Ricardo 🇵🇸

Comparison of Lidl’s and Tesco’s mixed nuts & raisins: Lidl - mostly raisins Tesco - mostly nuts

Well, months of hard work by several work colleagues has resulted in us launching a pilot site some weeks later than planned and which is still full of errors. Seems nobody checked until, er, day of launch. Nobody seems bothered though, as “nobody will see the site until we start emailing about it”.

cool, cool

boy it sure seems like the main threat to democracy everywhere across the globe is right wing media and certain social media companies

Oh so a country *can* choose not to make the same mistake twice

Lula winning would have been enough to make this a good night all by itself. But students organizing to successfully defeat the corrupt right-wing authoritarian leader of Serbia? Priceless.

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

In one day, two politicians - Bolsonaro in Brazil and Vucic in Serbia - with ties to Trump have lost surprise elections thanks to high turnout. The rise of the international far-right is not inevitable.

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

“Prime minister, people have no money, everything’s expensive, their jobs are at risk from AI, data centres taking over, fascism’s running rife, we’ve told them to stockpile for war, what would be a good way to cheer up the nation?” “Change the clocks so it’s dark at 5pm?” “GENIUS”

Japanese maple acer (I think) in full flame

An Irish artist pal has gone to Syria to help out at a charity for children who've lost limbs in the war. Great cause, donate if you can. gofund.me/60c66a2dc

David Tennant should be the new James Bond but he should also be the new James Bond villain who has had cosmetic surgery to look exactly like James Bond and then the real James Bond and the villain James Bond face off and nobody knows which one is which, including James Bond.

Spent some time in Lidl comparing the calorific values of the baked goods. The lowest is a plain croissant (300), the highest a chocolate cronut (500). Couldn’t justify anything on account of the diet, but, rainy day, weekend etc so ended up buying a flapjack. That’s healthy, right? Er, 437 kcal.

Self-portrait on the bus home from Cambridge #aofoto #BlueSkyArtShow #Transportation

“The reason it was not crazy for me was that I actually don’t have any system running PHP myself,” says PHP hero guy. I think he’s got the right idea. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Miatta can clearly see right from wrong but she's rowed into line twice with a Labour government siding with Shell and Donald Trump on climate vandalism, and into line now on cruel immigration reforms. What is the point of Labour if they can't even do the basics to protect people and the planet?

I don’t wish to be rude but is this regarded as a long monologue in sports circles

Currently wondering what message the UK govt thought it was sending by dressing up the Minister for Net Zero in a literal Shell logo.

drilling for more gas then telling us to stockpile because of the climate crisis is like digging a deeper and deeper hole because you know a guy who sells long ladders

Cost of living goes up and up, wages stagnant, jobs at risk, students laden with debt, public services getting worse and charging more, miscellaneous fascism, climate crisis, keep 9 litres of water in your house, BUT don’t worry, the lights will stay on over winter. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Would be great if there were any consequences for these massive companies just doing whatever they fuck they want

Reports of US voter machine f*ckery are rife. But I thought in the US you had to be registered as either a republican or a democrat. If that’s the case why do they even need people to go out and vote? Assuming people only vote for their tribe why not just do the count by registrations?

Traditional wedding anniversary gifts by year: 1. pleather 2. raffia 3. Butylphenyl Methylpropional 4. bitumen 5. ASDA Smart Price® Batter Mix 6. trilby 7. BT wi-fi with FON 8. mulch 9. Jamie Oliver’s “Cookin’: Music To Cook By” (CD) 10. krill

No, ChatGPT is not conscious. Are the journalists who keep writing these fucking articles?

The quality journalism only the BBC can provide

How to tell if it is Autumn: - butter is hard & tears the bread - duvet tog transition - sleeves are back - everything is golden - books accumulate - snacks are stored under the sofa & bed - nose tip is always cold - blanket in each room - squirrels have changed your WiFi password - dark

1. Fire the Home Secretary 2. Abolish the Home Office 3. Salt the earth upon which both of them stood

You mean, aside from America actively promoting the racist far right across Europe and launching an idiotic war that has jacked up the price of everything

Wish someone would release patches for my vulnerabilities

Build a new internet

The shop I live above took in a parcel for me, which was a box of Who Gives a Crap comedy Halloween toilet rolls. By way of thanks I gave a roll to the guy in the shop, told them about the brand etc. On my way out I said cheerily “Have fun!” Which I then realised sounded kind of wrong.

According to Koo Stark, while filming Star Wars in Tunisia, the radio controlled R2D2 malfunctioned, disappeared behind a sand dune and trundled onto the set of Jesus Of Nazareth

It’s come to something when a photographer has to get legal advice, before displaying this photo in an exhibition, due to the risk of being prosecuted as a terrorist, but that’s exactly what I had to do yesterday. What a state this country is in.

“The wind outside nested in each tree, prowled the sidewalks in invisible treads like unseen cats.” -Ray Bradbury (The Halloween Tree)

First weigh-in after starting a diet last week. According to my digital scales I’ve either lost 0.8kgs or gained 2.75lbs. 😶

But it’s not a genocide, right www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

The news is pretty good at the moment because it's 'The AI companies are trying to kill us all' and 'no one can afford to be alive anymore' and 'we have created a society built to appease the greed of the few at the detriment of the many' and then ask 'why are the young people rioting'.

I mean it’s not a vetting problem, is it? It’s that it’s a racist party, run by racists, with racist policies, for the benefit of racists. The fact that it turns out to be full of racists is not a glitch