Simon Lye
simonlye.bsky.social
Simon Lye
@simonlye.bsky.social
I am from New Zealand. I live in England. I do sysadmin / DevOps / SQL / IT bits. I also talk about aviation and sports. I have young twins. I’m probably tired.
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I am from a country formerly colonised by the British, one famous for tea. I have found that the best way to annoy British people is to casually drop a teabag in a mug of cold water and stick it in the microwave. I don't even like tea. I do it just for the trolling entertainment.
January 28, 2026 at 8:20 PM
Just for once it would be nice to open a news website without immediately being confronted with some new utterly unhinged thing said or done by the Great Orange Bloviator.
January 23, 2026 at 12:02 PM
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This Christmas I've cooked, cleaned and run around after our entire extended family. My other half has done fuck all, except sit and complete a very tricky 1000 piece jigsaw. Unfortunately when they get to the end, they'll find it's now a 999 piece jigsaw. I ate a piece in spite
January 6, 2026 at 8:20 AM
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So, America just unilaterally kidnapped a foreign leader because they deemed him an out of control dictator?

Canada could do the funniest thing right now…
January 3, 2026 at 11:19 AM
Stockholm might be the most festive city I’ve ever seen. Lights and decorations everywhere.
December 31, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Bad luck Scotland - still 0-31-2 all time vs the All Blacks.
November 8, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Satan has been spotted.
I am a lorry driver. I love seeing a huge que of cars behind me on single carriageways. I deliberately do 45. Then speed up to 57 if there is any possibility for anyone to overtake me
November 7, 2025 at 11:22 AM
I am shocked to discover that the whole delay repay process for claiming back the costs of disrupted rail travel seems to be a scam designed to cause you to give up in frustration.

4 rejected claims so far for one incident because the circumstances don't fit their pre-defined selection options.
October 27, 2025 at 10:23 AM
I for one am shocked to hear that:

- There may be an AI bubble.
- It will probably burst.

It’s not like this has happened before or anything…
October 11, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Sigh - another day trying to avoid being screwed by insurance.

Policy renewal - £914/year.
Exact same policy from same company taken out as a new policy - £580/year.

Bastards.
October 3, 2025 at 10:23 AM
The Orange Bloviator approaches...
September 16, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Meanwhile in America, when a guy tried to ferment an uprising against his election defeat, they re-elected him president.
September 11, 2025 at 8:17 PM
It might just say something about Trump's presidency that if he's not seen or heard commiting any impeachable or illegal acts for a few days, the natural assumption must be that he's dead.
September 1, 2025 at 9:22 PM
This is basically Munich 1938.
Looking forward to Trump returning to Washington to proclaim ’peace in our time’.
August 15, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Nat Sciver-Brunt is like ‘sigh, it’s up to me. Again’
August 8, 2025 at 4:08 PM
August 5, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Somehow managed to survive the North Herts binpocalypse today…
August 4, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Always nice to get a midday wake up call courtesy of the United States Air Force.

Very low pass over my house by 2 x F-35s and one F-15.
July 25, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Nice to see that a lot of Labour MPs finally remembered that they are in fact in the Labour Party, and that acting like Tories in disguise is not actually a Good Thing.
July 1, 2025 at 9:07 PM
This is pretty fucking devious from Marriot Bonvoy - the unsubscribe link is miniscule and buried at the bottom of the email, and the options to actually unsubscribe are baffling. Which ones do you choose?
May 13, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Nothing like a trip to Cambridge to remind you what a miserable experience it is
May 5, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Alcatraz? Really?

I assume this is because he watched The Rock last night.
May 5, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Was on a long haul flight recently, thought I'd watch the film Conclave.

Can't help but feel this might be all my fault.
April 22, 2025 at 8:45 AM
April 9, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Came all the way to New Zealand, heard a plane flying overhead yesterday, looked up, it was an An-124. Not something you see here very often.
April 6, 2025 at 6:20 PM