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Writer, speaker, leader, software guru, trustee, human. As a species, we will live or die on our success at remembering those we disagree with are usually not our enemies. In our fight to preserve democracy, freedom and equality, let's build, not destroy.
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@microsoft.com I didn't think Teams would get worse but you have surpassed yourself. Now I can't send files in chats. PS: O do NOT use OneDrive! Are you lot in a competition to see who can be the most incompetent?! Why did you junk Skype, which worked perfectly, for this Teams crap?!

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

@microsoft.com Teams is still crap. I'm logged out on PC 3 times/day, missing important messages. it's your job to fix that, not mine. Notifications on phone don't go away when I've read the messages on PC. WhatsApp can manage it. so can you. Skype Dialpad is a joke, you forgot calling, didn't you.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

There's a charm to the old personals ads. "Fat, disgusting, incontinent rapist seeks young, beautiful eastern European who can be in same room without vomiting for the sake of a life of luxury. Failed applicants buried in golf course." So romantic. Who could resist?

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

June 14, 1381. King Richard II travels to meet Peasants' Revolt leaders. Meanwhile rebels stormed the Tower of London, killing the Archbishop. The revolt, sparked by high taxes and social inequalities, saw rebels from across England march on London to demand reforms. Hello Americans...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Ditch @microsoft.com Win10/11. It's crap, forces you to update HW but with worst performance ever. Switch to Kubuntu. It's free, fast, secure and works on old & new HW. There are fully compatible alternatives for every major application you use. Outlook->Evolution, Office->Libre etc. Time's up MS!

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

@microsoft.com STOP AUTO REBOOTING MY PC! It always fucks up. I run VMs in VIrtualBox with NFS exports which my editor accesses. Every bit of that is screwed up! Outlook is running but won't receive emails! It takes half an hour every time to sort it all out! Plus losing my open files! DO NOT DO IT!

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Blind in one eye, 10% vision in the other, (retinal damage), and had a corneal graft on the 10% eye (unrelated condition) 8 week ago. With temporary "beer-bottle" glasses to offset the recovering graft, I'm trying to be productive. It's a headache inducing slog. Hugs to vision impaired everywhere!

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

America is dying. Only Americans can save it. Not the law, the courts, the military or the constitution - those are all subverted. Americans can save it. Will you? #AmericaIsDying

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

My partner has pointed out that the week starts on Monday, hence the week-end being Saturday and Sunday. So, I kid you not, the middle of the week is... Thursday. Mind. Blown.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Can't think why, but this saying comes to mind: "When a scorpion fights a tarantula, you don't care who wins." ...and one might even hope that they sting each other.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

The aspect of social media that is poisoning the soul of our species is the pursuit of 'like's. It is causing people to prioritise their ego instead of their message. Those messages too need to be much less 'me me me' and a lot more 'we're all in this together'. We have liked our way to fascism.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Thanks to Trump's aid cuts, an estimated 4 million more AIDS deaths are expected, compared to pre-cut estimates, before the pandemic is brought to an end. That's just one consequence of his actions. The president of the United States is killing millions of people. Please. Why is he still in office?

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Anyone who has ever managed a company or large department knows that the leader sets the tone, the mood. The joke line "the beatings will continue until morale improves" ironically captures that. Elon Musk must look in the mirror to find the root cause of the series of SpaceX rocket failures.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

@evernote.bsky.social Stop messing around with stupid features no-one wants and fix the long list of bugs in your note editor FFS. Do you actually do any testing at all? It doesn't seem that you do. Decide if you're creating a real product or just being a bunch of cowboys.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

@microsoft.com You forced me off Skype, a great platform, perfectly integrated calls/chats and phone dialling, and pushed me to Teams, which signs me out twice a day, limits who I can contact and takes me to 'Skype Dialpad' for calls, devoid of the contact names I created in Skype. Bravo you idiots.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Breaking news: Man behind worldwide solar power and electric car businesses says people are too woke.

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

Trump is guilty of face cracking market manipulation, but not really insider trading. Buying stock when the market is down is hardly a secret, and his tariff u-turn inevitable. He's a complete and utter cock, but let's be precise!

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

I have about 5% vision. On Saturday I'm having an op which should raise that closer to 10%. However, there's a 1 in 5 chance it could drop it to 0%. Tgat will happen anyway if I don't have the op. I am shitting bricks my friends. 'See' you on the other side!

submitted 73 days ago • 2 comments

The speed at which America has gone from ally to transactional to hostile is breathtaking. But the American people are still our allies, and we are theirs. Trump is a wrecking ball, but we can dodge! In the end, he will pay for his evil.

