Sam Wheatley
@samwheatley.bsky.social
Assistant Editor & Editor. 🎞️✂️
*checks website*
“We’re open from 9am”
*drives an hour to the place*
Sign on the door: “except for January”
😡
“We’re open from 9am”
*drives an hour to the place*
Sign on the door: “except for January”
😡
January 29, 2026 at 3:15 PM
*checks website*
“We’re open from 9am”
*drives an hour to the place*
Sign on the door: “except for January”
😡
“We’re open from 9am”
*drives an hour to the place*
Sign on the door: “except for January”
😡
This seems inconsequential given what‘s happening right now. But I wish software companies offered a version of their software without AI, so I don’t have to deal with that nonsense and they can hopefully get the message we don’t want it.
January 25, 2026 at 6:44 PM
This seems inconsequential given what‘s happening right now. But I wish software companies offered a version of their software without AI, so I don’t have to deal with that nonsense and they can hopefully get the message we don’t want it.
Thought I needed a monitor with more 'K's'.
Turns out I just needed glasses.
Turns out I just needed glasses.
January 19, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Thought I needed a monitor with more 'K's'.
Turns out I just needed glasses.
Turns out I just needed glasses.
I’ll get some drives sorted and cancel my
iCloud subscription. Think it’s time to start removing American products from my life until this collab is gone and his movement dead and buried.
iCloud subscription. Think it’s time to start removing American products from my life until this collab is gone and his movement dead and buried.
Trump just placed a tariff on most of the EU of 10% that will increase to 25% in June unless they agree to sell him Greenland.
This is mad king shit.
This is mad king shit.
January 17, 2026 at 5:50 PM
I’ll get some drives sorted and cancel my
iCloud subscription. Think it’s time to start removing American products from my life until this collab is gone and his movement dead and buried.
iCloud subscription. Think it’s time to start removing American products from my life until this collab is gone and his movement dead and buried.
My nephew wanted to watch Minecraft videos on YouTube. So we’re watching them together on the TV (I shouldn’t really be on the phone). I have had my lifetime fill of ‘yo’, ‘bro’, and general over-excited gamer.
January 17, 2026 at 4:50 PM
My nephew wanted to watch Minecraft videos on YouTube. So we’re watching them together on the TV (I shouldn’t really be on the phone). I have had my lifetime fill of ‘yo’, ‘bro’, and general over-excited gamer.
Christ, don't the anti-trans brigade bang on: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6...
'Listen to women' NHS nurses say, after tribunal rules sharing changing room with trans woman 'violated dignity'
However, the tribunal dismissed several other claims, finding that the trans woman had not harassed or victimised the nurses.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 16, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Christ, don't the anti-trans brigade bang on: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6...
Usually I get to later in the year before I think 'Fuck Microsoft', but here we are.
January 15, 2026 at 12:44 PM
Usually I get to later in the year before I think 'Fuck Microsoft', but here we are.
And I thought Dye's designs were awful.
Even one design that doesn't accurately portray what it does is a bad app design.
Even one design that doesn't accurately portray what it does is a bad app design.
January 15, 2026 at 11:53 AM
And I thought Dye's designs were awful.
Even one design that doesn't accurately portray what it does is a bad app design.
Even one design that doesn't accurately portray what it does is a bad app design.
Reposted by Sam Wheatley
Kudos to www.repair.org for highlighting this shit.
The Repair Association
Fighting for your right to repair your digital products.
www.repair.org
January 15, 2026 at 11:14 AM
Kudos to www.repair.org for highlighting this shit.
Reposted by Sam Wheatley
This is both fascinating and horrifying. Well worth a read to get a sense of how badly designed and conceived electronic goods make our lives worse and add to e-waste.
Well worth a read but bear in mind people will hear your eyes rolling.
Well worth a read but bear in mind people will hear your eyes rolling.
“Worst in Show” Returns at CES 2026, Calling Out Gadgets That Make Things Worse
The 2026 Worst in Show losers are in! Fridges and coffeemakers that might mishear you, surveillance and enshittification everywhere. Plus: AI soulmates.
www.ifixit.com
January 15, 2026 at 11:14 AM
This is both fascinating and horrifying. Well worth a read to get a sense of how badly designed and conceived electronic goods make our lives worse and add to e-waste.
Well worth a read but bear in mind people will hear your eyes rolling.
Well worth a read but bear in mind people will hear your eyes rolling.
My new year started with my 5yo nephew telling me I am his “absolute favourite friend.”
So that’s a high bar to try and clear in 365 days.
So that’s a high bar to try and clear in 365 days.
January 1, 2026 at 12:04 AM
My new year started with my 5yo nephew telling me I am his “absolute favourite friend.”
So that’s a high bar to try and clear in 365 days.
So that’s a high bar to try and clear in 365 days.
