calum.me
Scottish purveyor of #UX goodness in Ireland. #lanarkshire #meath
Modern interests: #apple #android #javascript #css
Retro interests: #zx81 #zxspectrum #specnext #amiga, old British telly, old British adverts.
Sporting interests: #SPFL #MotherwellFC #F1
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“That says”, not “which says”.
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Bad luck.
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I’ll never need that, but can it prototype bog standard text boxes that people can type into yet?
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Nope, this is the only place I see you now. Have no desire to keep using any Musk or Meta services.
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The iPhone has never not been “ultra-premium”.
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Thanks for the heads up - I’ll be watching!
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Not that nifty. If he can hit a ball into space and run the bases like Speedy Gonzales, he should be getting home with a bit more time to spare.
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(I suppose I agree, but you have yet to list anything I would miss in the slightest.)
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Hmph. Now you’ve spoiled my favourite TW theme.
For anyone else who likes it, here’s the full 3 minute version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc9v1vfBlHs
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BUT THEY WEREN’T BROWN PEOPLE! (Other than the Italian, who probably was a little bit.)
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In case you’re interested, and confining ourselves to post-consolidation NYC mayors only, we have George McClellan (1904-1909, born in Dresden) Bill O’Dwyer (1945-50, born in Mayo); Vincent Impellitteri (1950-53, Sicily); and Abe Beame (1974-77, London).
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Real Libertarians Don’t Wear Seat Belts.
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This is not news to anyone who used to watch Trev & Simon’s sketches on Saturday mornings with that week’s Going Live/L&K guests.
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He was still very much on snorting terms with the cocaines in 2001, which presumably wouldn’t have helped. (Not that I have any idea what he’s like now.)
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Very much looking forward to it, although of course my immediate reaction is “why can I see his irises”?
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A little over half, in fact… apparently the figures up to 2014 were 461 busted, 178 plausible, 194 confirmed. (It only ran for another year or so after that, but I don’t remember the last series being much different...)
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Lasagna, in fact. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IaT90jhuB0
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People really are nobs.
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Actually, turns out some of it is. Boo.
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Which is nice if you have access to Freeview channels, but we don’t here. Surprisingly, though, the YouTube channel appears not to be geoblocked.
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I have a vague (and possibly false) memory of it from an episode of Love Thy Neighbour, too. Always seemed like the sort of gag that would’ve been heard around many an army recruitment office or field hospital during the War(s).
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Coogan or not, I’m struggling to imagine how they’ll stretch a five minute tantrum into a watchable 2 hour film.
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It was loud neighbours having a party, in our case.
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It is in The National, so a reasonable chance it’s bollocks.
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Rest easy, Jim.
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Ugh. Nothing gets to send me browser notifications.
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That’s lucky, because I never have.
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Apparently I’m an outlier.
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And really boring television, at that. I do not need to watch people with headphones and a mic on a boom arm talking at each other.
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Yes, lots of things: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/gaza-gaza-strip-world-health-organisation-earth-hamas-b2735251.html
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It’s not even close to being true: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/gaza-gaza-strip-world-health-organisation-earth-hamas-b2735251.html
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Unsubscribe from it? I'm on a a 1774 day streak and don't ever remember getting any emails.
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Unless it does the yoga for me so I can just stay in bed, I'd be inclined to disagree.
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Their enshittification continues apace.
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There’s no argument, It’s a logotype :)
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I felt like that two episodes into the first series.
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I always wanted to love Full Throttle at the time, but I could never get past the seizure-inducing flickery graphics and terrible physics. Don't think I ever finished higher than about 30th in years of trying.
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I think I'm glad I only understood about three of those words.
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Knowing how good LLMs are at arithmetic, I’m assuming he did.
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Adele sings everything like that anyway though, so it’s hard to tell. (Think it was @quantick.bsky.social who transcribed that bit as “leddy sky-FOH, weddy crum-BOH!”, or similar…?)
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Yet people still try to convince us telly was better in the old days.
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I applaud the sentiment, but unfortunately some colours just don’t make for appetising food colours, so one looks a bit like a mouldy version of the other.
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Pauline McLynn let us go in front of her at the checkout in a pet shop in Dublin. At no point did she say "go on, go on, go on".
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My wife bought it for my birthday today too! (Admittedly I had to suggest it to her…)