It's appalling that we have to fence children into play areas to protect them from dogs and their faeces. It should be the dogs fenced in to restricted areas.

Britain has a serious drink problem. 90% of drinkers are either full on alcoholics, functioning alcoholics or problematic drinkers. Dry January does nothing to fix this, it only compounds the problem in the long run

And now for something completely different

I'm definitely not building another yellow model! Nearly finished this one now.

So, he's asking $100k to develop a clock that doesn't work. That's "AI" in a nutshell. That's the whole scam. arstechnica.com/information-...

Rhyming AI-powered clock sometimes lies about the time, makes up words

Poem/1 Kickstarter seeks $103K for fun ChatGPT-fed clock that may hallucinate the time.

Don't know the author, but this tracks

95% of independent shops make very little money. Owners are either burning through a personal fortune or are happy to live on the very tiny profits.

Thought @scribblerjb.bsky.social might be interested in this

It's quite a challenge trying to explain to some why prices are still going up when rate of inflation is going down 🤦🏻‍♂️