Derek Lowe’s “Stuff I won’t work with” blog entries on “in the pipeline“ are good for that. Example: www.science.org/content/blog...
Posts by James Drinkwater
No! Because! If I click a link to access their free training it... puts "ACCESS" in the code box? That's not what links are for. Or what security is. Oh well.
Oh, and an opt-out communications preferences setting. Let's hope the ICO don't see that, eh?
Me: OK, I need to indent this single line.
Word: how about the whole document?
Me: no!
Word: WHOLE DOCUMENT DONE 🙂
Me: Arghhh.
Word: yaaaaay indent!
Me: UNDO, UNDO
Word: *indents everything you've ever written in both the past and future*
Word: I'm a word processor!
Alarm slide to stop button is very weird
indeed, they're on it tho... bsky.app/profile/knut...
Still does this, but now with added cookie banner :)
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(also the video of the cell flashing as it is targeted for death alone is worth taking a peek)
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Politicians who would take away your rights, mean to do you harms which those rights prevent
I can't read about the CloudFlare outage because @theregister.com is down because of the CloudFlare outage...
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🤑Their creditors want to pollute our rivers & seas illegally for the next 15 years.
✍️Ofwat makes its decision next week. Add your name, 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 & 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲 today!
This is a lie.
There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.
But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.
But will it halve the number of pounds people have to pay for it?
Incorrect! Nothing escaped the 1970s gelatine obsession. NOTHING.
Someone, somewhere is furiously adding subtitles to that Downfall Führerbunker clip.
"I've got a brand new content harvester"
Indeed, water bill up 38.48% over last year here.
Defend the em-dash
Another news story that omits the unit prices and standing charges and just goes with the nebulous average.
In 2024, telecoms company O2 launched an AI chatbot called Daisy Harris who kept scammers on the line by talking incessantly about her cat.
Host wise I’ve used KDA is Sheffield for a long time. It’s run by @kaustin-uk.bsky.social
One imagines a truly ‘leading’ economist might be able to figure it out…
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Headline reading "OpenAI declares AI race “over” if training on copyrighted works isn’t fair use"
Similarly, my business model of stealing all your shit won't work if you don't allow me to steal all your shit.
From the article: “could be saved” and “…work with the fire service to see if book swaps can be re-introduced at some stations…” is not the same as overrule.