This is fucking great. Long COVID is a beast. Cycling is fantastic.
This is fucking great. Long COVID is a beast. Cycling is fantastic.
There is only one The Wicker Man. It's The Wicker Man, not A Wicker Man.
does rather make me wonder why we apparently stopped scouting in south america.
NBC News poll Voters hold negative views of Al. In fact, the only topics less popular in the survey were the Democratic Party and Iran.
Truly a perfect news alert
fomo
Tangentially I love when a composer is obviously in "oh fuck, that's a fucking banger" mode about a melody they wroteβyou can tell b/c they repeat the tune as many times as they can right up to the boundary of formal plausibility
check out this cool tool @genmon.fyi just built - a collaborative markdown editor. multiplayer markdown, baby. given the whole fricking world is apparently being described in markdown now, this seems timely.
mist.inanimate.tech
this picture makes absolutely no sense.
it is a photo of what looks like a teleprompter or camera of some kind with text that reads
THAT IS
TOO MUCH
VERMOUTH
i can't recommend this neat tool by @aendra.com highly enough. it strips out and labels posts that contain screenshots from the bad place and other networks - @xblock.aendra.dev
no more screenshot dunks in your feed.
i take my responsibilities quite seriously.
Love this writeup about how Puzzmo β an incredible collection of "newspaper puzzle games for the online age" β basically built Game Center on atproto
meow
π£οΈ PEOPLE, NOT PLATFORMS
imagine saying rude things about my coffee photos though. the cheek of it!
Bloody hell two different sets of film crews filming in shops on my local high street
And yet here we are.
tech companies doing stuff on bluesky. one day soon this will be normal.
oof. too much not to much.
Yes sure it is. But the current undercurrent of really interesting projects has me excited.
πgorgeous retro trailer here
and maintaining support for third party federated apps and services. bluesky, but not at the expense of the atproto ecosystem. the future of digital publishing can be built here.
we all went to a new french bistro the other day (absolutely on trend for London). it was very good. but playing edith piaf on rotation may have been adding to much fromage to the homage.
Yes, hello, is that God? Yeah, hi. I have a complaint. You gave me this brain thatβs designed for finding berries and avoiding lions and now people are βjust circling backβ to see if we can βmove the needleβ on βkey initiativesβ? NONE of those things are berries.
dunno but that is a cute car
We heard the Bluesky community cares about Open Source, so we showed up π
Our endowment dedicated to supporting Open Source maintainers is already at $729k, and we're developing a model for distributing our first funding round.
Have ideas on how to identify critical OSS projects? We're listening.
Tom's on rare form today
Wildflowers, a couple of springs ago, in the churchyard in Buckfastleigh, Devon. This is actually a very spooky spot in winter as it's the resting place of the allegedly Satanic Squire Richard Cabell - inspiration for Arthur Conan Doyle's Baskerville legend - whose corpse is boxed in by a somewhat incongruous structure, a little pagoda-ish, but also not unlike the kind of public toilet you might find in a small British town, which sits on the south side of the church. Do NOT walk around it backwards as the Devil will bite your fingers and Cabell will release his hell hounds. Also, the church has been burned down by Satanists not once but TWICE in the last couple of centuries. (I wrote about all this in more detail in my book 21st-Century Yokel, and a couple of the scarier gravestones inspired bits in my novel Villager.
Wildflowers love dead people.
I see you Lars
Kathleen Lonsdale (1903 β 1971) was an Irish crystallographer, pacifist, and prison reform activist. During her career she attained several firsts for female scientists, including being one of the first two women elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1945. #CelebratingWomen
Who do you think from the ranks of "us" would want to do the job, and might be considered by the board? I mean @masnick.com is actually on the board, is undoubtedly one of us, and seems pretty happy about the appointment. So yeah for me it's wait and see.