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I am not sure, @sainsburys.bsky.social, that this particular combination is going to take off....

So I can't currently do any work because our authentication servers are all out and nobody can connect to the network, and I see Revolut has just posted announcements that they have an undefined IT issue and nobody can get at their money but it's definitely all still there. Something Is Up.

Sigh. Resets the "Days Since Listening to Best Country in the World While at Work" counter to zero.

My phone has just switched to an AZERTY keyboard layout. This is suboptimql.

There's a time and a place for a hedgehog. Though somehow I feel like if the Royal Mint was putting this one on the banknotes there'd be fewer complaints. Somehow.

Terra Invicta gives you the weirdest problems. Mine is currently democracy promotion in Guatemala, because it's preventing me unifying a bunch of Central American states to make better use of my sinister illuminati capabilities (fine, "control points").

A silly little miniature against an opponent who probably didn't want to play a Sicilian and now doesn't have to.

Richborough's an interesting place to visit for many reasons - not least that it's well inland these days, Thanet no longer being an island. But mostly because the Romans built and rebuilt there over three centuries and the resulting ruins (and English Heritage's reconstruction) are super confusing.

Alas, the number of games for which I have made a spreadsheet has increased by one.

I feel like I should get some kind of sequence bonus for booking my covid vaccination in the waiting room for my flu one

The periodicity in here showing that Bluesky has the greatest positive sentiment when the Americans are asleep is hardly surprising but it's interesting it's so stark.

One of the oddities about my occasional commute is that sometimes my train is canceled so I get in/back earlier. (Because work pays for my ticket and requires I get the cheaper/slower one, but if it's cancelled then the ticket is valid on the faster service).

The ESA insist that their spacecraft is not lost and does not need to ask for directions.

This is still a castle account though it's questionable if I know what a castle is (various city fortifications, Canterbury).

Apparently this is a castle account (Leeds Castle, Kent)

Speaking as somebody who gets East and West mixed up all the time I have a certain amount of sympathy here, but I would also have got it checked!

I feel, Google, you are unnecessarily insulting your servers here.

Look, they _specifically_ told me I required additional pylons.

Apropos of nothing in particular, if I owned a sandwich shop I would put a piece of paper at the bottom of all of my large orders saying "thank you for your attention to this platter".

I was writing some code to look at how energy saving/race pace works in Formula E but as I see Bluesky has gone Anglophobic _again_ it's hard to feel like I'm welcome enough to bother sharing.

I've recently been having a problem with my phone charging ahead of me and ending up in exposed positions in danger of being surrounded. Fortunately I've now figured out how to turn off salient mode.

Here's the thing about the Sherman: they built 49,000 of them, to fight on Pacific islands, African deserts, and in Russian winters. You do NOT want to be picky about where the spare parts came from or quite how you handle the transmission. Much easier to win tank battles with operational tanks.

It turns out that playing Terra Invicta immediately after a solar eclipse feels kind of odd.

The ESA's commentators are absolutely freaking out during totality in an incredibly cute and presumably somewhat avian manner. Glad I tuned in....

My experience of the eclipse is somewhat confused by the fact that I forgot to take my sunglasses off after driving to the shops for about ten minutes so now I kind of still think I'm wearing them despite this not actually being the case.

In a pinch, an apple tree works well as a pinhole camera for eclipse viewing

Batteries I have: 8x AAA, 8x AA, 3x PP3 Batteries I actually need: CR2032.

...are the twins that are trending the two separate God of War instances, Bluesky?

...it would be nice if Bluesky would stop eating the six remaining posts I have to make on the folk festival thread which have so far been written twice and will have to be written a third time.