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Any other people I know (or who know me, or who want to come say hi) who are currently at #WHY2025?

I can't help but read the second sentence in the Jet2 Holidays ad-read voice

We are finally ready to announce that EMF 2026 will happen on July 16-19, 2026, at Eastnor Castle Deer Park, Herefordshire.

Expect more updates soon as we start spinning up the organisation again.

Post by Electromagnetic Field, @emf@emfcamp.org We are finally ready to announce that EMF 2026 will happen on July 16-19, 2026, at Eastnor Castle Deer Park, Herefordshire. Expect more updates soon as we start spinning up the organisation again.

Woo, EMF 2026 dates are announced (social.emfcamp.org/@emf/statuse...) - July 16-19, 2026 this time.

An LGBTQ+ pride flag formatted in the layout of the SMPTE "color bars" test pattern used for broadcast television. The first set of columns use the colors of the gay pride flag, with the addition of the original SMPTE color on the final column. The second set of columns contains two pride flags - the pansexual flag horizontally, and the asexual flag flipped and horizontal. The final set of columns contains the three colors of the transgender flag and the two POC-inclusive colors, followed by the original bar gradient from the SMPTE ECR-1-1978 pattern.

since it's the last day of pride month I figured I'd at least make one thing for it...

i now unveil to you my greatest invention:
color bars pride flag

is that a promise or a threat though

In the same way the Chrome folks were totally within their rights to say "err, maybe don't depend on this endpoint directly from your libraries/apps" - don't blame them because they announced a change to that endpoint coming up several months ago and you failed to respond at all.

Honestly pretty shocked at the apps that decided that using this single-maintainer open source NO WARRANTY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED project to mediate connections _to their own API backend_ was a good idea.

"British public wrong about nearly everything, survey shows" — headline in The Independent in 2013

It's never a bad time to remind everyone:

hmmmmmmmm

I've had the "auth" org on the Sentry hosted SaaS product for ages (judging by my email, 2019). This leads to the hilarious consequence that sentry.io/auth/ leads to a signin page that sends me an email saying you requested access, but the actual login page for Sentry is at sentry.io/auth/login/

test received

Is it just me that's like "hmm, this supposed 'new UK-EU deal' to allow UK citizens to use EU e-gates comes very suspiciously close to when EES is supposed to come into effect"?

I mean, I'm sure the details of said deal will take until, say, October to hammer out...

lol, oops mastdatabase.co.uk/blog/2025/05...

good morning

If you’ve sent me a text and I didn’t respond please know that I didn’t forget you, you’ll live on in my subconscious as a vague sense of dread forever

A screenshot of the "check-in" section of British Airway's booking management site. It reads: Online check-in not available. Self-service check-in not available. Airport desk check-in not available.

Well, guess checking in is optional then :p

A screenshot of an SMS sent from EE, that reads "Hi from EE. Thanks."

I love nonsensical SMSes from my mobile phone carrier

the loathing of british media is perfectly cromulent

...I guess it can still be unhealthy though, as a treat

SORRY. Sorry.
Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement

Me to someone at work, about the Student Loans Company in the UK:

Yeah, it does feel like they've outsourced their accounting software to Fujitsu, like the Post Office

(for those not in the know: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British...)

No more suitcase corner?

Yup... :( should've gone the other direction, I think I could've got my tyre inflated free at the other place :p

Made it to a nearby bike shop, who charged me £1 for the pleasure of half-inflating my tyre

Out and about, and I get a flat tyre

No problem, I have a spare inner tube

My bike handpump decides to give up after 3 or 4 pumps

Welp, guess I'm being told Not To Continue This Trip :p

no bully ;;

My post was delayed due to being a moron

Happy Friday, everyone

Monzo running stand-in on GCP is terrifying, but at least it's just stand-in so even if I'm having a bad day I can still buy lunch

:p