Houninym
@houninym.bsky.social
Retiring British who first was a heavy interweb user when Yahoo! was the way to go. Ex IT specialist with a focus on the 'nixes.
As for the name, think Gulliver and his voyages.
As for the name, think Gulliver and his voyages.
It's not like they can claim back the fuel duty for every mile driven over the border is it?
BBC finding another (non-)reason to kick Labour. There are legitimate reasons so why invent something else?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC finding another (non-)reason to kick Labour. There are legitimate reasons so why invent something else?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Cross border electric car drivers call for more detail on new tax - BBC News
The chair of the Electric Vehicle Association of Northern Ireland says the new tax is "really premature".
www.bbc.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 10:12 AM
It's not like they can claim back the fuel duty for every mile driven over the border is it?
BBC finding another (non-)reason to kick Labour. There are legitimate reasons so why invent something else?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC finding another (non-)reason to kick Labour. There are legitimate reasons so why invent something else?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Who cares if one scummy billionaire tries to take down another scummy billionaire's space garbage business? Wouldn't choose to use either... they are both too fascist-adjacent.
uk.pcmag.com/networking/1...
uk.pcmag.com/networking/1...
Amazon Takes Aim at Starlink With Satellite Beta Promising Gigabit Speeds
It's the first time Amazon Leo will serve real people. However, the preview is only open to select enterprise customers to start, including JetBlue and Hunt Energy Network.
uk.pcmag.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Who cares if one scummy billionaire tries to take down another scummy billionaire's space garbage business? Wouldn't choose to use either... they are both too fascist-adjacent.
uk.pcmag.com/networking/1...
uk.pcmag.com/networking/1...
And another grifting #Reform deformation has been caught.
How many rotten apples in the barrel before you define the barrel full is not fit?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
How many rotten apples in the barrel before you define the barrel full is not fit?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Councillor Barry Elliott ordered to pay debts owed to own council - BBC News
Reform UK's Barry Elliott has business rates and council tax arrears of almost £40,000.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 7:21 AM
And another grifting #Reform deformation has been caught.
How many rotten apples in the barrel before you define the barrel full is not fit?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
How many rotten apples in the barrel before you define the barrel full is not fit?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Here is an interesting gotcha as oil companies and supermarkets switch to pay-at-pump to save staffing costs on overnight opening. And as people take to carrying their payment cards on phone wallets.
You mostly can't pay at pay-at-pump with a phone.
Play 'nearest manned late night pump roulette'😂
You mostly can't pay at pay-at-pump with a phone.
Play 'nearest manned late night pump roulette'😂
November 25, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Here is an interesting gotcha as oil companies and supermarkets switch to pay-at-pump to save staffing costs on overnight opening. And as people take to carrying their payment cards on phone wallets.
You mostly can't pay at pay-at-pump with a phone.
Play 'nearest manned late night pump roulette'😂
You mostly can't pay at pay-at-pump with a phone.
Play 'nearest manned late night pump roulette'😂
Contemptible ex PM of the UK proves why he was unfit to be chosen by the Tories. He can't accept he fucked up over COVID and is going for victim blaming instead.
And this is the two faced scum who led the Brexit campaign and inflated Farrage's presence.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
And this is the two faced scum who led the Brexit campaign and inflated Farrage's presence.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Boris Johnson ‘beyond contempt’ for attack on Covid inquiry’s findings
Families of the Covid bereaved have reacted with horror to the lack of contrition in the former prime minister’s weekly column
www.independent.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Contemptible ex PM of the UK proves why he was unfit to be chosen by the Tories. He can't accept he fucked up over COVID and is going for victim blaming instead.
And this is the two faced scum who led the Brexit campaign and inflated Farrage's presence.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
And this is the two faced scum who led the Brexit campaign and inflated Farrage's presence.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Clue for the Home Secretary...
When you introduce changes that are ones Deform would introduce, don't dress like you were a Reform advert. It's really bad aping their policies, aping their dress code just makes it obvious you are not to be trusted.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...
When you introduce changes that are ones Deform would introduce, don't dress like you were a Reform advert. It's really bad aping their policies, aping their dress code just makes it obvious you are not to be trusted.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...
Illegal migration is ‘tearing our country apart’ and system is broken, says Shabana Mahmood – as it happened
Home secretary says it is ‘moral mission’ for her to tackle asylum system
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Clue for the Home Secretary...
When you introduce changes that are ones Deform would introduce, don't dress like you were a Reform advert. It's really bad aping their policies, aping their dress code just makes it obvious you are not to be trusted.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...
When you introduce changes that are ones Deform would introduce, don't dress like you were a Reform advert. It's really bad aping their policies, aping their dress code just makes it obvious you are not to be trusted.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...
What can anyone say? No one is worth that. How can you even spend the interest on that? The interest per year is multiple billions, at 3% it's 30 billion a year FGS
edition.cnn.com/2025/11/06/b...
edition.cnn.com/2025/11/06/b...
