Definitely losing my mind a bit, I just typed the phrase “backpack mounted fax machine”.
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Spent the evening making lights flash in pretty colours in time to some music. There’s definitely an alternate timeline in which I ended up being a lighting engineer instead of a software developer and I’m a little jealous of alternate universe Jon.
You can tell EMF is approaching because the list of card payments on my account is getting ever more eclectic. Today it’s been an Xbox controller wireless adapter, a custom ink stamp (this year whoever controls the stamp controls EMF volunteering, Chinese style, run a heist if you want a bunch of people to do your village washing up), and some large shipping crates.
I don’t know how but Tesco have somehow made a grocery shopping app which brings an iPhone 15 to its knees. Constant freezes in the UI and my phone became uncomfortably warm to hold on to while using it.
Comedy end to humanity: Everybody involved in the UK’s nuclear deterrence program assumes somebody else told the sub captains about Radio 4 long wave being turned off.
A while ago I put a throwaway thought in the EMF Arcade team’s channel. As all things EMF do its escalated somewhat and there’s now a schedule of evening entertainment, including this, a nightclub soundtracked by people playing music focused games: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2026/294-synaesthesia
Ahhh, the relaxing sound of angle grinders on a Saturday morning as the buy-to-let landlords either side of me strip out newly purchased properties.
It may be time to throw down the “turn off autocorrect or stop fucking moaning about it in every message you send” gauntlet to my Dad again. We’re three for three this evening.
Why do hosts on produced podcasts speak. So. Slowly? (I’m aware you can speed it up, it’s not me listening to this podcast, just hearing it in the background)
Free TV show idea if anyone fancies pitching it to Netflix: All The Gear, a cookery competition show in which amateur chefs have a selection of kitchen gadgets, some ingredients, and one hour to make a two course meal. They do not have any pans.
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