Trying to explain the works of Guillermo Del Toro to my 2 year old niece:

Accessible / disabled loo at work. Should the clip be attached to the support or hanging freely like the one at the bottom? I wasn't sure what to do with it (so left it as it is) as it does fit snugly on the support (but have seen triangular ones that wouldn't).

More programmes made by Howard Goodall please :-) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl8P... Also on YouTube are his • History Of Music and • How Music Works Fascinating info, amiable presenter. V enjoyable. Big recommend. Very Sunday afternoon-ish (also Thursday evening-ish).

Re-heating advice sought please :-) While this looks awful it's delicious (big mushroom, gills & stalk scraped / chopped into a bowl with [all chopped]: hard mozzarella, smoked ham, olives, coriander leaf, breadcrumbs, olive oil. Squashed onto 4 mushrooms, Gas Mk 4, 15mins (turn 180˚ ½-way through).

Accessible / disabled loo at work. Should the clip be attached to the support or hanging freely like the one at the bottom? I wasn't sure what to do with it (so left it as it is) as it does fit snugly on the support (but have seen triangular ones that wouldn't).

Adding citations of people who might review the paper

"We're raising your subscription. You have two options: - Accept - Delete your dead loved one forever"

WoOfYt looks fun - a Wooden One­-octave Organ for Young Technologists, for 9+ www.woofyt.org - music with a physics bent. Inst of Physics has a free in-person (London) public talk on it coming up on 26th Nov, 6.30pm www.iop.org/events/makin... cc @sarahangliss.bsky.social @davidarnold.bsky.social

Amazing selection, most of them I'd not heard of. To which I'd add, links in next 'tweet' • Raspberry Pi's Experience AI (ready-to-teach *about* AI) • Dale Lane's Machine Learning for Kids (try out expts) • @connectedbydata.org's AI in Educ'n toolkit (find out what young ppl think abt AI in edu)

she’s a 10 but Excel thinks she’s October

🏫 We (well, mainly @timdavies.org.uk) have been creating a small toolkit to help schools, colleges and informal education settings to discuss Generative AI in Education. (1/3)

I'm enjoying today's free computing education seminar from @raspberrypiorg.bsky.social. Am not a computing educator but my job is adjacent / supporting people who do that sort of thing. So it's handy to know what they're thinking about :) #RPFseminars www.raspberrypi.org/research-imp...

Thank you @indivchisouth.bsky.social @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social for your anti-ICE kits! Let’s all spread the word and have this replicated everywhere.

Using the micro:bit to learn about machine learning practices Tomorrow (Tue 11 Nov 2025), free webinar from @raspberrypiorg.bsky.social www.raspberrypi.org/research-imp... 17:00–18:30 GMT | 12:00–13:30 ET | 9:00–10:30 PT | 18:00–19:30 CET

They really are called maize mazes!! There is a 49m diameter non-maize hedgerow maze at Crystal Palace park but I was too scared to go in it. Couldn't pay me enough ;) www.crystalpalaceparktrust.org/pages/crysta...

Where do we have these in the UK? And do we call them that? I live in London, where immersive mazes are a bit thin on the ground (not including labyrinthine tunnels of the Underground / tube).

I’ve just ordered a light up Christmas tree for my Mum’s dolls house, made whilst at sea by my Grandad in 1941. Next door’s 6yo girl loves coming in to clean all the rooms and hearing about when it was made. Last year she solemnly asked me if I died during the war. 🤔

If you're applying for a grant do you take the name / URL of the call and stick it into Twitter / Bluesky etc etc to see what others are saying? I have no idea if everyone does this (and there's no point me saying so at next grant meeting) or if I'm doing something unusual and should share it.

What is a fake transparent PNG? I am also googling immurement (which sounds like it has something to do with being inside a wall).

This is how I’m going to describe myself from now:

Can anyone remember which episode / series Howard Goodall presented where he was in a shopping centre with a piano & a bag with numbered balls. He created a piece of music from numbers pulled from the bag by shoppers - turning an (obviously) disjointed tune into something jolly?

My favourite movie with my name in it… DON’T LOOK NOW

If you're anywhere near Stratford and you have things lying around that are broken and in need of repair, do bring them along to this Repair Cafe (booking an appointment is best but not essential), and get them fixed. It's great for the environment and your wallet... win-win!

But I don't want to create an account. This is a one-time purchase. I find this slightly enraging. #ITTWTTHTMTINDTB though - "If that's the worst thing to happen to me today I'm not doing too badly", as my more stoic parents would say.

A micro-hack :)

Some good suggestions on website interface design for entering date of birth info, plus some entertaining anecdotes. For country remember you can usually type "U" to jump to United Kingdom (or United States...) rather than scrolling from A to T :) cc @leonnoel.bsky.social @dthompsondev.bsky.social

@davidarnold.bsky.social This was great fun & I wondered about the feasibility of live music accompanying tea-going tigers and festive Mogs...

