@matthewjohns.bsky.social
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Well, so far this morning I've delighted a lady with castor cups, helped another who couldn't fit blades in her Stanley knife, and made someone's day with fuse wire.
Hardware. It's an odd life 🙂
Hardware. It's an odd life 🙂
November 21, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Well, so far this morning I've delighted a lady with castor cups, helped another who couldn't fit blades in her Stanley knife, and made someone's day with fuse wire.
Hardware. It's an odd life 🙂
Hardware. It's an odd life 🙂
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One closing thing: If you are in software, and you ever get the chance to speak to someone who works on point of sale machines of any kind, you ABSOLUTELY SHOULD. They have to solve the weirdest problems with an incredibly constrained resource set for customers who deny that they exist.
November 19, 2025 at 11:48 PM
One closing thing: If you are in software, and you ever get the chance to speak to someone who works on point of sale machines of any kind, you ABSOLUTELY SHOULD. They have to solve the weirdest problems with an incredibly constrained resource set for customers who deny that they exist.
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I love my ear defenders, I love my daughter, & I'm proud of every adult & child who wears theirs. I hate the servile, authoritarian streak in the British character that believes school is for suffering & conformity, the hidebound, craven dogma that a better world is impossible.
November 17, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I love my ear defenders, I love my daughter, & I'm proud of every adult & child who wears theirs. I hate the servile, authoritarian streak in the British character that believes school is for suffering & conformity, the hidebound, craven dogma that a better world is impossible.
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Hi! You can now watch me and archaeologist Professor Nicky Milner doing our Stone Age & Star Carr double act at York University last week
And you can get signed copies of my Stone Age book, cowritten with @brennawalks.bsky.social, from the ace @foxlanebooks.bsky.social
youtu.be/OzjiSlOWWug?...
And you can get signed copies of my Stone Age book, cowritten with @brennawalks.bsky.social, from the ace @foxlanebooks.bsky.social
youtu.be/OzjiSlOWWug?...
The Stone Age Runs Wild at Star Carr: An evening with Greg Jenner and Nicky Milner
YouTube video by York Ideas
youtu.be
November 17, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Hi! You can now watch me and archaeologist Professor Nicky Milner doing our Stone Age & Star Carr double act at York University last week
And you can get signed copies of my Stone Age book, cowritten with @brennawalks.bsky.social, from the ace @foxlanebooks.bsky.social
youtu.be/OzjiSlOWWug?...
And you can get signed copies of my Stone Age book, cowritten with @brennawalks.bsky.social, from the ace @foxlanebooks.bsky.social
youtu.be/OzjiSlOWWug?...
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Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
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I'm obliged for the nod.
The "Penrose Effect" seems to be a real thing - hypothesised in the 1930s and re-tested in the last decade or so:
Where you reduce your inpatient psychiatric provision, you'll see a correlated rise within 10yrs in prisons of seriously mentally ill prisoners.
The "Penrose Effect" seems to be a real thing - hypothesised in the 1930s and re-tested in the last decade or so:
Where you reduce your inpatient psychiatric provision, you'll see a correlated rise within 10yrs in prisons of seriously mentally ill prisoners.
November 9, 2025 at 11:37 AM
I'm obliged for the nod.
The "Penrose Effect" seems to be a real thing - hypothesised in the 1930s and re-tested in the last decade or so:
Where you reduce your inpatient psychiatric provision, you'll see a correlated rise within 10yrs in prisons of seriously mentally ill prisoners.
The "Penrose Effect" seems to be a real thing - hypothesised in the 1930s and re-tested in the last decade or so:
Where you reduce your inpatient psychiatric provision, you'll see a correlated rise within 10yrs in prisons of seriously mentally ill prisoners.
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It’s disgraceful that there are no-go areas in modern Britain, and that they’re the private estates of wealthy landowners.
November 3, 2025 at 5:36 PM
It’s disgraceful that there are no-go areas in modern Britain, and that they’re the private estates of wealthy landowners.
