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dick_turpin :essex: :cc:In the good old days, you would target a company, ring them up, and try to find out who the manager or director was responsible for the product or service you were selling. You would either a. Try to get put through to them. b. Write to them. You would work at the sale. These days it's "Ooh! He's head of..... Hello there, would you like to buy my shit?"LinkedIN was about offering or seeking employment, but users have turned it into a shark-infested pool of so-called salespeople. <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/RantOver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RantOver</a>

dick_turpin :essex: :cc:Remember children. If you're going to buy a refurbished laptop (or PC), it's refurbished, 2nd hand. Someone has used it before you! It is not NEW and probably not the latest piece of kit.Most resellers make peanuts on 2nd hand kit so you asking fifty bazillion questions because.A. You can't really afford it. B. You're worried in case it's not what you think.Is an utter, soul-destroying pain in the fucking arse!Oh, and asking for pictures makes me want to tell you to "Fuck Off" <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/RantOver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RantOver</a>

Ishmael LastingAlso, while it's a sweet idea that the USA has decided - for now - not to impose tariffs on UK goods and services because our Prime Minister was 'nice' to their President, it just might be because we've made ourselves geopolitically fairly irrelevant over the last nine yearsAnd one final thought: When Starmer says he doesn't think there's a choice between closer ties to Europe or closer ties to the USA... unless he's planning to cosy up to China, he's flatly wrong. That's *exactly* the choice he has. And there's only one sensible option<a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/rantover" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rantover</a> *shrug*

ibkI just discovered that the Bureau of Meteorology are "improving some of the climate website services". Sounds good. Tell me more!"The Bureau will no longer: - issue fortnightly Climate Driver Update details - publish Climate Model Summary charts and data - issue El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Outlook Watch and Alert statements including the ENSO dial. "Um. OK. This must be some new meaning of the word "improvement" of which I wasn't previously aware.<a href="https://aus.social/tags/RantOver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RantOver</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/BoM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BoM</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/BureauOfMeteorolgy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BureauOfMeteorolgy</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/TheBureau" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TheBureau</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/climateServices" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climateServices</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/rant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rant</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/sigh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sigh</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/fadeToGrey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fadeToGrey</a>

dick_turpin :essex: :cc:If, like our customers, you decide to check your microphone and camera ten minutes before a so-called "Important Meeting." you really are a cunning stunt, especially when you phone us in panic mode and demand we drop everything for you. <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/RantOver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RantOver</a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/Teams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Teams</a>

dick_turpin :essex: :cc:I have spent the morning in M365 hell.Dear Microsoft. Get a bloody grip! Why do I need three separate locations for implementing GDAP. Thanks for making me jump through your authenticator hoops and why do I need three tabs and your refusal to accept Chrome or Firefox so that I have to use your shitty Edge. <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/RantOver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RantOver</a>

Cathleen BergerThe climate crisis is already happening. If you want to bet on technologies to support the transformation, they need to be in existence and deployable today. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/rantover" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rantover</a>

dick_turpin :essex: :cc:<a href="https://fedi.darlow.co.uk/@neil" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@neil</a> What annoys me is that this has to be the most cynical photo opportunity playing on the anguish of a community, and yet she's not being vilified for it. If that were a Tory MP, the press would be out for their blood. This is why I say the British news media is infested with socialists willing to subvert stories to meet their agenda.<a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/RantOver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RantOver</a>

dick_turpin :essex: :cc:<a href="https://social.crouchingpanda.co.za/@george" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@george</a> It pisses me off when people spoil their papers or encourage others to spoil theirs. Either vote or don't vote. Spoiling papers is the sort of thing fence sitters do, the types that complain about political parties but never let on what their political allegiance is.<a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/RantOver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RantOver</a>

