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Jon Wood

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Someone new in a Discord I’m on spent some of this evening doing emoji anthropology and now I want to make an exhibit of different community’s favourite reaction emoji and what they mean.

@janamarie @HouseOfTea @idnorton I’m sometimes surprised more people don’t get questioned going to hacker conferences about these sheets of curious looking images being taken across borders.

@amyhoy fucking amateurs. If you clicked enough ad banners you could have more search inputs than space for the page to render in.

I couldn’t remember the name of Sunshine and ended up searching for “film space sun trip”. My first attempt was “film sun out” which was less successful.

@catsalad Sunshine (2007)

@pikesley_ebooks @pikesley that’s the plot of a Bond film isn’t it?

@dave what the hell. I’ve ordered one, hoping I can bypass the firmware and do something fun with it.

Today’s cursed Hacker News comment: “The fact the market hasn’t solved this problem suggests it’s a problem that doesn’t need solving”.

@simple_sabotage not convinced by this one. Measure once, cut twice, it’ll mean you take longer and use more material, a win-win.

Is This Seat Taken is deviant filth that should be banned. A game in which you’re expected to accommodate the whims of people who want to use their phones in a cinema rather than unceremoniously ejecting them.

(Other than that it’s a very charming logic puzzle game about allocated seating)

Edited 15d ago

@yvan vaporub still exists, not sure I have encountered a vaporub delivery system though.

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I really need to break my Hacker News habit. At one point it was a reliable source of interesting articles and commentary. Now it’s 90% LLM Snake Oil salesmen and people who think society could be fixed if we simply stuck a price tag on everything.

I made the terrible mistake of reading Hacker News comments about health care systems before bed and now I’m absolutely raging at the fact I share a career with some of the most entitled self satisfied pricks on the planet

I was bored so I updated my Home Screen full of mobile app icons which are just a stylised circle.

@kolev @catsalad I might create myself a second account just so I can vote yes again.

@JessTheUnstill @pascoda I’m particularly spicy about this because of the time I accidentally booked the wrong flight for a work trip and ended up swallowing the cost because I was too embarrassed to submit an expense claim labelled “non-refundable flight booked on the wrong day”. (Thankfully it was only European and so not hideously expensive)

@JessTheUnstill @pascoda oh 100 times this. These days they’re Executive Assistants instead, because the C-suite are too important to book their own flights and schedule their own meetings but everyone else should just suck it up.

@shinydan @cmconseils big same here. I was walking a mile and a half each way to school. My son started secondary a few months ago and still wants walking to the bus stop ten minutes away, across a single not very busy road.

@catsalad paging @pezmc

@pikesley WHY AREN’T YOU CONSUMING?

@dramypsyd @AndyIncarnate and in penance for that awful pun, yes, ovens and all other kitchen bits have a wild price range. Unless you’re really into cooking you probably don’t need to spend more than a few hundred.

@dramypsyd @AndyIncarnate no, a range is the bit on top you out pans on to cook things. What you’re talking about is an oven, that’s the big box that gets hot.

Today’s nonsense: Filing an SAR with Microsoft in an attempt to recover a potentially corrupted Minecraft save from Xbox cloud storage. Because apparently this is the only way to extract save games from an Xbox.

@pikesley_ebooks @pikesley [pictured: a party popping off, everyone is having the best time ever]