I have to go get a blood pressure test tomorrow (nothing to worry about, I’m fine) and it’s dawning on me now that Christmas week was maybe a bad time to schedule that.
Tesco, good, occasionally busy later. Sainsbury’s, moderate to good, rough in toilet roll aisle.
Asda, light to moderate, heavy crowds by evening.
M&S and Co-Op, fair.
Waitrose, fair to moderate.
Lidl, rough at first, easing later.
And that’s the end of the Shopping Forecast.
@benc it was designed to be persistent between events without things breaking, build away!
@0xabad1dea additionally, do not reply “thanks” when someone in a support team replies “that’s all sorted”. They’re just going to have to close the ticket a second time.
@andrew just watched the ATC recording, as ever I am in awe of those guys. Barely seemed to be breaking a sweat at the prospect of a plane without a concious pilot landing in the wrong direction on his runway.
@andrew truly amazing stuff, although I feel for any air traffic controller who hears the automated message coming in. I’m still unclear if it can handle ATC comms or if it just screams over the relevant frequencies that it’s landing on 27L and everyone should get out of the way.
I’ve worked out what’s been going on with all these Cloudflare outages lately.
https://mastodon.social/users/simple_sabotage/statuses/115759707567428478
@gsuberland “all I have to do is watch every film and TV show set in [town] and eventually it will be revealed”
@jackeric China is without a doubt the most foreign place I’ve ever visited. Went out there for a week with work and we weren’t even able to buy coffee without help from our hosts because at the time you couldn’t get a WeChat payment account without a Chinese bank card.
@fesshole don’t be. This is how we learn. Nobody was born intrinsically knowing how to spell I, or elephant, or anything in between.
I’ve realised why CEOs are all so into LLMs - it’s because they all have the same energy as a CEO, spouting complete bullshit based on half remembered think pieces, but in a way that comes across like they know what they’re talking about.
The boy’s gaming laptop has decided the week before Christmas is the time to self-destruct. Mostly it does nothing but turn the power LED on. Occasionally it’ll crank all the fans to full power while doing so.
I hadn’t really planned on tomorrow’s holiday activity being to remove every part from a laptop one by one, but here we are.
@jarkman I’ve got all the necessary bits to do a walk in the rain, just not at all enthusiastic about doing so, exercising for an hour or two, then turning around and doing it again.
It’s usually fine but days like today I wish I had a car. I’d like to go climb but the gym is a 25 minute walk away and it’s pissing down with rain and will be for some time.
For your collective delectation this holiday season:
Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I’ve ever made)!
https://loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/jingle-bells/
[And If you've enjoyed this piece of seasonal silliness (and, critically, have a few quid to spare) I'd be grateful if you popped them in the hat:
https://ko-fi.com/loreandordure
(Support for the blog is a big part of how I fund my PhD expenses!)]
@tony @nonfedimemes surely that’s more than 100kg of peanut butter. Rough guess I’d say each of those pallets is a 100kg each.
@nonfedimemes in fairness that is a lot of peanut butter for $600.
@james I’ve got one of them in my flat. Not even convinced it’s connected to anything on either side, as far as I can tell turning it on and off does nothing.
@nocontexttrek I’m not sure this version of the twelve days of Christmas scans very well.
There’s a genre of “I learned/did [thing] in [n] hours” YouTube video which always includes a picture of the creator looking miserable in the thumbnail and it’s such a turnoff. Why would I want to watch someone have a terrible time learning something new?
@dave how is the money never just the monthly bill they want to charge people? Just once can we have a company that sells a product to customers and makes that how they make money?
@cmconseils probably more being a creative thinker can also lead to having a messy or cluttered room, but I’m on board with the thought.