Some photos from time in my childhood home caring for my parents.

The wild thing about this picture is that there was a sharp shower of pea-sized hail a couple of hours before I took it…

Who’s got two thumbs and a licence to fly in Dundee city council parks?

5× faster, 5× cheaper — and it’s more convenient! Wanna nerd out about my new 5G broadband and home network topology with me? youtu.be/qZ1u8gYXoPA

Some fun with my drone ☺️

A little reminder that your iPhone can tell you how much mobile data you’ve used and since when, in Settings ▸ Mobile Service, which can be handy for knowing if your mobile contract is appropriate. (Me, I’m on about 35GB mobile data a month. How about you?)

For Various Reasons, finally have a VPN. I went with Nord; referral link: refer-nordvpn.com/MpPriBVTToR

My 2019 Intel MacBook Pro (which is in a semi-retired state) has been struggling for a long time, with the fans always running and performance apparently being thermally throttled. “So clean the fans, Phin?” Yes. I couldn’t see any dust at the hinge vents, though…

Miss me with anything that isn’t cheap granulated sugar and Jif lemon. #ShroveTuesday #PancakeDay

I can… skate…? I mean, I’m not saying ‘well’, but ‘not falling over and shattering a hip’ is a win at 45.

I can… skate…? I mean, I’m not saying ‘well’, but ‘not falling over and shattering a hip’ is a win at 45.

The problem’s not billionaires. The problem is patriarchy. As always, @judedoyle.bsky.social says it better than I could: jude-doyle.ghost.io/y/ (I mean, billionaires are still ‘a’ problem, just not the relevant one to the discussion about Epstein and child rape.)

Damn. I’ve been watching (and enjoying) Technology Connections for a long time, but only just made time to watch his latest: youtu.be/KtQ9nt2ZeGM

I keep making attempts to record some brown noise driving stuff for a friend who likes to fall asleep to this kind of #asmr. My latest:

This has been a godsawful year but I draw such strength from my friends. One of them, Matthew, crocheted me this beautiful blanket for Christmas and I’ll be taking it to my parents’ tomorrow where I’ll be doing solo caring for a couple of weeks; it will help to wrap myself in queer community. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Walliams? Who knew?

I miss my friend Adam. youtu.be/P3P1K6N3Fc0

After last night, I’m officially designating 2025 the worst year of my life. Of course I still have a lot to be thankful for and to cherish, and I’m not going anywhere, but jesus fucking christ.

Still really proud of this little video I made with my friend Stuart, sharing some queer joy from an unexpected source. Can be consumed audio-only too, and I humbly recommend it to you if you want some queer hope and happiness. youtu.be/Wt1ArezeaiQ

Looks like my mum won’t be with us that much longer, and one thing I’m most concerned about it helping my kid cope with her grandma’s passing. It would be the first major death she’s experienced, at 10. Do you have any gentle, kind advice?

Today is #TransDayOfRemembrance, and I fucking hate it. youtu.be/HrTW0n6HW1Q #TransgenderDayOfRemembrance

Did Alfie ever work out what it’s all about, and is there, like, a Substack or something?

whoever selected the photos for this article deserves an award for photo selection, this is peak photo selection, unsurpassable perfection, all other photo selector people can just get their coats and go home because this selection will never be bettered

ig it was always a vain hope, but I really did hope that one lesson we’d learn from Covid was wearing a mask when you have a cold or other similar transmissible ailment

I’ve never looked straighter

Y’know, one area that’s always been unsettled for me in the fight for trans rights is competitive sport, but I guess for me it’s the whole ‘ranking of humans based on physical prowess’ that seems kinda pointless and arbitrary.

One of my annoyances with Sony’s handy Product Showcase mode is that I don’t always want to have the camera focussing on whatever’s closest to it in a video; most of the time, I want it focussed on me. Here’s the fix – with a text step-by-step underneath it! youtu.be/DQdhe-m_4Ao

Can anyone recommend a nicely designed, non-scammy (paid is good) #chess app that lets two people play asynchronously across iOS and Android?

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Why I bought the Apple Silicone Case for my new iPhone eyes-open – despite assuming it has the same fatal flaw of previous Silicone Cases.

Survived caseless for a week! 😅 I’m sure I used to have an orange Apple Silicone case before so went looking for it for a photo. Couldn’t find it, but did find this 6S case, and the difference in camera aperture over 10 years amused me!

Attending a memorial this morning for a friend who decided to leave the party far too early, at least as far as the rest of us are concerned. Go tell someone you love how much they mean to you. Go make some art. Ensure the world is more beautiful because of you, and the community you raise up. 🤍

Has anyone successfully thrown video to a car using the new AirPlay functionality in iOS 26’s CarPlay? I’m aware it needs to be added by devs for third-party apps, but I assumed it would work with video from Photos or Safari’s default media player, but I couldn’t get it to work. Am I dumb?

My friend Stuart and I have often talked about the rich #queer resonances in the song ‘A World Of Your Own’ from the 2023 movie Wonka, and recently, finally, we did so with a camera rolling so you can join in on the discussion. youtu.be/Wt1ArezeaiQ I’m proud of this. I hope you share this joy! 🏳️‍🌈

Technically, I lost comprehensively 😅 but being able to successfully coordinate five adult schedules to get some of the most important people in my life round for a night of Mario Kart, means that’s really, I’m winning the biggest prize of all 🥰

Looks like my very long but I hope very useful guide to painting your nails is closing in on a thousand views, so giving it a little reboost! 💅

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"open season on these cunts"

Today is my 20th anniversary. I shot this on my first. Can highly recommend finding someone incredible to go through life with hand in hand. More please, @jennyphin.bsky.social; you’re a fucking phenomenon. 😘

Sometimes things occur to me and I have to exorcise them from my brain

Reminded of this very silly video I made back when I wrote a column about vintage Apple tech. Ejecting the internals of a G4 Cube always felt like pulling out a nuclear core, so I went all-in, scripting something, having friends record dialogue, slathering vfx and sfx… youtu.be/69PE6XSqE0g

The world is divided into two types of people: people who, on hearing you have availability from, say, 2–5pm, would book at half hour meeting at the latest at 4:30 or at 5pm. And the latter group needs to be respectfully euthanised. For their own good.

This isn’t the female gaze. This is the male gaze. It’s men who are obsessed with the physicality of other men. Women, in the main, would much rather see a man who looks like he’d make himself a stack of buttered toast and let you steal a slice

A small thing: I’m adding ‘Kit’ to the list of names I respond to chrisphin.com/blog/kit/ Thanks to all the amazing people who’ve contributed to that thinking :)

Too silly. Sick of my desk so took my laptop out in the car to work this evening, which not only has a standard wall socket to charge the laptop, but an HDMI port. Turns out (of course) that I can use one of its screens as an extended display 🤪 and of course audio plays through the car speakers 😄

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