The Digitisation Working Group…
Construction site picture. A person is sitting in a waist-high pit and is probably digging there. He is titled EG7 IT Specialist (temporary). Outside the pit is a yellow jackhammer labeled “how about blockchain?” Around the person working in the pit are several people in different poses, all just watching. They have the following titles: “Consultant”, “Advice from consultants”, “Brother-in-law of politician”, “Politician”, “Electronic Data Processing from 1992”, “EG13 0 days work experience, but Uni degree”.
original here and thanks to the poster for including the alt-text so that I could crudely translate it.
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lol. my partner says this template is so old they had it printed out on the wall at his very first job in the mid-90s 
but highly accurate.
PS: has been accurate for the past 20 years.
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The first version I saw had “Dave” in the hole, with a caption about “time for budget cuts. Sorry Dave. “
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I have a sock subscription which means I get a pair of weird socks once a month, and this month is board game themed!
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Being a tourist in Paris has made me unreasonably angry at
- Idiots that wander into the middle of the street to get the perfect photo
- Idiots that seem more obsessed with a selfie (and accompanying stick) than taking in the sights.
There’s a large overlap of the two groups.
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If you’re not chasing them down with a steamroller, you anger is probably not unreasonable.
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It’s been an exhausting few weeks and I’m feeling that I’m behind on so many things… But I feel like I can’t move on with anything until I figure out…
When it was Twitter, it was called tweeting.
Now that it’s X… Is it called quitting? Xeeting?
Please help. I have chores and other responsibility but my brain won’t give up on this (and I don’t even use Twitter/X)
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The BBC have taken to saying X, formerly known as Twitter. So I imagine it will still be tweeting for a while.
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x-iting is the right thing to do.
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Social media platform formerly known as Twitter is a mouthful
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When the webpage loads for me it’s initially “Tweet” before something changes the button text to “Post”.
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It’s twitter and tweets. He can wish it would change, but he doesn’t understand people.
For example, when he announced the new name, some accounts spoke up:
Battersea Cats and Dogs Home:
“People still call us “Battersea Dogs Home” so good luck”
Channel 4 in the UK:
“People still call our streaming service 4OD so good luck”
etc
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I still haven’t mentally updated from Marathon to Snickers.
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“X-creting” is a suggestion I’ve seen recently.
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Jeez! Still getting stuff about “Barbenheimer” all over my Facebook page. It’s wrong. It’s just all wrong.
They’ve clearly got it backwards.
It should be OppenBarbie (let’s go party)
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Math is hard. Let’s nuke Japan?
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Aw. The Floating Instrument Platform is being retired.
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Gah, my workplace has blocked Brave browser.
Minor issues as Firefox is available but logging into everything again is a pain
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It’s… yeah, I can see blocking that if someone were daft enough to put me in charge of desktops.
I tried it for a while because it was less resource-intensive than Chromium on older machines that could just barely manage videoconferencing, and it felt very strange - the constant attempts to push cryptocurrency on me, like walking down an alley and everyone’s trying to sell me crack.
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Yeah, I’d setup it so it didn’t show me those weird things.
I’m not sure the ethics of a CEO is enough for me to change though, unless the CEO is the company (like Twitter/Tesla/Elon)
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