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Mostly codswallop. SWE MSFT UK. All opinions are those of my dog, Frank. Motorcycles & IAM, Severn Freewheelers volunteer blood-biker. Standard Issue Dad
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I’m not sure it’s technically a hut but it’s definitely a

Since it’s his birthday, what if it’s pronounced ‘Shaun Baun’

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

Hacer ejercicio, te hace sentir débil, cuando en realidad te hace más fuerte. Aprender cosas nuevas, te hace sentir estúpido, cuando en realidad te hace más inteligente. Invertir en ti, te hace sentir pobre, cuando en realidad te hace más rico. 🧵 👇

As a large language model, I can't be bargained with. I can't be reasoned with. I don't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And I absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.

Cackling Hims CEO Threatens To Pull Switch Activating All World’s Erections At Once

Be kind. Not everyone remembers they can go fuck themselves. Sometimes you have to remind them

When ever someone tells me “I’m my own worst critic” I like to say “well I’m not so sure that’s true…” then tail off and leave them hanging

Can’t wait to give this a go.

Heroes

Sometimes I want a coke with *extra* caffeine. Is there such a thing?

Thought I had a bit of conjunctivitis so I went on internet to get a second opinion and so now I’m just requesting family-only flowers and a simple cremation.

V happy I got my coffee machine back from repair yesterday. Essential espresso hit needed before urgent late night job to take blood 🩸 sample from Swindon to Filton

Saw this over on the other place www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co... and there’s so many laughs in it

Salisbury’s Five River Sports and Leisure Centre has a cafe that has no business being so good. If I lived nearby I’d pop in just for the cafe.

Every day I’m getting several pr0n bots following.. is this place going to turn into a cesspool too

Jealous Trump Throws Own State Funeral To Upstage Carter’s theonion.com/jealous...

So many bots are arriving on Bluesky in the last few weeks. Need to set aside to go through them and block

x X has ~18m daily USA users. @bsky.app, ~1.5m. Is it worth 20 MINS a day to proactively recruit and bring your friends, neighbors,relatives, businesses, anyone who is or could be a user, to @bsky.app? If Bluesky ends up with more users than the others, you destabilize musk, zuck, trump.

Elon courting the far right in the UK is a threat to our national security and I hope it’s being treated thus

Happy Bin Day for those that celebrate! 🥳

Hey #dotnet folks if you’re using a CI/CD double check your resource URLs. A CDN has gone bankrupt and may cease operations in the next month. We are working to make transparent fixes but you can be proactive github.com/dotnet/core/...

Just listened to the ‘I Believe In Father Christmas’ version from Embrace and discovered that it’s difficult to drive whilst being repeatedly pummelled in the internals by someone’s violently melancholic tone

Very enjoyable walk around Rome today taking in the sights. Loved it. Italians are justifiably proud of their architecture, heritage and history.

If you miss Stack Overflow because you've been using AI for everything these days, don't worry! You can still get the same Stack Overflow (or Reddit) experience with just a few minor tweaks to your prompt/profile: #ChatGPT #dotnet

Recently I’ve been using a book about ‘having difficult conversations’ and whilst it has given great food for thought there’s no substitute for the learning you get actually having the conversations as opposed to avoiding them. Like any skill it’s something that needs practice

The recall button in MS Outlook is the tech equivalent of the Streisand Effect

Literally every public ev charge station I use gives me a small fraction of the advertised charge rate. The one I’m at now advertises 300kw

Since the shooting of the CEO: - 4 children under 11 were killed by gunfire - 11 teenagers were killed by gunfire - there were 3 mass shooting events This is what the media is covering:

Storm Darragh caused a bit of disruption to our ops last couple of days. Had to use the car last night to pick up some urgent drugs from the Bristol Royal Infirmary for a heart transplant patient in Swindon but was able to use bike for today’s tasks so far. #bloodbikes

Currently on the train from Bristol to Reading and even the automated route announcement sounds like it’s wincing as it mentions passing though Swindon .