MrsDoyle

Vibe coded lion:

I'm poised... might try a dual boot first.

They can't convince me to switch to Win 11 because apparently my computer isn't good enough.

Elon Musk, speaking by video link to a massive right-wing rally in London today: “There’s so much violence on the left, with our friend Charlie Kirk getting murdered in cold blood this week and people on the left celebrating it openly. The left is the party of murder and celebrating murder. I mean, let that sink in for a minute, that’s who we’re dealing with here.”

Meanwhile, said right-wingers were the ones shooting fireworks at mounted police, throwing bottles & cans, and getting batoned. The smaller counter protest had turned into a dance party.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/sep/13/uk-politics-latest-news-unite-the-kingdom-march-far-right-rally-london-labour-keir-starmer

I'm not American, so this is an outside perspective I guess. I had never heard of Charlie Kirk before he was shot, and it's been interesting watching it all play out. Ring wing leap to assuming it was a leftist attack, with a huge amount of violent rhetoric; suspect arrested & turns out to be from conservative background; trickle of suggestions he might be further to the right of Kirk.

I've learned a new word: Groyper.

Meanwhile in the UK we've got a kind of fascism-lite going on, with a "socialist" party in charge that's leaning to the right of Thatcher in order to attract the votes of bigots. There's a massive right-wing rally going on in London right now, with a couple of anti-fascist, anti-racist counter protests as well. https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2025/sep/13/aerial-footage-shows-scale-of-unite-the-kingdom-rally-video

My old dog went through the same thing - turned out his teeth were bad. Prior to that discovery one thing that worked for keeping his weight up was to cook his food myself. He liked chicken (necks are cheap and the bones aren't dangerous) stewed up with pasta, rice or potatoes, and veg like peas and carrots; mincemeat ditto, with a bit of liver; ox heart and/or tongue also good but a bit gross. Offal is offally cheap, usually.

Important: Don't use onion or garlic! They're toxic for dogs.

Of course we remember Dolly! She was stuffed and is on display in the National Museum of Scotland.

I have ever had COVID either, but did stop masking years back. However. I'm taking my first international flights since 2019 soon, long haul, and I'm shitting myself. Airports seem dangerous places for viruses, planes too. So I'll probably bring masks along and wear them.

My old person trait is being 72.

Fruit flies (or something) pouring out of my food waste caddy every time I lift the lid. Started happening two days after I'd scrubbed the caddy and put in a fresh paper liner. They are tiny and very quick, hard to swat.

Spell Songs, The Lost Words Blessing

In the UK the bank account number is just a form of ID. Sort code identifies the bank and branch.

When I add a new payee, the bank runs a check to see that the name, sort code and account number match (even if it's from another bank). Even if they do match there's a pop-up warning about scams before the transfer goes ahead. Once they're on my list of payees it's just click and transfer. I do all that on my phone via my bank's app.

There's no way to "pull" money from another account purely using its number. Banking scams do exist here, but they generally rely on bamboozling people into paying money themselves, eg buying gift cards, or giving the scammers control of their phone.