Siri: still fucking useless, and doesn’t speak en_AU.

Germany gets knocked out of the World Cup and the big promotional display is gone and they’re flogging Carlsberg Elephant instead 😆

This has been happening a lot over the last few days, what on earth is going on?

Can’t help but agree.

To say nothing of…

Dad mission back at the scene of the ~crime~ birthday party.

Me: I’m in Spain at a random corner shop, what’s the most bonkers flavour of chips I can buy? Spanish corner shop, outdoing itself:

Whoa-oh Black Betty….

I want to buy some kind of, for want of a better compound word “techno-sporran”, for festival use. This kind of thing, but more https://acrnm.com than hippie, aesthetically. Anyone seen such a thing?

“He couldn’t pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were written on the heel!”

Steve would’ve thrown an iPad at someone’s head for this.

This is the same guy who sculpted this and called it “Princess X”.

Art-speak for, “this dude really liked to party!”

Back in business for 2026 (finally!)

This picture aligns with my memory: they’re not _open_ at the ends per se, but merely sealed by a thin layer of batter structurally different to the pastry wrapping.

@skeetsapp.com All gifs are suddenly rendering like this, instead of just showing inline:

Is this anything?

NO! It has neither strings nor soundboard but it does have gears so it’s obviously a clockwork bicycle! Also…

Fabulous piece of Denglish.

Anyone who thinks they can pronounce this… you’re wrong. (I don’t know how it’s pronounced either, but I’m sure there’s no right way.)

Just because he is/was an arsehole doesn’t mean he was wrong: Scott Adams postulated that “after a certain point complexity is fraud” and I’m terrified when booking flights these days in case I get the date or time wrong and burn €250! Exhausting!

@skeetsapp.com I don’t see what the point of this new feature is? Why does it offer to unroll a “thread” that doesn’t have any more posts? Why wouldn’t I want to hide replies behind a tap instead of just showing them in-line?

This is the classy hotel in Benidorm, I guess. It’s entirely vacant.

Woah-oh Black Betty… woah-oh, Black Betty…

Me (left) so relieved there back in touch and preliminary signal has been acquired.

What’s the deal with these ~3k obviously fake follower accounts? Are they just selling ads against AI slop newsletter content? Or is it more insidious?

There’s one particular parking spot In Friedrichshain you want to avoid.

I have discovered you can just microwave pappadams and I don’t think my life will be the same.