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May 17, 2026A long, long time ago I had an idea for a silly joke. Exactly when it hard to pin down, but the seeds were planted in the mid 1990s, in a file called bands.txt. This was a collaborative list of random phrases uttered by people we knew, that had been taken out of context on … [Read more …] [...]
February 15, 2025For those who’re just joining us, I’ve dusted off a two-decade-old project idea and have actually started working on it. There’s a working prototype which I’m not going to link in this post, because this text will likely be around long after it’s been and gone, either shelved for another 20 years or thrown online in some kind of working form. [...]

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Me: I'm so tired, why does it feel like today was so long?

Also me: You started at 5:30am.

Me: I have a heap of stuff to do. Maybe I'll have a coffee.

Also me: You could just stop doing things and maybe go to bed early and do things in the morning instead.

Me: Mmm, coffee.

Also me: For fuck's sake.

Can't believe how easily we solved the issue of single use plastic bags by simply printing "reusable bag" on them. That's real outside-the-bag thinking. Top work, team!

Could this technology be applied in other areas? Has anybody tried painting "not melting" on a glacier?

A plastic bag with