Tesla shareholders approve $1 trillion pay package for Musk | CNN Business
Tesla shareholders approved a pay package on Thursday that could make CEO Elon Musk, already the world’s richest person, the world’s first trillionaire.
edition.cnn.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:26 PM
What can anyone say? No one is worth that. How can you even spend the interest on that? The interest per year is multiple billions, at 3% it's 30 billion a year FGS
edition.cnn.com/2025/11/06/b...
edition.cnn.com/2025/11/06/b...
Set an AI to catch AI slop.
Originality.ai scanned a bunch of books on Amazon in the herbal remedies category and found 82% were likely clanker slop.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
We are all fucked if this is reflected elsewhere in newly written books.
Originality.ai scanned a bunch of books on Amazon in the herbal remedies category and found 82% were likely clanker slop.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
We are all fucked if this is reflected elsewhere in newly written books.
AI Detector - Most Accurate AI Content Checker for ChatGPT - Originality.ai
Originality.ai's Free AI Detector - Use our free AI checker to identify if text was generated from a popular AI platform like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Grok and others.
Originality.ai
October 23, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Set an AI to catch AI slop.
Originality.ai scanned a bunch of books on Amazon in the herbal remedies category and found 82% were likely clanker slop.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
We are all fucked if this is reflected elsewhere in newly written books.
Originality.ai scanned a bunch of books on Amazon in the herbal remedies category and found 82% were likely clanker slop.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
We are all fucked if this is reflected elsewhere in newly written books.
Interestingly the Deform candidate for the upcoming by-election on Caerphilly isn't hiding his veracity with a first name of Llyr.
October 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Interestingly the Deform candidate for the upcoming by-election on Caerphilly isn't hiding his veracity with a first name of Llyr.
Interesting extract from Cory Doctorow's book 'Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse And What To Do About It' to be published by Verso on 14th October. UK publication date.
Can't link the article as is apparently not online yet but it explains Amazon's current crap fest nature.
Can't link the article as is apparently not online yet but it explains Amazon's current crap fest nature.
October 4, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Interesting extract from Cory Doctorow's book 'Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse And What To Do About It' to be published by Verso on 14th October. UK publication date.
Can't link the article as is apparently not online yet but it explains Amazon's current crap fest nature.
Can't link the article as is apparently not online yet but it explains Amazon's current crap fest nature.
Do you find it annoying when someone posts a link to an article and...
All the text they post is the link headline.
All the link shows is the headline and the begging of the article is a repeat of the headline.
I don't need to read the same sentence THREE TIMES!!!
All the text they post is the link headline.
All the link shows is the headline and the begging of the article is a repeat of the headline.
I don't need to read the same sentence THREE TIMES!!!
September 25, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Do you find it annoying when someone posts a link to an article and...
All the text they post is the link headline.
All the link shows is the headline and the begging of the article is a repeat of the headline.
I don't need to read the same sentence THREE TIMES!!!
All the text they post is the link headline.
All the link shows is the headline and the begging of the article is a repeat of the headline.
I don't need to read the same sentence THREE TIMES!!!
As highlighted today by an NYT puzzle, why does the USA political right use red when for the vast majority of the world red is used by the political left?
Similarly blue in the USA is politically the wrong way compared to the rest of the world.
An indication of how fucked up US politics are?
Similarly blue in the USA is politically the wrong way compared to the rest of the world.
An indication of how fucked up US politics are?
September 25, 2025 at 7:29 AM
As highlighted today by an NYT puzzle, why does the USA political right use red when for the vast majority of the world red is used by the political left?
Similarly blue in the USA is politically the wrong way compared to the rest of the world.
An indication of how fucked up US politics are?
Similarly blue in the USA is politically the wrong way compared to the rest of the world.
An indication of how fucked up US politics are?
Really, this is a fairly useless message from BlueSky because it misses the who and the how from the action.
#blueskyerror #feedserver
#blueskyerror #feedserver
September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Really, this is a fairly useless message from BlueSky because it misses the who and the how from the action.
#blueskyerror #feedserver
#blueskyerror #feedserver
Nearly the end of Tuesday here, out of Tuesday into Wednesday for most of Asia and Europe and no sign of the Rapture. Or is God working EDT now?
Surely not, God must work GMT+3 (Israel timezone)?
Surely not, God must work GMT+3 (Israel timezone)?
September 23, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Nearly the end of Tuesday here, out of Tuesday into Wednesday for most of Asia and Europe and no sign of the Rapture. Or is God working EDT now?
Surely not, God must work GMT+3 (Israel timezone)?
Surely not, God must work GMT+3 (Israel timezone)?
Without giving away any clues to today's NYT puzzle ...
So fucked off with the idiocy of a puzzle setter who thinks a random four word string as the connection where the four words are the solution.
