half the people I know going on about the new opening of Pineapple Road station, which means that I've had Tobacco Road by the Nashville Teens in my head all morning
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I told you, you can have an ice cream when we get there.
does anyone know why it's called Pineapple Road? I know that was the name of the old station, but... how did it get that name? These days Moseley is more your artisanal goats cheese and Parma ham (the other two ingredients for a good pizza), but I'm pretty sure it's never been pineapple country, unless the constant rain only started in about 1920
RE: https://mstdn.social/@osnews/116352453766199250
"OK we want our website to know which software you have installed"
"You can't do that"
"Sure, but we want to do it anyway. Maybe we have the software listen on a port and then we can try loading stuff from that port?"
"No. Zoom did that so it got banned"
"OK what about we edit their computer's local config?"
sigh. the shitty arms race continues.
@paul heya! I was chatting with someone who asked about https://discover.apps.chrome and how one gets other PWAs into it. I said I didn't know but I knew a man who might :-) Is there something I should point them at, or I can get them to drop you a mail if you prefer?
RE: https://toad.social/@amyedge/116314080429651897
This is described as "delivering unparalleled access to the Trump White House", and indeed, it does seem to mean that that White House is being delivered unparalleled access... to your phone.
Amy Edge 
Do not download the White House App
I Decompiled the White House's New App
I Decompiled the White House's New App https://share.google/iXVXZqUKE9K8bagw3
I Decompiled the White House's New App
I Decompiled the White House's New App https://share.google/iXVXZqUKE9K8bagw3
Happy birthday to @popey!
The World Record Progression for Pope (4th April 2026): a birthday tribute
German speakers: what would a nice-sounding, idiomatic, poetic translation be of "Im Dunkel ewiger Nacht liegend, erinnern die Gänge unwillkürlich an die Irrgänge der Labyrinthe"? It's a... motto, maybe just a quotation, from Dieter Ahlborn at https://www.erdstallforschung.de, about the Erdställe. I obviously have a rough idea what it means, and machine-translation confirms, but machine translations are rubbish
you have never known glory like trying to read a German book from 1903, scanned (not very well) by the Internet Archive, and then machine-translated into English. Stuff like this is only one of the forty reasons why I am not a historian.
On the other hand it is a lot easier to be able to do this while in my living room than it presumably would have been thirty years ago when I'd be on a plane to Stuttgart with my copy of Deutsch Heute in hand, so well done humanity on that
On the other hand it is a lot easier to be able to do this while in my living room than it presumably would have been thirty years ago when I'd be on a plane to Stuttgart with my copy of Deutsch Heute in hand, so well done humanity on that
Annoyed. I came across someone using the word "coronated" and felt my usual irritation because it's not a word ("crowned" is a word! use that!), but then I looked it up and it's in the OED. So now I have to be data-driven and update my beliefs, which I have done: I now believe that sometimes the OED is wrong