phil.gyford.com
More active on Mastodon, because it's closer to what we need.
At https://www.gyford.com
In Herefordshire, UK.
Also runs @samuelpepys.bsky.social and @ooh.directory
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This Farming Life on iplayer is our go-to for pleasant, calming viewing. Nice families, nice animals, nice scenery, does not make me ever want to be a farmer.
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UK Netflix needs to go do a show like Adolescence about Mumsnet.
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The site's meta preview image is a bit much isn't it.
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Thanks, but I like them to be "now". And if I used old time stamps, what would happen the next cycle around with the same dates?
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Yeah, I was thinking about that as an option, thanks. I've seen you can post them a box of stuff they don't already have to a UK address.
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Thanks! I’m contacting a few places in the UK first, because that’s where I and the journals are.
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Thanks Evan!
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That's very helpful, thank you!
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That would be great, thanks! I hadn't heard of the latter but I'm also trying to find a home for this collection of 20th century left/Labour pamphlets, in case that's their kind of thing? www.flickr.com/photos/philg...
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I did find alternatives-in.uk but it's oddly focused on alternatives to specific products and the few I tried had nothing listed 🤷♂️
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I just came across european-alternatives.eu which lists lots of European services in various categories. Hope that's useful!
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I doubt there’s any one company that provides all of AWS’s many services in the EU. So it depends which services you need. But I only use S3 (which I hope to leave soon) so I’m not the most knowledgeable person to ask.
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While I'm at it, fuck you too if you're still posting to X, or using Amazon where there's any alternative at all, for example. Up against the wall.
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The photographer is AI (but the video of it is real) www.404media.co/pikachu-spot...
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It’s always the same. My note taking is very simple so moving to a new app is pretty hassle free but I realise it’s not the same for everyone.
Obsidian can be a rabbit hole of customisations and plugins and life optimisations if you let it. But it is good.
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I know you didn’t ask for alternatives but help.obsidian.md/import/evern... (no twinkly stars in Obsidian)
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Same here!
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Ha, thanks! Every so often that pops up and I think it's so odd ending up randomly on that old screenshot. And also wish I'd been saying something really clever instead.
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👋 You’ve lost weight
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Used bookshops are mostly small and scattered around but Skoob Books under the Brunswick Centre is good.
London Graphic Centre in Covent Garden has lots of pens, notebooks, etc but there may be smaller, more specialist places I know nothing about.
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For new books, Foyle's on Charing Cross Road is the big one and the London Review Bookshop not far away on Bury Place is a nice smaller one. I've never been to Hatchard's, to my shame.
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The BBC has many problems and anything like this would also have many problems and not solve everything. But *maybe* we would then have a UK thing for all people to be on or in, free from US commercial and political whims. Which are ever more whimmy.
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When my blog was roughly 20 years old I wrote this post trying to capture what blogging was like in 2000 www.gyford.com/phil/writing...
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Same. And coming up with theories about the use of them in different places/times, which is probably OTT.
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But imagine the dusting required!
In lieu of servants maybe you'd need domestic robots, or dust-eating microbes.
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I often think of the similes that have to be performed in Mieville's 'Embassytown'. e.g. no one could think, "We're all trying to find the guy who did this," before a man dressed as a hot dog.
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Yeah. We could get a much better price if we switched provider, but we'd have to get a new tank. Current tank position wouldn't be allowed and there's nowhere else we could easily site a new one. Hence pondering heat pumps.
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Oh no, sorry to hear that.
I've been listening to our LPG heating working continuously for the past couple of days, just about staying at 19C eventually, and wondering if, despite my optimism, a heat pump could manage it.
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Oh no, what a pain. Hope it all gets sorted out swiftly.
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We're still eating last year's apples from our garden, ones kept in the fridge. A bit past their best - I assume the pros can manage this better - but OK.
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Excellent!
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And when I say "collaborators" I don't mean "people I've worked with".