Adrian Joyce
@ambulant.bsky.social
Multidisciplinary hobbyist, tech worker, infrequent social media poster. SE3.
Assuming the trapped piece has some kind of tube facing the opening of the lid, try pushing something like a tightly rolled piece of cardboard or a cotton bud into the end - you might be able to generate enough friction against the inner surface to pull it out.
November 15, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Assuming the trapped piece has some kind of tube facing the opening of the lid, try pushing something like a tightly rolled piece of cardboard or a cotton bud into the end - you might be able to generate enough friction against the inner surface to pull it out.
Thanks! Was just curious because the site was beside a loch. I’ve always wanted to build a modular house, but as you say, land prices really limit who can do even ‘budget’ self-build in the UK (to say nothing of planning craziness in many areas).
November 5, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Thanks! Was just curious because the site was beside a loch. I’ve always wanted to build a modular house, but as you say, land prices really limit who can do even ‘budget’ self-build in the UK (to say nothing of planning craziness in many areas).
Do you know why she chose Danwood? I only ask because Hebhomes are a Scottish firm offering modular designs inspired by local buildings, and they have 3-bed kits for well under £100K (admittedly that’s not the full turnkey service): www.hebhomes.com
People seem to like putting these near water!
People seem to like putting these near water!
November 5, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Do you know why she chose Danwood? I only ask because Hebhomes are a Scottish firm offering modular designs inspired by local buildings, and they have 3-bed kits for well under £100K (admittedly that’s not the full turnkey service): www.hebhomes.com
People seem to like putting these near water!
People seem to like putting these near water!
Those other technologies also had much greater general utility and much lower maintenance costs for whoever picked them up if their builders went bust. This is a bunch of data centres full of specialised Nvidia chips with a ~2-year lifespan - they’re much harder (but not impossible) to repurpose.
October 31, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Those other technologies also had much greater general utility and much lower maintenance costs for whoever picked them up if their builders went bust. This is a bunch of data centres full of specialised Nvidia chips with a ~2-year lifespan - they’re much harder (but not impossible) to repurpose.
Having just spent the evening binge-watching X-Files episodes, I am assuming the monkeys are also telepathic and/or invisible, and the covid strain is extra-terrestrial in origin.
October 28, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Having just spent the evening binge-watching X-Files episodes, I am assuming the monkeys are also telepathic and/or invisible, and the covid strain is extra-terrestrial in origin.
I have their ‘butterfly’ bin with two separate containers - it’s fine with other bags and even has holes to tuck the excess if your bags have wider openings. I don’t have space for concealed bins and it’s presentable enough to sit next to a kitchen island in an open plan kitchen/dining/lounge area.
October 26, 2025 at 12:02 PM
I have their ‘butterfly’ bin with two separate containers - it’s fine with other bags and even has holes to tuck the excess if your bags have wider openings. I don’t have space for concealed bins and it’s presentable enough to sit next to a kitchen island in an open plan kitchen/dining/lounge area.
So depressing. £257M is chump change for Ellison.
September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
So depressing. £257M is chump change for Ellison.
It’s great someone is covering this. I wrote to my MP on this topic a while back, and the reply was all about not missing out on economic upsides. Even if HMG think digital sovereignty is unimportant, it seems crazy to bet so heavily on a very bubble-shaped US tech boom being a driver of UK growth.
September 22, 2025 at 11:23 AM
It’s great someone is covering this. I wrote to my MP on this topic a while back, and the reply was all about not missing out on economic upsides. Even if HMG think digital sovereignty is unimportant, it seems crazy to bet so heavily on a very bubble-shaped US tech boom being a driver of UK growth.
I came here to say this too! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varangi...
Varangian Guard - Wikipedia
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September 21, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I came here to say this too! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varangi...
Replacing human voice actors, eg in video games. Ages ago an actor friend told me he was offered a contract that involved granting the right for the other party to train models on the recordings they made. I assume this kind of thing is now rife.
July 18, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Replacing human voice actors, eg in video games. Ages ago an actor friend told me he was offered a contract that involved granting the right for the other party to train models on the recordings they made. I assume this kind of thing is now rife.
London though is completely different in having concentrations of such extreme wealth and extreme poverty close together. There are literally millions of people living in poverty within a few miles of that sign in Highgate.
June 13, 2025 at 2:41 PM
London though is completely different in having concentrations of such extreme wealth and extreme poverty close together. There are literally millions of people living in poverty within a few miles of that sign in Highgate.
Yes, the kind of towns you get in the midlands and the north which depended heavily on a single, now defunct industry don’t exist in the same way in the south. You do see something similar in eg coastal areas where the fishing industry has declined, but I agree it’s primarily a northern phenomenon.
June 13, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Yes, the kind of towns you get in the midlands and the north which depended heavily on a single, now defunct industry don’t exist in the same way in the south. You do see something similar in eg coastal areas where the fishing industry has declined, but I agree it’s primarily a northern phenomenon.
Not disputing your point about inequality, but you do see things like this in York and other well-to-do northern towns. It’s just a signifier of a certain kind of slightly old-fashioned middle-class population - you wouldn’t see it in more deprived areas of London or the south either.
