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Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned.
I have eaten the Chicken Big Mac, large fries 5 cheesy bites and an orange juice.


I will have to wait until tomorrow for the voting results for the Midlands. 😟
#politics


Is it St. Patrick's Day? I seem to have green spots on my rolls. It should be OK, though, shouldn't it?


Charlie and I voted this morning. Getting him a picture license wasn't hard; they give them away like sweets these days. Getting him to hold the pencil was an issue. Not only does he not have any thumbs, but the silly sausage thought it was a chew stick.
#politics #mayoralelections #localelections2024


I never understand "Unfollow" on my #hive account. I post so rarely that I wonder why it should matter. I could understand it if I was relentlessly churning out posts for the sake of it to keep my momentum up like some of the production line content I often see. I'd probably unfollow myself if I were doing that. 🤣
#Hive


If only we could get one of these on the Moon or Mars, we'd really be able to get the ball rolling. #Colonalisation



Some folk seek solace from the Bible. As the Red Hordes burn their way across the UK, I lament that there is not one single strong leader in the #Conservative party. If only, like King Arthur, Maggie could come back to save us from the looming darkness. #politics #wellingborough


Am I the only one resisting enabling #Ubuntu Pro every time a software update informs me that updates are ready to be installed but that I need to enable Pro to get them?

There is nothing like a little bit of pressure selling, is there? 💳


Oh for the love of The Pond Gods!
I've just worked out why the stupid drop-off locker didn't like my mobile. The crappy system wanted me to drop the 0 off the beginning of my mobile number, didn't it?


I've caved and eaten some chocolate. 🫣


I have to say, I'm impressed with @Bose. Father Christmas gave me some earbuds over a year ago, which've gone faulty. I went on the support website and gave the serial number (which is bloody hard to get), and they're swapping them out for me. \o/ #resilt


Miserable moaning old people are not really miserable moaning old people. It's just in most cases, they've had 60 to 70 years of putting up with PITA morons. It drains you after a bit.


Oops! Mastodon .org .uk is down. 😥


If only @currys did these, they'd be on my Your Plan quicker than you could blink.

𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗦𝗕-𝗖𝟲𝟬𝟬 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀


I see X wants me to start arguing again? It pisses me off that I'm goaded, and people are shocked and offended when I respond.

My response to this would be:

"But EVERYONE is middle class; in fact, I would argue there's only a small proportion of so-called rich and a huge amount of working families, and if there is still a working class, then Labour has failed! One hundred years and Socialism still hasn't dragged its sorry arse out of the road to Wigan Pier."


I saw a Nun today with one of those electric car tyre pumps putting air into her car's flat tyre. Clearly, God does not look after his own.


It never ceases to amaze me how much help people for when they are cancelling a service with you. They don't even have the common decency to offer you a small fee for your assistance either; they just expect you to help them leave with no impact on them and have no regard to what you are losing.


Well, I have no idea what they were watching, but I watched pretty much all of it on Parliament TV, and I thought Boris gave a strong performance to an overly polite and shamelessly amicable panel.
#PartyGate #Boris


Wondering if Zelenskyy is going to return the favour and visit Boris now that he's in trouble?


The point I was making was that it's extremely hard to detect. I suspect the only way to raise suspicions is if someone suddenly starts to be very productive.

Obviously, it is not something I would do.


Asked OpenAI's GPT-4 to write me a blog post. I checked the output against Grammarly's plagiarism checker, and it found one similar usage of six words in a sentence from a totally unrelated (Subject matter) Website, so I reckon it would be possible to auto-generate blog posts for, say, #hive and nobody would be any the wiser. 🤣 😈 👹
#Hive


Dear @BBCNEWS
Plenty of tomatoes in Sainsbury's, you bunch of Remain campaign, Labour voting #Scaremongers


Picked a fight on FB; it's been a while since I've had some #PostRage on there. 🤣


So I've had a play with Fedora SilverBlue in a VM, and I like the concept. I downloaded the iso and burnt it to the Fedora USB I got from #fosdem; however, my X270 refuses to boot the USB; a spare DELL Laptop I have lying around did show me GRUB and looked like it was booting the "Try" option, but the screen just stayed black. This is 2023, not 2003, people! Get a grip for the love of The Pond Gods.


cast.garden is becoming insanely popular on #Hive. Get your creativity in front of people's faces and in their ears. Can't afford to host your own show? Speak to @Agorise_world; he may have some free space, or @Hacker Public Radio and stream through #RSS to start earning!


Here's a thought. All these tanks that are being sent to Ukraine, are they really of much use or will they actually turn out to be a nightmare? They're all different, have different systems and, for all I know, different ammunition.


Any predictions of when ChatGPT will become self-aware?


Just bought this from Amazon for £35 to play some cassettes I have from forty-five to fifty years ago! 🤣


Thank The Pond Gods for that. You can't get the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W for the minute, so that means it's pointless buying any of the Argon Pod modules.


A few years ago, on Google search results, you'd get two, maybe three "Paid For" results.

𝗔𝗱 ·https://SomeURL/
SomeResult

These days there's half a page of "Paid For" results.
Next time someone says: "Can I do your SEO? We'll get you first rankings!" ask them: "Are you paying Google for Ad placement then?" you can't get 1st place for free anymore.


Isn't EVERYONE rated as "Excellent" on Trustpilot? #LeSigh


Bought a copy of Private Eye, which I would read more regularly if it weren't so sparse in its stories about Labour.
#PrivateEye


Just been in the spare room and literally ripped the Epson Expression Home XP-2200 Printer off the shelf and took it downstairs, and threw it by the bins. It's only printed once and now won't print the missuses return (pdf) label so guess whose fault that is? Piece of shit.