Posts by Lewis Westbury πππ±
Every night I put on my audio book to fall asleep. It has a sleep timer so it doesn't just go on forever. Every morning I wake up and rewind to the last thing I remember.
I'd pay good money for a device that knows when I lost the plot! (sic)
#Neurotech #SleepTech #Insomnia #Brainwaves #Sleep
New album cover just dropped.
LONDON #NoKings
I'm a little bit in love with useReducer. Jury's still out on React. Can you love a feature by itself?
A screenshot from the Great British Spring Clean website, sporting the Keep Britain Tidy logo. The Great British Spring Clean is the nation's biggest mass-action environmental campaign. Each year, more than 400,000 volunteers clear litter from our streets, parks and benches.
I am of an age now where I'm gonna do this and I'm gonna love it. (...and sorry for all those lost years when I didn't!)
π www.keepbritaintidy.org/our-work/eli...
#ElderMillenial
Learning a new skill... What do you call the first and second peaks in confidence?
First peak: I might be good at this!
Second peak: Ohhh... Those are all the things I did wrong. Ok, now I'm good at this!
From your experience, how many peaks are there on the way to mastery?
DAE see Google Calendar consistently creating events with an out-by-one error?
Momo, a little black cat, lies on a box facing you and your heart just melted.
(For clarity) Yes it's GenAI, but he isn't. Here he is looking particularly handsome.
A sleepy black cat lies curled up fast asleep with a weather-beaten wizard hat on his head.
My little wizard.
Windows can use nearby Android phones as the video camera and microphone, but only if they're on, connected, have permission, are nearby, in good signal, and stay that way... It's the end of level boss for video calling apps.
Windows 11 Phone Link is making my video calling webapp sad and I would like to disable it on your laptop please.
Graphic of some ducks in a pond with text asking the question "Are some already doing this?"
How long before vibe coding solutions start injecting and obfuscating their own telemetry?
Foolish Samurai! (Love it.)
3 texts from Pets at Home. The first stating that there has been an incident at the Harlow Store and that the order will be moved to Hertford. The second saying that the message was sent in error and everything is fine. The third saying that the store has closed with immediate effect!
Are Pets at Home ok? π«£
A graph of elevation for a cycling journey. It's flat for 90% of the journey, and the last part is a large spike where elevation goes up a lot before coming down again.
Why can't I cycle around the "mountain"?
SUKIMO #TADCFriend
Reform UK's Tom Pickup, has been suspended by the party after posting in a far-right Whatsapp group where other members posted calls for Keir Starmer to be shot.
Don't just like it, share it.
national.thelead.uk/p/reform-wat...
Hopeful Technologists! You have email! buttondown.com/society-of-h... Go check your inboxes if you haven't already
βNew technologies will come along to save the environment.β What they said versus where we are:
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
The cover art for Sam & Max, the Devil's Playhouse. A point and click adventure. Sam, a large dog in a suit, runs towards the screen holding a gun. His colleague, Max, a kinetic rabbity thing with sharp teeth is beside him.
Jax from The Amazing Digital Circus, also a kinetic rabbity thing (although a little more purple and his teeth aren't so sharp, I guess) stands grinning at you from inside the circus tent. Behind him are some crudely rendered building blocks in glaring colours and the floor is a checker pattern. It's all very glaring and bright.
I can't not see Jax as Max. #TADC
A montage portrait of science fiction author N.K. Jemisin. On the left, she appears in a close-up photo with long, dark braided hair, wearing earrings, a delicate necklace with a pendant, a deep maroon sweater, and a shimmering green scarf draped around her neck. She has a calm, confident expression and gazes directly at the camera against a softly blurred dark background. To the right are three stacked book covers of her works. Top: The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth trilogy), with a dark, textured design and metallic title. Middle: The Obelisk Gate, featuring an intricate, glowing red-and-purple circular mandala-like emblem. Bottom: The Stone Sky, showing a dramatic stormy sky with a massive floating obelisk. The overall composition highlights the author alongside prominent covers from her award-winning Broken Earth series.
N.K. Jemisin's Broken Earth series made her the first Black author to win the Hugo Award for Best Novel. She is the first author to win in 3 consecutive years & the first to win for all 3 novels in a trilogy. Recipient MacArthur Genius Grant, 2020.
#ScienceFictionDay #ScienceFantasy #scifi #booksky
TIL: Before Hans Asperger or Leo Kanner, a Jewish-Ukrainian psychiatrist named Grunya Sukhareva defined autism in 1925. Both men did not cite her work. She also had documented how it affected women and girls, where the men did not.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grunya_...
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A timely reminder: The terrifying rise of racism in modern Britain
The defeat of fascism was our nationβs triumph, so what has caused such a drastic shift in the modern era?
@leftwithnoparty.bsky.social @sussexbylines.co.uk
Screenshot of the docs page on hosting.404nerds.com - it shows "error: not found"
Sorry to report that your documentation is down at the moment.
Philomena Cunk speaking truth to power...
www.crisis.org.uk/get-involved... π
For Β£5/hr I will text you every 5 minutes and ask if you still know which pocket your passport is in.