Simon McCartney

Fetishcon and Defcon happen on the same weekend again this year. Just a fun coincidence that I notice every time a friend picks me up from the airport.

“Which one did you go to?”
“The one filled with degenerate folks”
“… that doesn’t help”

And you get to see a different part of the the city too! I’ll be doing this on Monday, sadly not in town for MS Build though :/

I grew up in a family that fostered, and Emma & I have been through the fostering process too, so it rang true in extra special ways 🥰🥰🥰

Kiri Pritchard-McLean: Tough Crowd — Comedy of the Week Have you ever considered becoming a foster carer?Multi award-winning comedian Kiri Pritchard-McLean hadn’t - until a chance radio advert changed everything.In this heartfelt and inspiring half-hour sp...

Simply excellent from Kiri Pritchard-McLean on fostering, had me in tears of all kinds walking the dog this morning overcast.fm/+AAIPPTjgn84

Doh! Actual link to the podcast: overcast.fm/+AA4jBE-3ZmI

It was @matthewsanabria.dev on bsky.app/profile/ahl.... (and I may have mangled the words slightly!)

This change is about making things easier for Google, one less system to run, but those of us who opted to use Google Workspaces for personal/family stuff are left worse off

I do love the way Google are forcing Fitbit users to switch to using Google accounts, unless of course you’re already paying Google significant money, in which case you’re borked:

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Welcome to team green! Just in time for St Patrick’s Day! (I’m from NI too :))

Oof, I’ve been guilty of some of this in the past, filing bugs against OSS because some damn vulnerability scanner found something in an image & the audit process had to show some progress. Sorry.

lol - argument to use more AI : Aging boomers have so much knowledge, we need to capture that :)

Ladies & Gentlemen, it was DNS.

Who was the star of #cfgmgmtcamp? Easy, the transcriber was the best person on the stage, @cfgmgmtcamp.bsky.social she deserves a raise & a round of applause!!

Thematic Vagabonding, sounds much better than scrambling & looking at everything!

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@stahnma.bsky.social at #cfgmgmtcamp telling us all about Nix

Train station, heading to hotel now, beer/food at 9pm?

We just got informed the main walking entrance to @cfgmgmtcamp.bsky.social from the tram is closed . This is the alternative road

Wait, did you just need an excuse to be in Dublin for a 6Nations game???

Ouch!!!!!! See you for beer later on :)

Yep, 1530 flight, @grahamhayes.bsky.social should be on the same flight

See you there!!

It’s going to be ok, tomorrow is a new day, we just gotta make it that far.

What’s the TTR in your house? We have one who might come eat several hours after the call

Because the waffle man put an API on ordering?

Mine was one of the lesser wizarding schools.