Spent an hour today with @v21.bsky.social's "Downpour", an app for making little games on your phone (still in beta). Made one about our cats called "Where's Madeleine?". Perhaps my greatest work? Takes 2-5 minutes depending on how good you are at finding Madeleine.
downpour.games/~holly/where...

New from me for Turf Projects Arts and Croydon Borough of Culture
turf-projects.com/why-is-croyd...

Ugh why is this website so bad at scrolling. It's even worse than Mastodon.

Lunch: stilton, fig chutney, wholemeal rolls.
Verdict: v.g.

I made a new shirt for bob.

Video with soundtrack: www.youtube.com/shorts/9Ygfs...

Static photo: flic.kr/p/2p2VbZn

Desc: A large bearded white man wearing an awesome shirt made from stained glass Star Wars fabric.

(Doesn’t seem to be a huge overlap between here and Mastodon, hence cross-post.)

Can anyone tell me how to make my posts on here visible to people who don’t have an account, please? I had a look in Settings but can’t find it.

You've got ... you've ... you've got ... TOO MUCH THYME ON YOUR HANDS 😎

je ne regrette rien

Currently drinking five-years-out-of-date Strongbow with peach syrup (left over from making https://www.deepsouthdish.com/2013/11/spiced-peaches.html). It’s pretty good! Though the black pigment on the outside of the packaging is definitely past its best ability to adhere to the can.

I worked out how to fix this! If I zoom in, then reload the page, the timestamps turn into links. And zooming in also fixes the problem I had where trying to add an image to a reply moves the “Reply” button out of the viewport.

She came from Greece she had a thirst for porridge

Top Chef season 20 is baffling. They came all the way to London and then didn’t go to any London food places?

I also can’t work out how to retweet things, so here’s an old-school link to bob’s first skeet which features me! https://bsky.app/profile/rjw1.bsky.social/post/3jz3p2p3gzs27

I still can’t work out how to open a skeet in a new tab.

Kimchi and pork belly fried rice for dinner tonight, made with brown rice for extra chewy deliciousness.

It turns out an American is sending me a thing via actual FedEx, and FedEx have sent me several emails about it, and I only realised this after I deleted the first few (some? many? who knows), because the only previous emails I’ve received that mention FedEx have been spam.

Coconut rum with cucumber-and-watermelon tonic. Just saying.

Finished _Translation State_ and immediately wanted to re-read all the Qven parts. If you enjoy books with found family, really-alien aliens, gender and cultural diversity, and the “Ohhh!” moment of seeing things in a different light, you should give it a go.

Saw a Guardian article on a universal basic income (UBI) trial in north London and Tyneside, which got me quite excited; but looking at the website of the organisation involved, it seems to be still at the proposal stage and not yet funded: https://autonomy.work/portfolio/basic-income-big-local/

Traditionally my first post on a new social media thing is about food, so here’s my recommendation for an excellent dip for samosas, spring rolls, etc: mix equal quantities of mango chutney and tomato ketchup. I got this from Laughing All The Way To The Mosque by Zarqa Nawaz, which I also recommend.