Mike Hill
@meadowend.bsky.social
Brit. Passionate European. Studied physics at Imperial College, London. Formerly of ICBC. Retired tech marketer. Chorister, cyclist, skier. Refugee from the bird site.
Dallied on Threads (as @meadowend51) but that’s going the way of X…
Dallied on Threads (as @meadowend51) but that’s going the way of X…
Sad to hear of Val Kilmer’s passing. For me he’ll always be that bloke who married Joanne Whalley
April 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Sad to hear of Val Kilmer’s passing. For me he’ll always be that bloke who married Joanne Whalley
Picked up “A History of the World in 47 Borders” by @jonnelledge.bsky.social at the airport yesterday. Fascinating. Well worth a read.
April 1, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Picked up “A History of the World in 47 Borders” by @jonnelledge.bsky.social at the airport yesterday. Fascinating. Well worth a read.
The spec for my M2 MacBook Air says it can support one external monitor.
I currently have it running with two external HD monitors, an iPad as an extra monitor, plus its internal monitor.
Here's the Arrange Display setting...
I currently have it running with two external HD monitors, an iPad as an extra monitor, plus its internal monitor.
Here's the Arrange Display setting...
January 20, 2025 at 1:01 PM
The spec for my M2 MacBook Air says it can support one external monitor.
I currently have it running with two external HD monitors, an iPad as an extra monitor, plus its internal monitor.
Here's the Arrange Display setting...
I currently have it running with two external HD monitors, an iPad as an extra monitor, plus its internal monitor.
Here's the Arrange Display setting...
Word of Mouth on @bbcradio4.bsky.social hosted by the incomparable Michael Rosen, hosting the utterly brilliant geneticist & presenter @adamrutherford.bsky.social is a fascinating episode that attempts to unpick the language of genetics. Well worth a listen:
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
January 16, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Word of Mouth on @bbcradio4.bsky.social hosted by the incomparable Michael Rosen, hosting the utterly brilliant geneticist & presenter @adamrutherford.bsky.social is a fascinating episode that attempts to unpick the language of genetics. Well worth a listen:
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Hey @deck.blue I love your app, but I find if I leave the browser window open for a while, the columns freeze. Is there an easy way to refresh each column or do I just have to refresh the entire page? Thx
January 16, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Hey @deck.blue I love your app, but I find if I leave the browser window open for a while, the columns freeze. Is there an easy way to refresh each column or do I just have to refresh the entire page? Thx
One job creates another. Check tyre pressures on my wife's car I discovered our rapid electric tyre inflator no longer works. So I had to get the manual tyre gauge from my car. Which is when I realised the door seal was coming loose. Her tyres are OK but I now have to fix my door seal & inflator...
January 15, 2025 at 2:06 PM
One job creates another. Check tyre pressures on my wife's car I discovered our rapid electric tyre inflator no longer works. So I had to get the manual tyre gauge from my car. Which is when I realised the door seal was coming loose. Her tyres are OK but I now have to fix my door seal & inflator...
Had a migraine attack yesterday while doing my Portuguese homework. I managed to go to choir last night and Portuguese class this morning, but I'm now feeling sh*t with pressure behind my eyes and a pain in my head if I stand up quickly or exert myself.
I think it'll be a quiet afternoon.
I think it'll be a quiet afternoon.
January 14, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Had a migraine attack yesterday while doing my Portuguese homework. I managed to go to choir last night and Portuguese class this morning, but I'm now feeling sh*t with pressure behind my eyes and a pain in my head if I stand up quickly or exert myself.
I think it'll be a quiet afternoon.
I think it'll be a quiet afternoon.
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Can anyone help a pal of mine and ID the UK #castle in the background of this 30s photo? #heritage #history #architecture
January 13, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Can anyone help a pal of mine and ID the UK #castle in the background of this 30s photo? #heritage #history #architecture
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This is a fascinating turn of events
January 12, 2025 at 1:01 AM
This is a fascinating turn of events
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TechCrunch going in hard!
How to delete Facebook, Instagram, and Threads | TechCrunch
In the wake of Meta’s decision to remove its third-party fact-checking system and loosen content moderation policies, Google searches on how to delete
techcrunch.com
January 11, 2025 at 5:56 PM
TechCrunch going in hard!
