[screaming at the top of my lungs, once again] the fundamental technology of humanity is care

This dog is DONE

I spent Christmas Eve in the Water of Leith and under the castle. Edinburgh really is the nicest place I've ever lived.

NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS: Parents Horrified as Kids Rewrite Entire Santa List on 23 Dec

Happy Winter Solstice everyone. One of my first oil paintings from 1996 of Avebury where I went to primary school. Being there had a profound influence on my work. Lighter days ahead.

A great start to the weekend of the winter solstice! What a morning at Newgrange today. The livestream link now available - be sure tune in on the morning of 21 December at 8:40am. 🔗 gov.ie/solstice 👈save it, share it, join in! #ShareTheSolstice #NewgrangeSolstice #WinterSolstice 📸 OPW Guides

Hot Dads in Your Area looking for Someone to Unironically Watch the Newgrange Solstice Livestream with

*Clutches pearls, confusedly*

A gentle reminder if you've received an invoice from a Freelancer/Self employed person which is due before Christmas. Be a love, and pay it today.

After 15 years of riding bikes around London and Edinburgh, Google street view finally caught me.

The Dog has finally reached an age and temperament that she'll happily just sleep in my office all afternoon. It's lovely.

I worked in an outdoor shop selling hiking and climbing gear. People assumed I knew their plans, apropos nothing. "Is this jacket warm enough?" "Can I carry everything in this pack?" "Should I buy this rope?" For what, my dude? Picnics? Climbing K2? Tbh I loved that job. Our customers had dreams.

I can guarantee I'd make so many bad decisions on day 6 and 7 of the working week I'd spend much of the next undoing the damage of the previous.

Happy snotty-tissues-going-through-the-washing-machine season to all who celebrate

True story: I've got a week off work coming up in the new year, and recently heard myself say "ooh I could deep clean the kitchen!"

What I say to my dog: okay cookie-doodle, it's time to go out to the garden for bedtime wee-wees What I must assume my dog hears, based on her behaviour: PACK SISTER: NOW IS THE TIME WE FACE THE SKY AND YELL AT GOD

We're doing favourite small-to-medium enterprise branding today

AI could never

Cycling in your 20s: "I rode the Dunwich Dynamo on Saturday, local crit in Sunday, and then blasted my PBs on the commute this morning. Feeling fresh!" Cycling in your 30s: "I adjusted my handlebars by a quarter inch yesterday and now I can't walk"

The inverted face lick: a story in three acts.

🚲 𝟱.𝟮 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 parcels were delivered in 2024 in Belgium, compared to 3 million in 2023. 🚲 The cycle logistics sector supports 𝟲,𝟮𝟬𝟬 𝗷𝗼𝗯𝘀 (excluding the platform economy). 🚲 Belgian cycle logistics operators rode 𝟭𝟬.𝟳 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗸𝗺 in 2024, a +30% rise vs. 2023. 👇

Me, approaching a junction as a regular cargobike rider, motorcyclist, and driver

Some follow @dasbarrett.bsky.social because he's Head of Data & AI for Citizens Advice. I follow him because of the deranged carbohydrate experiments.

New favourite about page. www.vhely-hutchinson.com/about

Early morning squirrel patrol

This meeting could have been a slow walk into the wine dark sea

Scenes from an autumn run. Definitely up there as one of the top four seasons

Is the AI bubble gong to be as bad as 2008? @dsquareddigest.bsky.social says it'll be bad, but structurally less catastrophic. 2008 collapsed the foundations. But AI assets are still held as risk assets - meaning less essential stuff relies on them. backofmind.substack.com/p/are-we-hav...

We've written about the 5 things that are needed in any scenario to create an organisation that can design and deliver services well This is for all the people stepping into leading service design, whether it's in their title or not. good.services/writing/comm...

Nobody's saying it, but bike + kids + council fireworks is one of the top 5 kinda evenings

Absolutely sick machine. Nothing cooler than a fully loaded omnium. Will be watching out for this beast around town.

Feeling overwhelmed? Don't be! There's a hot new solution in town: Kessler Syndrome! Many of your problems will vanish along with GPS and comms. Total planetary lock-in is just a few Starlink collisions away ✨ Great podcast from T&R: pca.st/episode/2c13...

I love Edward Hopper. This is 'Office in a Small City'. Go and look at some Edward Hopper paintings. They'll make you feel better. Or, at least, a little more delicate.

Folks, I'm looking for a huge favour. We (Transform Wales) are making some stickers to go with the book. There is one that is screaming out for a very specific style outside of our brand. None of us are graphic designers. Would anyone be up for helping design it? Will share details via PM. TIA

✨🤗 A Handy Reminder 🤗✨

This is why customer research is important, y'all. If the GM CEO had popped out on a bike, she'd see drivers catching up on work, sending emails, and watching their favourite show behind the wheel, even today!

This looks like a joke map, making fun of the UK as not a serious country - calling us "8,000 weird towns in a damp trenchcoat". Yeah we heard you. But it's not a joke map. It's a very serious map. It reminds us to be on our guard against those 'Gramfy croojer' freaks in the next village over.

Happy to report the Scotland East data centre successfully received its Lego v2 architecture update while meeting 100% SLAs throughout

Clichés take hold in political language, a vicious cycle that runs through campaign speeches, through citizens’ expectations, and down into the software we build or procure by cliché, whose accordingly poor performance invites further calls for simplification. mechanicalsurvival.com/blog/design-...

The intersection in the Venn diagram of people who appreciate this is the width of a human hair.

Windows 10 goes out of support today. My fave useless fact about w10 is that the iconic blue desktop background is a *photograph* - not CGI. Tiny 'making of' vid here - youtu.be/_2RacX9DgWM...

Last month I spoke on a panel with Danae Shell, founder of valla.uk. They're great at helping workers get what they're owed... unless the business directors do this One Weird Trick @mellino.bsky.social writes about, which effectively cancels a tribunal award. Cool cool. Good system. 👍

The best bit of tooling innovation I've seen this year is Phil Vandelay's seat post puller. We need one in every bike shop please. www.instagram.com/phil_vandela...

She only misses me cos she's not allowed to chew anyone else in the family

feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*

Hello. If you would like to buy prints from your old pal Sonny, now would be an especially good time 👍 Share and tell your friends, especially if they have money and bad taste x x x

I made 16 highlights and yelled 'OMG yes' each time

Bike struggled to rev over 5k rpm. Pulled carbs, found the issue. 36 years of vibes had abraided the CV carb slides in their holders in such a way that the front slide hit a teeny tiny friction increase halfway up. Cleaned & swapped the slides between carbs (not the needles!): problem fixed.

Storm Amy may disrupt a lot of things, but it also blasted the UK grid with 20gW of wind power and made my electricity free for like two days, so it's impossible to say if it's bad or not.