Chicago

It's a note about a week tomcw.xyz/weeknote/wee...

You know that thing where instead of test you the word tw*t and send it? Oh, you've never done this? Umm, no, me either...

A classic of the genre

Ah, yes, so this is a much more eloquently put and researched way of putting it. My very simple version is "Stop pandering to the right, you'll never appease f*cking fascists" www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...

I know what you are thinking, all 3 of you...where have your weeknotes gone Tom? Well fear not, this has actually been a week when I vaguely know what day it is. And so, I present to you, a weeknote tomcw.xyz/weeknote/wee...

You know they say practice makes perfect? Well I reckon I've done my daughter's hair like 3000 odd times and it's still meh Thankfully she's not bothered and it's very forgiving of my shit abilities Maybe I'll nail it just in time for her to never ask me again.

Ok look, I've just made a sardines and chilli flaked pizza for lunch and I don't know where I've just gone too far

Just named chatgpt "the giant bullshit machine" and I feel my work here is done.

When I give it up, will you buy my pizza (and toasties obvs)?

Ok, finally switching my business account from g suite to proton. What video call tool do people use? No, I will not be using zoom

I love making pizza because it's so simple Flour, yeast, water, salt and toppings And yet there's so much you can play with. Part science, part vibe, like all the best things. The unachievable goal of perfection and every failure is a slice of joyful learning.

Got a bit of a bum ankle so I decided to take a rest week from running. Also me: hiked 55km

Child free weekend. Hmm, what should we do? Something relaxing and chilled... Me: Cool, how about a 6 hr hike and some via ferrata?

Cough. Once again... You will never appease right wing fascists, you just normalise talk like this by doing so.

About 5 years ago i saw a social media post about a food truck in a boat that served lobster rolls. 5 years later, I'm finally here Worth the wait.

That was the river, this is the sea

There's a realistic chance we get to a position where Wikipedia is blocked while official government accounts are posting on a site that created MechaHitler AI

Foraging haul out the back of the garden

It's bake time Or more accurately it was bale time and now it's eat time

Apparently another technogarch kleptocrat has said that he "wants to turn AI into a cosmic religion," to which I again say, "'*Wants* to'?"

Epic mountain day in austria

Sensible poses in austria

Morning in Austria

And so it begins, or continues. Create dependency, vendor lock in, raising prices to actually cover costs + VC...and repeat.

💥 Thought Shrapnel: 6th July 2025: https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2025/07/05/thought-shrapnel-th-july.html

Trip into town today to George Street Social. It's a cracking coffee shop and also home to Road To Recovery Trust. On the way back to I fell into Pink Lane bakery(what do you mean it's an obvious detour 🤷) & for reasons ended up with this blueberry cheesecake danish. Win

Weeknote tomcw.xyz/weeknote/wee...

Ok seriously, how often do you need to take a safety pin and scrape out the charging port on your phone because it's full of fluff and won't charge or is this just a me thing?

Not my worst sourdough #BreadLife

I'm meant to be watching Tim Minchin tonight, and can't go, which is bad. But then, a mate text me to say they were off to watch LCD at Brixton and now I'm very sad Drinking frozen margarita to get over it When you going @officeofwilson.com ?

Early one in the forest before it getting melting hot

I mean, it's hardly feeding the 5000 but not a bad bit of garden produce this morning

I once had a curry in the same curry house as Howard Marks (Mr Nice) I said, you look like Howard Marks He said, I am I said, no way He said, I definitely am I shook his hand. Surprising soft, which I commented on. He said, you don't get hands as soft as these from doing honest work now do you.

Forest evening

This seems like a threat. Please don't take the things I like away from me by actually joining me for a run 😂

I asked AI about this and it said something about fostering empowerment and yeah cool, but alternatively Just do the thing and learn from it.

Just made what I'm calling a Mexican Shwarma Chipotle roasted chicken pepper and onion Homemade chipotle sauce and salsa Verde 👌

Celebrating 1981 days of not going broke. Still figuring out what I do.

Hey are you ok, you've barely touched that Miro board you made us stumble around for 2 hours?

"You seem to be working a lot tom but also skint?" Me "I can see that you don't own a campervan that is currently in bits in a local garage"

You know what time it is? Pizza time Yes that is a very large pizza for one person. But I'm nothing if not ambitious* *With food, nothing else really

I love how this Reddit thread about Microsoft non profit 'grant' changes is mainly just "what are they actually saying?" Which is basically all Microsoft communication and documentation Purposely obscure www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/s...

My favourite email from a tech company is the one where they tell you how much more they are going to charge you for all the new features nobody wants.