Rain! #weather #onewordweather

The US administration is pulling troops from the cities they imposed them on. BTC has the details. 9-minute video: https://youtu.be/-iM21EjSyL8 #uspolitics

It’s definitely Sunday right? #time

Tree gone! Lights packed away neatly as a treat for future me! https://mastodon.social/@ianRobinson/115821307065569944

The storm chasers are out in upstate New York again. It looks grim. Very heavy snow. Live stream: https://www.youtube.com/live/dFCzMzei-g0 #weather

2025 albums retrospective post 37 of 111. Released September 2025. The Rub - Your Smith. After a few years of stellar singles and EPs, Your Smith released her debut album in 2025. And what a fabulous album it is. Mixing soft-rock, indie synths, guitars, and brass across 13 tracks. Superb […]

2025 albums retrospective post 36 of 111. Released July 2025. The Wrong Side of 25 - Grace Davies. An album of the year candidate. Every track is fantastic. Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/the-wrong-side-of-25/1813195122 Spotify […]

I think I’ll take my Christmas tree down tomorrow. I’ll miss the lights. I’ll have to get more funky with my Hue TV backlight to see if that fills any colourful lights gap I have. 🎄

I walked 1,597 km in 2025. As tracked in Apple Health. Down from the 1,890 km I walked in 2024. #reviewoftheyear #walking #hearthealth

Another music related basic counting error. I’ve had to revise my total for favourite 2025 albums upwards to 111. 🤦🏻‍♂️ https://mastodon.social/@ianRobinson/115820609868477624

2025 albums retrospective post 35 of 111. Released May 2025. Victory Songs - The Franklin Electric. Another exquisite 2025 pop-folk-rock album. Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/victory-songs/1802310436 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/4iIMbpIZP16IHJDyToUekY #music […]

@atpfm The latest Veritasium show is right in your wheelhouse I think. https://mastodon.social/@ianRobinson/115819824245348274

Rain. #weather #onewordweather

The latest Veritasium show* is about the Dutch company ASML and its lithographic machines, which are essential for the production of computer chips. They’re the only company that makes these vital machines. 55-minute video: https://youtu.be/MiUHjLxm3V0 * Just calling these productions videos […]

“And The night followed day and the storytellers say…” The only moat ChatGPT has is brand awareness and frictionless use. Disrupt the latter, and the former will start to dissolve. I use Claude, so I don’t care. But Anthropic will add ads too. Hopefully not on Pro tiers […]

Happy New Year, everyone! This is a @theguardian.com books cartoon from a few years ago.

Utilitarianism that emphasises longtermism to focus on future people who might be born, over current people who are actually living is bollocks. And its proponents are <INSERT EXPLETIVE HERE> in my opinion.

I hope OmniFocus gets its Kanban like view this year.

I wonder what a prominent Dane who’s known by a 3 letter acronym thinks about this Danish initiative. I don’t wonder enough to look. https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/115819253202860321

Not that many people here will need it, but as an indicator it's interesting: In case you're looking for an alternative New Year resolution, Denmark has a new people's movement: Danmark skifter, Denmark switches, which aims to help people regain focus, change their social media habits and get […]

I hit the 5000 songs played milestone on Christmas Day according to Apple Music Replay. #music

I suppose I should get up. New year. New me? Hardly.

The Dundonald microclimate strikes again. While most of the north of the islands are under snow shower warnings, my weather app says there is a chance of light rain in the next hour. This used to annoy me because snow in Dundonald was very rare. Now I’m okay with it 😊 #weather

That’s a quarter of the 21st century burnt. Almost literally. I want at least another 25 years. To see in 2050. I’ll be 86 then, if I can make it that far.

2026 it is then. Good luck everyone! #happynewyear

The Drafts Siri songs template has been updated for 2026. See pic. Can’t stop. Won’t stop! I might replace the Spotify URL with the artists link tree.

I wonder if we’ll get the new release of Queen II in 2026. I’m drooling at the prospect of The March of the Black Queen in a Dolby Atmos mix. I wonder if they’ll mute the use of the N word in the song. I think it’d be okay if they did. It’s not in the lyrics on the Apple Music version, but it […]

Happy New Year everyone. The 2026 Siri songs start tomorrow. I missed 5 days this year it seems 🤦🏻‍♂️ https://mastodon.social/@ianRobinson/115816679518663967

2025 Hey Siri Songs - Day 360 "Hey Siri. Play Liar 2024 mix by Queen." #nite #homepod #music #queen Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/liar-2024-mix/1767640355?i=1767640712 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/5sw5sAOdOCDBazs258pd9F

Windy 💨 #weather #onewordweather

Surprising nobody! 😊 Happy New Year! https://mendeddrum.org/@DJDarren/115816555331584734

The Simpson’s S36. Ep. 3: Desperately Seeking Lisa is good 👍🏻 #thesimpsons

Happy new year 🤦🏻‍♂️ “The Trump administration is closing NASA’s largest research library on Friday, a facility that houses tens of thousands of books, documents and journals — many of them not digitized or available anywhere else. Jacob Richmond, a NASA spokesman, said the agency would review […]

Those USA traffic signals that hang over the roads on wires are weird to my UK driving brain.

I hope this happens. Having a Test ground a few minutes walk from your house is ace. I also played there for decades. The square is huge. Kia Oval huge. And playing on it made us fast bowlers learn how to swing the ball. 😊 #cricket #stormont https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/articles/cly3g1yg8rxo

Mad amounts of snow falling, and forecast for the next few days near Lake Erie. See live stream in quoted post. #weather https://mastodon.social/@ianRobinson/115814844830217883

It’s bonkers that some people complained about this. Tossers. #cricket https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/articles/cev8vreejmxo

Hopefully he’ll make a good recovery. 🤞🏻 “Former Australia batter Damien Martyn has been placed into an induced coma after being diagnosed with meningitis. The 54-year-old, who played 67 Test matches between 1992 and 2006, reportedly fell ill on 26 December and is in a hospital in Queensland.” […]

Every New Year’s Eve I watch and share this 20 minute essay from @johngreen on the history of Auld Lang Syne (“Old Times Sake”), memories of absent old acquaintances, and times current friends and fam sharing kindness to each other over fresh pint cups. (Complete with lyrics about splitting the […]

Who else is going to be a member of the #notgoingout club tonight? #nye

same procedure as every year ....

My favourite films of the year. In the order I watched them. Any film I rate 9 or 10 stars is automatically included on my end-of-year favourites list. Which means films I enjoyed but rated 8 stars are not listed. See the link below for my complete list. I need to update the page. Hopefully […]

Another year when complexity grabbed my attention. My Viewing and Reading Picks for 2025 #Entertainment #Books #movies #tv#entertainment#books#moviestps://warnercrocker.com/2025/12/31/my-viewing-and-reading-picks-for-2025/

Sunrise at the Mount Washington Observatory. It’s -24°C and the wind is 83mph. 🥶 Live Camera: https://www.youtube.com/live/RUN2G9r136c #weather #mwobs

Urban henge sunrise. #weather

I’m planning on drinking so much tea today I might impact the Tea Futures market. 🫖

Have just learned that John Varley died a few weeks ago. Sad news. One of the greatest #sf writers of all time.

Excellent 👏🏻 Democracy Watch: Marc Elias claps back at Trump DOJ official who insults him - BTC 11-minute video: https://youtu.be/Z8-RmqQZc-M #uspolitics

I remember thinks Nick Bostrum was someone to ignore after reading Superintelligence when it was published. Reading about him in More Everything Forever confirms my instinct was right.

Frosty 🥶 #weather #onewordweather