Sodium

Before you make the original comment "how salty is sodium", take a step back and think. Sodium isn't salty. You're thinking of Sodium Chloride. Sodium is the one where fucking around near it triggers an energetic reaction that can cause burns. Not funny. But true.

i rebooted minesweeper as a AAA shooter. loot boxes coming soon minesweeper.mikelacher.com

I know it's an octopus, but I really need some kind of warning before a skull appears on my notification bar @octopus.energy ...

Genius - they sent it the #emergencyalert to everyone in England, not just to people at risk, which means people will learn to ignore it. Additionally - it vanishes when you try and silence it, and the govt page is only in Welsh.

I've only recently learned that ACAB means "all cops are bastards". I thought it meant "assigned 'cunt' at birth".

On transatlantic teleconfs, I deliberately use "table" as a verb knowing it will cause confusion. (UK and Commonwealth: bring up for discussion. North America: remove from discussion).

Any TV drama with a musical episode has jumped the shark.

I never had a lot of time for Kier Starmer, but this really shows what a spineless u-turning twat the man is. The first time I've seen him make an unambiguously solid decision and he fucking rolls it back and tells Trump he can use our airfields. Bend over and receive that special relationship...

I really hope that one day, eons away, this will be offered up as an incredibly inaccurate Rosetta stone for the current times...

I'm admittedly not great at keeping in contact with people. I found out at Christmas dinner with my family that my brother hasn't been talking to me for 2 years. I had no idea.

Watching an old episode of #elementary where Joaquim de Almeida is playing a character called Cal Medina. Not once have they referred to him as "Funky"

Welcome to #interationalmensday where most of the comments are either "men get every day" or "only betas and simps". Add in the weak "Happy IMD to all my XYZ people" and attempts to hijack things to make it about women. #IMD is supposed to be about men's physical & mental health. Not this shit.

In a weird parallel universe, there's a version of #Brooklyn99 filmed using nothing but kitchen appliances. I've found their Jake Peralta.

"Hot Roads - The World's Most Dangerous Roads" is weird. Narrator: "This Masai woman spends 30h a day standing in a toxic puddle to earn 37¢." Subtitles: [woman speaks in a foreign language] Her words are then dubbed by a guy who sounds like he considers French food to be too "ethnic".

Based on working in IT support for years, I can only conclude that a great number of people who, when visiting their doctor, just stand by the door, say 'I'm sick' and don't utter another word.

"We've got your parcel". From Royal Mail, DHL, FedEx, Yodel, DX, etc, this would be reassuring. From Evri it feels like a ransom note.

The anti #idcards petition has hit 2.7m. Surprise! The Govt has replied "nah, we're still doing it". No one wants a govt app on their phone. Easy fix: Reissue NI cards with a photo, DOB, and a hash of NI+DOB. If you enter that hash on a website, it shows you that photo. Identify proved.

I assume the usual suspects are responding to the Charlie Kirk murder with thoughts and prayers and saying nothing can be done about gun control? No?

Israel has done some evil shit over the last two years, but this is frankly incredible. Claiming they want peace while launching international airstrikes, targeting the people who would agree a ceasefire? Even the fucking Yanks have denounced it. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

I was 30 miles from home when I realised there was a bee stuck in the car. I felt strangely guilty and drove all the way back home to let her out so she didn't get stranded with no hive.

Doom debugging, its like doom scrolling but you just keep trying one thing after another to fix a bug and at some point you should really stop but you can't 😭

Just so I know, are the fandoms assuming Butterfly and Covert Affairs are the same universe yet?

The em-dash, the en-dash and the hyphen should all be replaced by a single dash. Replace grammar pedants with context clues. Most people don't know the difference anyway.

I really hope President Zelensky can broker a ceasefire between Elon Musk and Donald Trump.

I'm not immature, you are. (From the #WordPress #React docs)

I think I just broke two Costa Coffee baristas. Bariste? I just asked for "an iced latte but without the ice, so just cold milk and coffee." I know odd requests throw people, but that seemed to trigger a hard mental reset. 🤣

#BBCWomansHour right now giving #terfs 20 minutes of basically unchallenged airtime. What a kick in the guts to the trans community today of all days.

BlueSky now lets you use up to 300 characters. However the alt text on a picture allows another 2000 characters. You might as well just blog at that point.

First stage of getting/renewing a driving license should be proving you can responsibly use a shopping trolley in a supermarket on a Saturday morning. The number of cars on the road would halve in ten years.

Just discovered and binge watching #Go8Bit (yes, I know, shush). End of S02 and just realised @daraobriain.bsky.social is calling Sam a muggle not a mogul. In my defense, my hearing *is* buggered right now.

#spotify can fuck off

Mid 80s, my entire school year decided "you're a dildo" was a great insult. Not one adult said anything. Did they collectively decide to ignore 120 foul mouthed 10 year olds or was the word was just less common? Still feel bad about calling granny's dog "dildo breath"

Either I'm missing something, or embedding bluesky in websites is waaaaaay harder than it needs to be. Posts, fine. Profile links, fine. Timelines / feeds, YOU SHALL SUFFER ETERNAL PAIN.

2024 sucked. My lungs tried to kill me. My blood tried to kill me. My arse tried to kill me. Diabetes & depression pushed me. ADHD became a thing for me. 2025 can either up its game or fucking behave.