If any of you remember playing the old text-based adventure games you should try inputting this into ChatGPT: “Let's play a game, similar to the Hobbit text-based adventure game released by Melbourne House in the 80s, but with better syntax and better text inputs options for me.”

Owning a Windows 11 PC in 2025: Turn on → update → reboot → store update → reboot → BIOS update → reboot. Then Office updates → re-login to everything. Start work. Midway, new updates drop, break OneDrive, force another reboot. Switch off PC. Give up.

Actual video footage of prisoner being wrongfully released https://t.co/stk7HirY2j

Hotel breakfast buffet question: Croissant pile: do you use the tongs, or just grab the top one with your hands? I only touched the one I ate, but another guest wasn’t pleased. Who’s right here? #hotelbreakfast

Work from home? Great. But why should your home-office get a free ride? Every other business pays rates, why not yours? A provocative policy idea: tax home-working business rates to cut the deficit, push people back into offices and revive our city centres. #RemoteWork

Problems with @EnfieldCouncil voter registration form, the website, automated telephone line and sms service do not recognise the security code that came printed on the voter registration form. I had to call the helpline and actually speak with a member of staff to confirm. #vote

I get it, circular time and all that—but I still think a couple of blinking lights or pulses would’ve saved them a lot of drama 😅

Instead, they jump straight into written symbols, which assumes a ton about the alien perception of time, meaning, and form. Binary could’ve been the bridge.

Binary is fundamental—light/no light, signal/no signal. It’s not based on human language or culture. Once you agree on that basic logic system, you can build up—math, patterns, even language structure.

Rewatching Arrival and it still bugs me: why didn’t they start with binary? You’re trying to communicate with obviously intelligent beings—wouldn’t on/off, 1s and 0s be the most basic, universal way in?

Not trying to be controversial but I quite enjoyed the actors who played the VIP’s #SquidGame3

Petition to make Matt Berry the next James Bond.

Dropped my iPhone at the Covent Garden Apple Store for a battery replacement—great service. Had no phone & a few hours to spare, so I went to the cinema. Made me think: why not a free movie ticket while you wait? @Apple @vuecinemas — perfect partnership? 🎬📱

Quick word of advice for iPhone owners. If you’re planning on going to the beach on your holidays this summer then take a wireless charger as the sand messes up the charging port #iphone

When I see this iOS app updates dropping at midnight on a Friday night all I can think of are the poor engineers working unsociable hours to deliver someone else’s dream. #iphone #appstore #app

Picked my favourite restaurant on @UberEats, only for the order to be sent to a branch in East Finchley—not the one round the corner. Took ages to arrive and was cold. Not the first time this has happened. Please sort it out.

The team behind @FirstDates should create a dating app as their matching algorithm is far superior to anything I’ve currently seen out there on the market.

Saw Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning at the London Premiere last night—@thekatyo lit up the screen. Held her own with @TomCruise and stole the spotlight. What a star. 🌟 @ParamountPics @ParamountUK

With such huge changes to car tax where is @BBC_TopGear to explain it? The problem was the producers post Clarkson&Co thought the show was all about buffoons doing laps in ridiculous vehicles. They completely missed the point. The news was what kept viewers hooked. Bring it back

Fentanyl has arrived in london. Driving today I spotted quite a few victims with the trademarked hunched over stagger, usually in broad daylight and with someone from emergency services or a concerned (bemused) citizen trying to help them.