Tech, cats, cat-tech & being catty about tech. Basically I'm a writer who also runs a cat rescue. Well, I do have a lot of mice. holly@hollybrockwell.com
Nottingham, England
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It's not this thing sadly, but thank you for trying! This is a weird rubbery thing someone's made, I'm looking for either the rainbow phone itself or the hard snap-on covers for the phone. I have an ebay alert but it never comes up!
ebay.co.uk/itm/127252325427
If any of you happen to have tne beautiful Sony Ericsson Z600 sat in a drawer somewhere, I am DESPERATE to find the one with the rainbow cover like I had in the 00s. Will gladly buy it from you, or even just the rainbow front and back shells.
My 90s/00s room will be incomplete until I find her!
I've finally registered at a dentist. 3 years that's been on my to-do list.
I strongly feel this lets me off all tasks for the rest of the year
I do love when a single-product company sends you a Christmas gift guide and it's just "how about this, the... only thing we sell"
I don't know if I'm just awkward but I would really like to find a bird feeding table that's made of plastic or something else wipe-clean that doesn't rust, rot, or go really gross when bird food mixes with the ridiculous amount of rain in this country and makes sour mash of doom. Anyone have leads?
The artist who did our amazing Smol Paul portrait (pawtrait?) is doing 50% off custom pet portraits for all of November. Covers all sizes, and he's amazing to work with! Code is PET50
jobmuscroft.com/collections/…
Devs responding with DX² and rudely being funnier than me, @GulliverTruffle says "you can't/shouldn't do ² in variable names, which puts us back a good number of versions"
So ner
LLMs doing anything is my new favourite comedy genre techcrunch.com/2025/11/01/ai…
It's always annoyed me that the Windows DirectX diagnosis tool is called dxdiag when dx is a common abbreviation for diagnosis, so it should clearly be called dxdx.
Just needed to tell someone
AI things no one wants:
- Small summary of incorrect nonsense on all my searches
AI things everyone wants:
- Stop showing posts about politics
- Swap nasally voice reading my audiobook for soothing old man
- Replace Chris Pratt in this film with anyone else
- How to remove AI from this app
Honey, who was sold for £400 in a car park and turned out to be both pregnant and epileptic, has single-pawedly spent our whole operations fund. Help please? 😬
paypal.com/pools/c/9jof8Ajh2…
I didn't expect that my other career of Professional Nerd and Gadget Botherer would come in so handy for running a cat shelter, but it really does