UK folk, please vote in local elections whenever possible. Hereabouts, a Tory (formerly UKIP) County Councillor, elected with a 19 vote majority on a 42.7% turn-out, has been sharing quotes from Enoch Powell on social media, seemingly as valid points for discussion.

I just spent the last two hours debugging the Bluetooth stack *in anger* because for the last few weeks I've had to re-pair my mouse with my laptop. Every time. Remove mouse, re-pair.

Turns out I had two identical mice in my backpack and I've been switching between them.

It was me.

Mum missed me when I left for uni. I sneaked home as a surprise, and jumped out at her and Dad for a laugh. But this was Northern Ireland in 1993, I was dressed in goth black, and Dad was police. The poor guy thought the IRA had come to kill him. Still feel awful about it.

“Members of Congress are eligible for a pension at the age of 62 if they have completed at least 5 years of service.”

MTG is resigning effective January 5, 2026.

You will NEVER GUESS when she was sworn in.

@corin_ja You got this.

@pikesley @cstross
#deadkennedys
#alternativetentacles

Migrants didn't cut council funding.
Migrants didn't raise energy bills.
Migrants didn't close community centres.

Know what would help solve Scotland’s problems? Taxing the super-rich and building an affordable country for all.

Because they're Black.

#minnesota #blackmastodon
https://youtube.com/watch?v=twNX5q3tc48&si=ASy6xo16SgE50A52

I am possibly over tired because I cannot stop laughing.

Very noteworthy how most of these professions are typically female-gendered in US culture.

Also, it completely misses the point that a profession is an occupation REGULATED BY A STATUTORY BODY with specific privileges and responsibilities defined by law."Professional" has been devalued in recent decades by overuse, but do you really want to be treated by an unregulated doctor?

Whatever idiot drafted this guideline is clearly not a member of a regulated profession.

@dysonlogos Are you storing them in a camouflage document/map case, for full immersion? 🙂

The Roman Empire prospered due to open borders, mass immigration and diversity then fell because of huge wealth inequality and corrupt leadership. I just thought I'd mention it.

PSA to anyone who uses Gmail!

"Reportedly, Google has recently started automatically opting users in to allow Gmail to access all private messages and attachments for training its AI models. This means your emails could be analyzed to improve Google’s AI assistants, like Smart Compose or AI-generated replies. Unless you decide to take action."

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/11/gmail-is-reading-your-emails-and-attachments-to-train-its-ai-unless-you-turn-it-off

#gmail #AI

Time to move past the neverending trial stage. Yes, basic income reduces homelessness.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:pm6x2q574qtnskqqiw2svki7/post/3m64aol522k2s

@cstross

“There’s clearly something political about it but nobody knows what it is,” said the restaurant manager.

That's gotta be the dumbest thing I've read all week.

He explained the majority of the people complaining about the artwork are against high levels of immigration and believe the artwork is an attempt to humanise small boat crossings because the people walking across the water have Christmas hats on.

No, wait, THIS is the dumbest thing I've read all week!

We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because we said at standup this morning that they would be easy

I'm still a little miffed that when an actual worldwide pandemic came, the bunker people didn't go into their bunkers

Instead they demanded haircuts and tickets to the cinema

Maths Puzzles for Conspiracy Theorists. One of the cartoons from my new book 'Physics for Cats'. In good bookshops now and online in English, French, German and Spanish editions.