The platform announcer at Southampton Central this morning was giving information about trains with all the enthusiasm and lack of coherence I’d expect from someone commentating a horse race.
@SamLR are you some sort of auth savant? Last time I had to do that in a large organisation it took me that long just to be confident I’d found all the systems a customer could have a unique account and password in.
@an0key they can hassle me all they like, I’ll be filing on the last possible day as is traditional.
@sophieschmieg @saraislet @skinnylatte I once found a very clear message left for me on my return from being away for a week in the form of a cat turd on my pillow.
That cat never once had problems knowing where the litter tray was.
This is the wine box emoji. We use it to indicate you’d have to have drunk an entire box of cheap red wine to have a take that bad.
Someone new in a Discord I’m on spent some of this evening doing emoji anthropology and now I want to make an exhibit of different community’s favourite reaction emoji and what they mean.
@janamarie @HouseOfTea @idnorton I’m sometimes surprised more people don’t get questioned going to hacker conferences about these sheets of curious looking images being taken across borders.
@amyhoy fucking amateurs. If you clicked enough ad banners you could have more search inputs than space for the page to render in.
I couldn’t remember the name of Sunshine and ended up searching for “film space sun trip”. My first attempt was “film sun out” which was less successful.
@pikesley_ebooks @pikesley that’s the plot of a Bond film isn’t it?
@dave what the hell. I’ve ordered one, hoping I can bypass the firmware and do something fun with it.
Today’s cursed Hacker News comment: “The fact the market hasn’t solved this problem suggests it’s a problem that doesn’t need solving”.
@simple_sabotage not convinced by this one. Measure once, cut twice, it’ll mean you take longer and use more material, a win-win.
Is This Seat Taken is deviant filth that should be banned. A game in which you’re expected to accommodate the whims of people who want to use their phones in a cinema rather than unceremoniously ejecting them.
(Other than that it’s a very charming logic puzzle game about allocated seating)
@yvan vaporub still exists, not sure I have encountered a vaporub delivery system though.
I really need to break my Hacker News habit. At one point it was a reliable source of interesting articles and commentary. Now it’s 90% LLM Snake Oil salesmen and people who think society could be fixed if we simply stuck a price tag on everything.
I made the terrible mistake of reading Hacker News comments about health care systems before bed and now I’m absolutely raging at the fact I share a career with some of the most entitled self satisfied pricks on the planet
I was bored so I updated my Home Screen full of mobile app icons which are just a stylised circle.
@JessTheUnstill @pascoda I’m particularly spicy about this because of the time I accidentally booked the wrong flight for a work trip and ended up swallowing the cost because I was too embarrassed to submit an expense claim labelled “non-refundable flight booked on the wrong day”. (Thankfully it was only European and so not hideously expensive)
@JessTheUnstill @pascoda oh 100 times this. These days they’re Executive Assistants instead, because the C-suite are too important to book their own flights and schedule their own meetings but everyone else should just suck it up.
@shinydan @cmconseils big same here. I was walking a mile and a half each way to school. My son started secondary a few months ago and still wants walking to the bus stop ten minutes away, across a single not very busy road.