The two towers?

Visiting a Roman in London.

I keep seeing the "cars replaced horses" thing related to "AI." People keep comparing "AI" to cars (positively) without thinking about the fact that cars were forced on people (AAA bought up and destroyed tram lines, there were massive protests, etc), and are the primary driver of climate […]

Submitted my first "Making Tax Digital" filing to HMRC. Yay, tax.

Another day, another instance of me having to spend my time and energy correcting an AI generated transcript that is obviously wrong, thereby wasting my time, when it would have just been better and more efficient to assign someone to take minutes, or at least to review what the robot spat out.

Sure, maybe you started your day with a Yoga practice, but did it involve KITTENS? https://youtu.be/3OVqffYf-nI 🐈️🧘

The @EUCommission wants to hear "from cybersecurity professionals and SME stakeholders on how #standards can best support real‑world #compliance needs under the Cyber Resilience Act." Let's make sure they hear from plenty of people who understand #OpenSource and the #cra […]

🆕 blog! “Another Ridiculous Interrail Holiday - 6,379Km and 13 Countries over 7 weeks” Last year, my wife and I went on a 5,025 Km Interrail adventure. We got the month-long unlimited pass and saw 10 Countries in 30 Days. That was a bit too intense. So this year we got the 15 travel days in 2 […]

Heading to the Tate Modern to see the Frida Kahlo exhibit. https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/frida-kahlo-the-making-of-an-icon

RE: https://mastodon.social/@macrumors/116889756460555978 There is literally a whole Black Mirror episode about why this is a terrible idea.

I am once again starting the process of getting a quote for a solar panel system for my house.

I was so sick of replacing batteries on my Hive connected radiator valves, even though I switched to rechargeables, I kept thinking "if only there was a mains-connected adaptor that mimics 2 AA batteries with a flat cable, then at least I wouldn't have to keep changing the batteries on the […]

I love that Count Binface has become a household name.

Sigh... NHS App, why are you so unreliable?

RE: https://mastodon.social/@dansup/116878877635203757 Congratulations to @dansup on the new and improved fediverse.info! Make sure to check it out, and while you're at it, share it with 5 people who haven't joined the #fediverse yet 👀

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@prism/116877404570339762 Happy disability pride month!

Some text that resonated with me, from the exhibition book for the (highly recommended) “Beyond the Manosphere” exhibit at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam https://www.stedelijk.nl/en/exhibitions/manosphere-en. From a Socratic “interview” of the artist […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

UK Tax returns have gone digital, which is fine in principle. What is not fine is that pretty much only paid solutions are acceptable for submitting a return. If electronic tax returns are mandatory, the government should be providing a cost-free means […]

🆕 blog! “I'm just so bored of AI” I'm just so bored of talking about AI. It's like listening to vapers tell me how delicious their flavoured poison is. Did you ever meet someone at university who'd just tried drugs for the first time? Listening to a stoner ramble on about their mystic crystal […]

Made it back to London from Amsterdam last night by train. Despite the continued disruption near Rotterdam, we arrived only about a half hour later than planned. Kudos to Eurostar. 🚄

Can report that the security and passport control situation at Amsterdam Eurostar terminal was … annoying, but ultimately OK. I still hope we can fix this issue and allow automated gates to be used.

Statue in front of Rotterdam Centraal station.

About to head home after a very nice family weekend city break in Amsterdam, after a great @ab meeting in Rotterdam – Eurostar gods permitting.

A highlight of this week may have been the welcome sign for the meetup on Thursday, displayed in a browser on a “vintage” iMac.

I’m not celebrating anything until the fascists are out, and being prosecuted for their many crimes.

Was great to present on Human Rights and Standards (and hear from the other speakers!) at the W3C @ab developer meet-up in Rotterdam yesterday. https://ti.to/w3cab/rotterdam-web-meetup/

Ok on my way to Rotterdam via London City Airport ✈️ for our @ab face-to-face! Hopefully the trains will be sorted out by Friday.

Well this week's @ab meeting is off to a good start… my train has been cancelled due to a power cut in Rotterdam so I've had to re-book with a flight. :/

One of the problems with the current AI mania is that products now eagerly claim to use “AI” whenever they can. But you have no way to tell whether this means it incorporates a few benign heuristics that might make it work a bit better or that it’s programmed to quietly learn as much as it can […]

About to go see the new David Attenborough’s “A Life on our Planet” with a live intro from Michael Palin!

Is it over?

No, YOU'RE eating the last Magnum Mini.

Organising all kinds of Eurostar trips for me and my family next week between London, Rotterdam an Amsterdam. I so appreciate them as a company. The web site, app and whole customer experience is so far beyond any other UK or even European train. 🚄

My family votes in the US across districts 10 and 12 in NYC and both the candidates we supported have won their respective primaries. 🎉

Thrilled that Brad Lander has won the primary to represent New York House District 10. Long before this race, Lander was fighting for immigrants and against ICE in NYC. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/nyregion/ny10-primary-lander.html

We've completed our work on Web Security documentation on @mdn ! The entire MDN content tree has been reworked and now features in-depth information on: - Attacks - Defenses - Authentication - Threat Modeling ↪️ Blog post https://openwebdocs.org/content/posts/security-docs-sovereign-tech-agency/

Good morning #fediverse! Sending cooling vibes to all my fellow UKans & Europeans this week. 🧊

Well said. “…the web is not a collection of technologies like HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The web is a philosophical choice to build a system that puts humans as its core constituency. The platform of technologies designed with that philosophy in mind may include AI-related systems. But if they […]

Happy solstice, even if you don’t celebrate! ☀️

“The Web is for People” https://www.torgo.com/blog/2026/06/the-web-is-for-people.html – some half-formed thoughts on the future of the web in the age of AI hype.

“The Web is for People” https://www.torgo.com/blog/2026/06/the-web-is-for-people.html – some half-formed thoughts on the future of the web in the age of AI hype.

Hey Fedi, what are your thoughts on a great (and relatively easy to make) summer solstice cocktail? Web searches are yielding only AI slop. 🍹

Great to see all the anti-fascist protests happening across the UK this weekend! ❤️

Finally started reading “The Culture Map” https://erinmeyer.com/books/the-culture-map/ which had been recommended to me. I’ve read other books on this topic and had multiple cultural awareness training sessions but it’s always good to have a refresher.

I am so glad I have a local NHS GP, and a local pharmacy with a very competent team of pharmacists, both of which are less than a 5 minute walk from my house.

Watching Gentlemen Prefer Blondes in honor of Marilyn’s 100th. I first watched this film in a feminist film theory course, so I feel I’m on pretty firm ground.

My thoughts with the people of Ukraine today as I’m listening to the BBC coverage of massive Russian attacks. 🇺🇦

This is regulatory capture. It doesn't matter which side wins – we still lose. And it's just one symptom of a massive effort by these well-funded companies to influence regulation of their industries on a global scale […]

Definitely a Farmers Market day today. There is a gyoza stand, and I have become quite friendly with the proprietor. Gyozas not pictured since they mysteriously disappeared soon after purchase. 🥟

It's not enough to be free. We also need to be in community #technology https://werd.io/the-protocol-world-has-been-trying-to-solve-the-problem-of-how-to-leave-and-the-next-step-is-working-on-how-we-can-stay-together/