Just been reading figures on UK national debt.
To service that debt cost a little under
10 BILLION pounds per MONTH!
The average uk earner contributes approx 1.2 million in tax over their entire working life.
That's more than 8000 people's life times contribution spent every single month on debt.
Seems about right
Hello!
Looking for bounties and paid open source work to help keep the lights on at my place.
I have over two decades of C experience. As a showcase, I have extensive experience with pkgconf already, including augmenting the test runner and introducing an API test framework, contributing substantially to the 3.0 release: https://github.com/pkgconf/pkgconf/blob/master/NEWS
If anyone knows projects that need some hard problems solved for money, I would be very willing to lend my expertise.
Having a friendly chat over lunch with ...
Everybody talks about the new generation
Jump on the wagon or they'll leave you behind
But no one gave a thought to the rest of the nation
"Like to help you buddy, but I haven't got the time"
George Michael 1987 (Hand to mouth)
Nearly 40 years ago but as relevant today as ever.
This is the story of how I found 10,000 repositories on GitHub that distribute Trojan malware. They are all from different contributors, have different names, and are not forks of other repositories. But they share a common pattern, which is what allowed me to write a script to find such repositories https://orchidfiles.com/github-repositories-distributing-malware/ Github and say no more. They are too busy with AI and replacing staff with bots. So be careful downloading stuff on your dev box.
#Google's new requirement: starting September 2026, every #Android app developer must register centrally with Google before their software can be installed on any device. Not just Play Store apps: all apps. This includes apps shared between friends, distributed through @fdroidorg from to hobbyists for personal use. Independent developers, church and community groups, and hobbyists alike will all be frozen out of being able to develop and distribute their own software.
The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don’t know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly.
The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me.
And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same
- Marjane Satrapi
Nov 1969 - June 2026 RIP
Trump Launches $88 Billion Fund For Anyone Who Has Ever Been Rejected By Woman
https://theonion.com/trump-launches-88-billion-fund-for-anyone-who-has-ever-been-rejected-by-woman/
Average earnings in the UK is approx 40000/year.
After income tax, vat etc that's about 20000 / year paid in taxation.
Give or take that equals approx 1 million per person over a working life of 50 years.
So last year the government wasted 6600 peoples entire lifetimes contribution to the country.
6600 people paying tax their whole life, to be thrown away by ineptitude.
Works for me.
#USpol
Here's a strange situation:
thousands of #Rust developers use #bacon, #broot, #dysk, or #lazy-regex every single day — tools I wrote, maintain, and improve for free.
Their companies, though? None of them want to hire their author.
If you use my tools at work and your company does #Rust, I'd really appreciate a hand landing a job or freelance mission. A boost goes a long way. 🙏🦀
So we've got two Reform MSPs now. That’s not great. They’ll be rubbish and probably racist.
But, we don’t need to take this passively. It’s time to start holding them to account, to expose their shortcomings, to announce their mistakes.
Write to them about your *local* issues, write to our local and regional papers when they don’t perform, or handle your query/request with a slogan.
In short, make them work.
It’s the quickest way to show them up.
“Every country that has tried to build its way out of housing crises without dealing with the underlying problem of inequality and distribution has built a slum. The whole world is filled with these places that have had no restrictions on housing, and they built a massive shanty town outside of their city.
“And you think that can’t happen in a country like Australia. I grew up in Ilford, which is a poor suburb of East London...it was a poor suburb for working-class families, and it is now a slum. It’s as simple as that. All respect to the people that live there, is a place of desperate poverty, and those family homes are now expanded backwards, expanded upwards, and rented out by the room.
“Australia is a bit behind on this, but you’re going in the same direction. You will build a super luxury centre surrounded by extremely low-quality slums.”
Slowing down the hummingbirds
All these years of attempting to be creative and make connections and still I’m here with the begging bowl to see if I can sell a few more tickets for a poorly selling one off show in a studio theatre space in London - anyway, I am at Kings Place on 16th May - come and see 21st Century’s Archie Rice
https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/comedy/robin-ince-let-the-quiet-ones-rise-launch/
"Meta spent more on lobbying in 2025 than America’s three largest oil and gas companies combined"
RE: https://mastodon.social/@robinince/116407877129730561
I am performing a solo show in London on 16th May - tickets here
https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/comedy/robin-ince-let-the-quiet-ones-rise-launch/
This is a fascinating take on Trump’s strategy… is it all about preserving the pricing of oil in dollars, to ensure US control of the global trade? If so, it’s backfiring spectacularly!
#Politics #Iran
https://youtube.com/shorts/_Wk1jWj646w