Grey the earthling @greytheearthling@queer.party

Taiwan has Audrey Tang. Britain has Nadine Dorries.

Sometimes the Fediverse is a hive mind:

https://cybre.space/@devurandom/108468989896390328

https://botsin.space/@important_things/108468940967980398

To take a serious point from a probably-not-entirely-serious-but-you-can-never-really-tell comic — https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/almost-one — there's no point trying to be something you're not, because you're *already* a shitty version of that something-you're-not. Stop trying to be a good dog and just be a rock.

A shitpost on Mastodon is a craptoot

Elizabeth II: The Wrath of Ma'am

I don't understand why so many opposition MPs are so keen for Boris Johnson to resign as prime minister, so that he's replaced by another Conservative MP, presumably one who has until now approved of Boris Johnson's behaviour. How would some other Conservative MP be any better?

Our boiler developed a small leak yesterday, so we called British Gas, and they sent out an engineer who has fixed it and serviced it. Excellent!

But I've also received an email telling me that apparently I've opted into some “Rewards” bullshit. So I log into my account on the web and opt back out. They ask why, without a free text field. Tickboxes include “I'm not interested in the bright ideas” but not “I never opted into this bullshit”.

When you try to make an online payment from an HSBC bank account, they may ask you to type an email address. If you read the accompanying text carefully, it says they don't actually need an email address; they just want you to type something, so they can collect *biometric behavioural data* (typing cadence), which they send to a company called Callsign, based in Abu Dhabi. I'm astonished this is legal under the GDPR.

Food smells tasty: good ✔
Food tastes smelly: bad ✘

I've just discovered that nano has a lot of useful capabilities that are switched off by default:
* “soft” line-wrapping (for display only)
* “smart” Home key (alternating between the start of the line and the first non-whitespace character)
* auto-indent new lines
* constantly display the cursor position (line and column numbers)
* mouse support (click to move the cursor, or use the commands in the help rows)

See the bottom of the `^G` help text, or `man nanorc`

We're about to release a change to the global navigation header on bbc.co.uk that substantially changes its visual style for the first time in many years. It's going to be quite uncanny valley for a little while.

If you're considering voting for a party in order to stop another party getting in: ask yourself:

- whether this would be necessary if the election used proportional representation

- whether the party you're considering voting for supports or opposes proportional representation

- why you think they support or oppose it

Corporate needs me to find the differences between the Conservative party and the Labour party

> I just learned that the Māori word for autism is takiwatanga, ‘in [their] own time and space’. It’s such an empathic and gentle way to describe the condition I’m trying to come to terms with.

https://nitter.net/silverpebble/status/1508465129574305795