The 250-word Microfiction Challenge — nycmidnight The 250-word Microfiction Challenge is an international creative writing competition that challenges participants to create very short stories based on genre, action, and word assignments in 48 hours.

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Actually you should watch the Mythbusters episode that busts this one. Bulls are surprisingly delicate.

Isle of Man has something to say about the world's oldest democracy.

Me at 12:01: "What do you mean it's not available? Midnight is 23 hours and 59 minutes away. Plenty of time."

If you can't do the time...

Don't a lot of the chargers share the circuit between the individual plugs? I.e. if you have a 150kW charger with two plugs, and devices that can draw 150 are plugged into both, then each only gets 75? So actually if you did that it would be slightly slower?

Butter board mural.

£33 this week including steak, sausage, tuna, fruit and veg.

People can't hear that?

When I was coding in the 90s I figured out I could tell when a program crashed because the whine coming from the monitor changed due to signal noise from the CPU thrashing.

Happy Birthday candles in pancakes

Proper birthday morning!

Local bakes, meat, veg

Special weekly shop, same £34 as last week. I didn't need much but those steaks are local ribeye, about 2/3 of the totally grocery bill.

I believe at least two Hensons are already attached. I hear Jim is unavailable.

Nosferatu’s Robert Eggers to direct sequel to 1986’s Labyrinth Director of recent horror remake set to revisit Jim Henson’s beloved classic starring Jennifer Connelly and David Bowie

"You remind me of the movie." Very early times, no script or anything. I don't know whether to be excited or horrified. How about someone deliver me that Red Dwarf sequel finally, then we can talk about this.

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ja...

I think it's time to start transitioning to Bluesky. "Alas poor Threads! I knew it, Horatio..."

Red or green?

Frosty car bonnet and windscreen

Hey @scotland.bsky.social you can have your weather back.