Stuart Langridge
@sil.kryogenix.org
Builds stuff for computers, advises other people how to do so, plays PBP D&D, makes the occasional solo game, eats sandwiches. Part of Open Web Advocacy. Runner of the Critical Role transcript search. In the People’s Republic of Brum. https://kryogenix.org
things I did not expect for today: feeling a little bit sorry for Death as she makes things worse for everyone
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
September 17, 2026 at 10:00 AM
things I did not expect for today: feeling a little bit sorry for Death as she makes things worse for everyone
Actually LOL at this, which is rare
Me: I’d like a slice of pizza
Server: that comes with three sides
Me: I know what shape it is
Server: that comes with three sides
Me: I know what shape it is
September 16, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Actually LOL at this, which is rare
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Me: I’d like a slice of pizza
Server: that comes with three sides
Me: I know what shape it is
Server: that comes with three sides
Me: I know what shape it is
September 16, 2026 at 1:47 AM
Me: I’d like a slice of pizza
Server: that comes with three sides
Me: I know what shape it is
Server: that comes with three sides
Me: I know what shape it is
We’ve got a couple of decent journalists here in the people’s republic of Brum, and I know of a couple in other cities, who are at Reach publications. I honestly don’t know whether I should be supporting their good work for these papers or sacking them off in favour of the Birmingham Dispatch et al
Kent Live and Aberdeen Live among Reach titles closing amid hundreds more job losses.
It's never-ending with that company (where I worked for a while - I left before about four rounds of redundancies in one year)
If you have an independent local outlet near you, now is a vital time to support it.
It's never-ending with that company (where I worked for a while - I left before about four rounds of redundancies in one year)
If you have an independent local outlet near you, now is a vital time to support it.
Reach to cut editorial team by further 160 jobs as key metric becomes 'active engaged time'
Proposal also includes closure of Kent Live, Aberdeen Live and Galway Beo websites.
pressgazette.co.uk
September 16, 2026 at 8:46 PM
We’ve got a couple of decent journalists here in the people’s republic of Brum, and I know of a couple in other cities, who are at Reach publications. I honestly don’t know whether I should be supporting their good work for these papers or sacking them off in favour of the Birmingham Dispatch et al
open notepad
type hi this is my website.
type here is a link to elsewhere: <a href=“https://sil.kryogenix.org/“>me on Bluesky</a>
There, you have a web page. You still need to publish it, but that’s no more difficult than signing up for (and ignoring crazy people on) Facebook, I promise.
type hi this is my website.
type here is a link to elsewhere: <a href=“https://sil.kryogenix.org/“>me on Bluesky</a>
There, you have a web page. You still need to publish it, but that’s no more difficult than signing up for (and ignoring crazy people on) Facebook, I promise.
Fucking hell. Facebook is now limiting the number of links that a page or professional profile can include in a post to TWO PER MONTH, unless you pay them $7.99 a month.
Fucking assholes.
Fucking assholes.
September 16, 2026 at 8:30 PM
open notepad
type hi this is my website.
type here is a link to elsewhere: <a href=“https://sil.kryogenix.org/“>me on Bluesky</a>
There, you have a web page. You still need to publish it, but that’s no more difficult than signing up for (and ignoring crazy people on) Facebook, I promise.
type hi this is my website.
type here is a link to elsewhere: <a href=“https://sil.kryogenix.org/“>me on Bluesky</a>
There, you have a web page. You still need to publish it, but that’s no more difficult than signing up for (and ignoring crazy people on) Facebook, I promise.
(a) if I want to buy “ugly thick 1980s NHS glasses” then Poundland sell a bunch already
(b) it is so good that “pervert glasses” has caught on as a phrase just like “glasshole” did and for the same reason. I wonder if anybody who makes them will recognise this? Doubt it.
(b) it is so good that “pervert glasses” has caught on as a phrase just like “glasshole” did and for the same reason. I wonder if anybody who makes them will recognise this? Doubt it.
