Ed Truckell

FOH, Studio and broadcast sound. Musician Without Portfolio.

[Abdulkadir | Cybersecurity @cyber_razz]

Legendary meme

[Ed Truckell @longwelsh]

For some reason my phone has chosen to insist on rendering the name of our odd neighbour in block caps. Every time it makes me think of BOB from Twin Peaks. Like they’re some kind of malevolent entity.

[Ed Truckell @longwelsh]

@fesshole Quietly switch it to the store demo picture mode and turn on all the smoothing. Tbf he sounds like someone who probably has the smoothing on anyway…

[Prof Colin Talbot (rerum cognoscere causas) @colinrtalbot]

Angela Rayner - £40k underpaid stamp duty - repaid. Lost jobs in Cabinet and Dep. PM.

Peter Murrell - £400k theft from SNP - going to prison

Huge coverage of both

Nigel Farage - £5m undeclared bung (possibly more) - goes to ground for a month.

Media coverage? You judge.

[Ed Truckell @longwelsh]

@anon_opin The years I kept telling Lloyds Bank that there was a very big problem allowing branch names to include commas.

[Ed Truckell @longwelsh]

@Garmless_Hags @vitt2tsnoc Saw them in a 1993 TOTP at the weekend briefly and we were trying to remember which was ‘the potato one’.

[Ashton Forbes @AshtonForbes]

Amy's gone and she's not coming back.

I never knew her, but I'm pretty sure she wouldn't want people bickering over nonsense like this.

If you want disclosure, focus on the physics, not ghost stories.

What's the energy source for a UFO? How do they get here?

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

"Dear Diary,
Note to self: think carefully in future before making up bullshit stories about Russia hacking my phone. Labour have reported the 'hacking' to police and the National Cyber Security Centre, which means I have to choose between coming clean or lying to them both. As ever, my instinct is obviously to lie, but they'll see through that as soon as they look at my phone. I have a strange feeling my phone may be about to be stolen..."

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

Truth that Farage hates

[Ed Truckell @longwelsh]

@BladeoftheS We will go back to the prediction of 5 computers in the world.

[Ed Truckell @longwelsh]

@SGAGateBuilder @BaronDestructo @dial_the_gate @GateWorld Make it spin?

[Cherry @Cherryopenmind]

This is what elite, world-class investigative journalism looks like:

Carole Cadwalladr and her team at The Nerve have forensically stripped the mask off the British political establishment.

The pattern they found in The Harborne Receipts is nothing short of terrifying. Millions of pounds flow from a crypto-billionaire into the pockets of Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage, and like clockwork, weeks later, those exact politicians start pushing laws to benefit the crypto industry.

It is the exact same playbook Donald Trump used in America. It is cash-for-policy, clear as day.

While the billionaire-owned press tries to distract us with culture wars and theatre, true journalists follow the money.

This is the toxic soil that is destroying our democracy from within.

Absolute honour to see her back in action!

[IT Unprofessional @it_unprofession]

I spent 4 hours yesterday updating my resume to apply for a mid-level PM role.

The listing said they wanted someone with 10 years of experience in a software that was invented 4 years ago.

I clicked apply and was immediately redirected to a third-party portal that asked me to upload my resume, which I did.

Then it asked me to manually type in every single detail of the resume I had just uploaded.

Why did I upload it if I have to type it again?

Is the uploaded PDF just a ceremonial offering to the HR gods?

I spent 40 minutes breaking down my career history into tiny mandatory text boxes.

The portal required me to list a start and end date for every job, but the calendar widget wouldn't let me type the year.

I had to click the back arrow month by month to get to 2002.

My wrist started cramping somewhere around 2018.

Then it asked for my high school GPA.

I'm 44 years old.

I don't even remember the name of my high school mascot, let alone my proficiency in AP European History.

After the history lesson, came the behavioral assessment.

It presented me with 75 statements and asked me to rate them from "strongly disagree" to "strongly agree."

One statement was "I prefer to work alone but also thrive in team environments."

That is a paradox.

I'm being asked to evaluate a philosophical contradiction by a recruiting algorithm.

I just clicked "neutral" for everything out of spite.

The final step was a mandatory video cover letter.

I had to record a one-minute pitch explaining why my core values align with a B2B SaaS company that sells inventory management software.

My core value is being able to afford groceries and paying my internet bill on time.

I put on a dress shirt over my sweatpants, stared into my webcam, and lied for 60 seconds.

I said I've always been profoundly passionate about supply chain optimization.

Nobody is passionate about supply chain optimization.

I clicked submit and immediately received an automated rejection email.

The timestamp said it was sent zero seconds after I applied.

I was evaluated and deemed unworthy by a line of code at the speed of light.

Next time I'm just going to wrap my resume around a brick and throw it through their office window.

[Talking Bottom @talkingbottom]

“I’m Rik f*cking Mayall. Don’t f*ck me about, ask me an interesting f*cking question… if the camera is shaking it’s probably because he’s masturbating.”

[Ed Truckell @longwelsh]

So far really enjoying working in Swift and Rust. Except from the bit where i accidentally appended a slash to all exported file names. Managed to semi crash Finder and required a reboot. The feeling of impotent power was intense.

[Ed Truckell @longwelsh]

How can I have ‘signed’ for my parcel when you just yeeted it into the wheelie bin and didn’t even leave a note saying where it was. The modern world is just gaslighting.

[Nithya Shri @Nithya_Shrii]

Job postings are always like, "Do you want to work in a FAST-PACED and HIGH PRESSURE environment?!"

What? No. Not at all.

[Heidi @blockchainchick]

The SpaceX IPO is the most brazen retail fleecing in modern market history.

NASDAQ has REWRITTEN the index rules specifically for this listing. The 10% minimum free float requirement: gone. The 3 to 12 month seasoning period before index inclusion: cut to 15 trading days. Companies with small floats can now be weighted at 3x their actual float.

Translation: every passive index fund, every 401k, every pension is about to be force-fed SPCX whether they want it or not.

And what exactly are they buying?

Class A shares carrying ONE vote each, while Musk holds 93.6% of the Class B super voting shares at TEN votes each. That gives him 85.1% of voting power on a 42% economic interest. He cannot be outvoted. He cannot be removed. CEO, CTO and board chairman simultaneously.

For reference: Zuckerberg controls 61% of Meta. Buffett 35% of Berkshire. Musk: 85.1%.

SpaceX is also claiming "controlled company" status, exempting it from needing a majority of independent directors. Shareholders waive the right to a jury trial. They waive the right to class actions. Mandatory arbitration only, courtesy of an SEC rule change pushed through on a party line vote last September.

$1.75 trillion valuation. $80 billion raise. Largest IPO in history.

The rules of the game were quietly rewritten so one man could extract maximum capital from retail while answering to no one.

[Haggis_UK 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @Haggis_UK]

Mick Lynch on Nigel Farage:

"He's going to unleash a torrent of racism & division.. putting us into the dark ages"

ML calls out the Telegraph:

"The Telegraph seems to be preparing itself to become a fully signed up affiliate of Reform & all the racism & disunity it will cause"