He’s “served his time” with dishes. He started work as a kitchen porter a few months ago, so we agreed that ge should get a pass on doing the dishes at home. The next oldest two kids have that fun task now!

Due to the time he gets off etc we agreed the bins were the best candidate. Get home; empty bins; stick em out if needed. But apparently it’s too big of an ask.

Aye that’s my thinking at least. It’s been going on for ages as well, and no matter what I do or say it’s just not getting through.

I’m trying to set him up to be able to cope on his own and if he can’t (or worse, won’t) engage and start pitching in with such a small ask then he’s gonna be fucked when he’s trying to stay afloat on his own.

I came up a croppe once again. Just can’t face the fact of it finally being over!

Started China Mieville’s Perditot Street station instead, which seems to be pretty good so far. I’ll try again maybe next year!

A Sailor’s Guide to Earth - Sturgill Simpson

I’ve finally worked myself up to read Shepherd’s Crown after numerous attempts but getting too emotional.

Just finished Wee Free Men this morning and I was already a bubbling wreck at the end. It’s gonna be a rough, emotional ride.

I’m the opposite. I manage a BAU team and our team are active on slack, and seem to be thriving. We have two webex meetings a week, keep in constant touch and we all love it.

Online communities are more than good enough at the best of times so I don’t see how they can’t work in the professional space.

Ok - but I don’t go to work for a sense of community? I go to work to earn money to survive. My tasks get done, profits are up overall so why do I need to feel engaged and how does being isolated have any negative effect on that?

No idea, always thought it was weird that one “offence” led to permanently losing my years old account.

I even appealed the ban, explaining the reasoning behind reporting the article, and it was upheld! Bonkers - I still have no idea what it was in my report that led to such a mental reaction. “What are these lies” were what I titled it.

I got perma banned from Reddit for reporting a Fox News article that was posted on r/politics which stated climate change had no impact on wildfire occurrences.

Said I was abusing the report function to bully or harass people. For reporting blatant fucking right wing lies! I’d never even reported any posts before.

People would rather bury their stupid fucken heids in the ground than face the truth.

Above my son’s bed! I found another two around the same size yesterday. One above my wife’s side of bed and another in the living room. She’s freaking out about it!

Sorry to disappoint re the lack of nsfw spider content.

It’s marked that because some folk are terrified of spiders though.

Sounds like a great Sunday!

I’ve gotten side tracked from bg3 due to the first two Children of Time books. About 35 hours in though and enjoying it more than any game in ages!

Happy Sunday folks.

Weans are back to school tomorrow up this end and despite saying I’d get them up early, I’m currently making my coffee and then gonna just enjoy another hour of peace and quiet.

Been rewatching workaholics with my daughter. It’s so stupid we love it.

Weekly releases: what we do in the shadows - new series is killing it.

How to with joh Wilson - another where the latest seasons 3 episodes so far are just fantastic.

It’s a waste of time. These types of people are as thick as mince, you’re not gonna change their mind because they have zero interest or incentive to do so. It’s a fucking cult of morons.

Nice one. Love Blackpool - my aunt stays there so I was shipped off down there every summer. Not been in ages though!

I recognise that! KFC in Tower Hill, London. One of the filthiest restaurants I’ve been in but holy fuck it’s still the best KFC I’ve had like 5 years later. Also - you Have to pay for the fucking toilet as well.

Happy anniversary! Hope you both had a good one

Love the zoo! Which one you off to?

Morning folks.

Happy Friday. Not for me though! Work are doing this stupid fucking push towards ai (years late IBM, as usual) and have arranged this stupid Watsonx challenge we have to participate in. I’m leading a team that aren’t bothering their arse. Work has given us hardly any notice and it’s all set up as a “sneaky” way to get us to train it I suspect.

Kicked off last Friday and the deadline is Sunday yet I’m still fannying around with Jupyter notebooks trying to get it set up and accepting the data. Clueless. Doesn’t help that there is zero context for setting it up, just a huuuuge list of instructions.