After accusations of selling ‘perv glasses,’ Meta prepares to sell a pair without a camera
After accusations of selling ‘perv glasses,’ Meta prepares to sell a pair without a camera
Can Meta dodge the "pervert glasses" accusations with a new camera-free product?
techcrunch.com
September 16, 2026 at 8:25 PM
(a) if I want to buy “ugly thick 1980s NHS glasses” then Poundland sell a bunch already
(b) it is so good that “pervert glasses” has caught on as a phrase just like “glasshole” did and for the same reason. I wonder if anybody who makes them will recognise this? Doubt it.
(b) it is so good that “pervert glasses” has caught on as a phrase just like “glasshole” did and for the same reason. I wonder if anybody who makes them will recognise this? Doubt it.
In web development teams across the land, someone wrote up a task which said “you know Reader Mode? that browsers do to make a clean easy way to read pages? Make sure that’s broken on our website so it doesn’t work.” And then a developer implemented it. I wonder if a little bit of their souls died.
September 14, 2026 at 5:55 AM
In web development teams across the land, someone wrote up a task which said “you know Reader Mode? that browsers do to make a clean easy way to read pages? Make sure that’s broken on our website so it doesn’t work.” And then a developer implemented it. I wonder if a little bit of their souls died.
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I don’t normally do this:
If you’re an archivist or metadata sicko who is doing working to preserve/collect/organize TTRPG materials and/or Actual Play & you’ll be at PAXU, let me know.
If there’s already something brewing I don’t need to be involved unless it’s useful.
But it needs to be there.
If you’re an archivist or metadata sicko who is doing working to preserve/collect/organize TTRPG materials and/or Actual Play & you’ll be at PAXU, let me know.
If there’s already something brewing I don’t need to be involved unless it’s useful.
But it needs to be there.
September 13, 2026 at 6:34 PM
I don’t normally do this:
If you’re an archivist or metadata sicko who is doing working to preserve/collect/organize TTRPG materials and/or Actual Play & you’ll be at PAXU, let me know.
If there’s already something brewing I don’t need to be involved unless it’s useful.
But it needs to be there.
If you’re an archivist or metadata sicko who is doing working to preserve/collect/organize TTRPG materials and/or Actual Play & you’ll be at PAXU, let me know.
If there’s already something brewing I don’t need to be involved unless it’s useful.
But it needs to be there.
OK, what’s next in Project All Public Conversations Must Be About AI All The Time?
Well, “we’ve achieved AGI” only lasted a few days but “AI will kill us all” has legs. And “AI will take your job” is still strong.
Goooood. What’s next?
We have “AI girlfriends” and “AI food” cued up for November
Well, “we’ve achieved AGI” only lasted a few days but “AI will kill us all” has legs. And “AI will take your job” is still strong.
Goooood. What’s next?
We have “AI girlfriends” and “AI food” cued up for November
September 13, 2026 at 7:56 PM
OK, what’s next in Project All Public Conversations Must Be About AI All The Time?
Well, “we’ve achieved AGI” only lasted a few days but “AI will kill us all” has legs. And “AI will take your job” is still strong.
Goooood. What’s next?
We have “AI girlfriends” and “AI food” cued up for November
Well, “we’ve achieved AGI” only lasted a few days but “AI will kill us all” has legs. And “AI will take your job” is still strong.
Goooood. What’s next?
We have “AI girlfriends” and “AI food” cued up for November
oh look, looking at my inbox I have also achieved enough fame to get oppressive "helpfulness" by some bot from ilands. Can someone explain why a company like this gets given a huge pile of money that they can set fire to like this?
Read this yesterday and was almost a little disappointed I hadn't been hit up by an iLands bot. Guess what I got today?
September 13, 2026 at 1:36 PM
oh look, looking at my inbox I have also achieved enough fame to get oppressive "helpfulness" by some bot from ilands. Can someone explain why a company like this gets given a huge pile of money that they can set fire to like this?
What’s your origin story?
