All my life I’ve suffered from β€˜MOBS’. As the name suggests, it only affects males, and in my case is particularly severe.

So when Jax asked me last night to get her AirPods from her desk, I immediately said yes, while my internal alert system moved into overdrive.

I searched the desk, surrounding area, even where they would normally be charging, eventually returning to the kitchen, head hung low - to report an ‘F2F’ - that would be Failure to Find to you rookies.

She was quick to reply: β€œOn the right-hand side of the desk, by the journals.”

Back upstairs I went. Nope. Not there. I searched the whole room. Nothing. Nada. Null.

Back downstairs I came.

β€œStill not there,” I reported.

β€œGood grief, do I need to go?”

β€œYes,” I said. β€œClearly I am incapable.”

She downed tools, walked two steps, and announced: β€œThey’re in my pocket.”

Of course to Jax it was hilarious. Me? Still working through the emotional roller coaster that I typically ride in these situations.

MOBS? I hear you ask … Male Object Blindness Syndrome

πŸ”—πŸ˜‚πŸ“Ό Fridges tend to be the first experience of a man experiencing MOBS


πŸ–‹οΈ If POTUS Says It - Why Can't We Report It?

Don’t click through if you are easily offended. Then again - if you are easily offended stop listening to POTUS


πŸ˜‚ McSweeney’s doesn’t always do it - but …

πŸ”— Math Problems for Moms

ANSWER: C. There were no thank-yous, and your child had an explosive tantrum because her Labubu was orchid pink, not pastel pink.

πŸ’¬ Sara White and Lindsey Smith

That’s just one - I think you’ll find the whole piece resonates.


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A metaphor for the world.

πŸ’¬ Unknown .. a comment I saw on the interwebs


πŸ–‹οΈ When Can You Swear?

Leon reposted this πŸ”— Disparaging Nouns | Forking Mad+ … with some commentary. Got a couple of comments back in turn - so I thought I would pop over to see what was being said in context - because personally I had never heard of β€˜walloper’ … Brit here with a β€˜lifetime’ in the USA and 6 years .. so far … across the Tasman.

But then he moved on.

Read More β†’


πŸ‘οΈπŸ˜‚ You have to click through for the full story …

πŸ”— Turing Test 2.0 - Existential Comics


πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚ - Spanish speakers … true? πŸ”— Language is hard


πŸ‘οΈ A couple of YouTube Shorts

πŸ“ΌπŸ”— Iran in a nutshell πŸ˜‚

πŸ“ΌπŸ”— A VERY different kind of drum solo 🀯 - take that πŸ“ΌπŸ”— El Estepario Siberiano though to be fair - still 🀯.


πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚ πŸ”— Stave off repetition | Self Distract

Only this week, someone compared my piano playing to that of Rachmaninoff’s. To be precise, they said: β€œHe’s not as good as Rachmaninoff.”



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πŸ”— - Brad Enslen

no drama, no entrance.

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πŸ”— MacOS Seemingly Crashes After 49 Days of Uptime - a ‘Feature’ Perhaps Exclusive to Tahoe

And if I’m wrong about the post being AI slop and a human at Photon actually wrote this, I would suggest taking it easy with the cocaine.

πŸ’¬ John Gruber

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πŸ”— The Hacker News tarpit

Well, I spent a Saturday last month vibe coding a Hacker News clone. Took about 3 hours, most of which was me arguing with the AI about CSS.

πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚ .. not just me then❓


πŸ”— Daring Fireball: iOS 26.4

I like reading release notes from developers who take the time to document changes, and I also like reading β€œBug fixes and performance improvements” over and over and over again from developers who do not.

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πŸ”— A colorful MacBook is coming to chase away the Siri doom

Not an β€œevent”. An β€œexperience.” An β€œevent” is jejune. Basic. Lowbrow. An β€œexperience” is elevated. Refined. Possibly confusing or even a little terrifying.

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πŸ˜‚ I am English. I understand.

Via πŸ”— Mathew Ingram


πŸ”— Thought Shrapnel

I have no idea if I’m neurodivergent. I don’t think I’ve got ADHD, and all men are probably on the spectrum somewhere. Who’d want to be neuro_typical_ anyway?

My bold - but would surely explain a lot in this household πŸ˜‚