@hazel that's what my mum called me when i had worms

this is a product that could have stayed a prompt

note to ui designers. when i'm reading a long piece of text. i select text while i read it. I select text while i read it!. i select the text using my mouse. while i read the text i often select the text. when i select the text i just want to select the text. i don't want to perform actions on the text. i don't want a popup menu to appear when i select the text. i don't want to accidentally click on a Share link. i want to select text while i read it

ngl i didn’t expect the mongel-slaughtering samurai game to have a grandparent-with-dementia subplot

proving the snake lemma to reassure myself i did take something in in my phd

i don't think about pure maths much these days. when i stumble into mathoverflow or wherever i'm generally baffled by by 90+% of what I read. I think when i finished my phd student it would have been maybe only 80% baffling

lettings agent has been "working on" filling in the blanks in a templated contract for a week. We're moving in 8 days.

this is terribly depressing. how do you even begin fixing this

https://www.bsigroup.com/en-GB/insights-and-media/media-centre/press-releases/2025/may/half-of-young-people-want-to-grow-up-in-a-world-without-internet/

@emelie Finns shaking their fists across the border

buying some luthen rael bedsheets so disney makes more andor

the 30kg weight limit is more of a suggestion

the best thing i’ve ever bought from ikea is 10 dundergubbe moving boxes. ten years, 4 moves and they’re still going strong

i wonder what it feels like to be liz truss

people are nostalgic about a game console you think of as 'the new one'

@jk my dad confused william hague with ted heath the other day. inconceivable to me but by 1997 he’d probably already run out of slots for tories

@jk I'd somehow forgotten that at one time corporate advertising was meant to inspire hopeful or excited feelings. everything now is either an attempt to appear harmless and reassuring or else provoke anxiety about being left out

@jk corporate beats to innovate/synergise to

@jk god this rules

Corporate Uplifting