Helen Lockhart Ripples Crafts<a href="https://mastodon.scot/@Dolphinchaz" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Dolphinchaz</a> I worked for VS when their Lochinver office was still open. It was soul destroying. Crud in the shop that was made a long, LONG way from Scotland, and we were only allowed to tell visitors about accommodation providers who were VS members. Obviously a little bit of civil disobedience took place in relation to accommodation providers! But honestly, it was a joke - they had no idea of what was really needed. <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/RantOver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RantOver</a>

j u n k i e<a href="https://mas.to/tags/rant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rant</a>Using <a href="https://mastodon.social/@protonmail" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@protonmail</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ProtonPass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ProtonPass</a> is the <a href="https://mas.to/tags/nutz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nutz</a>... I ❤️ the <a href="https://mas.to/tags/2FA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#2FA</a> functionality...!Any login credentials I use that has <a href="https://mas.to/tags/2FA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#2FA</a> (<a href="https://mas.to/tags/TOTP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TOTP</a>) I instantly disable it, then re-enable using <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ProtonPass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ProtonPass</a> instead of <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Twillo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Twillo</a>.Can be tedious, but totally worth the effort.Just need that <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ProtonPass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ProtonPass</a> web app and some better offline access... When offline, sadly I need to fallback to my old <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@bitwarden" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bitwarden</a> app... which is slowly getting out of sync as I am a <a href="https://mas.to/tags/chronic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chronic</a> password manipulator...<a href="https://mas.to/tags/rantover" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rantover</a>

Cress 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🌻My stupid PC has stupid broken because stupid updates corrupted it and now it's stupid stuck on the stupid loading screen. I've unplugged it and hauled it over to Bridgend where my other half is attempting to fix it after my attempts failed. What a crock of shit this is! <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/IHateWindowsUpdates" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#IHateWindowsUpdates</a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/RantOver" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#RantOver</a>

Ged|Net<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CommenceRant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CommenceRant</a>Soundcloud in the Netherlands; one peaceful soundcloud advert per 6 songs.Soundcloud in the UK; 2 annoying adverts (miscellaneous) per 2 songs.I'm so glad I'm only here 2 weeks of the year.How do my fellow Brits deal with this amount of capitalism being shoved in their faces?<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/RantOver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RantOver</a>

TallVentiSlowly, over 12 months, I’ve been systematically blocked by most news orgs. I’ve done nothing wrong. I must give up my contact details to gain access. I’m sorry but, your ad infested, quixotic, unreadable websites are not that appealing; your content is not valuable enough to risk you selling my email to some nefarious data analytics company, or other “trusted partners”, or for you to lose my details in a data breach by some scam-happy Russian bot farm. <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/RejectAll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RejectAll</a>. <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/RantOver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RantOver</a>

WonderdogOh FFS, no I do not want to join your Facebook group, I have deleted my Facebook account, I am not on Facebook, Facebook is evil, why aren’t there any other ways for you to communicate with me?! <a href="https://bne.social/tags/RantOver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RantOver</a>

jackhutton 🇺🇸What the hell izzat? Some f**king mobile dog washing service. So. What? Like you park this van in a lane, bike lane. Sit there with some gas-powered generators making all sorts of noise—so—What?! So you don’t have to wash your own dog? You can’t take the dog to a pet place? Wash the damn dog in your bathtub. Everyone’s so damn privileged—selfish. Make tons of noise w a parked van & generator in the neighborhood. What is wrong w this culture.?! <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/rant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rant</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/rantover" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rantover</a>

Ian RoseIn a kinder, fairer and more accurate world, "vulturous" would mean beneficial, tidy, sanitary. A "vulture capitalist" would be someone working on making a circular economy profitable in the real world. It may seem like a meaningless point to harp on, but vultures are poisoned and shot all around the world mostly because of our long-standing prejudices about them. Word choices matter. Vultures are great. The world would be better if we were all more "vulturous".<a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/vultures" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vultures</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/RantOver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RantOver</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/ForNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ForNow</a>

Laura Sykes #Greeneralia<a href="https://mstdn.social/@pivoinebleue" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@pivoinebleue</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Rant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Rant</a> I am so very angry with Hunt and his fellow idiots who led us into this Brexit quagmire because they thought their childish fantasies of being king-of-the-castle were achievable. Some of us had the wit not to vote Tory, but Corbyn was the unwitting sheep dog rounding up all those who thought their pockets would be pinched under his leadership. And here we are. But don't have the unmitigated gall on top of this to be 'surprised' or 'disappointed'.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RantOver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RantOver</a>

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