Sarah Mount
@snim2.org
Service Lead at dxw | author | Software Sustainability Institute Fellow | recovering academic
Lots to say about the new #RunningMan but the poster saying "Christ the Redeemer condemns you to Hell" is a great signifier of a society whose purported and actual values have come to oppose one another
November 24, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Lots to say about the new #RunningMan but the poster saying "Christ the Redeemer condemns you to Hell" is a great signifier of a society whose purported and actual values have come to oppose one another
The cheaper train line near me has new rolling stock and I am alarmingly excited about it
November 24, 2025 at 12:32 PM
The cheaper train line near me has new rolling stock and I am alarmingly excited about it
OH at BM&G: "St Andrew looks like you 40 years ago"
November 22, 2025 at 1:45 PM
OH at BM&G: "St Andrew looks like you 40 years ago"
No need for government health dashboards, Deliveroo now has a "Cold and flu" section that pops into existence at times like these
November 21, 2025 at 7:56 PM
No need for government health dashboards, Deliveroo now has a "Cold and flu" section that pops into existence at times like these
Really liking the #MrMercedes soundtracks
November 19, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Really liking the #MrMercedes soundtracks
Reposted by Sarah Mount
During this cloudflare outage, let me supply you with this wisdom of the ages: “single point of failure” can be sung to the tune of “all the single ladies”
November 18, 2025 at 1:43 PM
During this cloudflare outage, let me supply you with this wisdom of the ages: “single point of failure” can be sung to the tune of “all the single ladies”
Reposted by Sarah Mount
There's just 1 week to go until we’ll be gathering in Birmingham for UKCharityCamp 2025, and we can't wait to see you there.
If you know a colleague that doesn’t yet have their ticket, the very last few are available here tr.ee/QCAnUecTXn
If you know a colleague that doesn’t yet have their ticket, the very last few are available here tr.ee/QCAnUecTXn
November 6, 2025 at 12:02 PM
There's just 1 week to go until we’ll be gathering in Birmingham for UKCharityCamp 2025, and we can't wait to see you there.
If you know a colleague that doesn’t yet have their ticket, the very last few are available here tr.ee/QCAnUecTXn
If you know a colleague that doesn’t yet have their ticket, the very last few are available here tr.ee/QCAnUecTXn
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Since 2023, 38 students have graduated from Bantshire University in error. We are conducting a full investigation into how this happened.
November 8, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Since 2023, 38 students have graduated from Bantshire University in error. We are conducting a full investigation into how this happened.
Reposted by Sarah Mount
Thank you @dxw.com for sponsoring UKGovCamp2026. Your support means a lot to us!
For registration and sponsorship enquiries, please visit: www.ukgovcamp.com
For registration and sponsorship enquiries, please visit: www.ukgovcamp.com
UK Gov Camp
#ukgc26 is on 17 January 2026 at Birmingham City Council House.
www.ukgovcamp.com
October 28, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Thank you @dxw.com for sponsoring UKGovCamp2026. Your support means a lot to us!
For registration and sponsorship enquiries, please visit: www.ukgovcamp.com
For registration and sponsorship enquiries, please visit: www.ukgovcamp.com
Really bizarre door to door salesmen came round and opened by reassuring my partner that "we're not as daft as YOU look".
Will be spending the next week attempting to quantify daftness.
Will be spending the next week attempting to quantify daftness.
October 22, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Really bizarre door to door salesmen came round and opened by reassuring my partner that "we're not as daft as YOU look".
Will be spending the next week attempting to quantify daftness.
Will be spending the next week attempting to quantify daftness.
Satisfying to see that the (current) top comment on HN about the Waymo DOS is to complain about people calling it a DDOS news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4556...
October 20, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Satisfying to see that the (current) top comment on HN about the Waymo DOS is to complain about people calling it a DDOS news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4556...
