Celestial M Weasel

I shot a man in Waitrose just to watch him die

[Fido2Dogs @Fido2dogs]

It was a COLD orange glow!

[Celestial M Weasel @celestialweasel]

"Warm orange glow of yesteryear", which is hilarious as the awful ugly things basically came and went within my lifetime (also LPS lights are no longer made)

[Headington Heritage @headingheritage]

Oxfordshire CC destroyed the ambiance of Old Headington replacing warm orange glow of yesteryear with ugly bright white lamps.
Not to be outdone, OCC has now replaced the BK wooden zip wire with hideous scaffolding as it "lasts longer" (ODS)
Consultation? Not for peasants.

[Fido2Dogs @Fido2dogs]

@arthur_spirling I feel shamefully grateful I retired a few years ago; like a handloom weaver in 1790 who managed to make some dosh, marry the kids off well and move in with the richest one JUST before power looms crushed the industry.

[Celestial M Weasel @celestialweasel]

@yorksranter @_night_brain__ Dangerously close to Paul Powlesland there

[Arika @Arikalabs]

The 10-year database architecture cycle:

2015: SQL is obsolete. Schemas are too rigid. Put everything in NoSQL JSON documents.

2018: Wait, we need to join users and orders. Let's write a 400-line nested loop in JavaScript to join them in RAM.

2021: Wait, if the server crashes halfway through the loop, we lose money. We need ACID transactions.

2026: Quietly puts everything back in PostgreSQL and never speaks of it again.

[Jonathan Shainin @jonathanshainin]

Who’s commissioning the longform investigation of how trick or treating infiltrated England

[Alex Harrowell @yorksranter]

@anshelsag reinventing Sun and the Network is the Computer

[Alex Harrowell @yorksranter]

at the end of the day this comes back to my old bit about the difference between a business lobby and a wealth lobby; they had so little contact with any business other than billionaire hangers-on the only possible contacts they could offer would be their own self-dealing

[Celestial M Weasel @celestialweasel]

@bouledenerfs_ I can't lie convincingly but I know far too many bizarre secrets

[Celestial M Weasel @celestialweasel]

@bouledenerfs_ Me too, the primary school headmaster would tell us in assembly that it was terrible and American (penny for the guy was somehow not mentioned)

[Tom Forth @thomasforth]

I don't understand what's supposedly been announced for Bradford station. https://t.co/HPYW4mKy00

[Alex Harrowell @yorksranter]

More parrot species than any European city. Now there's an election poster

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

When you understand the assignment but do it wrong on purpose out of spite.. 😅

[Fido2Dogs @Fido2dogs]

Attacking wildlife with catapults, presumably, rather than flinging badgers over hedges...

[Celestial M Weasel @celestialweasel]

@thomasforth Be realistic, demand the barely adequate

[Alex Harrowell @yorksranter]

Idk, this seems somehow even more perverted.

[Celestial M Weasel @celestialweasel]

@thomasforth It is "funny" that to start with we had local and regional radio but then the national antibodies killed it off. The Regional Programme was clobbered at the start of WW2 and never came back

[Tom Forth @thomasforth]

@jerryalderson I think that if the BBC are doing so little in the English Midlands that it doesn't make sense to keep doing the Archers there that speaks to a much deeper problem that needs addressing, and then your argument would go away.

[Tom Forth @thomasforth]

Today the number is 399 vs. 0.

[Alex Harrowell @yorksranter]

There may be a mundane explanation for this getting pulled and republished. Note the right-to-reply at the bottom.