Doing the quote sheet a video game because I’m just so pleased this turned out to be (roughly) the answer. Spent so long playing this.

Genuine sign of the end times or boosterism? Tired of this nonsense. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/o...

Postal services around the world that use birds as logos. One of my favorite poster graphics I've made! 🐦✉️

NEW: Have your say on DEFRA’s solid fuel burning consultation. If you're affected by #WoodBurning, this is a critical moment to get your views across to the government. We've created some guidance to help you respond - the deadline is 19th March. Please share far and wide! #AirPollution #Health

Find out if your local pub is at risk, and what to do about it laurenleek.eu/pub_map (and laurenleek.substack.com/p/britain-lo...) - great use of data via @puntofisso.bsky.social

Went to a short talk recently on Video Nation at the Watershed - such a wonderful view into people's lives and fascinating to hear how it all worked. Good to see there's another event planned. www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/1380...

Compare how you evaluate probabilities with how others do - found this really interesting probability.kucharski.io?utm_source=s...

Happy Halloween 👻🎃💀! Here are some of the results from our National Folklore Survey about how people living in England celebrate, as visualised for us by artist Jonny Ford'!

Picked this up in a Bristol charity shop some time ago and finally got round to framing it today. A beautiful map of a beautiful place and I love the priorities in the key.

Tried to take a photograph of a spiders web in the golden light - but it was invisible on camera. Is it harder to take pictures of the ephemeral now? I’m sure older phones could deal with sunlit webs.

Found the links in a favourite newsletter don't work (and haven't for several issues). Worked out today I can fix them by waiting for them to time out then editing the URL from buttondown-0000.com to buttondown.com. Vaguely wondering if I'm doing a Bad Thing.

Getting mixed messages about the NHS's 5 big bets from these two sources: innovation.nhs.uk/news/10-year... and assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6888a0...

Flowers may be my favourite thing about Cornwall, though the sea is also good.

Open day at Puppet Place, possibly my favourite Bristol thing (and roughly what the inside of my head looks like) puppetplace.org

Have always pricked jacket potatoes before they go in the oven - automatically, like I throw salt over my shoulder if I spill some.

Small moments of work joy :: yesterday someone shared a spreadsheet in a Teams call and made it zoomed-in enough that it was easy to read and I'm pretty sure that's the first time that's ever happened in any call I've been on.

Today at work, ladies loos with ✅ undersized door leading to roof (padlocked, sadly) ✅ “don’t cook food here” sign

Always wondered why american cinema was happy with violence, while being wildly prudish. Learnt from this it was a (profit-driven) decision en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hays_Code

Could LLM's kill bullet lists? All nested bullet lists now look like AI bobbins.

Spent about an hour longer than I intended in the bookshop. Now waiting out the rain. Did wonder why it looked dark outside.

Being more ecosystem than human is strangely attractive as an idea - fascinating programme www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

Love this collaboration - from my morning ride

tbf, who hasn't been tempted to give out bomb-making instructions to maintain good grammar? www.anthropic.com/research/tra...

Our new cherry tree has many blossoms and is even prettier now the leaves are coming.

Working on a system to stop myself walking away from my desk wearing my reading glasses. Somewhat depressingly, the best strategy so far is putting my proper glasses on my phone, piggybacking on my phone-never-leaves-my-side reflex.

Had these for over a year and only just got around to doing this

Made me feel better about not enjoying Bluesky at the moment. Disengagement as a way to be better informed - or at least saner. martinrobbins.substack.com/p/denial-of-...

Highly recommend @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social's recent talk on healthcare in a digital age to anyone interested in the social effects of technology - a fascinating look at how things have changed and what we expect of people accessing services www.bristol.ac.uk/blackwell/ev...

My new worst* AI thing: talks with AI-generated slide decks. Understandable - people are under pressure - but so so awful.

At the (grander-than-I-realised) Council building to see @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social. The conversation around me is almost alarmingly similar to my Bluesky feed.

frequentflyer.club is a very neat idea and nicely done (it discourages frequent flying... do slightly hate the misleading title though I get the point)

Why doesn't Bristol have anything like an Interesting (or even the old Ignite... what happened to them)? We must have enough to say. russelldavies.typepad.com/planning/202...

When you cartoonise crows, they tend towards duck. Duck is the platonic ideal of a cartoon bird.

FT Sunday crosswords are currently my favourite crosswords. Especially the maths one.

Would love to know what percentage of internal university paperwork is now completed largely by AI.

One day Excel will realise that defaulting to bottom-align is madness.

Oooh - this is satisfying (& you can skip voting on people you don't know enough about).

Enjoying walking past everyone’s Christmas trees and listening to science music - antidote to the intensity of the dreaded school Christmas fair open.spotify.com/playlist/4Wo...

UX and related people, if you were looking for an HCI Masters, where would you look? Any reflections on HCI as a term also welcome.

Still loving this secular online thought-for-the-day-ish advent calendar - a nice thing about the format is that the essays don't seem to be over-trying to get your attention, they talk to you as though you are interested buttondown.com/ithoughtalot...

How have I never heard this one before? www.threads.net/@punnyhow/po...

Forgot about this advent calendar of anonymous essays until it reappeared in my inbox - hit and miss in previous years but the variety is great www.ithoughtaboutthatalot.com

Had to school shoe shop, the worst of all the shoe shopping, but finished quickly and got to hang about in Sparks - such an amazing use of an unwanted space sparksbristol.co.uk

Briefly misplaced my hoodie at work today. Managed to search for it without singing this out loud, but only with great self-control.

A colleague recommended this Bristol exhibition about the Electrical Association for Women. Hoping to catch it before it closes - they have tea towels teaching ladies to wire plugs. stradlingcollection.org/all-electric...

Doctor of Folk Horror & Wyrd 70s TV @dianearodgers.bsky.social is on here now. I'm sure lots of you would love what she does.

Seen this shared in the context of universities before. They have got better over the years, and big complex organisations are going to be big and complex but still... made me laugh www.openculture.com/2022/01/read...

Glad the strike is over - I have been missing puzzles.

Finally getting around to moving away from Twitter. github.com/lucahammer/t...