Today I went to see the KNDS Fairey Brass band (epic) perform (live) the score for Wallace & Gromit's The Wrong Trousers at @woolwichworks.bsky.social. Absolutely brilliant fun :) That's the first 'live to picture' concert I've heard of for a child-friendly audience, wondered if others exist.

"for the rest of us who don’t have the technical knowledge and time to follow his accomplishments, his advice is to “Never use your primary WiFi network for IoT devices” and to “Treat them as strangers in your home.” " www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

@dthompsondev.bsky.social @leonnoel.bsky.social Enjoying the latest episode of The Programming Podcast in particular, haha :) Glad it's not just me!

The Exorcystic Fibrosis Trust #turnacharityintoahorrormovie

The spell-caster spam on Blogger is getting a bit more grisly, appropriate for Hallowe'en perhaps. Previous ones have had more cheerful endings where jobs are offered or spouses return and All Is Well. In this newer version enemies die in accidents.

I should say "Microsoft's AI" as I understand they bought LinkedIn in 2016. I am letting them, but disapprove of it being ON by default and them ALSO "asking permission", as in "Can LinkedIn and its affiliates use your personal data and content ... to train generative AI models that create content?"

I (born 1970s) don't remember when I first heard the term 'trick or treat' but I do remember being confused by it as it seemed it should be 'trick AND treat' as my childhood Hallowe'ens were based in the Scottish tradition which involved having to do a party piece / trick before any treats emerged.

If the university you work at has its own URL shortener 1. do you use it? 2. does it help you... or just add time (find tool, shorten, edit)? 3. can you use it for any page or only for uni•ac•uk domained pages? 4. any A/B testing / metrics options for yours (customisable back end like bitly)? Ta :)

I'd have liked to see this incredibly shiny spitfire as it set off from Biggin Hill on its way across to Belgium (didn't know they did that route*). It's a new one to me G-IRTY / GIRTY www.flightradar24.com/GIRTY/3ce2d0e7 *aha www.silverspitfire.com

Who is Trump protecting by failing to release the Epstein files? His supporters don't seem to care much about what he gets up to so I'm not sure they'd care too much if he was implicated.

Now THAT is how you do a season finale.

Reassure me that a pigeon eating an unhusked peanut / monkey nut whole will come to no harm. Picked one out of a bag for a squirrel and almost before it landed on the ground a pigeon beaked it down.

'Scandal' (1989, Joanne Whalley-Kilmer, John Hurt, Ian McKellen) - about the 1960s Profumo affair. Here's Ian McK giving Profumo's speech to Parliament www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWBC... "There was no impropriety whatsoever in my acquaintanceship with Miss Keeler." Parallels, parallels...

This doesn't seem to have made any difference to load times (~8 sec before & after) of my Google Drive (I only ever use the browser web version and my bookmark points straight to /recent. Never used Gemini) but others' enthusiastic responses made me want to share this more widely. #MildlyUsefulInfo

At first I thought this was a scene from 'Bedazzled', with Brendan Fraser having a whale of a time waking up and discovering he's a drug lord (and can speak Spanish) - 1m 15s www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxcK...

I would like to show off about my beans, which are delicious. Had no idea how to make this so copied the instructions mostly from veggiedesserts.com/spanish-bean... with a nod to gypsyplate.com/spanish-butt... and inspiredcuisine.ca/recipe/spani... - the first three things Google showed me!

School for Scoundrels about to start on BBC2. I always thought it was 1950s but released 1960. Alastair Sim, Ian Carmichael, Terry Thomas. Hattie Jacques is in it too.

Just checking everyone in the UK knows not to give any money to "We R Blighty" (fined for fundraising w/out a licence. Not clear how much of the money raised goes to help veterans). bsky.app/search?q=We+... • Don't engage • Let 101 Police / Council know • Don't bip their card reader w wallet / phone

Idea: the one-click 'head pat' Those effing emails inviting me to rate 1 out of 10 and like a muppet I might click a number and of course [OF COURSE] it takes me to a website which asks me more questions. At which point I bail in irritation and I've no idea if the '10' I picked has been recorded.

Not that I want to give him any ideas but the Trump-ballroom omnishambles reminds me of the goings on with the King and Queen of Incrediblania in Norman Hunter's "Dust-up at the Royal Disco" which I read when I was 8 or 9 (and older, it's funny). Similar chaotic energy. archive.org/details/dust...

I really like this 'Hello World' podcast (accompanies their magazine) from Raspberry Pi. It's for computing educators / teachers (I am adjacent to this field) and it's nicely put together youtube.com/playlist?lis..., or on your podcast app. #OrWhereverYouGetYourPodcasts

I'm working on a lovely side-project with @cs4fn.bsky.social & @c4dm.bsky.social at @qmuleecs.bsky.social to help create some classroom resources (for primary and secondary schools) based on the use of AI in analysing music (in particular underrepresented musical tradition).