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Local building site apparently protected by the United Federation of Planets! 😲
November 4, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Local building site apparently protected by the United Federation of Planets! 😲
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Hate doing this, because everyone is skint, but Oz is the only important thing in my life and I'm too broke to cover his additional surgery. If you'd like to help, please use OZVET20 at checkout on fenrisgames.com/shop for a nice discount or ko-fi.com/fenrisgames if you don't need toys.
Thankyou 💔
Thankyou 💔
November 3, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Hate doing this, because everyone is skint, but Oz is the only important thing in my life and I'm too broke to cover his additional surgery. If you'd like to help, please use OZVET20 at checkout on fenrisgames.com/shop for a nice discount or ko-fi.com/fenrisgames if you don't need toys.
Thankyou 💔
Thankyou 💔
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Found a solution.
I can copy a link if I selected Share *within* Word
It's far from ideal.
They are doing everything they can to stop people using File Explorer.
Microsoft are cunts. If you work in the Microsoft Office team, you're a cunt by association. Absolute fuck cuntery.
I can copy a link if I selected Share *within* Word
It's far from ideal.
They are doing everything they can to stop people using File Explorer.
Microsoft are cunts. If you work in the Microsoft Office team, you're a cunt by association. Absolute fuck cuntery.
October 27, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Found a solution.
I can copy a link if I selected Share *within* Word
It's far from ideal.
They are doing everything they can to stop people using File Explorer.
Microsoft are cunts. If you work in the Microsoft Office team, you're a cunt by association. Absolute fuck cuntery.
I can copy a link if I selected Share *within* Word
It's far from ideal.
They are doing everything they can to stop people using File Explorer.
Microsoft are cunts. If you work in the Microsoft Office team, you're a cunt by association. Absolute fuck cuntery.
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OH MY FUCKING GOD.
It's even better.
One option is "Share using OUtlook"
If you select it, it opens New Outlook.
EVEN IF YOU'RE USING OLD OUTLOOK (because new Outlook is absolute shite)
How can anyone at Microsoft live with themselves? Fucking up people's existing work processes for no benefit?
It's even better.
One option is "Share using OUtlook"
If you select it, it opens New Outlook.
EVEN IF YOU'RE USING OLD OUTLOOK (because new Outlook is absolute shite)
How can anyone at Microsoft live with themselves? Fucking up people's existing work processes for no benefit?
October 27, 2025 at 5:40 PM
OH MY FUCKING GOD.
It's even better.
One option is "Share using OUtlook"
If you select it, it opens New Outlook.
EVEN IF YOU'RE USING OLD OUTLOOK (because new Outlook is absolute shite)
How can anyone at Microsoft live with themselves? Fucking up people's existing work processes for no benefit?
It's even better.
One option is "Share using OUtlook"
If you select it, it opens New Outlook.
EVEN IF YOU'RE USING OLD OUTLOOK (because new Outlook is absolute shite)
How can anyone at Microsoft live with themselves? Fucking up people's existing work processes for no benefit?
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Want to copy link to a document into a meeting invite.
Go to the document. Right click.
Uhoh.
"Share" has been replaced with a context menu. "Copy Link" is no longer an option.
I knew how to do a thing.
Now I can't do a thing.
What the fuck are you doing Microsoft?
Go to the document. Right click.
Uhoh.
"Share" has been replaced with a context menu. "Copy Link" is no longer an option.
I knew how to do a thing.
Now I can't do a thing.
What the fuck are you doing Microsoft?
October 27, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Want to copy link to a document into a meeting invite.
Go to the document. Right click.
Uhoh.
"Share" has been replaced with a context menu. "Copy Link" is no longer an option.
I knew how to do a thing.
Now I can't do a thing.
What the fuck are you doing Microsoft?
Go to the document. Right click.
Uhoh.
"Share" has been replaced with a context menu. "Copy Link" is no longer an option.
I knew how to do a thing.
Now I can't do a thing.
What the fuck are you doing Microsoft?
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Miss Otis regrets she is unable to enter into arguments about the merits of written constitutions today.
October 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Miss Otis regrets she is unable to enter into arguments about the merits of written constitutions today.
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I am.
Not living my best life at the moment.
I have a place to live, a job, I'm relatively healthy, I have half a social life.