I was born [predictive text]
I was born in the same time as you and I was born in the wrong time and I was a little bit older than you but I was born in the right time and I am now a little older than you and I am a little older than your age
I was born [predictive text]
I was born in the same time as you and I was born in the wrong time and I was a little bit older than you but I was born in the right time and I am now a little older than you and I am a little older than your age
What’s your origin story?
I was born [predictive text]
I was born with the ability of the mind and body and the mind and mind and body.
🤔
I was born [predictive text]
I was born with the ability of the mind and body and the mind and mind and body.
🤔
What's your origin story.
I was born [predictive text]
I was born and life blew up and I was really upset about it
#TRUTH
I was born [predictive text]
I was born and life blew up and I was really upset about it
#TRUTH
September 12, 2026 at 4:47 PM
What’s your origin story?
I was born [predictive text]
I was born in the same time as you and I was born in the wrong time and I was a little bit older than you but I was born in the right time and I am now a little older than you and I am a little older than your age
I was born [predictive text]
I was born in the same time as you and I was born in the wrong time and I was a little bit older than you but I was born in the right time and I am now a little older than you and I am a little older than your age
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Rod Hull, time traveller.
Villa Romana Del Casale.
Villa Romana Del Casale.
September 5, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Rod Hull, time traveller.
Villa Romana Del Casale.
Villa Romana Del Casale.
this looks pretty amazing. I suspect it hits harder if you know who Mr Boozler is, too.
Questions about TRANSMISSION?
Thankfully this entirely benign and normal figure has answers for you!
Group tickets currently on sale (the perfect way to play if you want to gather a bundle of friends for some spooky roleplay): everythingimmersive.com/events/trans...
Thankfully this entirely benign and normal figure has answers for you!
Group tickets currently on sale (the perfect way to play if you want to gather a bundle of friends for some spooky roleplay): everythingimmersive.com/events/trans...
September 12, 2026 at 9:02 AM
this looks pretty amazing. I suspect it hits harder if you know who Mr Boozler is, too.
this is really terrible.
Imagine if almost every British newspaper journalist were to point this out on Bluesky but basically none of them were to point it out in the paper or call out the Telegraph and other papers like it. Is this omerta? Journalist solidarity? When does that end? Maybe never?
Imagine if almost every British newspaper journalist were to point this out on Bluesky but basically none of them were to point it out in the paper or call out the Telegraph and other papers like it. Is this omerta? Journalist solidarity? When does that end? Maybe never?
I wonder if there is a single person still at the Telegraph who feels even a smidgeon of shame, that in just over a decade it has gone from newspaper-of-record to fluffers-for-rent. It is revolting.
Farage, apparently, "lands" a record crypto bung.
Farage, apparently, "lands" a record crypto bung.
September 11, 2026 at 9:52 PM
this is really terrible.
Imagine if almost every British newspaper journalist were to point this out on Bluesky but basically none of them were to point it out in the paper or call out the Telegraph and other papers like it. Is this omerta? Journalist solidarity? When does that end? Maybe never?
Imagine if almost every British newspaper journalist were to point this out on Bluesky but basically none of them were to point it out in the paper or call out the Telegraph and other papers like it. Is this omerta? Journalist solidarity? When does that end? Maybe never?
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We know tech companies collect data on everything we do but now that data is being combined with AI to make algorithms which predict our behaviour. Today I presented a bill to stop 'digital twinning' without express consent. There is only one you. Lets keep it that way!
September 9, 2026 at 3:47 PM
We know tech companies collect data on everything we do but now that data is being combined with AI to make algorithms which predict our behaviour. Today I presented a bill to stop 'digital twinning' without express consent. There is only one you. Lets keep it that way!
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Here's the speech from Chi Onwurah MP yesterday in the Commons introducing her Digital Twin Bill, to outlaw surveillance profiling of individuals hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2026...
September 10, 2026 at 8:08 AM
Here's the speech from Chi Onwurah MP yesterday in the Commons introducing her Digital Twin Bill, to outlaw surveillance profiling of individuals hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2026...
