2025-08-27 23:04:41
tl;dr: Donate to our campaign here
For the third year me and Adam are raising money for St Jude as part of Relay's annual event and podcastathon. You can read Stephen's post about it here.
This year, we've set our goal at $16,850.80 which will put us at $50k lifetime raised. Our previous final totals were $12,590.57 and $20,558.63 so that goal is definitely within reach.
To help us reach our goal for just $20 you can donate, help kids with cancer, and we'll send you a pair of exclusive Ruminate and omg.lol stickers which will be revealed at $1500 and $3000 raised.
You can also show your support by using the St Jude theme on your omg.lol profile and keep an eye on bids.lol for some lifetime addresses and other goodies.
The Donation Daddy website has been completely rewritten:
I'm sure we'll have some other things going on as well which I'll be sure to post about.
Donate at stjude.omg.lol, for the kids.
2025-08-26 20:44:12
It's nearly effectively September, everything is ready and standing by for the start of Relay's annual podcastathon and fundraising event. We have some excellent stickers this year.
I'm not one for music videos unless it's OK Go but Apple Music on my TV kept showing me a preview of the video for Cliche by mgk so I gave it a watch. Not only is the song a banger, the video is just so good. I can't pinpoint what it is but I love it. mgk seems like a complete ding dong of a person but he is stupidly talented.
Throwing a tire in a sand dune is lovely.
One Million Screenshots is a lot of screenshots of websites and my site is there so that's fun.
This video, how to document your life with your camera (via Maaike]) is making me want to do more photography. Do I have the time for a new hobby? Do I bollocks but that's never stopped me before. Time to charge the DSLR.
It's great to have Pebble back.
This toot is 👌
asbestos is the future, asbestos is a modern material of science. if you aren't using asbestos in everything you are going to be left behind
Nic pointed me towards the Savannah Bananas which led me to this Party Animals hat which I want, but don't want to double the price once you add shipping in.
This album cover is the most British thing ever and I want it. (via Ben)
Brian Butterfield was on 8 out of 10 Cats and someone put all his parts up on YouTube.
Reason #123 to get a 3D printer: these Legend of Zelda key hangers.
2025-08-12 21:11:44
Firstly, there were no cursed photos on it. So that's good.
I've been wanting to get a Camp Snap camera for a while but they're kind of pricey for what they are so I'd been holding off. Then I happened upon a listing on Vinted for one for £10 which is much cheaper than the £40-50 they usually go for even second hand and it was the pink one.
Camp Snap is a no-screen digital camera design to "keep you in the moment" or something equally wishy-washy. I wanted it because it looked fun and it's perfect for the kids to use. I'm not sure how much of a beating this thing can take but there's not a lot of moving parts to it so it'll probably be fine.
Despite thinking the premise is a bit wishy-washy, I actually did enjoy the fact that I wasn't checking every photo to make sure it was perfect or that afterwards I couldn't just go in and choose a new frame from the live photo. Live photos are great and I wouldn't do without them but it definitely makes having a spontaneous photo a little bit less spontaneous. "In the moment" you might say. Fuck, they got me.
You can install custom filters either from Camp Snap directly, or by making your own with their custom filter maker. I tried out a couple and I really like their vintage one. There's also a selection of filters available on Camper Snapper and Camp Shades which I've downloaded to try out in the future.
Depending on what model you have depends on how you install the filters - I luckily ended up with 103B, a more recent one but to find out the model everywhere on their site says "check the box" but I didn't have the box so how the hell does one work out which model they have? It's in the photo metadata. Why they don't mention this anywhere is beyond me.
Because of the bargain price I got mine for, I'm loathed to spend the same amount again on their wrist strap/USB C cable but that is a very cool product. If somewhere in the UK is selling those, I might grab one.
I also came across SNPSHT which appears to be basically the same product.
Anyway, I like this camera. I'd forgotten how much fun it is to just take some photos I'll be trying out some more of the filters soon.
2025-08-11 15:49:45
Update 2025-08-11
A Piracy is a Crime sticker is gunna be included as a bonus thanks to Sophie
I went on a bit of a shitposting session on Friday and the end result is I now have new stickers for sale which you can buy here. It's a pack of two for $10 that I will send out in the next couple of weeks.
The sales have been even better than the Don't @ Me ones in a much shorter space of time so much so that I'm buying printable labels for addresses — no way am I writing these ones out by hand.
The font I used is Iglesia and a modified version of the Pirate Bay logo. Talya made it into stickers for Signal which you can install here and send to your friends, enemies, or journalists included in your group chats.
These will be up for sale until the end of the week (Sunday 17th) then I'll start the totally-not-arduous process of packing and sending them out.
2025-08-09 22:21:15
We had to return the Kodak C300R because it kept overheating and not printing. We replaced it with the P300R which is what we were originally going to buy anyway.
I bought a Nahvalur Original Plus but sadly had to return it because it had a faulty nib and/or feed. I was going to get a replacement but I'm putting the money towards a Esterbrook Funky Town instead.
One of the notes in my ideas list reads "Apple Music presence on Discord?" and I can tick that off now because someone else did it. Music Presence works with Apple Music, Spotify, Doppler, and loads of other music services and it works on MacOS and Windows[1].
Speaking of music, Jimmy Fallon and Lin-Manuel Miranda did a Hamilton medley with classroom instruments.
Continuing on music, there are a shitload of new albums out this week: Good Charlotte, Attack Attack!, Babymetal, Halestorm, and mgk. Babymetal's is particularly good.
Baseline, a new Obsidian theme, is really nice.
This "design exploration" called the monospace web is bloody lovely as is this "typographic experiment" called flexflex.
Finally, after going on a bit of tear yesterday on the 'don, I have new stickers for sale. I'll put up a proper post next week.
Don't worry Linux users, as soon as you have drivers to make audio work, I'm sure they'll update it ⤾
2025-08-06 16:22:54
I linked to this post from CloudFlare yesterday where they showed, based on the data they have, that Perplexity is using all sorts of shitty tactics to get around robots.txt[1] and other blocks based on user agent.
Perplexity then put up their own blog post where they used the best part of 1000 words to explain they either don't understand consent, or don't care.
I was going to quote various parts of the article explain why that part is bullshit but it's not worth the time. At the core of this issue is consent. Even if you agree that AI agents shouldn't be treated like other AI crawlers or if you think Perplexity is awesome, it's my website and I get to decide who accesses it. Consent.
This Hacker News commenter shares a lot of the same views as me on the matter:
I don't want my content to be accessible to you through Perplexity.
I want my work to be freely available to any person who wants it. Feel free to transform my material as you see fit. Hell, do it with LLMs! I don't care.
The LLM isn't the problem, it's what companies like Perplexity are doing with the LLM. Do not create commercial products that regurgitate my work as if it was your own. It's de facto theft, if not de jure theft.
Knowing that it is not de jure theft, and so I have no legal recourse, I will continue to tune my servers to block and/or deceive Perplexity and similar tools.
Yes I know it's just a request and not a law, stfu no one cares ⤾
