So a man who earns enough to be one of top 100 taxpayers in the country via a business handed to him for free paid £12m in tax whilst creaming £100m in handouts from the state. And we're supposed to be lauding him for his transparency and not looting the palaces?! What a deeply unserious country.

TIL there’s a design leadership leaderboard. I’m on it - in 14th - alongside people who actually know what they’re doing. @andybudd.bsky.social is 27th. I’ll take it 😜 www.uxtopian.com/ai-design-le...

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mrfrisby.com/notes/coach/ ^ I wrote a quick post describing how I have built my personal MCP server/cc @mattdavey.co.uk (also this is the first blog-like thing on the new website, so it might be broken in many ways.)

Post-work cold-plunge might’ve saved my life. To make sure I’m going to have a post-cold-plunge cider. And then maybe another just to be sure. You can’t be too careful.

I've been integrating my experimental personal MCP server into stuff and seeing how it responds. It's actually pretty good. I don't really know what I'm going to use it for yet, but I like the idea that I can have a portable way of sharing my opinions on stuff and then use it to do things.

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I’m living the dream here. Two games on, not quite watching either of them. I think this might be the ideal way to World Cup.

It’s all happening in the garden this morning. That owl should be sleeping, surely?

I know I’m not supposed to but I bloody love this weather.

Shout out to historical Stuart for having a litre of cold brew ready for this morning for a little cold foam iced latte situation.

Working from the garden this morning whilst there is still some shade and I am being joined by this lot. I think I counted 11 of them. #tits

I took these out of the bean freezer at the weekend and they’re bloody delicious. I shall have to plan in another stop in Porthleven this summer to grab some more fun stuff from Origin.

@alexmanthei.com the leaderboard isn’t working so I’m sharing this so you can tell me I’m in first place manually pls. apps.apple.com/app/id650491... I just scored 2,850 points (including a 16-flag survival round!) in Vexil! Can you beat my score?

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Father’s Day day lunch with my giant 7 year old a massive place of meat and beans. 🥰

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Good sky this morning #devon

What a looker. #tits

I wonder if the electronic number board the fourth official is holding could be a bit bigger. There isn’t quite enough room for two exclusive advertising partners in the current form. Might need two officials to hold up a corner each, but I think it’s doable. #USAAUS

Since when did fotmob have regens?!

Do you ever wonder how different Jazzy Jeff’s life might’ve turned out if he’d been called Jazz Jeffrey?

More stuff - Changed to the music page so that when a CD is opened its neighbours form a stack below the opened CD which moves to form the header for the details panel that opens below it - the panel now includes track listings. Also added a Colophon and a Changelog because why not. mrfrisby.com

What the fuck is happening. It’s the 23rd minute of the game and I’m watching Emma Hayes drawing on a literal chalkboard with some bulb in a cowboy hat on the PIP. At least there’s also some awful music playing in the stadium.

22 degrees in an enclosed and air conditioned stadium. Stopping for a little drink. Games gone.

Is the massively oversaturated picture an ITV problem or an American problem. The Croatian goalkeeper looks like he’s just emerged from a nuclear reactor. It was like this for the Dutch game the other night, too. #ENGCRO

Oh god not Hiddlestone.

Did some nerdy stuff on mrfrisby.com last night as a chance to learn about some things I’ve not played with before - P3 Colour space, OLKCH palette, webmentions, view transitions, etc, etc. It’s coming along, and I’m learning stuff, and that’s nice.

I’m not having Darren Cann describing his phone as “blowing up”. Completely unacceptable language from a man of his standing in the game. @footballcliches.bsky.social

What a world we live in where a fifteen year old can apply to join the literal army but can’t chat to his nan on Facebook. Still, with all that free time they’re going to have they’ll be able to not get a job nor afford to continue into university education nor go live and work in Europe for a bit.

The latest experiment to go live on mrfrisby.com is a personal MCP server. I have taken a lot of the personal and professional context I wrote for costawork.app and have bundled it into an MCP server which knows what I think about lots of things related to design leadership (cont.)

I’m solo parenting this week and also have a job and I don’t understand how these two things are supposed to be possible together. Oh yeah, sure, I can come to school sports day for 3 hours during working hours. That’s fine.

Pierluigi Collina is looking well.

Waiting for Ally McCoist on co-comms to mention the centuries long trade alliance between an otherwise isolationist Japan under the Tokugawa shogunate and the Netherlands via the Dutch East India Company (VOC) on the artificial island of Dejima near Nagasaki and its major influence on Japan.

Aside from all the deaths, the worst thing to have come from the pandemic must be people referring to the National Health Service as “Our NHS”. Makes me want to vom. Truly awful.

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View from the roof tent. Not bad. Need someone to deliver a bacon sarnie. #devon

Watching my first bit of the World Cup. In retrospect maybe the last one wasn’t so tin pot after all. Everything about this feels like a cheap impersonation of a football tournament.

Spotted this little bit of light reading in the book swap at the local garden centre book swap sandwiched between a trashy novel and a Gorgonzola cook book.

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Happy Spend the Best Day of The Summer Getting the Garden BBQ-Ready for Summer day to everyone celebrating.

The Venn diagram between people who use “compute” as a noun and people who are incels is a single circle.

A new (ongoing) photo essay: Morning Observations of the Sea. Mornings on the South Devon coast, recomposed into a single aggregate day - the sun and moon placed by their altitude and bearing, the tide charting a full lunar cycle. mrfrisby.com/photos/south-devon-sea #devon

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I’d love to not be wearing a fleece in *mid-June*.

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I just published the first photo essay on the new version of my website. This is the first time I've designed something like this, so go easy on me - I think it's looking pretty good for a first stab with some things left to iron out. mrfrisby.com/photos/nakas...

The next bit of mrfrisby.com I want to play around with is a photos section. Rather than a hosepipe of all of the crap I post here I figured I would instead create some nice editorial style photos essays for trips or themes or whatever. First up though a vageuly 1950s National Geographic index page.

To celebrate Bluesky increasing the photo limit in posts from 4 to 10, here are ten photographs I took on my last trip to Japan.

Pretty happy with how this /music page is coming along. I have it now pulling currently playing stuff out of the library into it's own feature section and some cover-derived colour stuff happening in the grid. Make Websites Fun Again. mrfrisby.com/music