I only ate a small part of it but just having a massive slab of the stuff was somehow off-putting, avoided chocolate for months

World’s Biggest Freddo 🐸🍫 What if we made the iconic chocolate bar 100 times larger?

Me looking at brands’ giant Mini Eggs & giant chocolate rabbits: “Yeah but it’s no MegaFreddo is it"
vole.wtf/freddo/

It’s Toshiro Mifune’s birthday.
Here he is drunkenly getting ready to shoot people but Lee Marvin stays cool as a cucumber for a very good reason.

Yesterday I was coding at 300% normal capability, effortlessly churned out a full refactoring of Big Secret Project and changed 3 coordinate systems, today down to more like 75% and only just making sense of next steps, goddammit

Dread to think what intelligence he might have about how batshit the US is heading, not like Starmer to be this clear

Screenshot from Legal Advice UK subreddit: "My son pleasured himself in front of Gemini Live with the camera. My entire family have had our Google accounts banned. Scotland He's 14 and stupidly decided to try and roleplay with Gemini using its live camera mode. The AI correctly identified he was underage and Google banned all my accounts. He did it on the family tablet. It has parental controls to stop him watching innapropriate stuff, but we dind't realise Gemini wasn't covered by these. ALL of our entire family's Google accounts were linked to that tablet. Google banned them all. Everything gone. 15 years of business completely inaccessible. All my emails, all my documents saved in Google Drive. Even my website was linked to my Google account and that's been locked down too. We've written to Google and begged for it to be reinstated but they've said all the accounts have been shut down for child protection reasons. I don't know how I'm going to pay my mortgage in 3 months time. I've literally lost ALL my records for my accountant. My company year ends in May. My whole life is completely fucked. Is there any legal mechanism I can use to get all my google accounts back?"

a new form of teen fuck-up emerges

There’s a making-of etc, sounds like they really went for it

They made part of a musical (and probably should’ve just finished the job, enough people would see it!)

Effort is funny, people notice it

(I suppose one year I should launch a really serious thing on the vole site on April 1st)

April Fools from The Phoenix and Warhammer show how it’s done - you don’t just lie about doing a silly thing, you actually do a silly thing

Shit like this is how you become a cornerstone of the UK economy

They clearly had so much fun working on that

vertical image of a still retention basin and sunlit sky. the sky is split starkly down the middle, clear on the left, gray clouds on the right, sun at the center. the cloud line is reflected perfectly on the basin surface below the horizon. photo by Lindsay Schiel NEORSD

not ‘shopped. not cropped. not stock.

straight from the phone of stormwater inspector Lindsay Schiel snapped yesterday at a basin in Hudson.

I am not an April fools person, not at all, but The Phoenix is the one exception. Every year they prank kids with a different ‘wrong’ magazine, and every year the dedication to the bit is outSTANDING 🫡

Yep, the factory Team Member of the Month bit at the end is so good

Set aside an hour for it sometime, it’s incredible

Oh, and it’s 100% real
But I was uncertain for years, and I think I read something about the programme makers being annoyed about the scheduling, everyone congratulating them on their spoof doc

BBC - Relics: Einstein's Brain (1994) YouTube video by Ipso Facto

The most ridiculous thing I've ever encountered on April Fools’ Day was a jaw-dropping documentary about a Japanese professor tracking down Einstein’s brain, being given a piece (cut off on kitchen chopping board), then celebrating with karaoke
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8-V...

The whole world will be your enemy, prince with a thousand enemies. And when they catch you, they will smash you with a hammer. But first they must catch you.

Software proprioception – Unsung A blog about software craft and quality

Had fun listing all of these interfaces that are aware of the hardware’s dimensions or buttons or other physical properties, so they can do fun things with pointing to stuff.

Please send me more if you can think of them!

unsung.aresluna.org/software-pro...

sorry bro, I can't make it. I'm busy drawing a crying girl step by step

Here's a Readful Things action figure piece of Gary Oldman holding a Readful Things action figure piece

code for a function that matches negative keywords, such as "ffs" "horrible" "fuck you" "this sucks" "damn it" etc. and then sets a value to negative if found

thomas points out that claude code does "sentiment analysis" in the same extremely sophisticated way we did it in 2008 for the twitter zeitgeist tool we built for pepsico's sxsw experience

An all-time classic

My boyfriend (a journalist) was scheduled to interview Liza Minnelli over the phone this evening. I was unaware of this...

Liza rang our landline. I answered, mid-way through a mini Battenberg, and told her she had the wrong number. No one is speaking to me.

I’m reading Liza Minnelli’s autobiography, and it’s summoning some serious trauma from 11 years ago…

Must be really annoying to be a crow halfway through your dinner of roadkill and you have to move for a car

(I made a profit on the project & people enjoyed it, so I’m not grumbling)

Absolutely no one:

Anon Opin:

Lulu Press, Inc. has sent you £14.55 GBP.

RICH beyond my wildest dreams