Maybe the British Legion should reconsider their Poppy Appeal slogan based on the prevailing public mood. Something like: “Wear your poppy or else…”
Month: November 2025
A live broadcast of a late-night talk show in 1977 goes horribly wrong, unleashing evil into the nation's living rooms.
Don’t you hate it when you sell someone else’s soul to the devil, then the devil reneges and wrecks your career?
★★
The government will reduce GCSE exam time by up to three hours per student, introduce new Year 8 tests, and teach primary pupils how to identify misinformation under sweeping curriculum reforms.
Data Science is billed as one of the “professions” most at risk from AI, so not sure how this makes sense:
“This comes alongside the government exploring a new qualification for 16-18 year olds in data science and AI, with a view to encourage more young people into science and tech careers.”
It’s been a long time since I asked for any help in the open source community and I am thrilled(!) to discover very little has changed.
The first response I had was from someone with clearly good intentions but zero expertise.
The second response was somebody asking why I want to do it anyway.
I haven’t officially had the third response but I know that will be: the dev in charge of this element of the project has unilaterally decided not to maintain this functionality because basically said dev doesn’t need that functionality and/or has no way to test it. However, there is no public record or explanation for that decision so literally the only person that can even confirm that is the dev.
But the dev is only human and only has so much time they contribute to the project because, after all, they are a volunteer. So the chance of me actually getting a response from the dev are very low anyway and even lower when the answer is some version of “I can’t/won’t”, which no-one really likes to say.
However, with the benefit of knowledge from experience on my side, I have completely given up already, so I won’t be wasting any of my time, at least.
Mastodon (on the web) Top Tip
Wow. Apparently I have been using Mastodon for 3 years! Who knew?!
Anyway, my one top tip for new desktop/web browser #mastodon users:
If you want to share a post you saw on Mastodon offsite (e.g. via WhatsApp or something), don’t just visit the toot and copy the URL from your web browser (which might look like this https://mastodon.social/@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social/115457182787979481). That’s not really where the post is located. Instead you want to go the ellipsis menu (…) and click “Copy link to post” (which looks like this https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/115457182776398187).
The latter will play much nicer with “rich previews” generated by other services. I feel like this is more an issue with the “other services” but what’s important is that whoever you share the link with sees what you intended, right?
A special-ops team is dispatched to fight supernatural beings that have taken over a European city.
It’s not the overall plot or the dialogue but how it’s assembled. Reminds me of all those great TV shows that floundered when the writers went on strike…
Maybe all the money went on costume and props, which are amazing.
★★½
Val McKee and Earl Bassett are in a fight for their lives when they discover that their desolate town has been infested with gigantic, man-eating creatures that live below the ground.
