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• Post #4210584

  I find it funny that while England were losing the World Cup last night, I was listening to November Kelly talk about how they were going to win.

• Post #4210583

  There's a crow in my garden whose call is five rapid, staccato clacks, with an accent on the last one. This also happens to be the first five notes of Philip Sparke's "Year of the Dragon", so the crow keeps earworming me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCq2_wS4wzU

• Post #4210582

  The evening before I head to Delft is the best time to find out that I’ve somehow lost _all_ of my Europlug to ISO/IEC C17 cables and duck heads.

• Post #4210581

  Somewhat surprising observation: the code I’m working on running in Docker on my M1 MacBook Pro (in an arm64 container, not via Rosetta) runs appreciably slower than running natively on an old mid-2010s Intel iMac.

• Post #4210580

  Walking to the conference venue, I wondered why there were tram lines all over the place but Maps was telling me the quickest route was to walk Turns out Delft is getting a brand new tram line, currently in the testing phase, opening slightly too late for this trip. Always amazing to see cities building new trams! (Even if I don’t get to ride them!)

• Post #4210579

  Apple Maps: “Turn left onto the bridge” The bridge:

• Post #4210578

  Ah yes, the three genders: • Men • Disabled • Genderqueer

• Post #4210577

  Vending machines that would be illegal in the UK

• Post #4210576

  I should have known I’d crossed the border to Belgium by the way my 4G dropped to EDGE.

• Post #4210575

  I’m confused by Monzo lately. They offered to add one of external bank account for free, so I added my AmEx. Then they told me I had a free trial of Plus, which I didn’t use anything from Then they said my trial was ending soon, and I’d lose my external account. Easy come, easy go, I guess Then my trial ended and the AmEx disappeared Then they offered to add one external account for free, again.

• Post #4210574

  RealTimeTrains is pulling data from the alternative reality where today’s Eurostar wasn’t curtailed to start from Bruxelles due to engineering work near Rotterdam.

• Post #4210573

  💭 Imagine what tram trains would have to look like if we’d standardised on broad gauge rather than 1435mm.

• Post #4210572

  “Hmm, it’s been a while since I’ve played Celeste, but YouTube’s been showing me a lot of speedruns and related videos. I wonder how fast I could complete it if I put an attempt in” Immediately got distracted trying to grab every strawberry and the crystal heart in chapter 1. (Got 17/20, missed the cassette.)

• Post #3532894

  Really disturbing: I just managed to get my Mac into a state where it was displaying one user account on the built-in monitor and a different user account on the external monitor (and projector). Given that I use a dedicated user account for teaching, I'm glad that I didn't have anything too confidential open on the private account, since there was no way to move the mouse to the external display to close it. Once I'm not in a workshop I'll see if I can work out how to reproduc...

• Post #1781994

  Geography diagrams that look like shitposts

• Post #1258769

  Has anyone else noticed a phase transition in YouTube ads in the last couple of weeks, where suddenly 80% of ads are for slop idle/mobile games, and come with an extra banner ad that has to be dismissed otherwise it persists over the video?

• Post #1258768

  I finally consolidated some thoughts that have been knocking around my head for a while around how you can combine two existing Japanese technologies to enable sleeper services on the Shinkansen. (Many thanks to @sleepytako for hunting for Shinkansen diagrams to enable this!) https://tachibanakana.day/2026/04/06/shinkansen-sleepers.html

• Post #1258767

  > finally get a hire car for a work trip rather than taking mine > have to take it back to get them to open the charge port as it’s jammed > go to charge it the night before > have lost key > spend evening looking for key, fail > looks like I’m taking my car after all Why am I like this?

• Post #1258766

  Is it pluralphobic to name myself after a fictional character who isn’t an introject (if that’s the right way of phrasing it?)?

• Post #1258765

  RE: https://indieweb.social/@xkcdbot/116399720577250273 Oh hey, it’s the WTYP sync point

• Post #1258764

  Spotted on a blackboard in a physics department.

• Post #694406

  RE: https://toot.wales/@SwanseaBayNews/116244584152295900 How do you make a loss when you’re a landlord with almost zero operating costs?