An illuminating and insightful read, as ever from DAG. If you don't subscribe to the FT go to google.com and enter the search "site:ft.com The coming battle between social media" (without the quotes) and you'll see the article which you can read without payment.
New
The coming battle between social media and the state
Behind the alignment of X and Meta with Trump is a cold business logic — and a position of weakness rather than strength
By me, in todays @financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/917c...
The coming battle between social media and the state
Behind the alignment of X and Meta with Trump is a cold business logic — and a position of weakness rather than strength
By me, in todays @financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/917c...
January 11, 2025 at 9:44 AM
An illuminating and insightful read, as ever from DAG. If you don't subscribe to the FT go to google.com and enter the search "site:ft.com The coming battle between social media" (without the quotes) and you'll see the article which you can read without payment.
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The lunacy of X owner Elon Musk.
There was no “cover up” of English “child rape gangs”.
@privateeyenews.bsky.social
There was no “cover up” of English “child rape gangs”.
@privateeyenews.bsky.social
January 11, 2025 at 9:29 AM
The lunacy of X owner Elon Musk.
There was no “cover up” of English “child rape gangs”.
@privateeyenews.bsky.social
There was no “cover up” of English “child rape gangs”.
@privateeyenews.bsky.social
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please help me report that account for impersonation so it gets taken down quickly, and remember to only trust verified accounts (domain as a handle)
January 9, 2025 at 4:52 PM
please help me report that account for impersonation so it gets taken down quickly, and remember to only trust verified accounts (domain as a handle)
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hey everyone, it seems like this account here: @deck-blue.bsky.social is asking people to donate to their personal paypal
the only official accounts are @deck.blue and @test.deck.blue and I don't DM anyone, the only official pages for donations are patreon.com/deckblue and ko-fi.com/deck_blue
the only official accounts are @deck.blue and @test.deck.blue and I don't DM anyone, the only official pages for donations are patreon.com/deckblue and ko-fi.com/deck_blue
January 9, 2025 at 4:51 PM
hey everyone, it seems like this account here: @deck-blue.bsky.social is asking people to donate to their personal paypal
the only official accounts are @deck.blue and @test.deck.blue and I don't DM anyone, the only official pages for donations are patreon.com/deckblue and ko-fi.com/deck_blue
the only official accounts are @deck.blue and @test.deck.blue and I don't DM anyone, the only official pages for donations are patreon.com/deckblue and ko-fi.com/deck_blue
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“In order to shoot off one email per week for a year, ChatGPT would use up 27 liters of water, or about one-and-a-half jugs… that means if one in 10 U.S. residents—16 million people—asked ChatGPT to write an email a week, it’d cost more than 435 million liters of water.”
AI doesn’t just require tons of electric power. It also guzzles enormous sums of water.
It also guzzles enormous sums of water.
fortune.com
January 9, 2025 at 11:20 AM
“In order to shoot off one email per week for a year, ChatGPT would use up 27 liters of water, or about one-and-a-half jugs… that means if one in 10 U.S. residents—16 million people—asked ChatGPT to write an email a week, it’d cost more than 435 million liters of water.”
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deck.blue is the 3rd-party TweetDeck for Bluesky!
- Multi-column & multi-account
- Bookmark posts
- Chat/DM columns
- Disable reposts
- #hashtag columns
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Color themes
- Gallery/Grid Mode
- Filter notifications by type
- Inline translations
- Scheduling
Patreon | Ko-fi
- Multi-column & multi-account
- Bookmark posts
- Chat/DM columns
- Disable reposts
- #hashtag columns
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Color themes
- Gallery/Grid Mode
- Filter notifications by type
- Inline translations
- Scheduling
Patreon | Ko-fi
deck.blue
Get the most out of Bluesky with a multi-column layout
deck.blue
December 23, 2024 at 6:58 PM
deck.blue is the 3rd-party TweetDeck for Bluesky!
