Definitely losing my mind a bit, I just typed the phrase “backpack mounted fax machine”.
@mttaggart there are so many businesses that make more sense as a coop (or even a network of coops) than as a Silicon Valley style startup. The one I want to try and get going someday is grocery delivery from locally owned stores, owned by a coop of the stores, the delivery drivers, and the team building the ordering infrastructure.
@farah counterpoint: pretty sure it’s the person who’s reading things into which plant you give them as a gift who’s the weird one rather than the person who just went “hey, this looks like a nice thing to get my friend”.
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.
@jonty do you in fact mean you’d be driving your colleagues mad by saying that every morning?
@fxchip @whitequark @ch33sus@mstdn.social please remain where you are and await the Multiversal Leakage Prevention Team which has been despatched to your location.
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.
Shout out to @gimblll who’s gone above and beyond in providing a custom build of Sektori that we can hook it up to the lighting.
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
Something for the #EMFCamp first-timers: it's impossible to see everything *and that's OK*
https://sam.pikesley.org/blog/2024/06/11/the-best-weekend-you-can-have/
@0xabad1dea Altman probably heard about this and said he liked its hustle.
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.
@jmacarthur I wouldn’t mind so much if it weren’t for the fact looking at a window seal funny will cause this place to immediately leak all the heat I’ve put into it during winter.
@jmacarthur I feel you there. 20c with a light breeze outside and despite having every window open it’s still 27 inside.
@jackeric yeah, pretty sure my 71 year old Dad would appreciate that about as much as me suggesting he simply throw his phone in a lake and walk away.
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.
This is just to say
I have valued
the goose
that was in
your portfolio
And which you
were probably
saving for
the eggs
Forgive me
it was annualized
depreciated
and written off.
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.