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Haven’t played on my Xbox in a couple of years and honestly the experience of being forced to repeatedly log in and jump through multiple hoops makes me want to throw the thing out the window

Felt like this was necessary.

My favourite part of the new Captain America movie is when he tries to extort Wakanda for $500b in Vibranium rights before "ironically" teaming up with Hydra to own the libs.

This is how really bad managers operate.

The conclave is in session

Ok I’m gonna need a SICKO MILLENNIAL t-shirt now

regret to inform everyone this is a real guy who could be pope

A little context on Coventry’s current run of form: 7 wins from 8 matches (21 points). #PUSB

When I first knew my wife we used to talk a lot via SMS, which as she lived in Ireland was about 10p per 160 characters of text. My mobile bills were absolutely crippling, and then one day it just suddenly became ordinary unmetered data.

Is there a corollary for ‘the purpose of a system is what it does’ but for people? Because I’m bored of hearing somebody’s ‘brand’ being used to defend that person’s consistent pattern of behaviour. I don’t care how smart you think they are, if they consistently do objectively bad things.

There needs to be a movement away from centralised corporate provision of encryption and back towards distributed, open source tools. Encryption is maths, and you can’t ban maths.

Craig Mod on how “leave no trace” and “pack it in, pack it out” is not just for campers and backpackers in Japan. “The Japanese way is the correct way. Be an adult. Own your garbage.” [craigmod.com]

Seconds Out is such a fantastic live album. Firstly for the cornucopia of prog rock goodness in one place, but also because it demonstrated how perfect Phil Collins was to succeed Peter Gabriel.

Is he in Kevlar because they think somebody might try and Jack Ruby him as opposed to idk, putting a garland around his neck?

Posting my embroidery so people can find me... 🐯 #embroidery #handembroidery