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I know there are many reasons to like certain types of computers over another but the reason why I will never leave Macs is ⌘.

Having a way of always copying and pasting without chords in command line environments is just a convenience I will never give up.

Nap like nobody gives a shit.

Is it appropriate for a candidate to bring iced coffee to a job interview?

LAMY, bring back your A5 Booklets with the stitched spine, your glorious hybrid rules, at an absolutely bargain price for 90 gsm. Nobody does it as well as you did.

I'm going to have to go Clairefontaine 1951 staplebound to not pay through the nose for fountain pen friendly notebooks.

Josh Fawaz has done a thumping club cover of Home (Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros), and it is *incredibly* good.

🔂

"To use Apple Wallet Passes you must have iOS 6 or newer."

🧐

The UK needs to set up global income and capital gains tax like the United States. If you want that passport, you’ll have to pay as if you live here. #ukPol

Henry Mance, in the FT, on billionaires leaving the UK for lower tax destinations:

The last time I chose where to stay purely on financial grounds, I ended up in a Travelodge room with no windows.

If you want to see how a 24 year old burned 35 billion American dollars asserting GAI is coming, and the absolute cringe circles he travelled to get there, y’all got to read what the Atlantic wrote about Leo Aschenbrenner.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/09/aschenbrenner-ai-future/688493/ (ready your favourite paywall remover.)

Do they even mop the linoleum floor?

I hate flying because it means I go to other airports that are older than Manchester and see that Manchester City Council, ultimate owner of the largest airport outside of London, decided to build it in this broken state.

Nope. Alas. The channel 4 probe dropped too late. #ukPol

The FT is later than normal on its Friday edition (normally available just after 10pm). I reckon it got yanked and rewritten.

Pretty much guaranteed a Farage front page sweep in the UK. #ukPol

Current laws on the books:
• Conspiring to accept / facilitate foreign donations = 1 year (max) custodial
• Knowingly receiving foreign donations without reporting / concealing source = 1 year (max) custodial
• Filing a false/non-compliant donation report = 1 year (max) custodial

#ukPol

Today I had the inglorious honour of pulling an emergency stop on an Avanti train because someone completely collapsed due to arrhythmia.

Apparently I shouldn’t have done it? What the fuck train guard?

(Un)related, is there a 404 analogue in UK tech news?

Is there a job in technology that involves no spreadsheets?

I kinda want that job.

Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, and the Hyperscalers *should* pay for the damage they’re causing.

How the fuck am I supposed to run a nice Fedi instance for a few friends with every cunt with an LLM (to train) is going to bring down as much of my services as possible?

Maybe we should have let L1 and ISPs start metering the internet years ago?