Just finished another recommendation from @mrbsemporium.bsky.social. Cleverly constructed, rich characters and a big ending

Enjoying this new feature from Gmail. It’d be churlish to wonder how long it’s been since the previous update

The (coincidental) intersection of reading Prophet Song, visiting Derry and seeing the exhibition @nationalportraitgallery of people affected by the Troubles made for a moving 24 hours

I’ve reached that stage of not being at work where I’m trying to engineer banter with a scammer

Moving experience to visit Notre Dame cathedral. If St
Paul’s had been destroyed in 2019, would the bat survey have been completed? Or would the construction tender been awarded yet?

Thanks to @mrbsemporium.bsky.social I got to read this stunning book this week. Memorable experience

Got to see this last night. It’s spectacular but found I needed to check myself when it didn’t look as dramatic as the classic Insta shots

This is an extraordinary translation (I assume) of a tense, tragic thriller.
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Night in black tie with the best ever leaving gift

In five paragraphs about confusing accountability in local government there’s not one mention of voters or democracy

Entry #728 in the directory of school IT system problems: we have amended our policy to no longer conform with NCSC security guidelines. Genius, ‘Wise’Pay