Darkpaw

I test software. It's more fun than it sounds.

2025-06-25

ARGH!

The viral image of a bald JD Vance, but with his head upside down.
2025-06-25

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2025-06-25

I reported an obviously counterfeit Apple MagSafe charger on eBay.

I just got a response saying the listing didn't violate their policy, and that "This determination was made using automation or artificial intelligence."

Oh, for fuck's sake! Now eBay are using shitty AI to get things wrong.

Why can't companies just do things *right* these days?

2025-06-24

Is it too much to ask that massive companies like eBay tie together two things in their systems?

When you list a laptop on there you have to enter the RAM size and hard drive/SSD capacity, yet when you want to search for a laptop to buy you can't filter by the RAM size. Why not?! Maddening shite.

2025-06-24

@mike30030 I'm just seeing a screenshot of his posts. What's this bridge?

2025-06-23

@rbreich Robert, if you're only posting on Bluesky now, at least have the courtesy to copy and paste your posts here as text rather than a screenshot, especially since you don't add alt text to them.

You do us a disservice by treating us as second class social media citizens.

2025-06-23

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Couldn't have been anything else after that starter.

2025-06-22

Can we all stop painting #TacoPedo as a peacemaker? I think Pakistan should remove their Nobel Peace Prize nomination of him given he's just ignored the US Constitution (again) and bombed a sovereign country.

#TacoPedo is a demantia patient on day release from the memory clinic. He is not fit to run a country, and he is completely unfit to be in charge of nuclear weapons.

Impeach him again, and this time, remove the fucker from power.

2025-06-22

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2025-06-21

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ColinTHFC #FBPE #GTTO πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡ΊColinTHFC@mstdn.social
2025-06-20

It's another hot day in the City of York. @Keir_Starmer. Please do not get involved in the Iran/Israel 'spat'. This is not in the UK's interest, so let the #TacoPedo go his own way. By all means, protect British Nationals, but DO NOT get involved in armed conflict.

#TaxWealth

2025-06-20

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2025-06-19

@randahl With interest it's now about $88m. LOLs, he's in the Find Out stage.

2025-06-19

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2025-06-19

@randahl That's all well and good, but I think the more important thing we all want to know is: what does Iran think about the beautiful new, tapered flagpoles?

(It seems to be more important to Fiberace/Uncle Scam/Jaffa the Gut/Orangataco.)

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2025-06-18

When the sun goes down tonight, step outside and look west. Mars and Regulus are in conjunction, less than one degree apart in the evening twilight sky. "The beauty of their colors is mind-blowing," says Gianluca Masi, who sends this picture from the Virtual Telescope Project facility in Manciano, Italy:

Regulus is a blue-white star in the constellation Leo while Mars, equally bright, is a rusty-red planet passing by for a few nights. Their mis-matched colors are visible to the unaided eye.

I'm pleased to share an image of the stunning Mars - Regulus conjunction, taken a couple of hours ago. This image shows the Red Planet sharing the same spot up there with the star Regulus, the brightest one in Leo, the Lion. The beauty of the colours is mind-blowing. The image was taken from Manciano, in the beautiful countryside of Maremma, Tuscany, Italy, using the wide field-of-view astrograph available at the Virtual Telescope Project facility installed there. Mars is about 275 million kilometers away, whereas Regulus is nearly 80 light-years away (about 800 trillion kilometers). This image is showing something exceptional: between the two bright gems, there is a pale spot, a bit shifted closer to Regulus (the blue object). That phantom is the Leo I dwarf galaxy, about 820.000 light-years distant (eight quintillion two hundred quadrillion of kilometers), it is a member of the Local Group. Capturing it in the same frame as Mars and Regulus is something rare and deeply evocative.
Photographer's website:
https://www.virtualtelescope.eu
2025-06-17

I finished work a few hours late (as usual), at 7:28pm.

I've been a good boy, so I got myself a EuroMillions ticket for tonight's draw. I don't need the jackpot, but the rolldown prize of about Β£5m would be superb.

Sue. Perb.

Fingers crossed, guys. I need this. Life is hard, and few people care πŸ‘πŸ»

2025-06-17

@ghalfacree "Generate an image of thousands upon thousands of customers NOT buying products from Ben's anymore, and send it to the asshats at Ben's HQ."

2025-06-17

@TYB I bought an air fryer about 15 years ago. No app, no need to connect to the internet; it just makes chips and whatnot.

And when it dies, I'll replace it with a bare bones, no frills, zero bells and no sodding whistles replacement πŸ‘πŸ»

2025-06-17

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