Murphy's Lawyer

If you've been using Octopus' power saver scheme to save up free hours for use at weekends, and had (lke us) banked up more than you can use before November 1st, they've extended the scheme until February 2027.

It’s never a bad day to wake up and find that Mark Zuckerberg has had his mellow harshed because a thing he poured meelions of dollars into didn’t happen. Oh and congratulations to Brazil as well.

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Listening to 1992’s #TopOfThePops on #BBC #Radio2, and Musical Youth’s Pass the Dutchie makes me wonder: is passing it on the right hand side as bad as passing the Port to the starboard?

Source: Tony del Veccio, cartoonist (found on Facebook). ALT-TEXT: Vladimir Putin, in sombre, down-at-heel clothes and a battered hat, cranks a small busker organ in Red Square. A monkey with Donald Trump’s head, wearing a red waistcoat and fez, holds out a tin cup while screeching at passers-by.

And this is the volume of “Don’t create the Torment Nexus” these fools read to rip the idea off of: adriantchaikovsky.com/dogs-of-war-...

"Isobel makes love upon national monuments, With style and enthusiasm, and anyone at all..."

Maybe banks will keep high streets alive because physical branches will be the only way they can have the faintest confidence that you are you.

I have that Baen print of ‘The Interior Life’ on my shelves, and can credit that to Marion Vandervoort of ‘At the Sign of the Dragon’, who had an uncanny knack for making good recommendations to people, even those she didn’t know well.

Right everybody, let’s keep it going for another year. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Good morning @doctorow.pluralistic.net. Your website's new protector is doing such a great job it won't let me connect to it at all.

“No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There’s always a boom tomorrow.” - Commander Susan Ivanova, Babylon 5 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Too little, too late. The only measure that will tackle this scourge is public gungings, 1990s-CBBC-style. Any politician not prepared to say this is not serious about the problem.

"oh but we grew up with the impacts of the war. So we're part of that generation really." Sure Jan. And I grew up with the impacts of Thatcherism. You don't see me claiming I'm a sriking coal miner though.

Herself was getting popups purporting to be from Firefox last night claiming to report viruses and "click here to fix". Turns out some bastard site had got into the "manage exceptions" part of "Block pop-ups" in Firefox's settings. Now double-blocked with extreme prejudice.

Old Fox's Ghost Stories: The Roman Road "Because of the thick mist which rises from the marshes, the atmosphere in this region is always gloomy" (Appian, Roman History, III.14.6-8).

Nothing like trying to log in somewhere only to be told you’ve been emailed an activation code which has a five minute lifespan, and the email turns up twenty minutes later. This was not a single occurrence on this site today.

The Bell jetpack has a longer flying time than Elon’s plastic shell. youtu.be/gYsSsdplqLg

I refer you to Flanders & Swann's 'The Reluctant Cannibal', which answered this question in 1959.

The Jason Statham Cinematic Universe continues. youtu.be/5HK3wimDxBI

William Thelwelled the shit out of Harold's army, and we don't talk about that enough.

"This exploded in our face and now we are going to try to post through it"

“I can’t recommend watching this movie as your first taste of Madoka Magica; you’d end up hopelessly confused. Go back for a couple days. It’s just three prior movies (or a TV season plus a movie, if you prefer).” Sounds like less homework than Avengers: Doomsday then. Might do.

This turned up in the post today. Should give the more intense Poppy-fondlers I encounter something to think about, once they’ve stopped frothing about the white and purple poppy badges that will go with it.

If you have an OG Playdate, you have 2 days to grab an over-the-air update before certificate expiration blocks your ability to connect to Panic's servers. After the 15th, you can still do a manual update, but an OTA update is the easier route. retrohandhelds.gg/still-hangi...

I am experiencing technical difficulties and may have to sign off work for the afternoon.

Yesterday the Government announced it was considering reducing help on getting heat pumps to replace gas boilers. Today they’re looking at “fixing prices” for domestic heating oil. I know that heat pumps aren’t a universal cure for carbon emissions and oil heating is sometimes the only option but

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Make a war film rubbish. The Heroes of Telemarketing

TheTreasury are pushing heat pumps as a “Middle Class” thing, horny-handed artisans and children of the soil that they all are.

Ravi de te voir. youtu.be/BFJZNTScBrQ

Interior of the new electric 2CV

Paging @themerl.bsky.social

Oh no, the slaves we made rebelled and we lost and now we have to face the consequences of our own actions. How could this happen to us? youtu.be/AwK5KxoJsvk

The most transparent political move of the year so far...

New Phone, Who Dis? murphys-lawyer.dreamwidth.org/330026.html

RIP to Matt Howarth, best known for The Annoying Post Brothers. His other works included Keif llama, a human xenotech in a universe where nothing else is even remotely human.

Ten minute warning.

As Josef Stalin might have said today: “Oho, the Pope! Tell me, how many local nodes does /he/ run?”

Truly, romance authors' ability to take a previous book's antagonist and successfully spin them into a love interest worthy of their own HEA is UNPARALLELED

Pain shared is pain halved. I’m sharing this.

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