Alex Hall

no, I don't wanna download another fucking app on my phone

Another tale of inconvenience Britain. I could just drive next time I suppose but feels unnecessary when there are trains available.

It's virtually empty, so how could all the seats be reserved to cause the error on the ticket machine?

Approach train with a few minutes to go. Police and security staff are escorting some people off. Words being had but doesn't seem too heated. Is this the right train? No indication. I ask someone, it is the right one.

Try to log in to Trainline on my phone. Can't get the password right. Could reset but bit of a drag on my phone. Text my wife, she buys me a ticket and sends it to me.

Go to train ticket machine. Select day return. Apparently seat reservations are mandatory on the next available train and it's full so computer says no I can't buy a ticket. I just want to buy a return though. No staff around.

Well they posted them. Headliner on at 9:35. Some of us do have jobs tomorrow and trains to catch you know.

Ah well. Karma for complaining.

Venues and promoters, this is your regular reminder to post the fucking set times.

Yes but what does "open all day" mean? 9 to 5? 12 to 12? Just put 24 hours I beg you.

Hilariously about 5 minutes after this I finally managed to get a ticket for Turnstile tomorrow night. It really does take a lot of watching the page though.

Getting a ticket on @twickets.bsky.social has become pretty much impossible for popular gigs. They're just gone in milliseconds. Even when I happen to be on the page and am pressing buy within literally a couple of seconds of the listing appearing it's already gone.

Ohhh JSON scheeeema ohhh JSON scheeeema

As a VS Code user
I want highlighting and selecting specific bits of text to be very awkward and fiddly
So that I can have a right laugh

As a Spotify user
I want the audiobook listening time indicator to be well hidden and randomly disappear
So that I can find it harder to keep track of the meagre amount of audiobook listening I am allowed

Reading Puffin books slogan, 'Stories that last a lifetime', my daughter jokes "does that mean you die after you read the last page?".

Truly my child.

Dream last night of trying to use apps with various deceptive patterns. Never should have left that job at the bookshop.

Nice conversation. Rewriting the WCAG is also one of my dream jobs.

Tony Harrison's V: Why a poem outraged 1980s Britain Forty years ago, Northern English poet Harrison published a powerful work inspired by vandalised gravestones in his hometown Leeds.

"I believe life ends with death, and that is all.
You haven't both gone shopping; just the same,
in my new black leather phone book there's your name
and the disconnected number I still call."

RIP Tony Harrison.

www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti...

Not sure about this JIRA rebrand.

As someone curious about the sentencing remarks in some high profile legal cases
I want to have to download a file to read them
So that I don't bother and move on to something else

As a parent
I want people to upload pictures of my child to AI birthday card greeting tools without asking me
So that I can wonder what else they're doing with the images

As a Spotify user
I want release radar to be littered with random compilations of old tracks
So that I can find it more difficult to see what came out this week

Love to fill in a form every single time I visit the dentist.

Very lucky and glad to be free of that racket.

Is there anything worse than trying to deal with HMRC? Just an overcomplicated mess of crap.

For the love of all that is good and holy. Anyone involved in gigs please post the approximate set times promptly.

YouTube video by Richard Hawley - Topic For Your Lover Give Some Time

"I will give up these cigarettes
Stay at home and watch you mend the tears in your dress
Have your name in rose tattooed across my chest
And be your lover for all time
Maybe I will drink a little less
Come home early and not complain about the death"

youtu.be/kOWpy4mOsdA

YouTube video by Richard Hawley Richard Hawley - Tonight The Streets Are Ours

"No one else can haunt me,
the way that you can haunt me,
I need to know you want me,
I couldn't be without you,
and the light that shines around you,
nothing ever mattered more than not doubting,
Tonight the streets are ours"

youtu.be/1jGJavcSJTg

There are apps where you can rent out your driveway. For example if you live near a stadium or something.

YouTube video by Richard Hawley - Topic Born Under A Bad Sign

"What are you like? You've had a right life"

One week to go before seeing the main man.

youtu.be/hd4uVLg_cSw