checked out the parthenon in assassin's creed odyssey _and_ irl yesterday

bluesky is a prude

review: Dimitris Pikionis at the Benaki Museum Pireos I picked this exhibition at random, never heard of the man. It turns out he was the guy who designed the beautiful landscaping and footpaths around the acropolis! felix.gripe/blog/benaki-... #athens #review #acropolis

East Window, 2008 by Iranian artist Shirazeh Houshiary, St Martin-in-the-Field, London #womensart

an ambulance drove past me and the ambulance driver was smoking lol #athens

ugh. better than vercel i suppose bsky.app/profile/astr...

four things I bought back from storage in the uk: - my ps4 so I can play through Assassin's Creed Odyssey and roam around ancient greece - my opinel breadknife, there's nothing like it - my rasberry pi 3 - I also put tailscale on it, so handy! - my big coat – but it's too hot to wear in greece ☹️

unfollowing any account posting about ICE which is unfortunately every american on here. I am very sorry this is happening over there but I cannot endure 3+ more years of this dismal US news on my phone.

I find myself using svgl.app a lot to get SVG's of tech logos, v nice webapp

there is much to commend vis-à-vis blue skies and sunshine every day

New blog post! Taking stock of the services we hosted our bits and bytes on in 2025, and our feeble attempts to de-USA-ify our tech and become more EU-based www.blackspike.com/blog/where-w... #hosting #webdev #based

pleased to discover that greeks call the solar system planets by their greek god names rather than the johnny-come-lately roman names Mercury > Hermes Venus > Aphrodite Mars > Ares Jupiter > Zeus Saturn > Cronus Neptune > Poseidon

amazing triffids on this balcony in my neighbourhood #athens

New greeknotes! Tourkovounia hill, the Athenian Riviera beaches, being social in Iraklio, Chalandri and Thiseio, plus eating cheese instead of running. felix.gripe/blog/athens-... #greece #greeknotes #weeknotes #athens

New greeknotes! Tourkovounia hill, the Athenian Riviera beaches, being social in Iraklio, Chalandri and Thiseio, plus eating cheese instead of running. felix.gripe/blog/athens-... #greece #greeknotes #weeknotes #athens

snacks at my friends house yesterday: - kalamata olives from her mothers olive trees in kalamata - graviera naxou cheese from her cousin on naxos - soft cretin cheese from the supermarket #μιάμ

i hope the first one works because i just don’t think i can fit a second one in there

I went to a toddler class today and there was a toddler called Keith

2025 (EU) tech winners: 🥇 @pikapods.bsky.social 🥈 @proton.me 2025 tech losers: 👎 Gandi

As the whole of Cornwall hunkers down for 100mph winds, I can't help but notice the people opposite have put their recycling out.

Pixelfed brought 674,122 new people to the fediverse in 2025. Let's see if we can double that this year 🚀 pixelfed.org/how-to-join

I avoided Home Assistant for the longest time for being a UI mess and this isn't helping my impression of it

i am sorry people of greece, these are merely *large* beans. i would expect *giant* beans to be around the size of potatoes. beanflation.

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New Matt Lakeman post! 2-3 times a year he writes an extremely long, meticulously researched post about travelling through a country off the beaten path. Seeing him pop up in my RSS feed is a joy mattlakeman.org/2026/01/05/n...

FFS

extremely handy use of ai: #illustrator scripting. "write me an illustrator javascript script that makes all selected objects the same width, maintaining aspect ratio and transforming around the center. prompt for the width in pixels" claude.ai/public/artif...

january in #athens

subscriptions >>> shop.viz.co.uk/viz351bs

At the club, wearing my new cologne: Amazon Basic for men.

my most disappointing 1-⭐️ books of 2025: The Colossus of Maroussi by Henry Miller What Have I Done by Ben Elton My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho Titanium Noir by Nick Harkaway #books #booksky felix.gripe/books/

A v late Festive Jinglenotes! A very jolly festive xmas! Athens to London to Devon to Brighton to Southampton to Brighton to Athens. Great food, company, and gifts. The only bad gift I received was probably the Novel Coronavirus 19. felix.gripe/blog/festive... #london #devon #brighton #xmas #covid

excellent store front art on the brighton sausage co. shop #GrangeHillSausage #badaBapBowwww

It's also such an easy political win. Point to Musk donating to far right groups like Rupert Lowe's and his previous support for Reform and say they're being funded by a noncebot.

Of the 34 books I read this year, the eight I gave ⭐️⭐️⭐️: A Canticle for Leibowitz Atonement In the Days of the Comet Perdido Street Station The Complete Stories The End of Eternity The Magus Ubik A Canticle for Leibowitz was the best of them all. felix.gripe/bookshelf #booksky #books

I feel for the people who post their selfies and discover, instantly, weirdos using grok to pornify them. Had a hunch where this was going in 2021 and stopped posting pics of myself/any pics/details about family. But if you're, say, a cosplayer who can benefit from a big audience, you're screwed.

Learning about Kapodistrias as I’m seeing ads for a new film about him. I guess it will largely be about him introducing potatoes to Greece in the 1820s en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ioannis...

Good to be back in my favourite urban sprawl #athens

Sick of all these bbc clickbait headlines

Here are four of my most popular cartoons on 2025

The last few days did not move the main story forward AT ALL. It's just a guy eating little treats and doing nothing. And so many plot holes. He says, "no more little treats," and then he's eating another little treat in literally the next scene.

It's been a rough year for me. Writing down what I've been through helps me work through it. "Humans are awesome, look after your back" - that's my TL;DR. But if you'd like to R, you'd be most welcome to! johnnyreilly.github.io/reillys-on-t...

Miniature musical instrument makers admit defeat as violin size requirement for story is declared "too small to build."

this is some dipshit bullshit. clown country.

me, the moment it says “out for delivery”

Easily my favourite @theonion.com story theonion.com/dad-suggests...

New Greeknotes! A festive week in Athens, a lot of eating and drinking in a host of new bars and tavernas, plus a friend's baffling debut gig. felix.gripe/blog/athens-... #greece #greeknotes #weeknotes #athens

New Greeknotes! A festive week in Athens, a lot of eating and drinking in a host of new bars and tavernas, plus a friend's baffling debut gig. felix.gripe/blog/athens-... #greece #greeknotes #weeknotes #athens