Oliver Dyer

I, a design agency owner, know MORE about PHP than <checks notes> THE BBC’s TECH CORRESPONDENT!!! purely by listening to @siracusa.social on @atp.fm

Bath to Weston Super-Mare along the Limestone link this weekend. Calling at a friends in Carlincott, the pubs in Litton and Rowberrow before the final leg to Weston and a train back to London

When will contestants learn that ‘intelligence’ is a huge liability. If you’re seen to be clever you’ll be suspected by the Faithful - “she’d make such a good Traitor” and Traitors - “she’s dangerous” - alike. Bumbling but affable, well intentioned incompetence - these are the winning qualities.

MCU movies just pass through you leaving no trace. Doing Doomsday prep rewatch of some with my teen. I KNOW I’ve seen them but… I’ve got nothing. Absolutely nothing.

Sweden. The only country in the world where you can spend £2,500 a week on a house rental but they still expect you to bring your own bedding. From overseas. Like fly your fucking duvet over with you.

Farage is one World Cup ”Bin, bin, bin face!” chant away from packing up his dodgy millions and fucking right off.

Unpopular opinion: there should be a general election if there’s a new pm. I hated it when the tories did it and I hate now it’s electorally convenient for ‘my team’. No one voted for Burnham to be PM. He wasn’t even a candidate at the last election.

Properly trained dogs are a delight, the problem is that most urban dog owners are absolutely useless. Being on your phone pretending you didn’t see your dog crap everywhere. Zero control. Poo bags in trees. Why!!!!? We see you urban dog owners. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Labour - somehow making us reminisce about the 1922 committee

Always dogs at polling stations. No more!

Deploying AT-AT’s isn’t exactly going to help with any peace deal is it?

I’m just wondering if Brendan Carr is still a dummy? Maybe he turned a corner this week. You know? @theverge.com

"If your friend jumped under a bus would you do it?" age old parental lesson we all learn at nursery to warn us off copying the stupidest antics of our friends just for clout. It's now UK foreign policy and yet...the British press are telling us, yes - we should in fact jump under the bus. Madness.

Kid in my son’s class turned up for world book day dressed in a fat suit, brandishing a copy of the Guinness Book of World Records and said he was the fattest man alive.

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Morning #caturday lovers

Checked in on my 14yo son expecting him to be gaming instead of doing his art project. Discovered him listening to Christopher Hitchens reading God Is Not Great. He’s also currently reading The Book of Dust trilogy. I don’t think it’s a coincidence.

I have a ticket going spare for tonight if anyone wants it. I’m going but it turns out I don’t have friends that geek out to politics like me @dorianlynskey.bsky.social @originstorypodcast.bsky.social @iandunt.bsky.social

😠 Unsubbed in infantile Dorian protest 🥰 Resubbed after hearing Musk call for violent overthrow of UK gov and realised chipping in the price of a Shoreditch coffee to a bunch of progressive voices is literally the least I can do to forward our shared values @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social

Is the Spectator trolling @quietriotpod.bsky.social with the launch of their Quite Right podcast?

If The Met was taken over by the government, troops deployed to London streets and the assumption that this would be rolled out across the country… I’m not sure we’d shrug and carry on with business as usual. Just me?

Volunteers map 10,000 routes in Great Britain to help make walking accessible

What - and I say this with absolute sincerity - what, the ACTUAL FUCK!! Has no one ever read or seen or even heard of any dystopian sci-fi? Tiny nose robots?? No. Just no. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

When did the entire non populist UK political class just decide to give up making the case for ANYTHING. When has leaning into populist positions ever worked? For anyone. Apart from the populists. Left and right moderates need to grow a spine and start making the case for immigration & net zero

#Andor S2 spoilers ahead buuuut… two eps in and I’ve got red flags… 🚩Cassian is incompetent now apparently because ‘the script says so’. Fails to pilot a Tie, gets captured like a chump 🚩No way viciously ambitious Dedra shacks up with Syril. 🤞it improves but these two really threw me off

@snell.zone Bebuttoned Kindles are a hill I will die on. I got through the touchbar MBPro’s era by keeping faith with my 13” 2015 Pro until I maxed out an M1 in 2021. Same approach with Kindle buttons. I’m locked in for 2030 with stockpiled reconditioned 10th gen Oasis. Pray for my battery health.

Today I surprised myself by dying on the hill of a school phone ban

Mashing your face into this floofs belly is a great way to start any day #catsofbluesky

They kissed! Is it just me or is your weekend just a little bit better when the blind date couple snog? I’m so invested in these people www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Cat life 😻 spent the night in a hedge - rocked up - ate - got brushed - crashed out on the heated kitchen floor #catsofbluesky

If you only read one thing about Trump and Ukraine today, read this from Ian Dunt open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

Apple Mail is hot garbage. ‘Send Later’ feature straight up does not work. Worse, it silently fails and loses data #apple I queued up a bunch of mails to go out the next morning and got in with my life. Next day, there are all the mails still waiting to go out. Then they’re gone but not sent.

Someone needs to check on Chris Morris, his Shatner's Bassoon might have exploded with irony

What is that strange golden disk in the sky!!!! Such a welcome sight after what feels like weeks of gloom. Shot this on my morning walk just now in response to a recent shot of the same view

This task .. errr #thetraitors