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I feel seen….

25.02.2026 19:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Asked by a homeless person for spare change, but I don’t carry cash any more.

Asked if there was anything they wanted from the shop next door - there was :

“Banana milkshake”.

Shop had none, so got Strawberry instead. They seemed happy with that.

#OddlySpecific

24.02.2026 20:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

F-SKUs. Couldn’t have put it better myself.

19.02.2026 23:45 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Robert Jenrick has unusual two-tier hair - it looks softer at the top and thinner there than at the side..

Almost like he’s moved his arse closer to his mouth to make it easier to talk out of it.

#bbcqt

19.02.2026 23:23 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

There’s ideas to retrain people who lose jobs to AI as prompt engineers.

Dystopian much ?

18.02.2026 10:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

New game:

Every time someone mentions CoPilot on a call, hang up for 10 seconds and then dial back in…

18.02.2026 10:46 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

First three words would have done…

10.02.2026 09:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.

08.02.2026 13:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Today, I’ll be mostly explaining how SQL 6.5 bcp format files work to people who weren’t born when they were created.

I feel old 👴

22.01.2026 12:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If he invades Greenland, NATO could invoke Article 5, meaning the US would have to send troops to protect against US troops…

20.01.2026 13:31 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

If automated code reviews tell us anything, it’s that developers use a *lot* of copy/paste and are both inconsistent and lazy…

20.01.2026 09:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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US politics…

15.01.2026 21:01 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It’s very retro… like Window 3.11

13.01.2026 17:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hot take:

If a generative AI is capable of generating porn, it must have been trained on porn.

#DataEthics

09.01.2026 09:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If you need copilot to summarise your project documentation, that’s probably not a good sign…

08.01.2026 15:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Got a new phone and now Authenticator is FUBAR.

Wants me to sign into Authenticator (OK), then it sends a code to Authenticator that I can’t access because I’M USING IT.

Other method - send text message (OK), enter OTP (OK), and it then asks me to change my password 🤦‍♂️

#enshittification

06.01.2026 18:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Not all heroes wear capes…

05.01.2026 09:06 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

At Chirstmas, we all kneed to rememberise pragamtism and coceistince…

22.12.2025 23:40 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Love it when people customise stuff, then have to remove the customisations later on….

It’s the way they spin it - ‘strategic review’, ‘simplification’, ‘releasing value’, etc…

It’s never ‘actually we’ve thought about it and it was a mad thing to in the first place’

😂

16.12.2025 09:00 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I dinged CouchDB a few years ago, but it was sandwiched between Cassandra and Neo4 which I really liked.

Felt right.

15.12.2025 09:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It’s not like they don’t already have some of this information, but here they’re saying that they’ll happily use it against you if they don’t like it.

Hard no from me on US travel, probably for quite a while…

13.12.2025 10:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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11.12.2025 09:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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11.12.2025 08:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hardmode: No Stars (either Wars or Trek), LOTR or Marvel

10.12.2025 14:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Priorities…

10.12.2025 14:06 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

There’s always Anti-monopoly…

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Mo...

05.12.2025 00:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My hand holding a shortbread cookie in the shape of an airplane. There are red sprinkles in the pattern of the survivorship bias plane.

My hand holding a shortbread cookie in the shape of an airplane. There are red sprinkles in the pattern of the survivorship bias plane.

A plate of the same cookies.

A plate of the same cookies.

Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread

29.11.2025 04:50 👍 15417 🔁 4175 💬 147 📌 106

Oh look, another email from a faceless account that details everything they want me to do but omits to mention how I can discuss with them why what they want me to do can’t actually be done…

27.11.2025 15:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oh look, another irrelevant dashboard…

27.11.2025 15:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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> be me
> have an idea
> get 90% done in SQL
> icing on the cake requires pyodbc and sqlalchemy
> attempt pip installs

> denied because security

^ This. This is why I get both really cross and really sad at the same time, and it’s exhausting.

26.11.2025 13:51 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0