June 13, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Not disputing your point about inequality, but you do see things like this in York and other well-to-do northern towns. It’s just a signifier of a certain kind of slightly old-fashioned middle-class population - you wouldn’t see it in more deprived areas of London or the south either.
I wondered about this - thank you for posting! I really liked the playful naming of some of the other characters, so it’s good this one was well researched too.
May 9, 2025 at 8:00 AM
I wondered about this - thank you for posting! I really liked the playful naming of some of the other characters, so it’s good this one was well researched too.
Blackheath has quite a lot of interesting modernist homes. They don't all have quite that view, but some of them cost a lot less than £3m! www.ribaj.com/culture/why-...
Why did modern architecture flourish in Blackheath and Greenwich?
The area of south-east London is teeming with examples of housing by some of the biggest names in post-war architecture. Ana Francisco Sutherland, the author of a new book on the subject, explains the...
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April 21, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Blackheath has quite a lot of interesting modernist homes. They don't all have quite that view, but some of them cost a lot less than £3m! www.ribaj.com/culture/why-...
This started happening longer ago than people seem to think. As someone who was once ‘good at Google’ I’ve always seen the switch to the Hummingbird algorithm in 2013 as the biggest single downward step in perceptible quality and usefulness: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_...
Google Hummingbird - Wikipedia
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April 19, 2025 at 10:27 AM
This started happening longer ago than people seem to think. As someone who was once ‘good at Google’ I’ve always seen the switch to the Hummingbird algorithm in 2013 as the biggest single downward step in perceptible quality and usefulness: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_...
Sadly I’m not even the most famous person in the room, and I’m the only one here.
March 26, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Sadly I’m not even the most famous person in the room, and I’m the only one here.
*I* want *your* argument to be about something else! That is pretty rich, but good luck to you, anonymous online person.
March 26, 2025 at 9:13 PM
*I* want *your* argument to be about something else! That is pretty rich, but good luck to you, anonymous online person.
I said cynicism is unwarranted, then I started a different sentence where I described what kind of company Signal is and what it does. I mentioned nonprofit status to emphasise that it’s not a publicly traded company run to maximise shareholder value, not to make any wider point about nonprofits.
March 26, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I said cynicism is unwarranted, then I started a different sentence where I described what kind of company Signal is and what it does. I mentioned nonprofit status to emphasise that it’s not a publicly traded company run to maximise shareholder value, not to make any wider point about nonprofits.
To be less facetious: People in 2025 are justifiably v. cynical about big tech and tech CEOs. I find it depressing when this cynicism gets blanket applied to people trying to do tech in a different way, just because they’re caught up in a news story about dislikable characters doing bad things. 2/2
March 26, 2025 at 8:22 PM
To be less facetious: People in 2025 are justifiably v. cynical about big tech and tech CEOs. I find it depressing when this cynicism gets blanket applied to people trying to do tech in a different way, just because they’re caught up in a news story about dislikable characters doing bad things. 2/2
Isn’t this just innuendo built on the association fallacy though? ‘Some nonprofits engage in despicable conduct. Signal is a nonprofit. Therefore Signal is engaged in despicable conduct’. Or is there a specific allegation of despicable conduct you’re being opaque about? 1/2
March 26, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Isn’t this just innuendo built on the association fallacy though? ‘Some nonprofits engage in despicable conduct. Signal is a nonprofit. Therefore Signal is engaged in despicable conduct’. Or is there a specific allegation of despicable conduct you’re being opaque about? 1/2
Their website gives salary ranges on job ads, so if you think it's relevant you can decide if those are 'big money' or not. I mentioned nonprofit status to emphasise that they're trying to build a socially useful product outside the corporate tech model, not to imply they're martyrs on poverty wages
March 26, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Their website gives salary ranges on job ads, so if you think it's relevant you can decide if those are 'big money' or not. I mentioned nonprofit status to emphasise that they're trying to build a socially useful product outside the corporate tech model, not to imply they're martyrs on poverty wages
Cynicism here is unwarranted. Signal is a nonprofit organisation that builds one of the most private communications mechanisms available to consumers. They're understandably trying to avert PR blowback caused by stupid people very publicly doing illegal things with their software.
March 26, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Cynicism here is unwarranted. Signal is a nonprofit organisation that builds one of the most private communications mechanisms available to consumers. They're understandably trying to avert PR blowback caused by stupid people very publicly doing illegal things with their software.
Not denying we have a lot of people prepared to vote for truly awful politicians, but they definitely are not a majority.
February 24, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Not denying we have a lot of people prepared to vote for truly awful politicians, but they definitely are not a majority.
Musk is v unpopular in Europe, but especially the UK, Germany and Denmark where >70% of people view him unfavourably. Boris Johnson’s party won 42% of the popular vote in 2019 on a 67% turnout. Farage has a net favourability rating of -30 and his party holds 5 seats out of 650 (same as the Greens).
February 24, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Musk is v unpopular in Europe, but especially the UK, Germany and Denmark where >70% of people view him unfavourably. Boris Johnson’s party won 42% of the popular vote in 2019 on a 67% turnout. Farage has a net favourability rating of -30 and his party holds 5 seats out of 650 (same as the Greens).