Why would 'elephant on roller blade' ever be guessed if you saw those 4 words in the matrix?
So fucked off with the idiocy of a puzzle setter who thinks a random four word string as the connection where the four words are the solution.
Why would 'elephant on roller blade' ever be guessed if you saw those 4 words in the matrix?
September 23, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Without giving away any clues to today's NYT puzzle ...
So fucked off with the idiocy of a puzzle setter who thinks a random four word string as the connection where the four words are the solution.
Why would 'elephant on roller blade' ever be guessed if you saw those 4 words in the matrix?
So fucked off with the idiocy of a puzzle setter who thinks a random four word string as the connection where the four words are the solution.
Why would 'elephant on roller blade' ever be guessed if you saw those 4 words in the matrix?
Oops, seems enough people in the UK are unhappy about 🍊🤡 visiting to do something about it.
www.google.com/amp/s/www.bb...
www.google.com/amp/s/www.bb...
September 17, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Oops, seems enough people in the UK are unhappy about 🍊🤡 visiting to do something about it.
www.google.com/amp/s/www.bb...
www.google.com/amp/s/www.bb...
Tongue in cheek suggestion for Rachel Reeves...
If football clubs are so fucking rich they can lash out a hundred million quid to 'buy' a player, stick tax on the transfer market transactions. Either it would rein in the ludicrous transfer market or it would solve your budget worries.
If football clubs are so fucking rich they can lash out a hundred million quid to 'buy' a player, stick tax on the transfer market transactions. Either it would rein in the ludicrous transfer market or it would solve your budget worries.
September 1, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Tongue in cheek suggestion for Rachel Reeves...
If football clubs are so fucking rich they can lash out a hundred million quid to 'buy' a player, stick tax on the transfer market transactions. Either it would rein in the ludicrous transfer market or it would solve your budget worries.
If football clubs are so fucking rich they can lash out a hundred million quid to 'buy' a player, stick tax on the transfer market transactions. Either it would rein in the ludicrous transfer market or it would solve your budget worries.
He had this roll of heatproof polyimide tape, he kapton about it for hours.
I'll get my coat
I'll get my coat
September 1, 2025 at 10:36 AM
He had this roll of heatproof polyimide tape, he kapton about it for hours.
I'll get my coat
I'll get my coat
Interesting view on Silicon Valley from some minor self-serving UK politician who damaged the Libs by collaborating with Cameron to govern for a few years before bailing to work for Meta. Would you agree with his view on Zuck as being better? Unsure I would.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Silicon Valley is full of wealthy men who think they’re victims, says Nick Clegg
Former Lib Dem leader and Meta strategist writes in new book that power in tech capital is interlaced with ‘self pity’
www.theguardian.com
August 23, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Interesting view on Silicon Valley from some minor self-serving UK politician who damaged the Libs by collaborating with Cameron to govern for a few years before bailing to work for Meta. Would you agree with his view on Zuck as being better? Unsure I would.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Overnight rain and morning sun making island maps on the patio table
August 12, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Overnight rain and morning sun making island maps on the patio table
Royal punch up in 2013 just reported in a biography, in which the Royal Not Paedo suggested Meghan Markle was too old for Harry. Harry now 40, Megan now 44... 4 years isn't much but clearly too much for Andrew.
Wonder if he is on the Epstein list with tRump?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Wonder if he is on the Epstein list with tRump?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Prince Harry denies giving Prince Andrew bloody nose at family gathering
New biography of the Duke of York claims ‘punches were thrown’ after heated argument became physical
www.theguardian.com
August 5, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Royal punch up in 2013 just reported in a biography, in which the Royal Not Paedo suggested Meghan Markle was too old for Harry. Harry now 40, Megan now 44... 4 years isn't much but clearly too much for Andrew.
Wonder if he is on the Epstein list with tRump?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Wonder if he is on the Epstein list with tRump?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Well that aged verification by photograph by KWS was painful. About five minutes of being told to put my face in the frame before it decided there was a face and then it scanned it for age verification and decided it wasn't a face. Why doesn't it just say it needs BRIGHT LIGHTING? Well lit try 2 ok.
July 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Well that aged verification by photograph by KWS was painful. About five minutes of being told to put my face in the frame before it decided there was a face and then it scanned it for age verification and decided it wasn't a face. Why doesn't it just say it needs BRIGHT LIGHTING? Well lit try 2 ok.
Five stages...
Hooked
Gaffed
Meet the priest
Gutted
Devoured
We are at #2 and I don't need to say who he is do I?
Hooked
Gaffed
Meet the priest
Gutted
Devoured
We are at #2 and I don't need to say who he is do I?
July 25, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Five stages...
Hooked
Gaffed
Meet the priest
Gutted
Devoured
We are at #2 and I don't need to say who he is do I?
Hooked
Gaffed
Meet the priest
Gutted
Devoured
We are at #2 and I don't need to say who he is do I?