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Shout out to the boy who entered his first climbing competition today, scored one (1) point out of a possible 275 and is chuffed with that result. Hoping I can have the same attitude when these boulders kick my ass in an hour or so.

Jonty single handedly destroying the tradition of gathering round the machine god praying it declares the festival to be feasible here.
https://chaos.social/users/jonty/statuses/116264137655228558

The EMF team really are the best bunch of people you could find yourself, through a deeply unlikely series of events, running a festival with. Special shout out to @solderandchaos for going “hey, looked like your inbox was a bit overwhelming so I unwhelmed it for you”.

Caved and created a burner Instagram account this evening. Not because I want to use Instagram, I killed the last one because that thing is crack that destroys my ability to do anything else, but because there’s an increasing number of things where they solely post updates on critical information like “we’re closed today” to Instagram rather than their website.

@datarama @catsalad I think this will vary wildly with location. I’m in the UK where you basically never see lizards knocking about in the wild, if you want to be sat on by one you have to go to a zoo or similar and then be one of the chosen ones who gets to handle a lizard.

Funny how websites never seem to be able to remember I declined their tracking cookies for more than a week but you’d better believe the moment I tap accept by accident it’s going to be etched in stone and carefully stored for the rest of time.

Changing at Westminster rather than Embankment because I feel like a bit of nuclear bunker architecture.

I’ve been trying to regain access to a long dead Dropbox account just to find out what’s in it but it’s got SMS based 2FA turned on and I no longer have that number, and I have no backup codes I can find.

This is fine, but I just can’t stop myself replying to the support guy with “but can you help” because he keeps replying “sure, I’d love to help, you can use any of [list of things I don’t have]” rather than going “nah, sorry mate, you’ve fucked it, it’s gone forever”.

@carnage4life @mdione hang on, did they not require code review before? Surely code review was required.

People of the nice bit of the internet, what regularly published things (blogs, articles, videos, podcasts, whatever) are you consuming that are informative but not relentlessly bleak? I feel like all I ever see is people saying how terrible everything is, and while everything is terrible I need some joy in my life as well.