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  • The bed in my hotel room tonight is made up for not one, not two, but three occupants. Did they... see me and instantly clock me as polyamorous?

    Full image of Wide bed with three sets of pillows laid out.
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    Wide bed with three sets of pillows laid out.

    • Note
    • 1 comment
    • posted 9 October, 2026
  • A Three Rings development sub-team seems to have developed a habit of making production server changes at in-person events, right before meals are served. On at least one previous occasion this has led to them missing out on dinner as they monitored and maintained at-risk servers when they ought to be eating.

    Until the servers are stable, they don't get their food.

    They call it the "crash diet".

    • Note
    • posted 3 October, 2026
  • Every time I see Sainsburys comparing the value-for-money of different brands of toilet roll, the abbreviation they use catches me out and I think they're telling me how much paper I should be "using".

    Full image of Online supermarket showing several brands of toilet paper with the price displayed alongside a breakdown showing the price (in pence) per hundred sheets (of toilet paper), but "sheet" is abbreviated to "sht" which looks like... a different word I associate with the product.
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    Online supermarket showing several brands of toilet paper with the price displayed alongside a breakdown showing the price (in pence) per hundred sheets (of toilet paper), but "sheet" is abbreviated to "sht" which looks like... a different word I associate with the product.

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    • 1 comment
    • posted 17 September, 2026
  • Adapted framegrab. Simplistic colourful art showing a person in an unfastened bike helmet hanging onto the shoulder of a robot and pointing at the words 'taco bot' on its chest, while tacos rain down behind. It's overlaid with the text 'Taco Bot 3000: when you need a whole lot of tacos expertly created by a robot at the highest level of quality'.

    Hot take: AI peaked with Taco Bot 3000

    AI peaked in 2014 with the invention of the Taco Bot 3000. With artificial (taco) intelligence and the latest cheese dispensing technology, it truly represented the summit of human technological achievement the likes of which we might not see again.

    Read more (379 words)

    • Article
    • posted 9 September, 2026
  • Letter with headline/subject "Your new 'simplified' Pension Annual Benefit Statement", with quotation marks around the word 'simplified' added for emphasis but giving the impression that it's not simplified, that's just what they're calling it.

    'Simplified'

    Well 'thanks' for the 'simplified' statement, I guess?

    Read more - about 1 minutes (8 words)

    • Note
    • posted 24 August, 2026
  • The clasp on my 'bi pride' watch strap is failing because, in an ironic twist, part of it needs to be made a little bit more straight.

    Full image of Close up of the buckle end of a worn, grimy watch strap in 'bi pride' colours.
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    Close up of the buckle end of a worn, grimy watch strap in 'bi pride' colours.

    • Note
    • posted 22 August, 2026
  • I'm a little fishsmith,
    Short and stout.
    Here's my anvil,
    Here's my trout.

    • Note
    • posted 21 August, 2026
  • Normal F***ing Sunglasses

    DuckDuckGo have gotten into the smart glasses game, and they've come up with a pair that, dare I say it... I would actually buy!

    Read more (49 words)

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    • of this original
    • 2 comments
    • posted 6 August, 2026
  • I want to write a successful YA fiction where all the characters are boats. Just 'cos I want to see people 'shipping ships.

    Also, one of my characters will be called Slash.

    • Note
    • 2 comments
    • posted 29 July, 2026
  • Apparently, zero of the imagineers building this Disneyland Paris cafe conceived that "Chuck Wagon" sounds like what a cowboy would call a wheeled vomit trough. ๐Ÿ˜‚

    Full image of Faux Old-West building painted with lettering identifying it as the Chuck Wagon Cafe.
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    Faux Old-West building painted with lettering identifying it as the Chuck Wagon Cafe.

    • Note
    • 3 comments
    • posted 24 July, 2026
  • Trouble brewing at the village carnival's decorated-bike competition as, for perhaps the first time in history, a viking longship rams and boards an X-wing of the Rebel Alliance.

    Full image of A cardboard longship collides with an X wing in a grassy field.
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    A cardboard longship collides with an X wing in a grassy field.

    • Note
    • posted 4 July, 2026
  • Always reassuring when you fill in a company's contact form and the next page is placeholder text...

    Full image of Thanks For Your Enquiry title, followed by 'Aliquam vehicula laoreet lacus, ac vulputate purus vulputate...' etc.
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    Thanks For Your Enquiry title, followed by 'Aliquam vehicula laoreet lacus, ac vulputate purus vulputate...' etc.

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    • 2 comments
    • posted 30 June, 2026
  • Star network topologies are more common, but you can still occasionally find these...

    Full image of A bus lane sign with the 'e' missing, so it says "bus lan".
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    A bus lane sign with the 'e' missing, so it says "bus lan".

    • Note
    • posted 20 June, 2026
  • Hanging out in London's theatreland, attracting double-takes (and a handful of thumbs-ups!) for my t-shirt...

    Full image of Close up of a t-shirt in the style of a Hamilton one but for Slamilton: A Basketball Musical.
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    Close up of a t-shirt in the style of a Hamilton one but for Slamilton: A Basketball Musical.

    • Note
    • posted 20 June, 2026
  • "Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm."

    Full image of A fawn-coloured French Bulldog wrapped in a blanket in a way reminiscent of robes. This, combined with her wrinkled features, makes her look a little like Yoda.
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    A fawn-coloured French Bulldog wrapped in a blanket in a way reminiscent of robes. This, combined with her wrinkled features, makes her look a little like Yoda.

    • Note
    • posted 7 June, 2026

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