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

The simple logic here is this. If you're pissing off your electorate, it's because you don't care what they think. Ergo, there will not be any more genuine elections in America. Results will be faked. As in Russia. Stop "hanging on" to the next vote. Too late.

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

Not the mostly wonderful American people, who are at most 'passively complicit', but USA the country is now the enemy - of the west, of peace, prosperity, climate, health, freedom and hope. The world is watching. Will Americans allow USA to become the architects of worldwide war, misery and death?

submitted 84 days ago • 1 comment

I haven't gone near LinkedIn in two months, but apparently I'm "on a roll". Should I stay away longer? Who knows what might happen?!

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

If you have your DNA data with 23andMe, they have gone bankrupt. Act Now! Download your data if you want, then 1) select Discard sample and 2) Delete your data. The site is having load issues, so be patient and keep at it. Do not leave your DNA data to be sold to the highest bidder!

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

It would be wonderful if all sports teams, players and tournaments of any sort boycotted America. They would all gain so much respect across the world.

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

Brexit costs UK businesses £37B every year. Can we put that on the side of a fucking bus and drive it over Johnson, Gove, Rees Mogg, Truss and Farage. Starmer, stop crippling our country and get us back in the EU now!

submitted 92 days ago • 2 comments

BYD, e-car maker in China, has perfected battery technology so its vehicles can be fully charged in 5 minutes, giving 400km range, about the same time it takes to fill a petrol tank and 4x faster than Tesla. Suck on that Elon. How's your share price doing?

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

I very much doubt that actual votes will correlate with published votes. The American Fascist Elite are not going to let something as trivial as public opinion get in their way.

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

Starmer, get the UK back into the EU. Do it now. No lengthy negotiations. Both sides can see the need for the EU to be as strong as possible. Reset everything to pre-Brexit. Same terms as before. If the EU demands a price for that, then we pay it. You WILL carry the country with you if you do this.

submitted 94 days ago • 1 comment

We all know, Trump knows, the world knows, that Putin handed him his arse on a plate over Ukraine. Was that the first move in deleting Trump and installing Musk as chief Putin pawn? Are we talking sell-by dates here?

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

Critical to surviving this crisis is keeping our judgement and moral compass intact. Never normalise what is happening, not the least bit of it. Keep the torch of civilisation burning, for after the storm. We'll make a bonfire of the fascists.

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

Congratulations to Kirsty Coventry the new IOC chief, and Nicola Sturgeon the brave, battling anti-Brexit politician for her vindication. Two great Brit women. Kudos.

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

I'm finding this season of "The West: Future or failure?" rather tense. Some of the characters are a bit unbelievable too. I mean, come on.

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

A lady sat to my left (my 100% blind side) at the beach bar today asked if I would watch her bag while she went to get a drink. I agreed automatically. I think I over-promised a tad.

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

Musk believes empathy is the problem with the west. Selected on the basis of lack-of-empathy, his Mars mission crew will kill each other before they're half way there. Or the sides will fall off the StarShip of course, or the batteries will explode...

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

Discussing Musk with my eldest (PhD, research fellow and occasional government advisor) and I bow to her erudite assessment of Elon: "He's a proper wrong'un"

submitted 94 days ago • 1 comment

Every day I do 5, 6, 7, 8 & 9 letter Wordles, Quordle classic, extreme & sequence, Octordle classic, extreme & sequence, Waffle, Square word, Nerdle, Binerdle and Maxinerdle. I am either a) sensibly maintaining my brain or b) losing the plot. Vote now.

submitted 94 days ago • 2 comments

It's tragic that Musk cannot understand that morale in SpaceX will be crushed now. In my experience, such people are neither productive or detail oriented. I do not see many successful launches happening now. I wouldn't buy a Mars ticket if I were you.

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

Would it be crazy to ask every voter, when they turn up to vote, to correctly give 2 or 3 policies stated by various candidates, without indicating who they intend to vote for? I mean, just enough to demonstrate they have some understanding of what they're voting for? Is that impossibly naive of me?

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

I replaced our beat-up old gas BBQ with a lovely American model last year. It's fantastic, I love it. Top temp is close to 400C instead of 275C and, quite incredibly, the gas lasts twice as long. However the hell they achived that, hats off to American BBQs!

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

Let's assume Trump is somehow removed. The only way the US could be trusted again is if they change the constitution & laws so that another Trump cannot happen. I don't mean in political terms, it's about abuse of power, reneging on commitments, abandoning allies and challenging sovereignty.

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment