Mo @mo@nitech.online

A person walks out of the pub toilets and asks to speak to the manager. When the manager comes over, the person says “I have to tell you, there’s a buffalo standing by the sink trying to help people out.” The manager replies: “I’m sorry, that’s not a buffalo. It’s a wash-hand bison.”

@yougenius curse Roland for reusing the numbers. I always loved that the original set of machines seemed to skip 404 🙂

@StefanoGaivota @yougenius Synpathy? 😉

@shezza_t @seanddotmedotuk I work in AdTech and while there’s a lot of effort goes into figuring out exactly who you are (“what precise demographic information you have grandma!” “all the better to advertise to you”) there’s only so much that can be determined with accuracy. You can be an outlier for a targeting demographic, but if it’s all they have to go on, they’ll take a shot. We remember the times they get it right with the scatter gun way more than we remember the times they get it wrong.

@bw if you ever do, I can recommend this place on AirBnB: https://abnb.me/7CEVCQLlxBb

I can recommend it because it’s my retirement plan! My wife and I always wanted to move to the coast, and we decided to go for it now as a second home, and eventually make it our primary home. To be able to enjoy it while the kids are young is a big bonus! 🙂

@bw we have Amazon in Northern Ireland. There’s the whole “being in the UK” downside, but on the plus side we the same people and we have the whiskey too. 🙂

@lexfri it’s all the Guinness. Produces leaden poops that need a bit of help on their way!

@stuart excellent. That was a lot of people queuing. Hopefully they have some left for the next sale! Which night did you get?

@ianRobinson Mister Wordy?

@schwa @the_verge it’s about ethics in games journalism

@intheseheels @shezza_t @stuart the world is a sadder place for having lost her.

@intheseheels @shezza_t @stuart yous look like you might be haunting the darts area.

@chartier you’re doing it exactly the way I think it should be done. I’ve often wondered about working for Shiny Frog. Not sure I have the technical skills anymore, and I’m probably too addicted to AdTech money!

@chartier the folks on the subreddit banging on about Bear 2 taking too long we’re doing my head in. It’s like they paid for a month’s subscription of v1and immediately said “I demand version 2 now!” Even people who were long term subscribers had this attitude of “ive been paying all this time for Bear 2, where is it?” There’s a real cognitive dissonance there. Your ongoing subscription is not a down payment on the next version!

@ellyjohnston @shezza_t when I arrived at work on Thursday (Donegall Place) there was quite a commotion with gulls. Turned out there were people cleaning our roof and the gulls were attacking them because the chicks were nesting up there. Someone was on guard with a stick to defend the rest of them cleaning.

Also we get better Internet here than at home, so it makes sense to just live here forever. Tomorrow I’m installing all the latest Apple betas cause the connection is 10 times faster.

Last year my wife and I bought a house in Ballycastle. We’ve stayed in it lots since then but this is our first “summer holiday” here that wasn’t living in a building site. It feels amazing. Some folks like to go away to other countries, but we mostly like to stay closer to home. In fact, this feels like home. Now to plan for retirement here…

@simon @intheseheels I met Simon through a combination of Twitter and conferences. No matter what it’s become, it was definitely once an amazing way to interact with people. Like Usenet. And some Slack communities.