@matthewjohns.bsky.social
I’m hardly a frequent attendee but the lure of three games that I’ve been wanting to play was too much.
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I’m hardly a frequent attendee but the lure of three games that I’ve been wanting to play was too much.
Wow, and from the look of those tiles he may have also invented #Carcassonne
November 23, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Wow, and from the look of those tiles he may have also invented #Carcassonne
Presumably ran out of characters when trying to say “Too much black country”
November 23, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Presumably ran out of characters when trying to say “Too much black country”
Reposted
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.
Reposted
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.
I like both Toon and Paranoia but consider that they have to be played as dystopias with humour that’s created by circumstance, more Roger Rabbit/Running Man than Looney Tunes. Though I seem to be alone in that play style.
November 17, 2025 at 9:34 AM
I like both Toon and Paranoia but consider that they have to be played as dystopias with humour that’s created by circumstance, more Roger Rabbit/Running Man than Looney Tunes. Though I seem to be alone in that play style.
That is a fantastic cover!
November 14, 2025 at 9:33 AM
That is a fantastic cover!
Reposted
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.
It’s learning the wrong lesson from the fact that each person becomes so much happier when they stop having to worry about having somewhere to live.
November 3, 2025 at 1:28 PM
It’s learning the wrong lesson from the fact that each person becomes so much happier when they stop having to worry about having somewhere to live.
Reposted
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.
Reposted
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?
We went a few years back and it's well worthwhile.
October 16, 2025 at 7:05 AM
We went a few years back and it's well worthwhile.