Tom Lawton

Marvel Comics has clearly been publishing a lot of great literature in the last year...

#WorldBookDay

Gee? Like on the sides of a horse?

Are there bags which are not, in some way, "carrier"?

An Open Letter Opposing Android Developer Verification | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository As we wrote about back in September in F-Droid and Google’s Developer Registration Decree, Google plans to enforce mandatory developer registration as a requ...

We're a long way from Google's old philosophy of "Don't Be Evil".

One of Android's great features is its openness; if I don't want to do something one way I can always download another.

This is now unfortunately under threat...

f-droid.org/2026/02/24/o...

Laptop in front of a turbo trainer

Coding at 200W (plus the computer!)

#UKCycleChat

Okay, I see. It's a riddle. "I have two eyes but I only use one." Why? Because the other eye is closed? Or because he's squinting? Okay, let's stop overthinking the code and just give you the answer. **The Doctor Who Shot His Wwife?** "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Jekyll"? No. **Wait.** Is this... **Alice in Wondertale**? Yes! It's Alice in Wonderland. And we know why. The patient is "Alice". The Mad Hatter is... well, Alice? No.

TFW you update some libraries and the #AI you've been working on for several years decides to ignore the data you've asked it to process and have a bit of a psychotic break.

(all fixed now!)

An organisation wants my CV in a specific format.
"I know; #AI will help me here!"
Going about as well as you might expect...

(As an aside, I did enjoy copilot's optimistic use of "FINAL" in the filename)

Select all squares with bicycles. With a big row of mopeds

As a keen cyclist, this one *hurt*

Odsal stadium with pitch floodlit

Last time I watched rugby here it was as a Leeds supporter.
First time for #BradfordBulls in the #SuperLeague since we moved here...

Go Bradford!

I have one child distraught because he accidentally saw an opening bracket without a closing one (and now will feel the unresolved tension all day), and another gleefully messaging him mismatched brackets...

a painting of a haunted house at night Alt: a painting of a haunted house at night

Visiting some old houses on holiday with the kids.
I feel like there's a whole ecosystem niche available for "daytime ghosts"

"Our ghost comes out on nice days in bright sunshine, and crochets rainbow scarves for abandoned kittens"

Nothing quite like a good bit of mud!

Shoes like above but with a load of lens flare

Like the above but less mud and more shiny?

Lacking access to a time machine; AI has had a go...

Muddy but bright running shoes

Happiness is buying new running shoes... and then getting them utterly filthy.

#UKRunChat

That's what prompted the discussion! Imperial units are so helpful

A Bizarre Form of Water May Exist All Over the Universe A new experiment confirms the existence of superionic ice, a black and hot form of water that might make up the bulk of giant icy planets.

For those interested in the same rabbit-hole:

www.wired.com/story/a-biza...

We've been ignoring quite a lot of Science and going for a pure water sphere. But even then you don't have to get that many leagues under before you're really stretching the definition of "sea"

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Today, we have mostly been working out what exotic forms of matter the water would take if "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea" referred to depth rather than horizontal distance...

Hope you recover quick!

I did have a mild giggle at the suggestion that unvaccinated kids would have to stay home for 3 weeks - I imagine the prospect of having the kids skulking round the house all day will do far more to send parents scurrying for vaccines than any public health messaging...

That's...

Introduced the kids to "that's what she said" and I may live to regret this...

X: Why are so many organisations leaving? Many organisation have recently announced that they will no longer be posting on their X accounts.

Nobody can solve this mystery. Nazi a single one.

#Xitter

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The bit that really brought it home for me was when Dr. Glaucomflecken ended up on ICU treated by an out-of-network doctor while unconscious.
When even someone intimately familiar with the mess that is US healthcare struggles; it's clearly broken.

AI generated - Bradford Spring Water advert, sewer overflow limited edition

I can see the advertising campaigns now...

Non angli sed angeli

I do wonder where the "colonised by immigrants" idiots think the "native" Anglo-Saxon population came from?

I have decided to downgrade all rain quantifications, so drizzle now counts as "it's not raining". Otherwise it would be insane.

So hungry. Might have to move to the sugar-coated ibuprofen.

After much criticism of my lunch the other week I have removed the "ultra processed" foods, and now am the very picture of health (albeit with slightly creaky knees).

Out of interest, does anyone know if there's still a hosepipe ban?

#RainRainGoAway