Looking down from Balgay Park in Dundee over the Tay, and the railway bridge to Fife, framed between two trees.

Beautiful railway bridge of the Silv'ry Tay!

My 14-yo-son has recreated the climax of Back to the Future in gingerbread and I thought you should know.

Side 2 of 4 of Dylan's Blonde on Blonde lined up and ready to go. Currently listening to I Want You. I am unlikely to stay awake beyond the end of "Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again" but let's see how it goes.

I meant to be asleep but, well, it's nearly Christmas, the coursework is graded, and this is just where we are now. #latenightalbumclub

FWIW, I sent the refund plus a bit to @transactualuk.bsky.social, because I know how much being kind to fellow humans annoys billionaires.

Can we all remember to do this though? Actually chase up the stupid trivial things they get away with? There's so much of it and they think we don't care but every little hammering on the rock gets that rock closer to falling to bits.

I was bored enough to try to find a human at Amazon, and, astonishingly, they agreed to a refund. Of £4.19. Jeff Bezos will have earned upwards of $50,000 while we were chatting.

They also said "thank you for your kind words" when I said something rude about Jeff Bezos. Maybe it wasn't a human.

I actually managed to talk to a human at Amazon and got a refund of the £4.19 I spent. In 2019. Which was honestly a waste of both of our time, except that (a) I was bored and (b) if we all do this, maybe something will get done. Eventually.

I'm looking for a Kindle book I bought in 2016. It's no longer in my account. I can buy it again when I find the order, but can I read it? Ha! Forget it.

I know better now and I don't do that any more.

Still... don't buy electronic content. You're only renting it. You knew that already, of course.

Me neither. It's so much more enjoyable here now.

I deleted my twitter account. Although I also then set up a new one with the same username just so that nobody else would. As if anyone would pretend to be me anyway... I wonder if it's still there.

I was tempted to ***** out his name, but then your mute filters wouldn't have worked either. My fingers resisted typing it anyway, but they managed in the end.

If you're going to post a screenshot of a Donald Trump tweet (or, anyone really, but especially him) please can you remember the alt text so that my mute filters can save me from looking at it when I haven't prepared myself?

(Also, please remember the alt text anyway. Be creative with it too :))

Can of Irn Bru, limited edition Winter Bru with spiced ginger and cinnamon.

Couldn't resist. It's... actually quite nice.

Time person of the year cover for 2025

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

I'm in Scotland, so creative swearing points may be easier to get for me.

If you hear "Last Christmas", look around you. Score 1 point for anyone who is visibly annoyed, 2 points for anyone audibly annoyed. Give yourself bonus points at liberty for any creative swearing.

Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content More than 50 organisations report sites being restricted or removed, with abortion hotlines blocked and posts showing non-explicit nudity triggering warnings

You thought the patriarchy was going to stop with trans people? Really? www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Not that you asked for this but I have boring tasks to avoid so I did it anyway. This is probably not what it sounds like. www.type-driven.org.uk/tmp/graham.mp3

I was miles off, in that case.

It wasn't exactly Divine Comedy in here

Nobody here picked up a handy nearby instrument and tried to sing this. In A minor.

Ooh! The video has 2 dislikes already. Maybe a Scrooge or two has seen it. Make sure you leave a light on for the ghosts on Christmas Eve...

Favourite Part Of Christmas (original song) YouTube video by Lambda Miner Edwin

This popped into my head earlier today and enough people seemed to like it that I'm going to Inflict it on you too. It's just a little Christmas ditty. youtube.com/shorts/VAXeT...

Zero tolerance for doomerism. Stop lazily accepting that everything is screwed forever. Stop normalising low expectations. That’s part of the problem & it’s what the bastards want. It’s also a product of privilege. People in more desperate situations don’t have the option to just sit back & shrug.

I am going to have to deliberately knock myself out of Whamageddon because:

a) Shopping is stressful enough as it is.
b) It's a cracking song. Why hide from it?

Mariahgeddon on the other hand...

All those years at prompt school learning how to make prompts, and knowing that the true joy in the art is the process and the craft involved in coming up with the prompt, and now this!

(It's as if this person is *almost* getting it... the light will come on soon. Surely. Please.)

stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.

One day I'll work out how to turn it off, because it typically looks like it's following rules without thinking. I mean, imagine a computer behaving like that...

Editing my email signature. It says "Tempted to use generative AI to reply? Please think of the environment. and send me the prompt you were going to use instead". It's also criticising my punctuation use.

I'll probably wimp out. I see it's criticising my punctuation. It might have a point but I'm not going to let a computer tell me what to do. (Okay, maybe I will. This time.)

I love this idea (via mastodon) and I think I will start doing it wandering.shop/@silvermoon8...

Light Flight YouTube video by Pentangle - Topic

Folk-rock can have fun with this too :). I think there's at least some 5/8 and 7/8 in there, if I can manage to count that high.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsMm...