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It finally happened, I forgot about an online grocery delivery slot I’d put a placeholder in for and then didn’t update it. Really hoping I can cancel the £60 worth of Soleros that are on their way.

Someone at work (a company which specialises in gathering/reporting on energy usage and indoor air quality data) showed up in the main channel and basically went “who has opinions on Home Assistant”.

May as well have posted “everyone take the rest of the day off”, the impact on company productivity would be similar.

This is cyberpunk as fuck.
https://techhub.social/users/rayckeith/statuses/116439195184878052

I had a hideous nightmare last night, there was a student retro club which advertised playing 00s music. Then I woke and had the even more hideous realisation that that’s probably a real thing somewhere what with the 00s being outside the living memory of university students.

Normalise holiday auto-replies that read “I am on holiday and any emails received while I am will be automatically deleted unread, please contact me again after [date] if it mattered”.

It’s a long shot I know but if anyone wants to hire me to just pursue whatever takes my interest from day to day with no regard for profitability or usefulness I can offer you very competitive rates.

Even the local Indian takeaway is being needy now. Just got a message from them that opened “Did we let you down?”

What? Let’s just keep it casual buddy, I’ll give you a call when I’m in the mood* but you shouldn’t expect anything more.

* For a curry

I have to be up before 8am tomorrow for the first time in several weeks, so of course I’ve spent the last 90 minutes aimlessly reading the internet rather than going to bed.

“When you set it to clock it just fires off the bears immediately and then shuts up” is a sentence I didn’t expect to use today.

Some friends are planning a weekend LAN party for 10 or so people soon and I swear I’ve read almost as many messages about the planning for that as I have for a 3500 person festival.