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New neighbours are playing bongos in the garden. Haven't had bongo neighbours for a very long time. Bongo player eradication was the one aspect of Brighton's relentless gentrification I could get on board with.

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On day 18 of post-concussion syndrome, and it's no joke. I am tired and foggy and I miss my old brain.

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Downloaded the Instagram app for the first time in years and can someone tell me how the fuck it knows to serve me reels about Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, the scholar, theorist and critic who I wrote about in my MA dissertation c18 years ago? These algorithms are wild.

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Managed to give myself a mild concussion over the weekend by banging my head on a shelf. Took the last couple of days off work, and easing my way back in today. I'm slower than usual, and everything feels slightly unreal.

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News from the woods: it's a bumper year for wild strawberry plants. I have never seen this many before. Hoping I'll actually get some fruit this year🤞

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On my way to London to meet new clients for the first time. Am nervous. In the phase where I feel like I'm never going to be able to wrap my head around all the complexity.

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Sending my monthly laundry list of grievances to my MP who I know doesn’t give a shit about any of it 👍

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Trying to exit my extended creative hiatus by making zines

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Starting a content audit for an archaeology-related org, so I get to watch feature-length videos abut bronze age hoards and such, and I honestly couldn't be happier about it.

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Doing some diary studies with a content team as part of a discovery process, and I am so nerdily excited about it. This isn't a method I've used before.

submitted 58 days ago • 1 comment

Belated #weeknotes post inwhich I'm thinking about meetings and time lapope.com/2025/04/22/m...

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Dilemma: Send a report that's a bit scrappy but basically solid because I've already massively gone over the allocated time for the project? OR Exhaust myself trying to make it perfect and give the client even more value?

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The Supreme Court ignored trans voices, harming trans people – and the fairness of its ruling. I’m ashamed of what our law has become, says @jolyonmaugham.bsky.social 💬 goodlaw.social/83qa

submitted 66 days ago • 19 comments

@lauracarreira.bsky.social What an incredible, impactful film. It will stay with me.

submitted 67 days ago • 1 comment

Just realised I can put gifs into my Mural boards. Pity my poor clients and pray to the old gods that I can learn restraint.

submitted 67 days ago • 2 comments

Just went to see On Falling, the story of a woman working as a picker in a not-Amazon warehouse. I found it pretty devastating (I haven't cried at a film since Aftersun) and I would definitely recommend it www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

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Because I hate myself and don't feel I deserve happiness, I've started my week by trying to fix my printer.

submitted 69 days ago • 1 comment

Some absolute scumbag has frauded my business account and gone on a spending spree consisting of: Argos, Roblox, and a shitty pub in Milton Keynes 👍 At least use my hard earned money on something good.

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Dog has woken up with some kind of demon inside her. She put her paws all over a tray of chocolate and almond croissants while I was buying bread from a bakery. Then she tried to push me down some stairs. Afraid to turn my back on her now.

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My accountancy software company sent out its (extremely weak) April Fools email a day late. Please allow me an elder millennial gif moment.

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Last week's #weeknotes: evaluating, consulting, and technofeudalism lapope.com/2025/03/31/e...

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I saw two hares playing an epic game of chase this morning while I was walking the dog. I stood and watched them for ages, and I think it's porbably going to be the highlight of my whole week.

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They're digging up the road c.4m away from my desk and apparently it's going to take 2-3 weeks. I think this might be the thing that breaks me.

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This #weeknotes post got so long that I turned it into the March edition of my 10 Things email. It’s a case study about the process of developing a new information architecture (IA) for my website lapope.com/2025/03/24/a...

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My MacBook Pro is reaching the end of its life. I've been thinking about replacing it with an iMac and an iPad. Anyone got thoughts/experience to offer?

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Video description: Tilda, a scruffy black poodle eating a prawn cracker bite by bite. Volume on for the ASMR. (This is a one in a blue moon treat btw, not her daily diet.)

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