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oh good grief. why are some blokes. etcetcetc.

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

the schar choc chip muffins are passable. not great. not awful. insufficiently dosed with chocolate chips. but also annoyingly easy to eat 3 of. which for a not more-ish thing is perplexing. and overly calorific.

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

well i was going to be on a train in ten mins. but i'm still sat in my blankets drinking coffee so... yeah. another half hour i think. (sorry)

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

i seem to have mislaid my straws, along with the rest of ... well everything.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

i should probably get some outside clothes on and go and do something outside of the house with 30' of the day, no?

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

seriously wondering if i could/should bring a tiny specialist chocolate company into being, simply to enable me to feed a recent habit at wholesale...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

so i spend a day doing the sort of life admin that keeps me out of the house but not having fun/being in the sunshine. and just as i have a gap in time to do sunshine yay things... its gone cold and over cast and is now heading rapidly into sunset... :-(

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

@monzo.com hey - where did the external savings pots go? the app is only showing your internal options this morning, which don't pay close to the rates on offer from paragon/shawbrook only yesterday... No email, no in app message. a heads up would have been your usual MO, what's happened?

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

cackle

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

heads up for those doing the kindle download. i went to check today and discovered that a changes what it shows you depending on which way you sort the list. the way i did it last week was new to old. looking old to new today i realised that there was around 400 more titles showing...

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

And… the handle on the coffee machine has borked again, with the pod still inside…..

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

so basically the entire media is saying 'no' to the copyright carve out. and i am, again, today wondering wtf is being rolled out on the book whilst 'AI copyright exemptions' are being put front page...

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

pondering: at what point does it cease to be sparkling funemployment, and become unemployable... ?

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

I have now completed the UK government's consultation on "AI" & copyright. The consultation is open to pretty much everyone, but it closes on Tuesday, 25 February (GMT/UTC 0). You don't have to complete all of it. My article in the quoted post has links to advice, & to the consultation.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 13 days ago • 5 comments

and 'lo, today brings another 'we're going to base this role in the EU, so won't be considering you further' email.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

so... do i put my lenses in in anticipation of needing to drive somewhere, or wait til i know i need to drive somewhere? (i've run out of saline to rinse, so its anyones bet as to whether they'll smart a bit or not, cos its day 30 and the catalyst/neutralising thing is hit or miss at this point)

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

economised on the creatine... and realising now that i really really need not to put this one in the coffee...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

it has been SOOOOO nice to have the windows wide open for the past 24 ish hours and funny how basically its not got any colder inside for that, just noticeably Fresher.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 16 days ago • 27 comments

thread. i might totally be adopting this, but also... ... paging @wolvendamien.bsky.social

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

This felt like a good idea at the time but I can't look after this. Is anybody interested in being the proud owner of the @cafeotodalston.bsky.social jukebox? All the electronics are working, CD changer arm needs fixing. The CD's aren't in there but the full track lists are

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

In case you missed it: we've launched a mentorship programme, with subsidised places and totally-free places on offer. You've got just three days left to apply, so get to it!

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

I know others have raised the alarm on this, but I’m calling it now: Amazon is making this change so they can easily redact, restrict, and otherwise censor LGBTQIA+ books that were acceptable a year ago, but are likely to become outlawed in the US very soon www.theverge.com/news/612898/...

submitted 21 days ago • 74 comments

i officially bloody loathe the constant back and forth of the whole sodding thing.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

so is there anyone here i know, who i don't have as a pokemongo 'friend'? todays/tomorrows challenge has 'make a new friend' as a task...

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

just realised that 53 is a prime number and... i should really mark that one properly later this year, shouldn't I? But then, what do i do? needs to be ridiculously affordable, as i'll have just had to renew my car insurance and its going to be painful after a prang late last year...

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 25 days ago • 5 comments

A hacker group with a name truly deserving of a neon cyberpunk future:

submitted 26 days ago • 8 comments

when the educational/artist discount on some software is bloody good, but you still don't have the cash* to take advantage of it :-( *nor likely to before that eligibility passes.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Yay, skin has decided to be radically sore, everywhere except hands, feet, and bum. Application of suitable soothing cream has made everything worse/more friable and drier; so the mantle is the thing that’s borked then. I’m assuming mast cell bleutgh and dosing accordingly…

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments