Simon Hendy
@simonhendy.bsky.social
Bristol, UK
📷 Enthusiast photographer (including film)
🏉 Northampton Saints fan
🍷 Wannabe foodie and wine snob
🏹 Archerist
🍑 Naturist
🚲 Theoretical cyclist
Sometimes I combine various of these activities.
📷 Enthusiast photographer (including film)
🏉 Northampton Saints fan
🍷 Wannabe foodie and wine snob
🏹 Archerist
🍑 Naturist
🚲 Theoretical cyclist
Sometimes I combine various of these activities.
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Simon Hendy
@simonhendy.bsky.social
· Apr 3
I'm going to experiment with a Substack blog in place of the underused blogs on my main website - let's see how it goes.
This first post is about how my dad's photos have been used in disinformation in Spain, and how Spanish media organisations are fact-checking it.
open.substack.com/pub/simonhen...
This first post is about how my dad's photos have been used in disinformation in Spain, and how Spanish media organisations are fact-checking it.
open.substack.com/pub/simonhen...
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The bloody neighbours have gone out and left John Cage’s 4’33 on full blast again.
November 15, 2025 at 8:36 AM
The bloody neighbours have gone out and left John Cage’s 4’33 on full blast again.
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November 14, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Look, I know that fast fashion is terrible and I try to buy nothing new and repair what I have whenever possible. But my normal resistance to Temu ads is utterly undone by this objectively incredible item
November 11, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Look, I know that fast fashion is terrible and I try to buy nothing new and repair what I have whenever possible. But my normal resistance to Temu ads is utterly undone by this objectively incredible item
I have just seen a van advertising a "wedding day pet chaperone" service
November 10, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I have just seen a van advertising a "wedding day pet chaperone" service
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WORD OF THE DAY.
Excellent.
To give up spreadsheets for forty days.
Excellent.
To give up spreadsheets for forty days.
November 9, 2025 at 4:17 PM
WORD OF THE DAY.
Excellent.
To give up spreadsheets for forty days.
Excellent.
To give up spreadsheets for forty days.
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Floella Benjamin for DG.
November 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Floella Benjamin for DG.
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I prefer the singular possessive, "Oh, for fuck's sake." It just sounds more professional.
November 7, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I prefer the singular possessive, "Oh, for fuck's sake." It just sounds more professional.
Wordle 1,603 1/6
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That is all.
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That is all.
November 8, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Wordle 1,603 1/6
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That is all.
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Absolute peak enshittification, here. Unbelievable. "We've decided to hide the standard functionality of our previous product – you know, the thing you depend on – and put it in a drop-down menu that you're unlikely to find"
This is in no way apologism for Google but click Search Tools and select "Verbatim". It makes it work how you expect
November 7, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Absolute peak enshittification, here. Unbelievable. "We've decided to hide the standard functionality of our previous product – you know, the thing you depend on – and put it in a drop-down menu that you're unlikely to find"
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![Comic. PERSON 1 with white hat: How tall are you? PERSON 2: 5ft 24cm [caption] When switching to metric, make the process easier by doing it in steps.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreifptvo6h6kdpf75j3i443ospzumiii7a3pblah2urjrawmyymh3ga@jpeg)
November 6, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.
November 5, 2025 at 7:10 AM
If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.
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As always on this day: Remember, Remember the 5th of November, Cuthbert, Dibble and Grubb.
November 5, 2025 at 9:36 AM
As always on this day: Remember, Remember the 5th of November, Cuthbert, Dibble and Grubb.
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WALL OF THORNS: On the west coast of Scotland, facing out across the Firth of Clyde towards the Isle of Arran, stands the only functioning salt-making tower in the world. @countrylifemag.bsky.social
'One of the most amazing things in terms of food in this country' — How a tower of thorns makes salt
Made with wind, sea and thorns on the wild west coast of Scotland, Blackthorn Salt brings surprising health benefits, as well as being a unique example of sustainable craftsmanship.
www.countrylife.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 4:44 PM
WALL OF THORNS: On the west coast of Scotland, facing out across the Firth of Clyde towards the Isle of Arran, stands the only functioning salt-making tower in the world. @countrylifemag.bsky.social
A good #archery session today - a Portsmouth score of 482/600, which I think is my equal second best ever.
Key learning was slowing down a little, which paid immediate dividends.
Key learning was slowing down a little, which paid immediate dividends.
November 2, 2025 at 7:05 PM
A good #archery session today - a Portsmouth score of 482/600, which I think is my equal second best ever.
Key learning was slowing down a little, which paid immediate dividends.
Key learning was slowing down a little, which paid immediate dividends.
Beef Carbonnade tonight, with a decadently rich (Joel Robuchon-stylee) mash.
We used Mort Subite beer in it.
We used Mort Subite beer in it.
November 1, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Beef Carbonnade tonight, with a decadently rich (Joel Robuchon-stylee) mash.
We used Mort Subite beer in it.
We used Mort Subite beer in it.
I have just entered my first archery competition - a Portsmouth round, in December. 🏹🎯
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November 1, 2025 at 11:37 AM
I have just entered my first archery competition - a Portsmouth round, in December. 🏹🎯
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That feeling when your smoke alarm goes off in the middle of the night for no apparent reason...
It's done it before, I think we need to get a new one.
It's done it before, I think we need to get a new one.
October 31, 2025 at 7:47 AM
That feeling when your smoke alarm goes off in the middle of the night for no apparent reason...
It's done it before, I think we need to get a new one.
It's done it before, I think we need to get a new one.
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October 29, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Top of the Pops (29th October 1981). Altered Images open the show with 'Happy Birthday'.
October 29, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Top of the Pops (29th October 1981). Altered Images open the show with 'Happy Birthday'.
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Just remembered something rather touching about "Asterix in Belgium". Goscinny died halfway through work on it, so for the rest of the book, to mark the exact point of his passing, Uderzo has drawn either rain, or darkened, lowering skies into pretty much every panel.
October 29, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Just remembered something rather touching about "Asterix in Belgium". Goscinny died halfway through work on it, so for the rest of the book, to mark the exact point of his passing, Uderzo has drawn either rain, or darkened, lowering skies into pretty much every panel.
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Paul Hamilton's 1968 Battleship Building up against London's Westway. Was a British Rail depot, now offices
October 29, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Paul Hamilton's 1968 Battleship Building up against London's Westway. Was a British Rail depot, now offices
I heard a new phrase today, from a Glaswegian colleague - he said that something "rips my knitting" 😆
October 28, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I heard a new phrase today, from a Glaswegian colleague - he said that something "rips my knitting" 😆
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In German, there is an expression for a thing, an item or an person that is the solution to all your problems, which has only pros and no cons, a remedy to all your needs, the so-called "eierlegende Wollmilchsau", which means "egg-laying woolmilksow". 😁
October 28, 2025 at 1:35 AM
In German, there is an expression for a thing, an item or an person that is the solution to all your problems, which has only pros and no cons, a remedy to all your needs, the so-called "eierlegende Wollmilchsau", which means "egg-laying woolmilksow". 😁