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These cleaning gloves at IKEA look like they want ...
I’ve written about how we all think we&rsquo...
I’ve written about that peculiar melancholy ...
Tom Hardy hasn’t been in a good film for years.
Wh...
I’ve written about how consuming excellent c...
I wish I had the strength to get up and walk away ...
Amazon MGM now has creative control over Bond 😬 bl...
Raising a glass of Wild Turkey to Hunter S. Thomps...
I hate tiny mug handles. elliot.my/262
I’ve written a deep dive into the tech that ...
I like dedicated servers
Being ill in 1643 must have been awful
I remember being so excited about the rise of tech...
30-year-olds buy a cottage in the country and make...
Test post – please ignore
Garth Hudson has died
In 1700’s London, if you received charity fr...
In one of his sermons from the 900s, Ælfric of Eyn...
50 years ago today Nick Drake died.
All three of h...
I rarely think about how I’m lucky to live in a wa...
AI has officially arrived. My Mum has sent me a AI...
I’ve written about Andrew Roberts' diary rou...
Morning all 🍂
UK-folk, don’t forget to get ...
I envy people who can be productive in a coffee sh...
"Cheating alleged after men’s world conker champion found with steel chestnut"
I’m getting old. Not because I turned 33 yesterday...
I love people who use social media like it’s 2009....
my google.searches on my.phone.alwuas end up looki...
Newsletters feel inherently uninteresting.
Blogs f...
How does my ADHD manifest? Mostly as accidental ca...
What files from your Mac do you actually need on your phone?
When you review things on Plex your friends can no...
One of the consistently good sources for interesti...
I’ve decided to write up my favourite 500 so...
I love a cutesy nickname. But I draw the line at “...
I love a door you can open just by pushing it. Sur...
I’ve written: “On Writing: Short Enoug...
I’ve written about ADHD and the struggle wit...
🍿 Film Review: The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
I now fall asleep every time I go to the cinema. I...
Digital legacy
Find out what the weather was like on the day you ...
I’ve written about ADHD and the burden of po...
Remembering Robin Williams, who left us 10 years a...
— Ashridge
Some photos from my night of Italian food and Engl...
“Much Ado About Nothing” at Shakespeare’s Globe.
...
Why do tape measures always have a very distinctiv...
There’s a session drummer named Steve Gadd w...
This ad I saw is from 2007.
The restaurant I made a reservation at lets me upl...
Morning all ☀️ I don’t know about you lot, but my ...
I’ve written about how media companies keep ...
🍿 Film Review: Air (2023)
Front and Back
KFC is the only good value fast food chain left. A...
My fellow English autumn addicts, just how much ar...
If you want to use Dropbox but don’t want to...
Happy Sunday all. The weather is fine and sunny in...
The barista yelled ‘Mi’lady!’ an...
Hope everyone’s Saturday’s are going w...
Modern life feels like death by a thousand £9.99 s...
I mean, doesn’t the word ‘buy’ imply you get to ke...
Captcha: ‘Select all stairs.’ Brain: &...
The longest title for a film that I’ve come across...
The Queen’s final Christmas speech before sh...
I’m flattered Hozier wants my phone number. ...
I propose we bring back the 19th century tea dance...
“It was illegal until the mid-1960s for bars...
I love the wonderful terminology of American music...
The original toilet roll patent from 1891 clearly ...
The Google Maps iOS app finally has a speedometer ...
I rate films precisely out of 100. I can tell you ...
Sunday so far: a walk, a shop and a burger from a ...
I’ve written about the struggle of birthdays...
Post England game. The sun has come out and I’m dr...
Pre England game walk and food. 🥾🍽️
📍 National Tru...
I think the concept of ‘cultural appropriati...
The AI data gold rush meets its match: Cloudflare ...
The absolute disappointment of turning on the Tour...
A good day to no longer be under a Tory government...
Snacks taste 15% better if I browse their website ...
