Dave Treadwell

Who’s ready for labours U-Turn of the year?

It is also the law that when you see the cat doing a big stretch you MUST say BIIIIIG STREEEETCH

Up early in a Saturday to drive H to a church hall to queue. For potatoes.
Seed potatoes.

(For non brits, this is an annual affair in the UK - we’re given a ration of potatoes to last us the next 12 months and we have to register annually)

The figures here also show that 7% of all child suicides were trans children. That compares with trans children making up only 1% of the population.

Trans kids are seven times as likely to die by suicide as cis kids and all this government can do is make things worse and cover these figures up.

recorded a Windows 95 full disk defrag to soothe your timeline.

Only gripe really was a 1x1 brick with a hole had been replaced with a standard 1x1 when it needed the hole to hold another element in place. Works okay for display but does fall off when you crash!

The left hand side of a Lego-like brick model of the factory cart from the computer game Satisfactory

The right hand side of a Lego-like brick model of the factory cart from the computer game Satisfactory

Well, the @coffeestain.com #Satisfactory Kickstarter/merch finally arrived! Built in the space of about 1.5 hours (the instructions were okay… but a little unclear at times.

RC works great - and it drives/handles just like the game - utterly terribly!

With the Magic Mouse being the exception, every single mouse I’ve ever owned has needed to be replaced because the scroll wheel click function stops working eventually, as I open ALL links with a middle click to open the link in a new tab.

Is this a very niche only me problem?

Oh the innuendo bingo is going to be good

Also please can you ask them to clarify how the horse wears the trousers? Are they two separate pairs, or a single quad legged trousers with a very large wasteband?

Write these down. One of them will be the next big thing!

I think the last time I felt pride in that flag was as a sixer in cubs, and being chosen to raise the flag at the opening of the meeting.

Me too. Although we didn’t really help ourselves what with the whole “colonising half the planet and being utterly horrific to the indigenous people and resources” prior to the appropriation

Because greens winning = end of Labour. Reform winning = end of Tories.

This is going to be an enormous mental health crisis in a decades time.
(More so than now)

Given channel 5 is a US owned channel entertainment channel, anything they pitch as “historical” always fills me with doubt

We are becoming so desensitised. And simultaneously traumatised.

Is anyone else finding it terrifying how normal it is now to scroll from a cat video to graphic footage of war crimes, onto an advert for hello fresh, then onto graphic footage from multiple angles of someone being executed by ICE, and then onto a video tutorial for making pasta.

*recoils in horror* even… THE BIG LIGHT

Peer review diagnosis: PDA

A photo of a gloster canary on a wood perch. The bird is a light yellow color and have a brown, voluminous bowl cut head of hair.

A bowl filled with some twigs and five gloster canaries with bowl cut hairdos.

Two photos of a gloster canary. The bird is a yellow to yellow-green color with voluminous bowl cut head of hair.

I just discovered that this bird - the Gloster Canary - exits and it has changed me.

*FIXA screwdriver.

Keep this one as 5V output - but crucially has the resistors on the CC1/CC2 lines so communicates with PD power sources (as I loath USB A to C cables/devices that can’t charge via PD with passion!)

An electric screwdriver, showing the charging port, which has been replaced with a USB C connector

The side of an IKEA FIXA screwdriver, with a blue sticker depicting the iFixit logo and the word “FIXED”

A small purple circuit board with a USB C connector and surface mount components

Underside of a small purple circuit board screen printed with various voltages and configurations

Retrofitted an old IKEA FOXA screwdriver with a USB C port (rather than a barrel jack).

Really like these tiny PD trigger boards - great for upgrading barrel jacks as they’re smaller than the old connector, and good for replacing micro USB ports too.

Obviously gets an @ifixit.com sticker now!

Adventures in peacetime Kardassia/Bajor could be fun

Well, he’s been the useful idiot for a long while now. Bannon, Thiel et al are calling the shots

The Gnome Frowned.

[Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer]

NOOT NOOT