Eyelids are razors.
September 10, 2026 at 6:12 AM
Eyelids are razors.
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Putting the :/ in https://
September 8, 2026 at 12:10 PM
Putting the :/ in https://
heh, just discovered that one of the actual Peaky Blinders was called Percy Langridge. No relation, as far as I'm aware (although my family history's a bit murky on that side), but that's a nice little Brum connection.
September 8, 2026 at 7:12 AM
heh, just discovered that one of the actual Peaky Blinders was called Percy Langridge. No relation, as far as I'm aware (although my family history's a bit murky on that side), but that's a nice little Brum connection.
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‘Masked paramilitary group occupies crucial port’ is the headline the media would go for if it wasn’t happening in Britain.
September 5, 2026 at 11:32 AM
‘Masked paramilitary group occupies crucial port’ is the headline the media would go for if it wasn’t happening in Britain.
Haha nice. Good one Burnham. Never forget.
Burnham will be the first national leader since Labour’s James Callaghan in the 1970s to not co-operate with the Sun newspaper, and its former managing editor David Dinsmore is leaving Government
observer.co.uk/news/politic...
observer.co.uk/news/politic...
Hurt over Hillsborough prompts Burnham to block out the Sun
The PM would become the first national leader since Labour’s James Callaghan in the 1970s to not co-operate with the paper
observer.co.uk
September 6, 2026 at 10:49 AM
Haha nice. Good one Burnham. Never forget.
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The Law of the Internet says that every time you see this story, you have to share it. And here we are again.
![THRASHED BY A LADY CYCLIST.
WHO IS NOTED FOR HER ATHLETIC POWERS.
[SUBJECT OF ILLUSTRATION.]
An extraordinary scene was witnessed on Saturday morning in Peel Lane, a thorough-tare connecting Little Hulton with Tyldesley, in which the principal participants were a young lady cyclist and a youth of nineteen or twenty. The lady was riding at a good pace, and when in a quiet part of the road the young man, who-had apparently been imbibing, stepped into the roadway, and addressing some insulting remarks to. the cyclist, made as if he intended pulling nei off the machine.
She immediately alighted
caught hold of the astonished youth, and gave him & sound thrashing, using her tists in scientific fashion, to the delight of several colliers who were passing.
The young man
made of and the list, who is believed to be a Bolton lady noted for her athletio powers, rode off towards Tyldesley.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:irlrdb4p2swljzcdjbhc54gd/bafkreidh6wgfdqispgye44r65t72odubtyvi4cujbku33ozj4irwp2apn4)
September 1, 2026 at 1:19 PM
The Law of the Internet says that every time you see this story, you have to share it. And here we are again.
The pope can name someone a cardinal “in pectore”, i.e., secretly without announcement (even to the person themselves). Pope John Paul II named four cardinals in pectore but only announced three before dying. Nobody knows who the fourth one is! It could be you!
Tell me a fun fact.
September 5, 2026 at 8:22 AM
The pope can name someone a cardinal “in pectore”, i.e., secretly without announcement (even to the person themselves). Pope John Paul II named four cardinals in pectore but only announced three before dying. Nobody knows who the fourth one is! It could be you!
I like public transport. I don’t even own a car. But it’s hard to defend it when I don’t think I’ve been on a trip involving a train journey that wasn’t delayed, for honestly years.
September 4, 2026 at 4:16 PM
I like public transport. I don’t even own a car. But it’s hard to defend it when I don’t think I’ve been on a trip involving a train journey that wasn’t delayed, for honestly years.
someone stole my laptop in the Chandos once. Never really forgiven the pub for that
Andy Burnham's top three London pubs have dropped www.timeout.com/london/news/...
Andy Burham reveals his top three pubs in London
‘I don’t think there’s a pub in London I’ve not been in.’
www.timeout.com
September 4, 2026 at 10:40 AM
someone stole my laptop in the Chandos once. Never really forgiven the pub for that