Kate Griffin

IKEA's thing seems to be * Create inexpensive solution that Just Works and all the additional bits work perfectly together 😍 * Wait for British public to develop an attachment, then pull the plug * Create secondary market where people pay 3x or 4x the original price because nothing else Just Works

Spent too much time earlier trying to guess what "obereas" meant in an email from a business - a brand name? Some kind of Latin legal/bureaucratic term? Maybe a modern Spanish word I haven't come across? Until I searched online and discovered nope, they just misspelt "overseas".

Add this to the long list of things that were always entirely possible but you were called a naive idiot for thinking they were possible because it was More Complicated Than That.

Can this, from a My John Lewis marketing email, possibly be legal? * No unsubscribe link - you can only stop getting emails if you visit the website and cancel your membership of the loyalty scheme * After you've cancelled your membership you'll still get marketing emails from them anyway?!

A Very Merry Step On Lego to businesses that clearly cater to the "special occasions" market (florists, gift retailers etc) but respond to any setback by immediately cancelling the whole order and leaving the customer scrambling. Today I'm looking at you, Interflora, but there's a long list.

The Halloweenification of everything is getting a bit wearing.

Got an idea for a TV programme. It's called Celebrity Show - basically the idea is you get a group of celebrities in to do a sort of long form elimination game show, like Traitors or I'm A Celebrity or whatever, but they don't know what the concept will be and it changes every series

Bad news for users of pavements: the Labour Government is making it easier to get an electric vehicle charging socket with no safe means of connecting it to a car. Expect even more trip hazard cables.

Due to reverse engineering works, all bus services on Sunday will be replaced by trains.

Jerry: Ah love jigsaw puzzles. Got one a whaaal back that said "3-6 months" on the box, but ah compleded it in just threey weeks #CelebrityTraitors

Is this prick subtweeting me

Nuffield Trust finds that the NHS surcharge (at £1035/year + £776 for students + children) raises 60% more than the cost of the healthcare it covers, putting £2.5 billion into the NHS Rapid drops in immigration therefore hit the NHS finances www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/articles/ana...

how am I supposed to see the pity likes on my regular posts when they're buried in an avalanche of notifications about The One Post That Did Numbers For No Reason?!

So that film where they did an incredible job of casting an actresss who looks just like Elizabeth Holmes is in fact a documentary and it's literally Elizabeth Holmes 🤦‍♂️

Today we remember 60 yrs since the Aberfan Disaster The impact of the disaster – and the collective grief - was felt far beyond South Wales This poster came to the Archives from Jersey. It shares details of the disaster fund organised by the Jersey Welsh Society on behalf of the people of Jersey

Heddiw cofiwn 60 mlynedd ers Trychineb Aberfan Teimlwyd effaith y trychineb - a’r galar cyfunol - ymhell tu hwnt i De Cymru. Daeth y poster yma i Archifau Morgannwg o Jersey. Mae’n rhannu manylion gronfa trefnwyd gan Gymdeithas Gymreig Jersey ar ran pobl Jersey.

TFW you contact a "local" business telling them what part of the city you live in and they immediately respond by asking for your postcode. Like c'mon, pretend better

This is my absolute pet hate. You've all heard my rants about Welsh "learners" but honourable mention must go to the "beginners' sewing course" I attended where they assumed we already knew how to cut out a pattern and use a sewing machine. Should literally be illegal

think I need to head on back to tumblr where I have amassed a grand total of 2 followers in over a decade and nobody ever "likes" anything really, I mean literally nobody ever likes anything

Irony? To do this I had to prove I am human. lol

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

They don't make it easy to get from their email to that particular AI setting.. fortunately, it seems I'd already turned if off before. For web users, here's a direct link to the AI Preferences page - accountsettings.ebay.co.uk/ai-preferences

Thanks, Kate. In detail: Click the link in the email, scroll down to section 9, click to expand the second ⊕, and you get to the bit shown below, to find the link. Now, why am I suddenly thinking of leopards and locked filing cabinets?

Why do delivery people put your parcel on the ground when they need a photo of the open door so they have to wait for you to answer the door anyway?

A few months ago someone close to me asked if they could put some leave-in conditioner on my dry hair...and when it turned out they'd made a mistake and it was normal conditioner, they literally said "oh well, it's a leave-in conditioner now". And yes your guess about that person is correct

Spending my evening with some 17th-century wills, which means encountering the archaic word "sperate," as in the opposite of "desperate." (Sperate debts are debts you hope to collect, whereas you have lost hope in desperate debts.)

One day as a data entry clerk. The temp agency had sent me because I'd got the fastest score on the data entry tests, but I got fired at the end of my first day for not being fast enough.

Well, can we think of any reasons why our leaders would want to talk at incredible length about motions, slogans, signs, symbols, statements, flags, definitions, chants, artworks, songs, cartoons, words and placards, and never about what successive governments have been helping actual Israel to do.

"Spend £11.62 more for free postage!" fair enough, it's probably only worthwhile offering free postage if the parcel you're sending is over a certain value "One of the things you bought will be arriving tomorrow" just one - ? "because we are actually several third-party sellers in a trenchcoat"

Me: ok here's my fourth draft, I think I've nailed it Client: can we just do twenty more redrafts tho Me: sorry, the brief wasn't clear for this bit so I've just added a bit of placeholder text, can we discuss? Client: [instantly publishes the shitty placeholder text without a word to me]

At one point I sewed recognition flashes into all my identical socks so I could keep them in matching pairs. <img=Roll_Safe_meme.jpg>

The criteria for getting a Disabled Person's Railcard have expanded. Now includes anyone with a blue badge or a disabled person's bus pass. I missed this news back in March, but Martin Moneysaver has just flagged it again: www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2026/10...

one thing that i really want in terms of UX is being able to give organizations and apps 'budgets' in terms of how often they can demand my attention or message me, and I want these budgets to be visible to them. I want the marginal cost of bothering me to legible to those doing it.

After a few months the "perfectly identical" socks start diverging from each other. You can no longer just grab two and assume they're a pair. You still have to match them but they're similar enough that the job is a right old pain. Have you learned nothing from plastic takeaway containers & lids

Writers, artists, gamers, creators and lovers of all the above, please sign this petition to make AI companies disclose what their tools have been trained on to make their ghastly generative voices/art/books etc. There’s just over a fortnight to go. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

I mean the post is about AI but...have you ever tried saying it's bad that HGVs make up 1% of city traffic but cause 10% of the deaths, or pointed out that we're all eating the externalised costs of road freight? because you will get someone explaining that HGVs are useful for transporting things