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its 2026 (still), the normal pronunciation for the following name is:
* "simone" sɪməʊn, - like you reference some jewish culture person from 3-4K Y ago
* sim-one, because everything is broken and feels fake.

#leSigh #TIL there are 4 different codes for kings cross station, as different lines terminate there and didn't talk during planning.

londunting. Why are there so many locksmith businesses between Hyde park and Belise park?
Or possibly, why is Google returning those results, not the ones i asked for

a cheap hack is put dots on screen, so people **with eyes** can see the dots.
That doesn't make sense.

#TIL that my perfectly standard phone can display in Braille?!!
How? I can't raise dots on an 'driod screen?

This is an island , its supposed to have the same TZ across all of it,

#leSigh when IVR/ answer phone services seem to be running outside your current timezone for orgs you work with..

For me its before 16:00, for a building I could run to, its not?
not very #UX

pls can linguists explain why DE can be short **when it wants to**. Isn't a disease name classified as a Noun?
Hopefully this disease isn't spoken about everyday, so 'maximising concise' isn't an important design criteria on that word.

In 2012 a tired and busy version of me assumed 'git' was an abbreviation, so capitalised it. Like Redis project. Or GPG.

It was a tool made the current OS kernel PO. Cloning an older *nix that no-one my age has heard of. So this fit the cultural assumptions for *nix projects.

I am now stuck with this habit.

Some historic UK doctor (who was educated for greek and latin), i have a new disease to name ... ill call it "osteoarthritis" ~ my broken translation, "bone joint itus".

Some Deutsche Arzt reading the paper. ... ok its "arthrose".

um?

To management: I can build you a perpetual motion machine, however I need these back orders on perfect ball bearings, a perfect vacuum, and a zero friction surface.

Engineering!

Question: i suspect many fedi users have strings of coloured LEDs in their flat/ house.
Marketing people call a location decorated with LEDs "a winter festival".
Are all our flats / houses also festivals?
(if you are an Aus/ Kiwi please flip seasons)

#random Is the thing about shouting to assist comprehension of a language a thing done by historic UK army people, who had been standing next to cannon/ artillery/ rifles all year, and **could hear** a shout and that was their limit?
Many WW1 and earlier military had hearing problems on exit of forces.