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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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21 years since launching TheyWorkForYou.com! Congrats to @mysociety.org for doing the actual hard work of keeping it going and making it better. I can only apologise for my original code. www.gyford.com/phil/writing...

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Is there a name for the paradox whereby any service that subsequently asks for a feedback score is automatically deserving of a 0, no matter how good the original service?

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

I hadn't noticed any articles in the Guardian about it this week, but today the Observer is no longer there. Not sure what to do about guardian.gyford.com on Sundays now.

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

If you want to search Google, and like the way tenbluelinks.org’s instructions let you avoid the AI summary, but you use Safari, I made a bookmarklet that should help https://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2025/04/26/google-without-ai-safari/

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

@genmon.fyi Happy Easter 0 or 1!

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

You can now follow @ooh.directory here on Bluesky for updates about my directory of blogs, ooh.directory

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

You never know… My Dad left behind piles of old journals (see image). It would be a shame to recycle them all so if you want any, or know anyone or any place that might, please let me know. Feel free to pass this on.

submitted 60 days ago • 5 comments

The WhatsApp AI refuses to be shut down. I’ll have to call, or become, Sam Slade, Robo-Hunter.

submitted 71 days ago • 1 comment

Yeah, any lingering patience I had has gone. Using an LLM trained on copyright material to help you in some way? Get in the sea, as we used to say in a more innocent time. I do. not. care. how you justify it to yourself any more.

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment

I’m going to give in another try. Anyone care to help me?

submitted 81 days ago • 3 comments

It's even more alarming than it's previously been that much of the UK is reliant on US social media to function (and chat). Someone should come up with the idea of a UK "digital public space"... oh look @tonyageh.bsky.social did! e.g. www.opendemocracy.net/en/ourbeeb/b...

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

Just discovered by visiting ooh.directory myself that my own blog (www.gyford.com) is 25 years old today!

submitted 84 days ago • 3 comments

All those "If time travel was real I'd totally go back and kill Hitler" people have gone very quiet.

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

Glad that I, unusually, had a couple of pints before reading the news. Recommended. For a few years, at least. 🍻

submitted 99 days ago • 2 comments

Age yourself with a film you saw in the cinema

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

Great short 2023 essay by @harikunzru.bsky.social tracing the dots between tech-libertarian and market-extremist plans to escape the state and exit democracy, touching on his own past at Wired and Mute Mag and how they dealt with "The Californian Ideology" back in 1995: harpers.org/archive/2023...

submitted 111 days ago • 4 comments

I've been using this for a while and it seems nice, for showing what music you're listening to, finding new music, etc record.club

submitted 115 days ago • 0 comments

Help save the Prince Charles Cinema! 🖋🙏 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

submitted 130 days ago • 2 comments