Entertaining start to the day when it took about 10mins to start a speculative incident presumably because every customer of the incident management tool we use was doing the exact same thing
October 20, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Entertaining start to the day when it took about 10mins to start a speculative incident presumably because every customer of the incident management tool we use was doing the exact same thing
Discovered today that the local café has a little dog called Timmie
October 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Discovered today that the local café has a little dog called Timmie
Spectacular work
This morning my ChatGPT quota was inexplicably exhausted.
It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed.
The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.
It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed.
The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.
October 18, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Spectacular work
"She's gone dark"
"Banville often goes dark"
"Not like this: she's in Birmingham"
Harsh words there from this Netflix thing I'm watching
"Banville often goes dark"
"Not like this: she's in Birmingham"
Harsh words there from this Netflix thing I'm watching
October 14, 2025 at 10:57 PM
"She's gone dark"
"Banville often goes dark"
"Not like this: she's in Birmingham"
Harsh words there from this Netflix thing I'm watching
"Banville often goes dark"
"Not like this: she's in Birmingham"
Harsh words there from this Netflix thing I'm watching
Absolutely love this
Say hello to literally the only protesters outside Tory conference this year
October 6, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Absolutely love this
One day you're young and the next thing you know you're listening to Landslide without irony
September 29, 2025 at 10:05 AM
One day you're young and the next thing you know you're listening to Landslide without irony
"grave breach of ... semantic decorum" sounds like a fantastic comment for a pull request
September 27, 2025 at 12:25 PM
"grave breach of ... semantic decorum" sounds like a fantastic comment for a pull request
I'm not normally bothered by vaccines but this lasted Covid one is proper brutal
September 27, 2025 at 11:04 AM
I'm not normally bothered by vaccines but this lasted Covid one is proper brutal
Expect this will be the first and only time I guess right first time on Tradle
#Tradle #1299 1/6
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#Tradle #1299 1/6
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Tradle | OEC Games | The Observatory of Economic Complexity
Became an instant classic, guess the country based on an export distribution | Have fun with OEC Data
oec.world
September 25, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Expect this will be the first and only time I guess right first time on Tradle
#Tradle #1299 1/6
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oec.world/en/games/tra...
#Tradle #1299 1/6
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oec.world/en/games/tra...
Saw someone on Twitter refer to leftists as "the bed wetting Leftwaffe", which I guess is aimed at people like me, but I can't help but admire the insult.
September 23, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Saw someone on Twitter refer to leftists as "the bed wetting Leftwaffe", which I guess is aimed at people like me, but I can't help but admire the insult.
Reposted by Sarah Mount
September 22, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I wonder how many #TheArchers listeners will be debating poor Alan's minor heresy at Bible study after that episode
September 22, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I wonder how many #TheArchers listeners will be debating poor Alan's minor heresy at Bible study after that episode
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“I’ve updated my WordPress site, but no-one can see my changes – what went wrong?”
Sarah has the answer! Now on the blog, GovPress Service Lead Sarah talks about caching, and why it’s important for making sure dynamic sites stay functional.
Read here 👉 www.dxw.com/2025/08/why-...
Sarah has the answer! Now on the blog, GovPress Service Lead Sarah talks about caching, and why it’s important for making sure dynamic sites stay functional.
Read here 👉 www.dxw.com/2025/08/why-...
Why won’t my site update? A story in data
Updated your WordPress site but don’t see the changes? it’s likely due to caching a feature that helps sites stay fast and reliable. Sarah's post uses real data to explain how caching works, why it ma...
www.dxw.com
August 8, 2025 at 9:03 AM
“I’ve updated my WordPress site, but no-one can see my changes – what went wrong?”
Sarah has the answer! Now on the blog, GovPress Service Lead Sarah talks about caching, and why it’s important for making sure dynamic sites stay functional.
Read here 👉 www.dxw.com/2025/08/why-...
Sarah has the answer! Now on the blog, GovPress Service Lead Sarah talks about caching, and why it’s important for making sure dynamic sites stay functional.
Read here 👉 www.dxw.com/2025/08/why-...