Make jokes about rubber dinghies and £45k to sneak (back?) into the UK I will unfriend/block you
The Home Office just made ICE a thing that British do now with new laws, including forcibly restraining children. It isn’t even £45k. It is £10k per person up to a max of £40k. This is going to backfire
“You have rope, can opener, loaf of bread, matches and putty. Demonstrate how these can be used to commit the perfect murder. Bonuses awarded if victim is a member of the aristocracy, but marks deducted for every clue left at scene. You have 45 mins.”
Source:
www.dailymail.co.uk/tv/article-1...
Want £5 off at Analogue Wonderland for your film needs? I think you need to spend a certain amount, but a fiver is a fiver
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Well, that’s THAT then…
www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/12/04/a...
Reminds me of my days peer reviewing journals and conference papers, even plagiarism/integrity focused ones, sadly.
Pinching
Cuddle Cwtch 1st of the month!!!
Because punching and punching are not ok
Public service announcement
You have just over a week to update #win10 to #win11 (free but only for some PCs) or get the extended security updates (Paid for,but only for a year).
If you need to run Windows 10 also get a USB drive so you can reinstall it if it breaks
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Hate working in your current job? The Guardian thinks it's not them, it's you:
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You can thank me later
#YouTube TV showing the old options
#enshitification variable
#enshitification #youtube
Removing options and pushing Premium…
There used to be options for .25, .5 and 1.75 (my favourite sweet spot)
Now there’s just another ad
:-(
ksit (n)
/ˈksɪt/
A list of things that control a person’s fate (kismet)
…they use ChatGPT to write replies to colleagues
…they respond to emails within three days
In homage to the “That’s not my <insert animal/person>” books, I’d like the Bluesky community to consider…
“That’s not my Head of Department…”
and make suggestions in the comments. I’ve added a couple to start
(Note: this is a satirical exercise aimed at emphasising good/bad practice. Have fun!)
Is the seer who oversees the seer who oversees the seers an overseer overseer?
I have been thanked for my professionalism more times this year than in my whole professional career (31+ years). I’m beginning to think this actually is a way of saying “Please forgive me/us for our unprofessionalism.”
Ditto “Understanding and patience…”
Another issue was just how curly the paper was after a year in the can!
So, the developer got pretty muddy quite quickly. It might explain the discolouration of the left hand picture, which was done second. This is pretty cheap, so I suspect it’s mix, use, and discard
Wash for 20s
Stop bath (standard for prints) for 20s
Wash for 20s
Fix (standard print fixer) for 1-2 minutes
Wash for 1 minute
Dab off excess water and leave to dry
Both these were year long exposures. I’ll update with how well they stand up over the next few weeks
2/2
Solargraph Developer:
200ml water
6g Sodium Carbonate
16g Sodium Bicarbonate
Develop for 1-2 minutes. Make sure it’s properly coated/covered; the one on the left wasn’t as well done, judging from the corners.
1/2
Your morning cartoon:
I have a developer recipe! It’s experimental, but I’ll report back how well it goes
* or northern sky in the southern hemisphere. Or directly overhead if you are on the Equator!
Solargraphs - year long pinhole camera exposures showing the track of the Sun through the southern* sky - are cool. About to see if I can actually develop and fix them; normally you can only scan the latent image with a scanner. Wish me luck!
Thinj (v):
/θɪndʒ/
To ponder in a vague manner on the fringes of consciousness
Hey INTERNET please restore the ability for us to turn off GenAI in our use of technology. GenAI is utterly shit, a massive cost to the environment, and utterly shit.
