The stickers and graffiti of St Pauli: https://www.coffeeandcomplexity.com/the-stickers-and-graffiti-of-st-pauli/

I think this, from @endonend, is absolutely spot on: "What I think we need is more humanity. More sharing of our stories and life experiences. It’s how we come to appreciate people we don’t know and that may not look like or live lik... https://adders.blog/2025/09/23/i-think-this-from-endonend.html

Trying to regain my joy in blogging for its own sake, by writing about things nobody else will care about, like weird proximate hotels and my coffee travails in Hamburg.

Coffee quest: Hamburg: https://www.coffeeandcomplexity.com/coffee-quest-hamburg/

The electric shuttle pods are one of my favourite things about flying out of Heathrow T5 https://adders.blog/2025/09/19/the-electric-shuttle-pods-are.html

Kaffee, bitte

Moin, jeder

It’s about to begin… https://adders.blog/2025/09/18/its-about-to-begin.html

Here we go…  Spending the day at NEXT25. https://adders.blog/2025/09/18/here-we-go-spending-the.html

Schmoozing surrounded by some quite dramatic art.

On the U-Bahn.

Stuck in an interminable passport queue - while EU citizens breeze through the gates. Thanks, Brexit.

Above the clouds.

The only one of my Apple device getting the 26 update today is my iPad Pro. Not taking the risk with the others before travel - but the new iPad windowing is just too tempting.

How The Economist aims to survive – and thrive – in the age of AI. And some insight into why it’s launching a newsletter on Substack.

RedNote, the popular Chinese photo and video-sharing app that briefly became famous in America during the US push to ban TikTok, has been admonished by censors in Beijing for not reining in users’ obsession with trivia and celebrities

The future of media technology is sofas, it appears. #fomt25

Any Bluesky folks here at Future of Media Technology today? #fomt25

Absolutely delighted that my book THE LIE OF THE LAND has won the Wainwright Prize for Conservation Writing! This week, one of the book’s recommendations, a ban on moorland burning, became a reality. Next, we need a Nature Bill for England… bsky.app/profile/wain...

Green is clearly “in” for the charity shoppers of Market Deeping…

Lovely view from the room where I’m running a couple of client workshops today.

Possibly the most disastrous thing about the rise of AI is the way it’s leading tech companies to abandon their net zero goals. Google appears to be the latest. AI ain’t going to do us much good if our planet is no longer habitable for humans.

Treading lightly: https://www.coffeeandcomplexity.com/treading-lightly/

We had a sparrowhawk in our back garden. Looks like a young-ish female…

Trying a new coffee shop / restaurant just up the road from City St George’s.

Last coffee on camp. Feels very much like both the summer holidays and summer itself are done.

Such an amiable chap, for a green man.

Love, half a century old. I wonder if the feelings lasted as long as the carving.

A little campfire cooking.

I'm imagining non-techy people with TypePad blogs waking up and learning they need to do… something… to move 20 years' worth of posts and images and comments to… somewhere… somehow… in a few weeks or lose it all. Fuck me, I swear it'll be this kind of thing that'll send me all Falling Down one day.

Typepad RIP: https://adders.blog/2025/08/27/typepad-rip.html

WTF @wordpress.org – cmd+K to insert a link, as it has been for years, still visible in the toolbar tooltips, but when I type it I get this? Tell me this is a "me" problem and I can fix it myself, please.

Gnasher has seen better days.

More old box sorting. This is a card for a restaurant — Restaurante O Manuel — I visited nearly 40 years ago as a teenager with my family. It’s still there!

A little blast from the past - I just found my mid-80s Prince August fantasy miniatures moulds. You melted metal in a little crucible and poured it in…

Lakeside.

Vigilant pigeon.

In the mood for a little discovery.

I’ve just discovered that there’s an academic conference about Warhammer. This delights me no end.

My lucky daughters are on a sailing course. I am drinking coffee in the café. Hurrah. ⛵️ ☕️

Trading Post Coffee Roasters living up to their name.

There are times when reality feels perturbingly like an architect’s CGI composite.

Having a blast from the past this morning. I’m having a quick coffee at the Bridge Café. I used to be a regular here in the pre-pandemic days, when Journalism.co.uk held its training courses here. I’m off round to corner to run an in-house training course, but it’s nice to revisit the past.

Mike Masnick on who goes MAGA: "It is also, to an immense extent, the disease of a generation—the generation that grew up online, that learned to mistake engagement for truth, that confused being heard with being right. This is as true... https://adders.blog/2025/08/12/mike-masnick-on-who-goes.html

Is the AI bubble about to burst?: "The neuroscientist Eric Hoel calls this the “supply paradox of AI”: “the easier it is to train an AI to do something, the less economically valuable that thing is. After all, the huge supply of the thing is how the AI got so good in the first place.”"

Feeling pretty good about the dinner I put on the table for my family this evening.

Man follows ChatGPT’s advice – and so poisons himself: "As described in a new paper published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine, a 60-year-old man ended up coming down with an all-but-defunct condition known as “bromism... https://adders.blog/2025/08/11/man-follows-chatgpts-advice-and.html

I see that the Generative Engine Optimisation grift is building up speed.

This morning’s links on the dominance of YouTube, the state of university education and Ghostly publishers… Cuttings for 11th August 2025

Fun guys to hang out with in the woods. (Yes, I’m reusing this joke. Yes, I love it.)