Watched a video about that fateful Air France Concorde flight. It took 121 seconds from the point they lit the afterburners to start rolling to the point everyone died. For most of that it was probably profoundly obvious to the flight crew that they were going to die: the plane had two engines out, their wing was on fire, they were on the verge of a stall, their landing gear was fucked, they could not gain speed or height, and the aircraft was becoming uncontrollable.

They HAD to know they were going to die, and yet right to the point their short flight ended impacting a hotel at 200 knots, inverted, with the plane yelling, “pull up, pull up, pull up”, they acted utterly professionally.

So impressive. So tragic.

Oh arse, I'm going viral again.

Oh well. Didn't want to use this for the next day anyway,.

I am in the showers at the marina (yes, TERFs, the women’s showers. Go fuck yourselves). They have the radio on. They are talking to a “psychotherapist” who explains how, because of the iron in your blood, you can get rid of “negative energy” by touching a radiator to “ground yourself” for 20 minutes a day.

Did the Enlightenment actually happen, or did I imagine it?

Dear Vodafone. That you managed to make registration for your site not work with the built in password manager for iPhones, one of the most popular mobile phones, is deeply unfortunate. It’s also an impressive achievement, because iCloud Keychain works nearly everywhere. You actually have to go out of your way to bugger it up.

But you, a mobile phone company, have managed to make your mobile site not work with this most common of mobile phones. I am impressed with the amount of effort it must have taken to be this incompetent.

Techbros: self driving cars are inevitable!

Also techbros: prove you are human by performing a task that computers can’t do, like identifying traffic lights.

You can tell your covid requirements are pseudoscience tickybox woo when they emphasise “hand gel”, which is completely fucking useless against covid, over “face masks”, which are not.

And also when your activity is outdoors in the countryside.

Apparently I have a controversial belief about the modern software industry. I don’t think it should be controversial.

The belief is this: writing new code in C in 2023 is like installing plumbing in a new house using lead pipes.

Some people’s partners leave crumbs in their bed.

My darling wife leaves a chicken carcass, like she’s some sort of cat or some shit.

Britain and France are sibling countries: We spend a thousand years fighting like cat and dog because MUM SAID I COULD HAVE CALAIS, YOU COW!

And then Germany comes along and messes with one, and the other is like, "HITTING MY SISTER IS MY JOB! DIE!"