I swear the my3 website gets worse every time I use it - just got this beauty of a confirmation page after buying a data add-on that was in fact correctly applied to my account immediately and will not require anything to be posted anywhere

why does the android outlook app ask me if I want to add weather to it every time I open it? no I don't, I've already had to sacrifice nearly a gb of precious internal storage just to see my work calendar on my phone, why the fuck do they think this thing should be any more bloated?

excuse me, how the fuck is this kind of cookie popup legal?

I know spotify is evil and all that, but are there any ethical alternatives that will do things like invent a "dubstep pirate" genre for me?

I think this may be the closest I've ever been to thinking me and the current UK government could have something in common

genius me: adopted policy a few years ago of always having earplugs in my bag so it doesn't matter that I didn't explicitly remember to bring them on a night out at a noisy gig in a tiny venue
less genius me: dropped half the empty case in my pint

bench view of the week (although in this bench's defence, there probably wasn't a building site right in front of it when it first decided to put itself there, and it is a very shiny building site anyway)

I am curious to know exactly what was going on in the mind of whoever decided that a slider was the best way to get people to enter an age value in a form

so I'm currently at the cloning-systemd-source-to-grep-for-things stage of debugging molecule failures in gitlab ci that don't happen using the same images locally, in case that helps anyone else feel better about how their day is going

me, thinking I'm a bit of an expert now: "yeah so catalan might have some similar constructions to french but it has totally also got the lovely unambiguous nature of castellano"
duo:"er, no"

pushed a branch, got a huge fucking ad for "AI" bollocks in my terminal. not impressed, gitlab, not impressed at all.

random journey home from the pub question: if you were the one bus stop on a big long road the bus goes down that's called the name of the big long road rather than a building or landmark or side road, would you be proud to be representing the big long road or ashamed there was nothing else here nearby to name you after?

success! I'd better go to bed now before my luck changes

in a fit of what I can only assume is eurovision-inspired optimism, I've decided to let my 6 year old laptop try and update itself to ventura, how badly is this going to go?

apart from malta missing out and switzerland getting through, I'm happier with that selection than I usually am with semi-annual results, well done public voters #eurovision

it only just occurred to me to check, and it's higher up than I would have expected

gotta love google maps recommended public transport routes - "it's simple, just a couple of trains, but first you'll need to steal a bike and cycle 6k to the station"

I'm not changing any of my plans until I hear what the toad wants

me: *screaming into the abyss"

the abyss: this could have been an email

mastodon impressions after a week: mostly great, but where's all the #LoveIsland content? I'll reserve full judgement until I see what we get in #Eurovision season