Harry
@grumpyrocker.bsky.social
More amiable than the username would suggest | Head like an upside-down potato | He/Him |
♾️ Neurodiversity
🎸 Guitars
🤘 Metal
🕹️ Videogames
📷 Photography
♾️ Neurodiversity
🎸 Guitars
🤘 Metal
🕹️ Videogames
📷 Photography
A reminder that the Time cover is about being newsworthy. It's not praise or an endorsement.
December 11, 2025 at 6:44 PM
A reminder that the Time cover is about being newsworthy. It's not praise or an endorsement.
Metal Hammer UK's choice of album of the year 2025 is going to piss off a lot of people. Especially the "Ghost is not metal" crowd. But it's a damn good album. My own choice would be Paradise Lost's Ascension, followed closely by Ael-Fierlan's All Is Far Away.
December 11, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Metal Hammer UK's choice of album of the year 2025 is going to piss off a lot of people. Especially the "Ghost is not metal" crowd. But it's a damn good album. My own choice would be Paradise Lost's Ascension, followed closely by Ael-Fierlan's All Is Far Away.
Earliest sunset of winter today. Which is a bit miserable. But each evening will be a little lighter from tomorrow.
December 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Earliest sunset of winter today. Which is a bit miserable. But each evening will be a little lighter from tomorrow.
Brilliant dopey perfect storm. I sign up to an online store to buy wife a Christmas present. I accidently mistype my email. But then when I try to buy it doesn't appear to go through on Google Pay. So I use Paypal instead. Thank goodness I phoned them today, I'd placed two identical orders. Idiot.
December 11, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Brilliant dopey perfect storm. I sign up to an online store to buy wife a Christmas present. I accidently mistype my email. But then when I try to buy it doesn't appear to go through on Google Pay. So I use Paypal instead. Thank goodness I phoned them today, I'd placed two identical orders. Idiot.
Thanks a bunch Edge for updating and logging me out of every site I was using. Brilliant. Well done.
December 11, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Thanks a bunch Edge for updating and logging me out of every site I was using. Brilliant. Well done.
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Something I have to reiterate is that you are being straight up lied to about trans people and our healthcare on an unfathomable scale, this instance reporting is already being torn to shreds by other people commenting, but the frequency of this kind of reporting is astonishing, it's neverending.
You might think from the headline that this is a story about a trans kid suffering medical consequences from a large drug dose but nope! It is just an interview with an estranged father who is angry that his child happily transitioned.
archive.ph/Tmthz
archive.ph/Tmthz
December 11, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Something I have to reiterate is that you are being straight up lied to about trans people and our healthcare on an unfathomable scale, this instance reporting is already being torn to shreds by other people commenting, but the frequency of this kind of reporting is astonishing, it's neverending.
Thank goodness we used to do those silly chain emails questionnaires back in the day. My daughter just messaged me asking some questions about her late mother. And I only knew the answers because I still have and could search those silly emails, such as what's your favourite biscuit.
December 10, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Thank goodness we used to do those silly chain emails questionnaires back in the day. My daughter just messaged me asking some questions about her late mother. And I only knew the answers because I still have and could search those silly emails, such as what's your favourite biscuit.
I love epic infrastructure like this. The 50km tunnel under construction beneath the Alps between France and Italy.
youtu.be/NFrr-L_BcC4?...
youtu.be/NFrr-L_BcC4?...
Inside Europe’s New Mega-Tunnel Under The Alps
YouTube video by The B1M
youtu.be
December 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I love epic infrastructure like this. The 50km tunnel under construction beneath the Alps between France and Italy.
youtu.be/NFrr-L_BcC4?...
youtu.be/NFrr-L_BcC4?...
I'd love to talk to my late wife again. There's nothing in life I want more. But it'll be a cold day in hell before I let these fascist billionaire ghouls try to capture her soul in their world-fucking data centres.
IN DEPTH | If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
www.independent.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I'd love to talk to my late wife again. There's nothing in life I want more. But it'll be a cold day in hell before I let these fascist billionaire ghouls try to capture her soul in their world-fucking data centres.
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So it's AI propaganda
You deliberately chose to make your process more grueling and stupid to get a lower quality result and convince people we should accept AI
You deliberately chose to make your process more grueling and stupid to get a lower quality result and convince people we should accept AI
The company behind the mcdonalds ad:
Imagine taking more time than it would take to do something traditionally. I bet it would take a builder longer to build a house out of jelly instead of brick, because jelly isn't brick.
Imagine taking more time than it would take to do something traditionally. I bet it would take a builder longer to build a house out of jelly instead of brick, because jelly isn't brick.
December 10, 2025 at 12:11 PM
So it's AI propaganda
You deliberately chose to make your process more grueling and stupid to get a lower quality result and convince people we should accept AI
You deliberately chose to make your process more grueling and stupid to get a lower quality result and convince people we should accept AI
I'm a moany bugger this morning. Sorry.
December 10, 2025 at 8:07 AM
I'm a moany bugger this morning. Sorry.