I know one of the points of lowering interest rates is to make people think 'I might as well spend it'. I'm not falling for it.
December 18, 2025 at 12:21 PM
I know one of the points of lowering interest rates is to make people think 'I might as well spend it'. I'm not falling for it.
Why if you only ship with Evri, I’ll buy elsewhere. I’d rather pay a bit more for postage than let these clowns deal with it.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'Throw the parcel at the back door' - Evri couriers tell of pressure to earn a decent wage
BBC Panorama investigates the delivery firm - a market leader with the worst reputation for non-deliveries.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 15, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Why if you only ship with Evri, I’ll buy elsewhere. I’d rather pay a bit more for postage than let these clowns deal with it.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Untrustworthy, murderous met police are going to be given more surveillance powers? That seems like a good idea.
December 4, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Untrustworthy, murderous met police are going to be given more surveillance powers? That seems like a good idea.
What a joke this country is. Bills already too high "£108 added to energy bills by 2031". So, the energy companies didn't invest, gave the money away, and now we're picking up the tab. Oh for a Government with a spine who can get a grip (no, that isn't Reform).
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Energy investment of £28bn approved by regulator Ofgem
Ofgem says the investment will help lower reliance on imported gas and make wholesale energy cheaper.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 7:59 AM
What a joke this country is. Bills already too high "£108 added to energy bills by 2031". So, the energy companies didn't invest, gave the money away, and now we're picking up the tab. Oh for a Government with a spine who can get a grip (no, that isn't Reform).
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The mighty great America capitulating to Russia. Cowards.
November 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
The mighty great America capitulating to Russia. Cowards.
Read an article today about a primary school banning K-Pop Demon Hunter songs because it’s upsetting some hyper-faith people. I bet it’s the parents it’s upsetting not the kids.
Tell them to JTFO.
Tell them to JTFO.
November 17, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Read an article today about a primary school banning K-Pop Demon Hunter songs because it’s upsetting some hyper-faith people. I bet it’s the parents it’s upsetting not the kids.
Tell them to JTFO.
Tell them to JTFO.
Reposted by Sam Wheatley
Don’t all these problems go away if universities stop being businesses?
'More degree subjects are likely to face extinction unless changes are made to competition laws to allow universities to work together to maintain certain courses, experts have said.' 1/3
Competition law exemption ‘needed to prevent courses dying out’
Attempts to quell universities’ fears about competition laws may actually be heightening anxiety over collaboration in cash-strapped sector
www.timeshighereducation.com
October 13, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Don’t all these problems go away if universities stop being businesses?
Reposted by Sam Wheatley
Heseltine was the first Tory MP to publicly criticise Enoch Powell after Rivers of Blood in 1968. Let him cook
“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”
“Because that’s what they are”
@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.
#Newsnight
“Because that’s what they are”
@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.
#Newsnight
October 8, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Heseltine was the first Tory MP to publicly criticise Enoch Powell after Rivers of Blood in 1968. Let him cook
This from the country that loves to wank itself off over 'WW2 war time spirit', can't even handle some lights. I'm sure the Ukrainian's are bored too. But more about the invasion rather than some LED lights.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Repair planned for A52 bridge lights stuck on Ukraine colours
A software issue has been blamed for the bridge lights being stuck on blue and yellow.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 8, 2025 at 9:38 AM
This from the country that loves to wank itself off over 'WW2 war time spirit', can't even handle some lights. I'm sure the Ukrainian's are bored too. But more about the invasion rather than some LED lights.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
“Residents baffled as England flags appear in Welsh village”
Loudly for those at the back: BECAUSE IT’S NOT ABOUT ENGLISH PRIDE IN THE FLAG IT’S A BUNCH OF RACISTS.
Loudly for those at the back: BECAUSE IT’S NOT ABOUT ENGLISH PRIDE IN THE FLAG IT’S A BUNCH OF RACISTS.
September 14, 2025 at 11:38 AM
“Residents baffled as England flags appear in Welsh village”
Loudly for those at the back: BECAUSE IT’S NOT ABOUT ENGLISH PRIDE IN THE FLAG IT’S A BUNCH OF RACISTS.
Loudly for those at the back: BECAUSE IT’S NOT ABOUT ENGLISH PRIDE IN THE FLAG IT’S A BUNCH OF RACISTS.
Audi bellends out in force today.
September 9, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Audi bellends out in force today.
Had a nice meal. Left it pissed off because they slipped service charge on at the end. Leave that shit out of our restaurants. (And don't bleat on about 'challenging environment'; nickel and diming people isn't the way to return customers).
August 30, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Had a nice meal. Left it pissed off because they slipped service charge on at the end. Leave that shit out of our restaurants. (And don't bleat on about 'challenging environment'; nickel and diming people isn't the way to return customers).