Such a weird weather year... It's just stopped raining up here in the highlands. Barely 20% of the normal rain since spring. Nice in one respect but it really makes everything a tinderbox. In Geography terms we're living on the far side of the rain shadow of the cairngorm mountains.

The overwhelming feeling of using windows 11 for a while is that microsoft are making the Edge browser like an old school malware popup... ....trying so hard but failing to get you to use it.

I had a little too much fun making this new display. Gold Leaf is posh man's glitter.

my fav prop build at the most recent work event.

Today i've mostly been lamenting the difficulty in photographing desktop dimensional portals when both inactive and active.

www.ecosia.org really enjoying ecosia as a replacement to Chrome. Especially with google search making it seem very familiar. Nice for it not to be spamming me with AI generated (electricity using) results, each search too.....

bluesky needs more cats

honestly cannot handle looking at facebook just now. or the news...... stress level maxed out.

This week we've mostly been working on occult dimensional portals

Bee's r good

Southbound waiting room - empty of the friends whom spent all evening, night and early morning there bbqing in the rain. If you build it..... they will come....... and party....

The best bit of platform left just at the end of our garden.... Forest really waking up now the rain has come.

Today I smell mostly of comfry tea. It's not nice.

Windows 11 is making me miss my Chromebook

We've just joined the 21st century of internets. Fibre, rather than potato internet.... up here in the highlands.... I'm plotting my youtube career now.

A little bit of apocalypse prepping. Blessed to live where we do.

This week i've mostly been making shields... www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...

Going to be planting seeds for a bit of the day. There is this lovely fusion of prepping, environmentalism and being anti capitalist where you realise your greatest ambition might be to a landed peasant.

Proud husband moment to find the wife painting skeletons to "feed" to gelatinous cubes....

youtu.be/5gnlhmaM-dM?... This is going to be my only political share. Ever. On Bluesky. I just love Philosophy Tube & this one, from ages ago, is just so good.

It's amazing how much sleep affects my mental health. I've been struggling for a full nights rest for the last 6 months badly.... probably the last year or so if I cast my mind back. Partly from a lingering cough, partly worry about that cough, then chronic laryngitis from work....

Willow in "nappy changing" posture

I just worked out that you can turn off the "discovery" feed (ie unpin) from being the first thing that pops up. Thus eliminating anything other than people i'm following.... Gosh...... it's like i have control over what i'm going to see.....

I've never installed a social media app on my phone..... not fb, twitter, insta..... none.... thinking about doing bluesky..... is it just the same as the web app i'm using now? tbh i can already do that from the phone.

Today's mission. Create a tiny box army.

I reckon it is going to be a record generation day for wind..... grid.iamkate.com

it's gonna get windy.

Thinking about trying to set this up with a "campfire" conversation ethos.... core friends, wider friends and not bother with doomscrolling discovery beyond what they share to me.... Attempt to actually taylor this to positive interactions with people I want to stay in touch with....

So how do we want to do this?