Is there any "mundane task" quite as enjoyable as going to the recycling centre on the bike

catching up on the new old school runescape quests cos I took a break for a while. top tier silly one: become a crab matchmaker by helping a bunch of crabs make a crab band to have a romantic crab dance to find crab wives, while rejecting KGP spies. i adore this janky old game. this is lovely.

look at the subject of this email google just sent me to my work email. complete gobbledegook. nonsense.

My Bulgarian textbook has this great joke: A programmer is out in nature on a picnic with his girlfriend. At one point he says "Look, what a blue sky! Just like on Windows 98!"

for when you're skint but currys pc world has that tv you're after

girlfriend :)

for when you're skint but currys pc world has that tv you're after

[ spider 🕷️ ] Tis the season! Love these guys.

New phone is pretty wonderful! Big fan of how affordable refurb Pixel phones still are. Got a basically pristine Pixel 8 Pro for £245. Need good cameras and a colour accurate screen for work and so far I'm very impressed.

Oh I know dw. I bought this P7 Pro a few years ago now second hand for slightly more than a replacement OLED would cost, and the battery was shot already! Not worth replacing with OEM parts. It'll be a useful backup or guest phone tbh. Also the LCD runs SO WARM when it's bright, it's so stupid

New phone arrives tomorrow thankfully. It's a refurbished Pixel 8 Pro, I've been using refurb Pixel phones for a decade now basically. Very very much looking forward to being able to see colours on a phone again.

Here's the best demonstration I have of the touchscreen polling using Swype (remember that?) style typing. This is a slow one cos it just doesn't work when I Swype normally. Oh also! The phone is now so thick that the new screen PROTRUDES PAST THE CASE 🔥

Kinda love it. It pisses me off so much that I'm actively avoiding my phone. Great success!

Lads. It adds 50% more thickness to the phone and about the same in weight, the front facing camera is now unusable, the touchscreen polls at TEN HERTZ so typing is miserable and every colour is wrong and desaturated. It came with only metal tools and adhesive worse than foam craft tape.

It's not OLED. Didn't expect it to be, no worries. No fingerprint reader, same deal. Not 90Hz, who cares?

Smashed my phone screen in a very unlucky drop. Phone on last legs anyway so got the cheapest screen I could until I get a replacement refurb phone posted. Shout out to INCELL UK for the biggest piece of shit screen I have ever, ever used lmao, but it was £20 and arrived in 18hr so all good.

The Orange Order can compromise and have their march, from the same starting point to the same ending point if they wanted. But they don't. Because there ARE people who want to rip up the peace process, and that list has the Orange Order at the top! Compromise is what's been happening for 28 years!!

If they force the Orange Order parade down the Garvaghy Road today or any other day, I'm afraid the complete collapse of the government of Northern Ireland will seem almost cute compared to the rest of the utter shitstorm that engulfs this place.

I will say, it's genuinely impressive that the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland is this shit. We're not new to an SoS who's a bit clueless about NI's ~cultural complexities~ but this one is knocking it out of the park. Absolute balloon.