Cloudflare is making it easier to stop AI crawlers...
‘noplace, a mashup of Twitter and Myspace for Gen ...
🗳️ Voted. Labour.
What an odd headline in the Times: “No more ...
A hip church, a modern poet
SoundCloud doesn't let you fast forward without signing in
Pipes.digital is a great replacement for Yahoo Pip...
Blogging like Dave Winer: the case for making more of your thoughts public
No one oversells more than a podcast host pushing ...
I wrote several post bearish on AI today. But it i...
The first ever podcast I listened/watched was Digg...
I struggled to find a TV show to watch. Tried &ldq...
A few new posts on my tech blog today, mostly arou...
🍿 Film Review: The Lobster (2015)
If you’ve got an adblocker Rotten Tomatoes isn’t l...
I despise Putin’s Russia and am totally on the 🇺🇦 ...
I keep on hearing such mixed things about The Bear...
Evergreen notes turn ideas into objects that you can manipulate
Not the most original artwork by Discovery+ here.
...
“Brighton FC want to buy Dewsbury Hall from Leices...
🍿 Film Review: Wonka (2023)
Me: “Hey ChatGPT, what’s 2 + 2?”
ChatGPT: “I’m not...
Playing Battlefield 1. Probably my favourite game ...
After 20 years, my morning RSS ritual still feels ...
June 26, 2024
A sports score Mac menu bar app inspired by telete...
App subscription pricing in 2024.
Yearly: £99
Mont...
🥾 Ashridge Estate
“Excuse my fingers.” No Barbara, I won’t excuse th...
Alban Day 2024
June 21st, 2024
This morning I saw a man walking along with a cera...
Glad Apple has created the Journal app. But I woul...
The moon is so bright tonight it looks like the su...
Watching Noah Kalina’s “Hotline Show” series on Yo...
June 20th, 2024
Didn’t realise there was a Five Guys with a glorio...
June 19th, 2024
🔗 15 rules for blogging - Matt Webb
Some of the be...
A common British experience is that for every sing...
🍿 Dumb Money (2024)
Adequately put together and fa...
These AI newsletters are essentially identical. I ...
I’ve reached the point in my digital life wh...
🔗 Why I write and why I won’t – Remy Sharp°
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A place to write where you just don't care
New word learnt: standfirst. “An introductor...
1988 Flannel
Continuing on from yesterdays post about preservin...
They were talking about the “agri-food industry” o...
People who put (Save for later) in their posts sur...
fredbenenson on Threads:
Apple needs to ban notif...
Digital legacy
I’ve written about @vincent’s wonderfu...
It’s a human rights violation for a company ...
“Israel Adds a Medieval Weapon to Its Arsena...
Small Sites Want Analytics Too
Finally getting around to watching the Apple WWDC ...
Perfect weather for staying indoors and watching 📺...
Portugal - 2024
Reddit is a much more pleasant place once you star...
I’ve been rewatching those stunt/dare/prank ...
🍿 Rewatching “Bullet Train”. It’s a fun popcorn fi...
I still miss app.net techcrunch.com/2017/01/1&hell...
I don’t know what it is but I can never bring myse...
I am pleased to report that Uber/Deliveroo now let...
“More Than This” by Roxy Music is a fantastic song...
Few feelings are more wonderful than the exciting ...
1920’s depression treatment: lots of milk and lots of nothing
1930’s Protective Foods
I began tagging emails as ‘not important,&rs...
Cleaning tip for people with ADHD. Make yourself a...
I completely misjudged how crowded the train would...
I can eat lunch and lose focus and have an energy ...
I’ve been enjoying a lot of Japanese ambient music...
I often accidentally type 2014 instead of 2024. An...
Sorry, I missed that. I was too busy having a cris...
High-end hotels and first class plane tickets are ...
I’d never been in a proper bookshop nook before. T...
I’m actually really enjoying summer this year. But...
This is a test post
I love the illustration on the Pika.page. It makes...