Harry
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I despise "reality" TV. Particularly annoying are the shows where they keep having interview bits that tell you what you've just actually seen.
I have a similar experience when it comes to my MOT. It does make me very anxious. It's compounded by travel issues to and from the garage due to living in a rural area.
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you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you
Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."
I've just finished le Carré's The Spy Who Came In From the Cold. Damn it's good writing. And makes me want to read more espionage novels. Yet I feel it might be to spy novels what Patrick O'Brian is to Naval History - in that I've started at the top and no other authors are this good.
I'm in a bunch of promo photos, newsletters, and other things for work. I absolutely hate seeing myself. It makes me want to run and hide. It's partly due to being ashamed of being overweight, and partly just my natural introverted nature.
All these new laptops with AI cores are going seem really stupid once the AI bubble bursts.
Upgrading my M1 Macbook to the new M5 version is sort of tempting, merely simple techlust. But bloody hell Apple, still only two USB?
It's not really a console though, it's a PC. And it's less expensive than rival devices. I won't be buying one myself. But I think in the context of other handheld PCs it doesn't seem too expensive.
All the fuss about whether it's an Xbox or not (it isn't) aside the ROG Ally X actually looks like a rather nice bit of kit. They could do worse than shove the internals into a nice little box as a mini-console/PC.
Given my entire feed has turned into ROG Xbox Ally X reviews I guess the NDA has just timed out.
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INCREDIBLE clip.

<Richard Holden MP shouts like an angry man in a pub>

Lisa Nandy: "Can you calm down a bit, mate? You're shouting like an angry man in a pub."

Richard Holden: "That's not fair."

<continues to shout like an angry man in a pub>
It's the sort of poncy nonsense you can buy from Waitrose when your kids are little but getting a baby sitter would be too expensive. The moment you eat with the kids there's no chance at all of buying his stuff.
Charlie Bigham has got a bloody nerve hasn't he?

Anyway, we used to really like his Chilli. But then he changed the recipe and it was not as nice and we stopped buying it. And anyway bit of a ripoff for a small chilli in a silly wooden canoe.
My kids are getting official Xbox emails to old addresses I set up when they were little, despite them having newer Gmail accounts now (and getting the Xbox emails there too). And we can't see anywhere on their accounts where these old email addresses exist. It's very odd.
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On the centenary of Thatcher's birth, there have been predictable calls for a memorial to her memory. But Britain's 2300 food banks serve that purpose already.
It took me too many years to learn this, not just with books, but TV, videogames, and movies.
They did a runner before the emergency services arrived. So I'm not entirely sure they were the lawful owner of the vehicle.
Our nearby village was totally banjoed by telecoms today. Not only was there the Vodafone outage, a car crashed into a telegraph pole and burst into flames, knocking out a main telephone line.
I think she's done funerals for some unpleasant people. But I think this is on another scale. His evil would be mentioned, and perhaps the focus given to victims and prayers for them.
She asked me what I would think. And I said I'd be against it, because we'd become hate figures for the press and public.
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Quick Tip: Don’t want people getting pinged when you post or reply?

You can turn that off by heading to: Settings → Privacy and Security → Allow others to be notified of your posts and toggling it off.
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Local Newspaper website has a story about the internet being down locally (thankfully not here) and is clearly confusing internet, mobile, broadband, and wifi.
It's so cold in our house today while I'm working from home that I'm going to have to wear something other than the fat middle-aged bloke uniform of long shorts and t-shirt.
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RFK Jr descibed a pregnant woman as having ‘a baby in her placenta’, so it’s a good job he’s not in charge of America’s healthcare or anything www.thepoke.com/2025/10/10/r...