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Designer at ??? / Smallholder. Bees, chooks and views my own 😬 @paulpod on Birdsite 🄹 and, music @terroristemailserver on insta.
London and South Wales. Am on this generic instance for now, but will maybe move if I find one with a more appropriate local theme - #synths #electronicmusic #design #cabins something like that?
Websitehttp://sp1.me
Musichttps://www.instagram.com/terroristemailserver/
The exodus from TwitX to Bluesky looks like it’s been successful, friends.
Updating all the bios, after 4 years last day at the NHS. It’s been a rollercoaster, a global pandemic, population wide mental health crisis and a crushing ā€œmergerā€ and all through it an amazing team. SO good.
(although not really on Mastodon, not to my taste personally)

The genius of Chiles is that after weeks of fluff he drops a stone cold banger. This is the banger.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/31/what-i-learned-from-a-freezing-night-in-ae-with-my-dad

What I learned from a freezing night in A&E with my dad

After my father took a tumble and broke his shoulder, we endured a long wait in a hectic hospital. But it was when he was discharged that the real problems began, writes Adrian Chiles

The Guardian
Finally had to update my phones Instagram app. It’s a years old version, dreading what ā€œimprovementsā€ have been layered onto it, but it’s my one real guilty pleasure.
@youarenowentering inexplicably pronounced ’swan’ by locals
I’m designing dark mode for a thing, unscientific but do you prefer your background…
Black black
0%
Almost black
63.6%
Dark
36.4%
Poll ended at .
Every autumn I am shunned by my friends and neighbours. But I think I’ve finally broken the curse

Year after year, I struggle to give away an enormous crop of scarred, worm-eaten apples – while everyone else struggles to avoid them

The Guardian

You are making a big mistake -- or don't care at all about your online privacy -- if you're still using Chrome after this. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/googles-widely-opposed-ad-platform-the-privacy-sandbox-launches-in-chrome/

(Edited...)

Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome

Chrome now directly tracks users, generates a ā€œtopicā€ list it shares with advertisers.

Ars Technica
UK pulls back from clash with Big Tech over private messaging

Ministers will not immediately enforce online safety bill powers to scan apps after WhatsApp threatened shutdown

Financial Times
Pretty wild the national gov forced through an air quality vehicle charge on the capital city as part of subsidy for public transport during Covid and then turns it into a culture war issue to win votes.