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  Nothing like trying to log in somewhere only to be told you’ve been emailed an activation code which has a five minute lifespan, and the email turns up twenty minutes later. This was not a single occurrence on this site today.

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  Herself was getting popups purporting to be from Firefox last night claiming to report viruses and "click here to fix". Turns out some bastard site had got into the "manage exceptions" part of "Block pop-ups" in Firefox's settings. Now double-blocked with extreme prejudice.

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  “No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There’s always a boom tomorrow.” - Commander Susan Ivanova, Babylon 5 https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/oct/19/us-wwii-ship-richard-montgomery-thames-bombs-prevent-explosion

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  Right everybody, let’s keep it going for another year. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/oct/22/ai-firms-say-uk-has-a-year-to-head-off-datacentre-protests-before-construction-is-threatened

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  It’s never a bad day to wake up and find that Mark Zuckerberg has had his mellow harshed because a thing he poured meelions of dollars into didn’t happen. Oh and congratulations to Brazil as well.

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  It didn’t take long for the inevitable shop. Gacked from Tumblr.

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  @leighelse “You want 21 points off my hand, Google? Have two…”

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  I AM BEING SILENCED!!!

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  From Channel 4’s page on “The great ADHD myth”, we find it’s going to involve: Dr Max Pemberton, writer for the Daily Mail & the Spectator. Dr Iona Heath: “Too much medicine makes us sick”. Dr Sami Timini: “There is no such thing as a discrete condition of autism”. https://www.channel4.com/press/news/new-channel-4-documentary-great-adhd-myth-seeks-determine-whether-adhd-genuine

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  Remember, naming your cat NR8WetQ3TYu2xPBQX3M8vimyVTB2EtjtHkXf will make it difficult to call them for feeding time. It may also summon something squamous and rugose from a forgotten corner of the universe instead.

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  “When a (proper) coroner’s inquest is preferable to a public inquiry.” A short post in respect of the death of Jason Arday by David Allen Green. https://theemptycity.com/blog/2026/08/when-a-proper-coroners-inquest-is-preferable-to-a-public-inquiry/

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  RE: https://mstdn.social/@wiredfire/117133943657422940 Can anyone help a fellow old tech lover out?

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  Started a long overdue audit of the filing cabinet. Found something from a while back that I knew wasn't lost, just had no idea where it had gone. anyway, here it is.

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  I am bringing a thread in Bluesky to your attention. ORPHANED CATS NEED FOREVER HOME IN NORTHEAST (USA) (PLEASE READ *ENTIRE* THREAD) Please click on the link if and only if you think you can help. Thank you for your attention to this matter. https://bsky.app/profile/shecky.bsky.social/post/3mttx6wjo3k2t

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  Someone has tried me to sign up to NextDoor. If I wanted to read screeds about loud, scary and dusky youths lowering property values in my street simply by existing I’d read the Express or the Mail.

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  RE: https://mastodon.scot/@fionaorkneynews/117222565834382422 Let’s celebrate with a little song. https://youtu.be/NFb5moTKs4I?feature=shared

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  When my dumb TV* finally goes I just hope I can get a replacement that doesn’t need to be connected to the internet. (This is not a call for advice. I have researched commercial display screens and they are not suitable for my home kthxbai.) *It’s dumb because all the smart stuff stopped working when the manufacturer shut down their servers. Hooray. https://www.notebookcheck.net/LG-smart-TVs-caught-logging-audio-with-screen-off-and-snooping-on-local-devices.1391214.0.html

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  All the chatter about AI finishing us off (it won’t in the way the chatterers think) reminds me of Charles Stross’ short story ‘Antibodies’, which he has kindly released under a Creative Commons License. https://dn760102.eu.archive.org/0/items/toast_stross/toast.pdf

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  Has anyone heard anything about the NexPhone recently? There was a big press release at the start of the year but nothing since then. The site’s apparently taking money for pre-orders but I’ve backed enough vapourware in my time not to be doing that.

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117282291283441057 “Gee Brain, what are we going to do tonight?”

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  “This is all very reminiscent of an extremely similar situation on Peacock, which cancelled Ponies, a #1 show (and a spy series) starring Emilia Clarke and Haley Lu Richardson despite its viewership and 94% critic score. No clear answers ever emerged from that situation either.” Well, the actors are women, and misogyny is a thing, so https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2026/09/19/ride-or-die-cancelled-by-amazon-despite-being-a-critical-and-ratings-hit/

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  Hello, interesting tech. https://youtu.be/wSV5XT4sl2A?si=AMhXlPGkfYpRBkx0

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  What in the ever-loving name of Nyarlathotep on a quad bike is going on here? </rhetorical_question> One of the five men arrested near RAF Fairford called 999 himself https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqn8m342rgk9o

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  It's a long way from Wimbledon Common... https://www.mikebatt.com/news/symphony

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  RE: https://mstdn.social/@stux/116161864404462457 PSA.

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  RE: https://wandering.shop/@ScottEdelman/116031480309386629 Yet…

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  Diane Duane has been interviewed in the Dublin Inquirer and the interview is an absolute delight. (So is she, of course.) https://www.dublininquirer.com/sixty-years-on-a-star-trek-writer-is-still-creating-new-worlds/

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  For anyone who thought Reform were on the side of “real” women, they just regard them as walking wombs. Their Gorton and Denton candidate certainly thinks so. https://metro.co.uk/2026/02/07/reform-candidate-wants-tax-people-dont-children-26761902