Prime example of why the contract between the public and the police is breaking down, regardless of long term crime trends. Thames Valley Police don’t even think it’s their job to investigate this. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Am going to this, I predict it will be excellent. You should also go to this.

Digging through some very old prints: Jurassic Period of the Silicon Roundabout days

I'm taking the raw French cheese ban harder than I thought. Why have we not been told? Why are there no riots?

@richardpope.org does a great job of showing that it's often senior leadership misunderstandings and desire for "big bang comms" that damage good work already in progress (this time on digital ID). www.rpp.works/ways-of-doin...

You know that excruciating feeling when you've followed someone's writing for literally years. But then get in a lift with them and make happy chat without realising it's them. Apologies, @anildash.com - I joined the dots up a few minutes later. I blame hats. Hats are totally to blame here.

Sights, scenes, and the humans making #MozFest a unique gathering of people building and imagining a better technological future. ++ An amazing group picture from the elder series fashion show, curated by artist Malik Afegbua.

Where's this from then? (@bevangelist.bsky.social you are definitely banned from this one)

Dear QuickBooks. You are my brainless accounting system. You are not my accountant or business adviser. I don't want or need your agents. I run the business.

Contrary to all my intentions, I will let the sun go down on me. Tomorrow, most probably.

Thought experiment: how would you feel if someone posted a low-quality, and arguably unflattering, photo of you, clearly identified as being you, and then that photo immediately and indefinitely came top in internet searches on your name? Oh, without your consent, too.

In which I accept that my phone camera lens is now scratched beyond any reasonable use, and that Blackheath fireworks were worth the money after all. Very well organised event, good job everyone!

There's a great deal of depth to this topic, which you won't find in this thread. I'll write something. Sigh. These are mostly pretty awful pics, and the reasons why that's the wiki norm are very interesting.

Chelsea, 1 November. Barely a poppy to be seen. Fascinating.

It's sometimes hard to remember that public services can be delivered with pride and self confidence

I think there's some interesting depth on the diversity in pictures stuff, really there is. The distinction between a created 'reality', and interpretations we put on the actual reality (be that an event that happened, or the people who actually work in a company). I'm trying to write it properly.

No, the point of adverts is to be accurate! They are an unflinching mirror on the world around us, where families primarily bond over a shared love of condiments, cars only ever drive on that one bendy Italian mountain road, and women menstruate clear blue liquid.

Lol - not saying that Graham Platner dude laid out his defence on fesshole three years ago but maybe? x.com/fesshole/sta...

I just added a bench to openbenches.org - add one yourself - it's very easy, and strangely satisfying (and clever design means things like location tagging and plaque recognition just...work). Hats off, as ever, to @edent.tel and @summerbeth.bsky.social

"We want to give everyone a single identity reference, so we can join this stuff up once and for all"

Happy Birthday, The Devil x

This Friday, you should follow @franticplanet.bsky.social - he's both cleverer and funnier than he looks

For no particular reason, I'm reminded of this photo I took a few years back. It got posted on the official royal Insta. "She's visiting her brother!" was a common comment...

Cleaner comes on a Friday: the bathroom becomes not mine for 2 hrs, first thing. So I have to set an alarm to ensure I can carry out my Functions, thwarting her bog-blocking.

Ah yes - how is that "deterministic state" working out then?

From 10 years ago, when I briefly cosplayed @jamesomalley.co.uk (badly) on airport runway decisions

Only geo-nerds and @suw.bsky.social (not necessarily an exclusive classification) will get the significance of this, but I'm currently in the middle of Argleton

serial enshittifiers

The WeTransfer milking machine has just been switched on. Useful service, but not a £210 a year service, billed in advance.

I am disliking Onestream Broadband very very much as a supplier. A full house of enshittified processes and retention strategies.

Genuinely terrified at some of the things I'm finding people in my industry using LLMs for. Kids, you will have bad advice, and no skills! But it's like a religion. Truly another scissor issue to add to the usual suspects.

oh shit

The freelancer's dream cafe: good coffee, lots of power sockets, excellent wifi. And nobody wants to be seen dead here.

I blogged - about problems, answers, plans and the illusion of control open.substack.com/pub/harrymet...

this was completely unlistenable. "I was shit at everything so I just went on lots of holidays until someone gave me a nice job in one of the 'acceptable' trades"

What Waterson won't tell you is that Terry Ball is breeding a Giant Mega Snail to crush City Hall.

All very normal

Could have sworn I just saw @monkchips.com tear past me in a running race with a dozen children. Is the simulation just recycling the characters on a daily basis now??

Prince of Darkness

This is a masterpiece.

You have to dismally admire Fred Perry attempting to reclaim their brand from the racists. Not a hope, I'd say.

Schrödinger's Douchebag: the last resort of a hopeless people-pleaser

This thing where people now robotically say '100%' instead of 'yes' - is that yet another fucking Apprentice thing? God I despise it all. All of it. So tired.

Lol when you take a picture of a speaker and then @paulclarke.com sits down next to you... 😭

What to know what 'peak season' means for an event photographer? With an outstanding team this week, it's the end of Wednesday and so far 1,540 crafted, edited photos are all delivered. (9 videos are in production, there are 4 more shoots to go this week, and, yeah. It is not easy, but god it's fun)

my god your child is hideous

I could argue with nutters who think ChatGPT is a great place to get legal advice. Or I could just block them. I'll just block them.

Just to say, societal embrace of AI is essentially societal embrace of dishonesty and deception.