Category: wastebook

  • “I assume they kept the socks as evidence too.”

    “I assume they kept the socks as evidence too.” Theft of Services via Sock

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  • More slop words

    “Slopjects.” pointed out by bruces

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  • “Solo Toxic Neon Lord.”

    “Solo Toxic Neon Lord.” DriveThruRPG.com

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  • ‘the code’s use of a “taste-driven development (TDD) paradigm.”‘

    ‘the code’s use of a “taste-driven development (TDD) paradigm.”’ Microsoft touts ‘Vibe Working’ in Office apps

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  • Audience participation, “don’t sweat the small stuff.”

    “Very often, you need great audiences to have great art.” Tyler And at: “people judge things at the margin, right? In a friendship, or marriage, or if you have co-founders. At the margin, am I getting what I want? And, getting out of that mindset is very difficult. ”

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  • we gave up on that dream

    The Concorde was fast, but not that fast. It could go from New York to Paris in just over 3 hours. The starry-eyed futurists of the song could be forgiven for expecting things to get even better. But even when oil prices were cheap, it was just too expensive to run, so we gave up…

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  • “Our parenting hack of the year so far is having cut vegetables ready at the table when our kids get home from school. The percentage of vegetables consumed is up like 10x” Good tokens 2025-09-26

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  • 1953–1961

    I always forget that Nixon was a vice president, and I’m still shocked every time I’m reminded of that.

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  • “How many $18 glasses of natural wine can you drink while friends relay the latest upsetting news they gleaned from X, Instagram, and TikTok…” the new lost generation

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  • Waiting for the Eurostar in that little space – both at Centraal and St Pancras – crammed in with your fellow humans isn’t Brueghel. It’s Bosch.

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  • “A person dies, but capital is forever.” // And, when the worker becomes the self-manager. Capitalism and the Death Drive

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  • ”advanced Unicode manipulation” Free Glitch Text Generator – Create Distorted & Zalgo Text Effects

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  • Webcurios 19/09/25 webcurios.co.uk/webcurios… “I COULD GET TO MARSEILLES IN 8 HOURS FFS. What am I doing with my life? Why am I sitting in my pants in Vauxhall typing words about the internet when I could instead be about to visit Southern France and drink pastis and throw fireworks in the streets with wild Mediterranean…

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  • “linguistic pyrotechnics” – Chatty-G tries to explain to me why I don’t like contemporary hip-hop: “2. Wordplay vs. vibe – [Wu-Tang,], Tribe, and OutKast gave you linguistic pyrotechnics. This new wave often gives you murmured hooks and repetition. To an ear trained on lyricism, it can feel like lazy filler.”

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  • There is wide agreement that AMS<->LCY is the perfect flight.

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  • When you meet a new person in your field, one easy small talk question to ask them is: “if you were [insert your company name here], what would you do?” It gets you some free consulting, lets someone talk about themselves and things they know, and, you know, just gives you something to talk about…

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  • Does anyone really want air hand-dryers around? I mean, they’re loud and they don’t work. You might as well have a sign that says “dry your hands off on your clothes.”

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  • “My phone -and I realise this is mildly absurd – is a constant slight disappointment to me. But I’m from the generation that thought we’d have the world on our wrist.” W.E.

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  • “A man who had over the course of a week absorbed, as by osmosis, the Spirit of the Internet. And that is a foul, foul thing.” a slightly embarrassed announcement

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  • “cash incinerators” OpenAI doesn’t have the cash to pay Oracle $300 billion — raising it will test the very limits of private markets

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