saw a wild tortoise in my local park! a first for me. #tortoise

One of the worst ways your mustache can be described is "horrible little"

i have to say i've been hugely impressed by acorn – since i unsubbed from #photoshop for the first time in decades – it has largely met all my photo-editing needs. just 25 fucking dollars too!! flyingmeat.com/acorn/

the municipality has just resurfaced all the roads in my neighbourhood, and now 2-ton EV's make about the same amount of noise as a bicycle. crazy!

Well, isn't this handy! The font inspector in #firefox devtools links to the foundry and shows the license (tsk @ unlicensed trial 🧐) @firefoxdevtools.bsky.social #fonts

@chriscoyier.net does your website not have a blog/article index page?

Highlights of the week were two cracking new tavernas – To Kelari Tou Gatou (The Cat's Cellar), and Rantevou in Petralona with a stranger off the internet, and two big hills with spectacular views over athens in 25ºC sunshine. felix.gripe/blog/athens-... #greece #greeknotes #weeknotes #athens

Athens

@funimag.com another funicular for you BUT WHERE

5kg of black-market olive oil. every greek i've met seems to have a secret olive oil hook-up

I didn't know units are now optional in color: hsl(0 100 50); #css colours! I could never remember which was deg / % so this is a welcome change via @piccalil.li piccalil.li/blog/a-pragm....

a great service for "hosting a tiny bit of json*" that normies can edit github.com/benborgers/o... > google sheet, publish to web (anyone), opensheet.elk.sh/SPREADSHEET_... for a super simple json api! [note to self as it took me ages to recall the name] * an occasional @shoptalkshow.com topic

The Green surge continues ... We’ve just passed 90,000 members! 💚 People everywhere are joining the movement for real change. Want hope to be normal again? Join the Green Party today ↩️

a week of intermittent rain has begun the greenening of my local park… #athens

review: Ringworld by Larry Niven, ⭐️⭐️ felix.gripe/blog/ringwor... #sci-fi #books #booksky

our logo concept for an #ai startup was rejected for being 'inappropriate' 😶

what are we doing here, greek alphabet ``` Υ υ Upsilon I as in "feet" Ι ι Iota I as in "feet" Η η Eta I as in "feet" ```

Parthenon Revealed: Scaffolding Removed for First Time in 15 Years greekcitytimes.com/2025/10/06/p... #athens

A week of rain and grey felt like the UK I left a year ago this week. The hot and sunny weekend spent in an open-air cinema, a vegan festival and some terrific bars quelled any homesickness. felix.gripe/blog/athens-... #greece #greeknotes #weeknotes #athens #rain

review: One Battle After Another at the Thision Open Air Cinema, ⭐️⭐️⭐️ – the best cinema I've ever been to and the best film I've seen in yonks. a perfect cinematic experience all round. μια χαρά. #obaa felix.gripe/blog/one-bat...

not feeling great about vercel's acquisition of @nuxtlabs.com and I wonder how the devs there feel about this en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI-assi...

What's next? Playing badminton with Skelator?

TO GREEK YOU NICE #athens

It's an incredible privilege to just potter around athens. That being said, the 4hr guided tour of the meagre remnants of the piraeus walls was unfortunately as boring as it sounds, but I am very slightly wiser. felix.gripe/blog/athens-... #greece #greeknotes #weeknotes #athens #archaeology

We are back on the farm 😁 it feels sooo good! #wideopenspaces #farmlife #fishing #sheep #Chartres

It's an incredible privilege to just potter around athens. That being said, the 4hr guided tour of the meagre remnants of the piraeus walls was unfortunately as boring as it sounds, but I am very slightly wiser. felix.gripe/blog/athens-... #greece #greeknotes #weeknotes #athens #archaeology

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The 'Riyadh Comedy Festival' reminds me of the story of Freddie Starr performing in the Middle East, under instruction not to swear or refer directly to Prince Hussein. He came on and said 'Which one of you fuckers is Prince Hussein?' and the curtain immediately came down.

Where should you go to see the best version of the lost statue of Athena from the Parthenon? Athens? London? No: Nashville! Listen here. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...

@mikeisaac.bsky.social we have v similar taste in music, I think you'd like the new album by GANS if you've not heard it bsky.app/profile/did:...

i rate the new album by GANS: shit-hot #ShitHot #GANS www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSly...

Excellent lede

just remembered about the new ( #vue 3.5 ) useId() helper, which of course, works great in #nuxt vuejs.org/api/composit...

Not exactly thrilled to leave the greek island paradise of Serifos, but then again it's hardly a chore to return to delightful athens – regardless of the wretched new US ambassador to greece felix.gripe/blog/athens-... #greece #greeknotes #weeknotes #athens #beaches #serifos

I see The Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate (??) have welcomed the new ambassador to Greece and I’m sure we’re all excited to hear more from her going forward #help

doing a bit of digital gardening on my blog, made a page for all my book posts, and also exposed them as a json api – such a doddle in @astro.build felix.gripe/books/

To Pay again, and so till 9 at night, my great trouble being that I was forced to begin an ill practice of bringing down the wages of servants, for which people did curse me, which I do not love.

#doorsday #serifos #greece

Widescreen #serifos #greece #island

Review of how #iOS26 handled my app icons Warmola, my personal native swift app: untouched, new border, fine https://spike.news, my news PWA: flat icon is ruined with faux borders and faded bottom, bad vibecards.blackspike.com#iOS26 my Greek flashcard PWA: flat Greek flag icon now looks raised, poor.

Book review: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde ⭐️⭐️ felix.gripe/blog/the-pic... #book #oscarWilde #booksky

I’m surprised Amazon hasn’t shoe-horned ai into the kindle yet where it would actually be useful. If you want to define more than one word the dictionary and wiki lookups are rarely helpful. Not that I want to @ grok what does this mean the whole way through a book but it could often be handy imo

This year's second holiday, second earthquake, first greek island and a fifteenth-place finish. felix.gripe/blog/athens-... #greece #greeknotes #weeknotes #athens #beaches #serifos #earthquake

book review: Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke ⭐️⭐️ felix.gripe/blog/childho... #books #booksky #scifi

1776: My muscle-plums are in much more perfection this year than any other fruit. Corn housed.

First day on my first Greek island, Serifos (it’s classier than the neighbouring island of Sans-Serifos) #greece