But I am so. Very. Lonely.
Not living my best life at the moment.
I have a place to live, a job, I'm relatively healthy, I have half a social life.
But I am so. Very. Lonely.
October 22, 2025 at 10:11 AM
I am.
Not living my best life at the moment.
I have a place to live, a job, I'm relatively healthy, I have half a social life.
But I am so. Very. Lonely.
Not living my best life at the moment.
I have a place to live, a job, I'm relatively healthy, I have half a social life.
But I am so. Very. Lonely.
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I co-wrote the Leverage RPG specifically so you can do this stuff at a moment’s notice folks
quick trrpg friends. you have 24 hours to write a louvre heist one shot
October 20, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I co-wrote the Leverage RPG specifically so you can do this stuff at a moment’s notice folks
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Innocent snails roped into elaborate tax scam
The snail farmer of London, his mafia friends, and a £20m vendetta against the taxman
Terry Ball runs elaborate mollusc-based tax avoidance schemes that are costing London councils millions of pounds. Yet when London Centric tracks him down, an even stranger story emerges.
www.londoncentric.media
October 18, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Innocent snails roped into elaborate tax scam
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A good friend has submitted this brilliant model of the library from Buffy to Lego Ideas. I’d be very grateful for your help in getting her to 5k supporters: beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Library | LEGO® Ideas
"Sunnydale High isn't really like other high schools. A lot of weird stuff happens here." Buffy the Vampire Slayer first exploded onto our TV screens in the lat…
beta.ideas.lego.com
October 7, 2025 at 9:03 PM
A good friend has submitted this brilliant model of the library from Buffy to Lego Ideas. I’d be very grateful for your help in getting her to 5k supporters: beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...
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so I was going back through old files and I try not to jerk off in the mirror too much about my own work but I really was touched by the noodly hand of the muse here
October 15, 2025 at 5:55 PM
so I was going back through old files and I try not to jerk off in the mirror too much about my own work but I really was touched by the noodly hand of the muse here
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There's also MEGANDMOG BORG, the game of spindly witches and inept spellcasting.
Of course, one could combine the two.
Of course, one could combine the two.
October 9, 2025 at 4:29 PM
There's also MEGANDMOG BORG, the game of spindly witches and inept spellcasting.
Of course, one could combine the two.
Of course, one could combine the two.
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'the bloke at (national fixings company) told me what I needed was a good old fashioned ironmongers'
Customer: sorted ✔️
Customer: sorted ✔️
October 9, 2025 at 8:50 AM
'the bloke at (national fixings company) told me what I needed was a good old fashioned ironmongers'
Customer: sorted ✔️
Customer: sorted ✔️
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Walked past the school. The screams indicated that they were either being attacked by cormorants, or playing some kind of ball game.
October 9, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Walked past the school. The screams indicated that they were either being attacked by cormorants, or playing some kind of ball game.
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To this day, I never look up at it without looking for the kitty.
The BT Tower is 60 years old today. Famous for its revolving restaurant...and a giant kitten courtesy of The Goodies.
October 9, 2025 at 7:20 AM
To this day, I never look up at it without looking for the kitty.
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The thing about crashing a tank through a museum of antiquities is that you don't have to be a particularly skilled driver to do a lot of damage.
It's difficult at times to hold both "this admin is doing lasting and serious damage to our institutions and the globe" and "this admin is full of the most bafflingly incompetent idiots you've ever seen who fall over themselves like a Vaudeville act constantly."
The duality of man is incredible.
The duality of man is incredible.
October 9, 2025 at 1:26 AM
The thing about crashing a tank through a museum of antiquities is that you don't have to be a particularly skilled driver to do a lot of damage.
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Then perish
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Then perish
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I've seen a few other people now comment on this, so I'm glad its not just me that see these two and think it's The Doctor and Companion. 😆
#doctorwho #taskmaster
#doctorwho #taskmaster
October 6, 2025 at 8:31 AM
I've seen a few other people now comment on this, so I'm glad its not just me that see these two and think it's The Doctor and Companion. 😆
#doctorwho #taskmaster
#doctorwho #taskmaster