A terrible discovery. This pasta, gramigna, is little crook-shaped tubes. If you try to use it for soup noodles, it can *and will* dangle off the edge of your spoon and _siphon your soup away_
The Metropolitan Police haven't just had far-right protests to deal with today; round our way they seem to have kettled a marauding horde of wheelie bins
eBay has started nagging me to use AI-generated replies to messages. Even as someone who finds writing awkward and time-consuming, I would still rather chew my arms off and bash out replies with my forehead than let a mindless text-generator speak for me. One of the *good* things about eBay is that you can message a buyer or seller and get a response from an actual person, so apparently this must be discouraged at all costs. And of course you can only choose "maybe later" instead of "fuck no"
According to YouGov polls, the British public is strongly in favour of the Online Safety Act, while simultaneously believing it will achieve approximately fuck all. I feel like this explains a lot about the state of the country.
After over 90 minutes of digging at it with toothpicks in combination with swabbing it with isopropyl alcohol to deal with the sticky black crud and vinegar to deal with the waxy green crud:
New cursed knowledge unlocked:
You know that tar-like sticky substance that cassette drive belts turn into after 20 years or so? Smears on everything at the slightest touch and takes entire packs of cotton buds and alcohol wipes to clean up?
Whatever that stuff is, it also corrodes brass.
took a photo of the cat but it looks more like he's taking a selfie
Bonus whiteboard from outside the Scottish Consulate
People had *fun* with the phone system.
(The Raccoon Hotline goes "skree! skreee! skreeeee!" at you. The racy-sounding ones I think all gave random dad jokes. The Tom Scottline played a random Tom Scott "I am at..." quote. Sometimes a phone would ring and it would be a "We've been trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty" call)
