I filtered my games by “without quick time events”looking for a low-spoon distraction. Overwatch came up. I know Steam had to change the name of the tag from “without timed inputs” because developers didn’t get it, but how did anyone ever think Overwatch fit the definition of either tag???
In perhaps the least surprising news of the decade, a leaked email confirms Ring had every intention of tracking people and not just pets with its doorbells.
If you're using Amazon Affiliates you may have noticed that some books, specifically erotic and erotic romance titles, are no longer eligible for affiliate income.
@iheartsapphfic.bsky.social noticed this and wrote a full explainer as to what's going on.
Y'all remember #AmazonFail?
Somehow, I don’t think Duolingo is supposed to ask me “Are you ready? Hard underscore ee en dee”
I really wish Duolingo had an undo for the “Can’t speak right now” button
"Here's a terrible idea. If you see anyone using one, do a good deed and point them in the direction of an actual PASSWORD PROTECTED password manager. And then destroy the book." and it's a photograph of a physical printed internet address and password logbook
no, you're wrong. using one of these books is infinitely preferable to someone using nothing but a reused password 9,000 times. they're especially good for older people who don't go out much. if your book is at risk in your home, you have bigger problems than "they're going to steal my amazon login"
Thinking about how bsky has the most horrible setting turned on by default that says "i don't want to see any other languages except English" and if no one tells you to put it on "no selection" you straight up won't see posts from people set to different languages on your TL.
My Dexcom (blood sugar monitor) failed suddenly three weeks ago and I was sent a replacement. I started the replacement three days ago. Got woken up at 6am because it had fallen off and died. Good job Dexcom!
you just need to romanticize your life as a cyberpunk protagonist. every day i wake up and take stimulants (adderall) and jack into the net to get up to hijinks in cyberspace (get on my computer and post my thoughts every 20-35 minutes)
Los Angeles, CA -
Bit of a false alarm; crowd isn’t marching yet though they are assembled in the street currently. Making speeches still.
Helen Lewis will no longer be speaking at this year’s festival. To read our full statement go to greenbelt.org.uk/statements
Where are people who don't have adhd getting all their time from
I'm not convinced it exists
I'm really disappointed that you've invited noted transphobe Helen Lewis. Greenbelt was one of the few events I would feel safe going to, and now I'm reconsidering going.
Imagine announcing Grace Petrie and Helen Lewis on the same post without even an ounce of critical thought
Sir Terry Pratchett is best understood as one of the most interesting, deeply ethical practical (I would say Pragmatist but I cede to actual experts) philosophers of the late 20th Century who just happened to work in deconstructed fantasy literature as his medium.
A tortie cat is relaxing in a cardboard box on the floor. Another open box lies next to her.
Tilly wishes you a happy Boxing Day with many boxes
#cat #BoxesDay
Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather
I still can't work out if whoever re-registered my old latentexistence domain and reproduced my old website and blog on it did it to save my writing or just to put ads on there but I wish they'd stop. I pulled down a lot of those posts for a reason. At least stop pretending to be me.
But then I have to worry about a neighbour who hates me reporting us for misusing what in their eyes is a luxury car we don’t deserve.
If my wife does a 150 mile round trip in my Motability car every week to help her dad after heart surgery do I benefit?
I still benefit from being able to have a Motability car and not having to get by with buying a crappy car I can’t drive or get a wheelchair in just so that my wife can use it.
Screenshot text: Do I need to be in my vehicle while it's being used? Your vehicle needs to be used by the disabled customer or for their benefit. This does not mean they need to be in the vehicle for every journey. It means other drivers in the same home can use the vehicle for: Shopping Visiting family Other routine activities As long as the disabled customer benefits.
I swear Motability do the most “benefit scroungers must not have anything good” bullshit.
What is “Visiting family as long as the disabled customer benefits”? Do I benefit from my wife visiting her family in my Motability car? I think so. But do Motability or the daily mail see it that way?
Today in "Don't Trust AI to Tell You Facts": How several different "AI" programs messed up the simple fact of to whom I dedicated a book, and what that means for how much you should trust "AI" to tell you the truth about things (spoiler: not much at all):
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/13/a...
They never noticed or cared about anything enough to know if it happens here or what it is called. Hate doesn’t need a basis in reality.
Top down view of a brown-black-white cat laying in a tangled mix of limbs on a bed.
Help! My cat got tangled up!
Very telling that the Guardian Weekly article showing teenagers' reactions to Australia's social media ban have a bunch of healthy kids saying "Annoying but no biggie, I can wait two years" and one very disabled one saying "welp there goes my entire world."
I started looking at Japanese on Duolingo, and trying to learn Hiragana is giving me a new appreciation of how easy it was to learn Hangul. These characters do not want to stay in my brain.
The “Pathways” trial is, IMO on more than one level, a thoroughly unethical piece of “research” to be carrying out on children, especially children who are part of a marginalised minority.
1/🧵 The good people of the Cabinet Office has found a copy of the Department for Education and Employment’s drafting instructions* for the Sex Discrimination (Gender Reassignment) Regulations 1999.
* the Parly Counsel does vetting only in this case, so the instructions is to DfEE’s in-house lawyers
Thinking about Brianna Ghey while reading this article on screen time and bullying. Labour are using her name to push for a crackdown on phone use among teens.
But this research indicates increased screen time does *not* correlate with increased bullying for trans kids - unlike their cis peers.
The absolute gall of this. Trans people have been loudly decrying the blatant institutionalized transphobia being pumped out of the BBC offices FOR YEARS, and some staff made up bullshit "memo" sends the entire organization crashing within a week because they aren't transphobic ENOUGH.