- Multi-column & multi-account
- Bookmark posts
- Chat/DM columns
- Disable reposts
- #hashtag columns
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Color themes
- Gallery/Grid Mode
- Filter notifications by type
- Inline translations
- Scheduling
Patreon | Ko-fi
- Multi-column & multi-account
- Bookmark posts
- Chat/DM columns
- Disable reposts
- #hashtag columns
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Color themes
- Gallery/Grid Mode
- Filter notifications by type
- Inline translations
- Scheduling
Patreon | Ko-fi
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I made a Starter Pack for Threads refugees. If you want others to find you, let me know and I’ll add you here.
go.bsky.app/Ugchtpo
go.bsky.app/Ugchtpo
January 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I made a Starter Pack for Threads refugees. If you want others to find you, let me know and I’ll add you here.
go.bsky.app/Ugchtpo
go.bsky.app/Ugchtpo
Information post from HM Government (copied from Threads).
November 20, 2024 at 1:30 PM
Information post from HM Government (copied from Threads).
I learned, via More or Less on
bbcradio4 (not on BlueSky) yesterday, that the cost so far of the UK junior doctors strike - mostly due to paying more expensive consultants to do their jobs during strikes - works out at £1.1bn - £1.2bn. 1/2
bbcradio4 (not on BlueSky) yesterday, that the cost so far of the UK junior doctors strike - mostly due to paying more expensive consultants to do their jobs during strikes - works out at £1.1bn - £1.2bn. 1/2
February 8, 2024 at 1:11 PM
I learned, via More or Less on
bbcradio4 (not on BlueSky) yesterday, that the cost so far of the UK junior doctors strike - mostly due to paying more expensive consultants to do their jobs during strikes - works out at £1.1bn - £1.2bn. 1/2
bbcradio4 (not on BlueSky) yesterday, that the cost so far of the UK junior doctors strike - mostly due to paying more expensive consultants to do their jobs during strikes - works out at £1.1bn - £1.2bn. 1/2
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No more invites needed pass it on!
February 6, 2024 at 4:53 PM
No more invites needed pass it on!
Now BlueSky is open to the public, should we expect a massive influx of new users, or polite indifference?
February 6, 2024 at 6:15 PM
Now BlueSky is open to the public, should we expect a massive influx of new users, or polite indifference?
Here's the front page of
Compute Weekly from May 2009 - the first time this Post Office/Fujitsu/Horizon story broke to the public. I remember reading this and being horrified...
Compute Weekly from May 2009 - the first time this Post Office/Fujitsu/Horizon story broke to the public. I remember reading this and being horrified...
January 13, 2024 at 2:25 PM
Here's the front page of
Compute Weekly from May 2009 - the first time this Post Office/Fujitsu/Horizon story broke to the public. I remember reading this and being horrified...
Compute Weekly from May 2009 - the first time this Post Office/Fujitsu/Horizon story broke to the public. I remember reading this and being horrified...
Well done Computer Weekly for sticking with the Post Office/Horizon issue, but it's a mystery to me why, more than 15 years since the story broke, (nearly 25 years since the problems began) and more than 700 unnecessary prosecutions, it took an ITV drama series to actually get the public enraged...
January 9, 2024 at 1:40 PM
Well done Computer Weekly for sticking with the Post Office/Horizon issue, but it's a mystery to me why, more than 15 years since the story broke, (nearly 25 years since the problems began) and more than 700 unnecessary prosecutions, it took an ITV drama series to actually get the public enraged...
My vote for most irritating TV advert of the year goes to the EE advert with the woman picking up her phone in the most ridiculous places and going "aaah".
Second is tied betweenthe Amazon advert with the old ladies sledging and Kevin the f***ing carrot.
Any other candidates?
Second is tied betweenthe Amazon advert with the old ladies sledging and Kevin the f***ing carrot.
Any other candidates?
December 19, 2023 at 10:31 AM
My vote for most irritating TV advert of the year goes to the EE advert with the woman picking up her phone in the most ridiculous places and going "aaah".
Second is tied betweenthe Amazon advert with the old ladies sledging and Kevin the f***ing carrot.
Any other candidates?
Second is tied betweenthe Amazon advert with the old ladies sledging and Kevin the f***ing carrot.
Any other candidates?