Five minutes of Instagram Reels last night was enough to make me hope the Vogons hurry up and build that intergalactic bypass. The internet was a mistake.
December 10, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Five minutes of Instagram Reels last night was enough to make me hope the Vogons hurry up and build that intergalactic bypass. The internet was a mistake.
I really wanted to like the new The Rest Is Science podcast. But so far it's not great. Maybe it'll find its feet.
December 10, 2025 at 8:00 AM
I really wanted to like the new The Rest Is Science podcast. But so far it's not great. Maybe it'll find its feet.
You will be visited by three spirits.
December 9, 2025 at 7:14 PM
You will be visited by three spirits.
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just going to quote and repost this until absolutely everyone understands how *vile* this woman is
this is whose reputation they're trying to whitewash www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/...
December 9, 2025 at 1:10 PM
just going to quote and repost this until absolutely everyone understands how *vile* this woman is
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When are we to expect newspaper front-page interview features with Dr. Beth Upton about her two-year ordeal of having her right to anonymity removed and her name dragged through the mud and being decried as a sexual predator only for a tribunal to clear her and find SHE was discriminated against?
Sandie Peggie's agony...
BBC News - Scotland's papers: Sandie Peggie 'agony' as NHS board 'harassed nurse'
www.bbc.com/news/article...
BBC News - Scotland's papers: Sandie Peggie 'agony' as NHS board 'harassed nurse'
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Scotland's papers: Sandie Peggie 'agony' as NHS board 'harassed nurse'
A review of the front page stories from the daily newspapers in Scotland.
www.bbc.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:26 AM
When are we to expect newspaper front-page interview features with Dr. Beth Upton about her two-year ordeal of having her right to anonymity removed and her name dragged through the mud and being decried as a sexual predator only for a tribunal to clear her and find SHE was discriminated against?
Completely failed to get to my 10:30 meeting as every route into the place I was trying to get to was flooded. Quite an adventure.
December 9, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Completely failed to get to my 10:30 meeting as every route into the place I was trying to get to was flooded. Quite an adventure.
Name an actor who you think had/has an iconic voice.
December 8, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Name an actor who you think had/has an iconic voice.
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My thread earlier focused on the discussion re. FWS - but I just want to draw this out really explicitly:
The press absolutely monstered Dr Beth Upton in the most appalling way – only for the Tribunal to find that Beth had done nothing wrong, but that Sandie Peggie had harassed her.
The press absolutely monstered Dr Beth Upton in the most appalling way – only for the Tribunal to find that Beth had done nothing wrong, but that Sandie Peggie had harassed her.
Also worth noting, the Tribunal found that Sandie Peggie had harassed Dr Beth Upton in a "hate incident".
December 8, 2025 at 7:02 PM
My thread earlier focused on the discussion re. FWS - but I just want to draw this out really explicitly:
The press absolutely monstered Dr Beth Upton in the most appalling way – only for the Tribunal to find that Beth had done nothing wrong, but that Sandie Peggie had harassed her.
The press absolutely monstered Dr Beth Upton in the most appalling way – only for the Tribunal to find that Beth had done nothing wrong, but that Sandie Peggie had harassed her.
I remember this bar as a kid. Whenever I've told people about it since, they've thought I was making it up.
Cadbury Milk Tray Bar (1947-1981): A massive milk chocolate bar, made in a special mold that featured 14 individual pieces of chocolate, all connected, and each with a different filling. It was essentially an entire box of chocolates in bar form, available only in the U.K.
December 8, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I remember this bar as a kid. Whenever I've told people about it since, they've thought I was making it up.
About time. It's been an age since Shadow.
The future of Tomb Raider will be revealed at The Game Awards this Thursday. gameinformer.com/2025/12/08/t...
December 8, 2025 at 9:49 PM
About time. It's been an age since Shadow.
Charging all available devices, batteries, and lanterns ahead of tonight's storm. It may come to nothing. But being without power for four days a year ago was quite a lesson for us. #StormBram
December 8, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Charging all available devices, batteries, and lanterns ahead of tonight's storm. It may come to nothing. But being without power for four days a year ago was quite a lesson for us. #StormBram
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Also worth noting, the Tribunal found that Sandie Peggie had harassed Dr Beth Upton in a "hate incident".
December 8, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Also worth noting, the Tribunal found that Sandie Peggie had harassed Dr Beth Upton in a "hate incident".
Oh god my son is watching AR12 again on YouTube. Seriously that guy is incredibly annoying. Stop shouting you ignorant moron.
December 8, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Oh god my son is watching AR12 again on YouTube. Seriously that guy is incredibly annoying. Stop shouting you ignorant moron.
I wonder what will be quicker, downloading the update, or reading the changelog.
Sim Update 4 for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is now available for PC and Xbox players!
You can read the full Sim Update 4 Release Notes here:
🔗 flightsimulator.com/sim-update-4-msfs-2024
You can read the full Sim Update 4 Release Notes here:
🔗 flightsimulator.com/sim-update-4-msfs-2024
December 8, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I wonder what will be quicker, downloading the update, or reading the changelog.