Diarrhoea. And I only spent that right because of autocorrect.

There's a technical concept called "last known good configuration" and we passed it years ago. It's all been tinkering since, but on things that don't help and don't work, and we're all beta testers and AI trainers now.

Hi, this is any insurance company you can think of, thanks for calling. How can we not help you at all if your situation is even remotely complicated because we need to ask our underwriters and we're not that interested in helping you more in covering our own backside?

BOO. Er, I meant moo. Unexpected cow came as a shock to the dog this morning.

Taking a very deep breath before this week gets going.

Lone swallow roosting in the garage. Desperately hope they've got company soon.

Food hub / farm shop / demonstration farm /environmental and farming education centre / arts centre /cinema / co-working space

Today, Pip has been greeting bees and seeking shade. Not shown, the traumatising experience of a shower and an attempt to trim matted fur.

A passing thought, but many balk at the time wasting and distraction caused by AI/LLMs, when in reality we've cumulatively wasted years, *years* on our phones and social media. Good things have come from it but I weep to think of everything else I could have got done.

That's quick. Good work.

Hi @bsky.app @support.bsky.team please kill your new photo carousel with fire. Thanks.

Happy St George's Day in a not needing to tie a flag to a lamp post kind of way. Enjoy some Turkish/Palestinian food and be nice to lizards.

Today has been entirely house and garden maintenance which is all very well but no bugger is paying me for that.

Moved my mobile number from Smarty to Ecotalk. Smarty developed a weird delay on phone calls; Ecotalk (EE) works better for our spot on the edge of Dartmoor. Plus nature or something. Reminded again just how nice it is that number portability works as well as it does with mobile services.

Edible Canopy has taken over Martin Crawford's Agroforestry Research Trust nursery, specialising in edible varieties suitable for agroforestry systems, sorted by canopy layer. I need to go shopping. ediblecanopy.com #permaculture #agroforestry #devon #agroecology

Some heavily discounted Bold Bean Co stuff on Joybuy at the moment m.joybuy.co.uk/landingPage/... #deals #beans

#NowPlaying Salif Keita while I wrestle a to-do list longer than a long thing www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOUf...

The AFN Network+ has become Root and Reason, the food resilience collective. We are refocusing our work as an independent, non-profit initiative shaping change in the UK food system through informed, system-wide collaboration. Find out more 👉 www.rootandreason.org.uk

The dog does not want breakfast this morning on account of already having eaten whatever was left in the hedgehog's food bowl. The hedgehog's food bowl included dog food that the dog didn't want.

And we're away.

Just filled the car up

Get on sifa.id for a European ATproto LinkedIn alternative that is currently, at least, refreshingly free of lunatics, bland corporate waffle and adverts you will continue to see on the basis that you worked with someone twenty years ago

Today I shall be damaging my hearing some more with this and the rest of the album thefreestylers.bandcamp.com/album/enter-... #NowPlaying

If you're on Octopus Agile, or are an Octopus Energy customer and want to compare different smart tariffs, this is a great tool. I really like the simple display of the average unit price of electricity you've paid over the last 30 days – no more waiting a month to zoom in on a PDF

May have just got a little bit carried away in Wai Yee Hong Chinese supermarket in Bristol, but in other news my noodle needs for the near future are satisfied.

Competence porn. Whether in fiction or in real life, there's little better to watch than brilliant people working the problem.

To the extreme I rock a mic like a vandal Light up the stage I wax a chump like a candle

Next time Bluesky's down, I highly recommend going log splitting with @jennytpgrows.bsky.social (not pictured)

We go live to the Bluesky technical team

What if Teams meetings weren't saving us any time at all and we killed it with fire and just went back to face to face meetings? Oh sorry I was on mute. I said, what if Teams meetings weren't saving us any time at all and we killed it with fire and just went back to face to face meetings?

The Amoc is more likely to tip into collapse from the middle of this century. We really, really don't want that to happen.

Regret is realising that you ripped your whole CD collection at 128kbps.

Advertising lines you will not see: Sure Whole Body Deodorant. Or you could just have a wash.

I loved Macromedia Fireworks and my hatred of Adobe, only boosted by everything they've done since, began when they bought Macromedia and killed this software.

Just for a little while, not long, but just for a little while, it would be fascinating to be inside the orange goblin's mind. Wouldn't it? I mean, it must be an absolute mess in there.

Feeling the kind of peacefulness that only reconciling a year's worth of invoices and receipts can bring.

Caffeine and drum and bass sometimes seem to be the only way for my monkey mind to find focus. Anyway this is a playlist of drum and bass, you'll have to make your own coffee.

Find and tag bins near you binsnearme.com #bins Good public-spirited work by Kamran Ali.

Camera out last night with some of the dog's unwanted food (high quality, expensive stuff, turns out she's happy with cheaper). Anyway, others appreciated it, and delighted to see one of our spiky buddies around.

Septic tank emptying day, because yes, we store our poo in a big tank in the garden.

One shitbag down, several more to go.

Peanut butter and Marmite on toast, where have you been all my life. Also, now an American company has bought Marmite do we need to stockpile it before they adulterate it with corn syrup or discontinue it altogether?

Grants available for all homes to buy 15kg dried chickpeas

This song thrush in the tree above me sounds a little bit like it's trying out all the ringtones on its phone in rapid succession.

Close encounters with the local hares in the #Lavenham Fields. #nature #wildlifephotography #PhotographersOfBluesky #ukwildlife #birds #suffolk #hares

#ReplaceTheHeadsOfMusiciansOnAlbumCoversWithSitcomCharacters was an actual game on Twitter before it went bad. Happy Friday.

I have managed to secure three absolutely bloody smashing businesses (so far) for research interviews for my Masters dissertation, all being well. Must remember to actually ask questions and not just fanboy through the whole things.

Beautiful images from the recent NASA Artemis II mission; this is a favourite.

Tenant farmers need first refusal and support if they want to take their land on, maybe a role for a land cooperative, but it needs to be kept out of the hands of institutional investors, Oxygen Conservation and the like www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/tena...

Tatty-bye, Gemini...