
so I have finally started digging the trench in the garden for the French drain
would you all like to guess what I found
would you all like to guess what I found
November 25, 2025 at 10:57 PM
It wasn't French and it didn't help the drainage
This feels like most software development advice in that it is probably mostly true, but the real answer is always "it depends"
if you're going to brine a turkey for thursday, you need to start defrosting today.
November 25, 2025 at 10:13 PM
This feels like most software development advice in that it is probably mostly true, but the real answer is always "it depends"
Sure there's a gag in here somewhere about a Diss track
Every mainline station between London and Norwich has step-free access – except one. Diss, which serves more than 600,000 people a year.
There’s a campaign for access - and it’s growing…
eastangliabylines.co.uk/business/tra...
There’s a campaign for access - and it’s growing…
eastangliabylines.co.uk/business/tra...
Bridging the gap: the campaign to make Diss station accessible
The need for lifts at the Diss station is obvious and the locals are petitioning to demand that authorities respond
eastangliabylines.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Sure there's a gag in here somewhere about a Diss track
Accurate
November 20, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Accurate
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I think this constant push for immigrants to feel & act ‘grateful’ is so insidious. Let’s change the narrative. Migration is a normal part of human behaviour, not a charity case. If you’re doing your best to do your best, you don’t need to do even more to be accepted. It’s your right to be accepted.
November 4, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I think this constant push for immigrants to feel & act ‘grateful’ is so insidious. Let’s change the narrative. Migration is a normal part of human behaviour, not a charity case. If you’re doing your best to do your best, you don’t need to do even more to be accepted. It’s your right to be accepted.
“It has stopped making sense to work,” she said, which certainly explains her approach to opposition."
Genius.
Genius.
You wait months for an incoherent speech on the economy, and then two come along in the same morning! My SKETCH of Rachel Reeves vs Kemi Badenoch vs Reality.
Making a mess of a mess | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazine
To get one incoherent speech on the economy may be regarded as a misfortune. To get two in the same morning… well, it did at least move us towards an explanation of why people have to keep making them.
thecritic.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 9:03 PM
“It has stopped making sense to work,” she said, which certainly explains her approach to opposition."
Genius.
Genius.
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Oh you're a jpg?
I'm sorry for your loss.
I'm sorry for your loss.
October 22, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Oh you're a jpg?
I'm sorry for your loss.
I'm sorry for your loss.
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“Let’s call it for what it is: bullshit. The truth is, politicians have talked about little else but immigration for decades and in the most dehumanising ways.
Polanski added: “Stop the boats’ is all we hear. Well, today I'm saying ‘stop the bullshit’.”
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Polanski added: “Stop the boats’ is all we hear. Well, today I'm saying ‘stop the bullshit’.”
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
UK faces ‘battle for the soul’ of the country, says Starmer amid Reform threat
In a rallying cry to progressives around the world, the Prime Minister said allies must stop the ‘politics of predatory grievance’.
www.independent.co.uk
September 26, 2025 at 1:34 PM
“Let’s call it for what it is: bullshit. The truth is, politicians have talked about little else but immigration for decades and in the most dehumanising ways.
Polanski added: “Stop the boats’ is all we hear. Well, today I'm saying ‘stop the bullshit’.”
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Polanski added: “Stop the boats’ is all we hear. Well, today I'm saying ‘stop the bullshit’.”
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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Happy birthday to the great eighteenth-century critic and lexicographer Samuel Johnson.
September 18, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Happy birthday to the great eighteenth-century critic and lexicographer Samuel Johnson.
I'll be there..
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Sorry, I'm supposed to be encouraging people to come
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Sorry, I'm supposed to be encouraging people to come
Tomorrow Night is @dotnetnorth.bsky.social, with a talk from @simonpainter.bsky.social
From 6pm at Bright HR
Tickets still available, it's FREE, and there is pizza 🍕
www.meetup.com/dotnetnorth/...
#Manchester #DotNet #CSharp
From 6pm at Bright HR
Tickets still available, it's FREE, and there is pizza 🍕
www.meetup.com/dotnetnorth/...
#Manchester #DotNet #CSharp
Down The Oregon Trail with Functional C#, Tue, Sep 16, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup
Originally scheduled for July, we're delighted to have rescheduled the following talk:
**Down The Oregon Trail with Functional C#** \- Simon Painter
Oregon Trail is often
www.meetup.com
September 15, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I'll be there..
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Sorry, I'm supposed to be encouraging people to come
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Sorry, I'm supposed to be encouraging people to come
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There are folk out there using .NET who never had to think about the Global Assembly Cache.
In some ways nature is healing.
In some ways nature is healing.
September 11, 2025 at 9:39 PM
There are folk out there using .NET who never had to think about the Global Assembly Cache.
In some ways nature is healing.
In some ways nature is healing.
Reposted by Steve Futcher
I like presidents who know Slavery is bad, not "WOKE."
August 20, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I like presidents who know Slavery is bad, not "WOKE."
I scored 17/21 on e-mail.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.
