Laura Kalbag @laura@mastodon.laurakalbag.com

Using the hand grinder to grind coffee this morning…

Always one of the best things about coming home…

Face to match my phone case.

I know it’s lunchtime when I get a visitor in the office…

Eyebrows raised again, this time it’s Motherboard…

I know how to do Wednesday night

HONESTLY

doing two months’ bookkeeping and I think I have a new bio…

One of the best photos of @gigapup ever taken. Just makes me smile to look at it. (Taken by @aral)

Ah crypto = cryptocurrencies. cons = conferences.

Still, this one is a truly original comic genius. (Non-English names are scary, aren’t they?!)

‪I’ve made it, I’ve finally been called an SJW on Reddit.‬

‪(That is an amazing self-own in the title.)‬

Yeah, I think it’s a deceptively cutesy term too…

‪Made a bumper quantity of pease pudding 😋‬

Still stuck resting, thanks to flu straining the tissue between my ribs. But I’m being kept company by this majestic fool (and being cared for by @aral.)

Road trip from Cork to Surrey is going well. @gigapup is scoring 4/5 for car behaviour, though I’d generously award him 2/5 for the duration on the ferry.

My first attempt at doing this from scratch, I’ve made a little gingerbread shack. (Photo by @aral, including a sneaky Osky begging in the background.)

Today’s car behaviour… hmm

This is a next-level anti-GDPR dark pattern from Forbes.

I selected that I only wanted the “required cookies” (no cookies should be required to read a text article.) “This may take up to a few minutes to process.” 🤔

The worst way to start a privacy policy is with a condescending excuse.

If you use Safari on macOS, you can right-click the address bar when visiting a site to get ‘Settings for This Website’ such as disallowing use of mic/camera/location (useful on dodgy sites!) and the page zoom level (handy when the text size is too small!) A very hidden menu.