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Jon Wood

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It’s more a disinformation B-road now, with occasional stretches of information that jump up on you out of nowhere.
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I swear this is Siri exhibiting malicious compliance because of the endless bullshit I ask of it. The question was “how do you spell ninety”.

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Saw a road sign today that said "FOLLOW ALL DIVERSIONS" and it was honestly very validating

Apropos of nothing, Nintendo 3DS is easily the best pun in gaming. A product presumably developed because someone thought up the name and couldn’t let it go.

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142) Cordbot. Unties the emergency cord in an accessible toilet if someone has tied it up.

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My MS Teams meetings today...

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Chess hasn’t been updated in almost 200 years and it’s obvious the devs have abandoned it. The greedy creators took your money and laughed all the way to the bank.

I remember back in 705 AD when chess was fun. Then they started adding stupid features no one wanted like “castling” and “en passant” instead of listening to player feedback and fixing game-breaking bugs. I’ve been complaining for years about the collision-detection glitch with the horsey. The ‘clipping-through-pieces’ bug has been abused to death and the lazy devs refuse to fix it.

Don’t support this awful behaviour and boycott this company.

I really dislike the way all video platforms have standardised on putting the option to continue watching the last thing you watched after three rows of recommendations. More actively user hostile design.

For 11pm on a Tuesday night there’s a surprising number of people out who are heroically drunk.

Definitely didn’t see this coming when they added an AI button to their mice.
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@james I’ve consulted the administrator of my instance and they are in fact taking donations.

(It’s me, I’m the admin, and also the only user)

I broke the cardinal rule of no phone in bed. “Quickly” picked it up to do something and now it’s two hours later and instead of reading a book I’ve read the internet. This is why my phone charger lives at the other side of the room.

Every now and then I remember the Paris Olympic village features beds designed to make it difficult for the athletes to have sex with each other and chuckle at the naivety of it.

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Oh boy, I love this game 🕹️

Emailed magic links can be a great way to deal with authentication but please don’t make them single use, put a time limit on them instead. There’s one service I use which has single use tokens, which means that I’ll request a link, and then I can only use the service within the GMail app on my phone because any interaction with the link will cause it to be loaded.

@blogdiva @CatherineFlick I also missed this bit and now feel I’m going to have to go back and watch the whole show from the beginning.

Could the BBC not afford an actual French interpreter? Fair play to this guy for giving it a go but it’s not ideal.

I’m bored of flat buying now. Relentless back and forth over trivialities where I’m pretty sure they only flag as an issue in a fraction of a percent of sales. I’m so tempted to tell my solicitor to just dump everything that’s left on the list of enquiries and crack on with things.

“We’re checking if all keys are accounted for” is a beauty on a long term rental property. There’s absolutely no way of knowing no previous tenant made a copy, the lock is getting changed regardless.

@carbonated_estrogen @lzg it’s one lecture where the professor just screams GET OUT for an hour.

I’m currently obsessed with 9-1–1, a drama about LA firefighters which jumped the shark in season 2 or so, and here in season 7 is launching them into the sky and doing flybys in fighter jets.

I’ve just howled with laughter through a three episode special in which two lead characters went on a cruise, where naturally the ship was attacked, had a hole blown in the side, and capsized in the middle of a hurricane. The script writers are clearly having the time of their lives.

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US Democrats are fretting in July about getting a candidate for a November election in respect of taking office in January.

We would have had five Conservative Prime Ministers in the same time period.

@alex @internetsdairy I feel compelled to say “nice hat” whenever I see anything with a hat more extravagant than a baseball cap.

Environmental story telling.

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There's a certain irony in a cyber security company accidentally deploying the most effective cyber attack we've seen in recent memory.

How am I meant to work when this level of shit posting is going on?