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Re-exploring the benefits of wired headphones. I suspect this is going to lead me onto a path on which lays some dedicated portable (likely Android-based) music players

But with extra steps. And probably more expensive. Difficult to understand who they’re expecting this to actually appeal to.

Closed borders are a weird weird invention of fairly recent human history. Let’s people roam.

Never underestimate the power of a new screen protector and case to give you that “new phone” feeling.

I have a sneaking suspicion that Sky Broadband does some shenanigans to sometimes delay / deprioritise encrypted DNS requests 🤔

They probably already have :-/

@zackpolanski.bsky.social what is the Green’s policy on copyright and AI, please?

@barns.bsky.social 🤬

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.

This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.

Please spread the word.

🧵 1/4

@menageri.org.uk could be DNS antics? I flit between a handful of encrypted DNS providers and have to toggle off now and then when they’re, intentionally and usually In a way I’m pleased with, blocking something. Trade off is OK, occasional hiccup but network level ad and tracker block.

Next phone I really want to be smaller. Ideally no bigger than the current SE or the one-time Mini. I suspect I am going to be disappointed.

I get why it exists but Lego was always about imagination. This is undeniably cool tech but I think it takes something away from the magic that Lego is meant to be.

Pure gold

We need more authors like Pratchett!

just hoping Adrian Tchaikovsky doesn’t turn out to be crazy any time soon 😂😅

This is all news to me.. man I did enjoy Hyperion when I read it in 2000 or so.. i feel somewhat less inclined to revisit it or explore the other books in the series 😳

Very! hoping the library gets the audiobook on Borrowbox ^_^

I’ve just finished Children of Memory by Adrian Tchaikovsky, 3rd book in the “Children of Time” series. Exquisite space opera stuff. quite different to the first two but equally as gripping. 4th book out later this year 😁

just had to use iOS 26 briefly. how do you live like this, it’s so ugly…

..and finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything.

And then, one by-election, two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a politician suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time..

Sounds fantastic! 😁

Unrelated: a big thank you for the lantern parade by the way! Our little one loved it - now thinks brass bands are the best thing ever :-D

Politics has been in dire need of a real shift for a long time, and the Greens have the sort of straight talking positive approach that resonates. I hope we can get more of that from more parties.

All very fair points! Thanks for that :) I suspect, barring something seismic in the next couple of years, both Labour and Tories are going to get a battering at next GE.. long as it's not Reform I'm optimisitic though.

Oh and last thing: Labour has an identity problem. Before you weren’t Labour, you were “Not The Tories”. Now thats changed to “Not Reform”.

Don’t make your image about what’s wrong with the other people.

..capability for fully understanding a situation before making big decisions. That is certainly not something I applaud.

Meanwhile the Greens, imperfect as they are, are talking a different game. Labour sounds the same as the last decades of politics. That is what you need to change.

If you pin it on Kier and make him the scapegoat you don’t actually fix anything. The public just sees yet another change of PM among so many U-turns. On which point I actually applaud a government showing it can change its mind, but when it happens so much it calls into question their..

I disagree. The issue is less Kier, though he is a symptom, and much more the public image of a divided party openly showing how much in-fighting is going on. Just like the Tories before them. That and the number of policies that feel actively malicious towards people 😔

To the memory of the memory of Rob Grant 😔

Red Dwarf was a huge part of what made me “me” as I grew, along with The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and Discworld.. so few of those who helped me find my world view left 😞 Smoke me a kipper, Rob