Email validation is _hard_ and a lot of websites are waaay to strict
Email validation is _hard_ and a lot of websites are waaay to strict
Email is Easy
Everyone knows what an email address is, right?
e-mail.wtf
August 18, 2025 at 1:52 AM
I scored 17/21 on e-mail.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.
Email validation is _hard_ and a lot of websites are waaay to strict
Email validation is _hard_ and a lot of websites are waaay to strict
Reposted by Steve Futcher
This is owned by a LANlord
August 16, 2025 at 4:03 AM
This is owned by a LANlord
Tell me you're in SE Asia without telling me you're in SE Asia
August 3, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Tell me you're in SE Asia without telling me you're in SE Asia
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Disgusted to see this beautiful landscape ruined by wind turbines.
July 28, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Disgusted to see this beautiful landscape ruined by wind turbines.
Reposted by Steve Futcher
Propaganda: trans women are going to assault you in the ladies’ room
Reality: Drunk armed border patrol agents are going to assault you in the ladies’ room
Reality: Drunk armed border patrol agents are going to assault you in the ladies’ room
Hodgson, the agent, was allegedly off-duty, intoxicated, and armed with a handgun while at a restaurant in the Shoreline Village in Long Beach. Hodgson allegedly entered the women’s restroom, where he approached a female who observed his handgun and firearm magazine.
July 11, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Propaganda: trans women are going to assault you in the ladies’ room
Reality: Drunk armed border patrol agents are going to assault you in the ladies’ room
Reality: Drunk armed border patrol agents are going to assault you in the ladies’ room
Bit poky this stadium
June 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Bit poky this stadium
It's always Teams...
Or maybe my colleagues are all gits?
Or maybe my colleagues are all gits?
Trying to figure out which window you just typed into, when it's not the one you expected
a close up of a man 's face with a bow and arrow .
Alt: legolas looking up and around the screen
media.tenor.com
June 24, 2025 at 6:42 AM
It's always Teams...
Or maybe my colleagues are all gits?
Or maybe my colleagues are all gits?
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"By all means, let’s make Mark Zuckerberg’s name a curse for a thousand years. But let’s not forget that he was able to do what he did because policymakers over and over again deliberately failed us."
– Cory Doctorow
bylinesupplement.substack.com/p/engineered...
– Cory Doctorow
bylinesupplement.substack.com/p/engineered...
Engineered Estrangement | An Interview with Cory Doctorow
The author, activist, and technology critic Cory Doctorow on reckless broligarchs and what their 'enshittified' platforms are doing to our future
bylinesupplement.substack.com
June 20, 2025 at 8:20 AM
"By all means, let’s make Mark Zuckerberg’s name a curse for a thousand years. But let’s not forget that he was able to do what he did because policymakers over and over again deliberately failed us."
– Cory Doctorow
bylinesupplement.substack.com/p/engineered...
– Cory Doctorow
bylinesupplement.substack.com/p/engineered...
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'Meredith,' some guys ask, 'why won't you shove AI into Signal?'
Because we love privacy, and we love you, and this shit is predictable and unacceptable. Use Signal ❤️
Because we love privacy, and we love you, and this shit is predictable and unacceptable. Use Signal ❤️
June 19, 2025 at 7:59 AM
'Meredith,' some guys ask, 'why won't you shove AI into Signal?'
Because we love privacy, and we love you, and this shit is predictable and unacceptable. Use Signal ❤️
Because we love privacy, and we love you, and this shit is predictable and unacceptable. Use Signal ❤️
Reposted by Steve Futcher
Reposted by Steve Futcher
I would like to recommend a fantastic way for parents to turn a mid-life crisis into cultural exchange across the generations
The lifetime mixtape (as a spotify playlist)
The rules are
- choose one song per year
- but only one song per artist
- you can phone a friend for the last decade or so
The lifetime mixtape (as a spotify playlist)
The rules are
- choose one song per year
- but only one song per artist
- you can phone a friend for the last decade or so
May 29, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I would like to recommend a fantastic way for parents to turn a mid-life crisis into cultural exchange across the generations
The lifetime mixtape (as a spotify playlist)
The rules are
- choose one song per year
- but only one song per artist
- you can phone a friend for the last decade or so
The lifetime mixtape (as a spotify playlist)
The rules are
- choose one song per year
- but only one song per artist
- you can phone a friend for the last decade or so
Reposted by Steve Futcher
Because in none of those cases was copyright infringed.
There are many more applications of advanced ML, what we now call AI, than LLMs. And frankly every other application seems much more valuable to me (at least in a societal sense) than LLMs are.
There are many more applications of advanced ML, what we now call AI, than LLMs. And frankly every other application seems much more valuable to me (at least in a societal sense) than LLMs are.
May 26, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Because in none of those cases was copyright infringed.
There are many more applications of advanced ML, what we now call AI, than LLMs. And frankly every other application seems much more valuable to me (at least in a societal sense) than LLMs are.
There are many more applications of advanced ML, what we now call AI, than LLMs. And frankly every other application seems much more valuable to me (at least in a societal sense) than LLMs are.