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Also on the feeders this morning: wood pigeon, blackbirds, jackdaws, bullfinch family, tits (blue, great and coal), greenfinch, and - my personal favourite - a nuthatch. The local pheasant has now turned up to chase the jackdaws and behave like a sort of flamboyant Roomba.
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Some months ago now I decided to make an effort not to tweet things that would add to the general level of anxiety and despair on the timeline.
Today, all I have to say is that I have seen a dunnock in our new garden for the first time. It was small and very pleasingly round.
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What I’d like is ideally:
- OmniFocus’ duration, deferral, review & perspective systems
- Todoist’s ease of entry, cross-platform nature & colour-based styling
- Things’ understanding of what mornings are
I’ve ended up in Remember The Milk, which mostly works, but I miss OF.
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Once again I’m futzing with my todo system and I find myself asking the question: is there any way to make OmniFocus usable on the web in the year of our lord 2022?
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he has discovered that he gets attention if he pretends to be crochet
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also, from my childhood, this lovely book of traditional fairy tales in which a surprising number of children get eaten
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for instance: I had forgotten I owned this Monty Python tie-in book, which includes - among many other things - a short piece of hard boiled noir fiction where the main character is Descartes, which becomes a wallpaper sales book about four pages in
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unpacking the book boxes is the best part of moving
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IMPORTANT: Many reporting the new price cap is £3,549/yr. That is not correct.
1. There is no actual cap on the max you can pay.
2. What's capped is standing charges and unit rates (i'll publish em shortly)
3. £3,549 is the cap for those on average use, Direct Debit, Dual fuel.
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things I have tried to explain to increasingly perplexed moving lads today:
- the worm colony
- succulents
- the 2006 Nerf Longshot CS-6 & its relevance to our wedding
- podcasting
- the small pile of miscellaneous buttons that go BAAAP BAAAP which keeps in his cupboard
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In news that is both a long time coming and also very sudden, we’re moving to Sheffield at the end of this week. Does anyone have suggestions about how to transport a thriving worm colony for several hours on a train?
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For the second time tonight has astounded me - with a “make your own ScotRail beats” generator
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If you're still awake, and you enjoyed this, and you like low-fi ambient beats to relax/study to, and you like trains, and you like Scotland, then you might like
matteason.co.uk/scotbeats/
Relax to Scottish train announcements over low-fi beats or whatever YouTube music you want
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(the most pleasing part of this process was when, having worked out that they had two accounts, I managed to coach them through finding themselves, making friends with themselves and accepting themselves)
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anecdotal signs of Meta decline: I’ve moved on from helping ageing parent to sign up for Facebook, to working out why they have two accounts (“why do I have different pictures on my phone and on the computer?”), to talking them through how to delete both accounts completely
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One Welsh town offers a window on to the catastrophe facing Britain. But where are the politicians? Today’s column
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Untitled, Cat Sitter (2022)
- Glass, foil, organic materials
This experimental piece toys with the idea of preservation - in freezing the milk to deny it the opportunity to rot, it has been imbued with an energy that goes so far as the destroy its container.
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Bundle of Holding has two sales on the lovely Legacy: Life Among The Ruins system - one dealing with the core system and some expansions (bundleofholding.com/presents/Legac) and the other with a bunch of other expansions, including gothic-horror Rhapsody of Blood (bundleofholding.com/presents/2ndLe)
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Numbers of ppl coming to Citizens Advice for crisis support (e.g. foodbank referrals - cumulative for year):
June 2019 - 39,999
June 2020 - 47,721
June 2021 - 74,657
June 2022 - 106,483
Ave energy bill Oct 2021 (£1,400), est price cap Oct 2022 (£3,582), Jan 2023 (£4,266)
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Gen Con was absolutely fantastic. Feel like I didn’t even scratch the surface but still met so many lovely people in person, loads for the first time. It has been a much-needed tonic and a very exciting time.
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experiencing my first direct exposure to American right-wing talk radio since late 2015 and *hoo boy* it has somehow gotten *wildly* worse
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also obviously congratulations to you and and the whole team on both the exceptional game and by far the best AV work of the evening
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Wearing all seven of the ENnies felt a little gauche so we decided to just make a shrine on the stall instead
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*spooky voice* but who could have known what nightmare dwelled, waiting to be released, inside… the FUNKO COFFIN
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a man is now standing on the traffic side of the bus hitting the abused remnants of the wheel with a large axe, in an admirable display of dominance
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extremely rear tyre | corn | extremely front tyre
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update: it was not a blow-out, it was a large coil of deceptively camouflaged wire. now one of our tyres is mostly behind us and another one is quite a long way out in front
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life update: I am on a Greyhound bus next to a cornfield 30 miles out of Lafayette and two of the tires have exploded, I will be living here for the foreseeable future
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After much shenanigans it’s looking increasingly likely that we will actually live in Sheffield from September. Please send me recommendations of things to explore (I am already aware of Trippets, Smoke and Holly Hagg alpaca farm)
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look at this absolute footstool.
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peace out king, thank you for the greatest delivery of any line ever
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There are still days sometimes when Twitter has a real "THERE'S A DOG IN THE PLAYGROUND" quality
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I wish Talking Politics still existed
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“first, we have Technological Trends from the Board of Innovation deck, that suggests your business is ready to capture new value; next, Advanced Questions from Edgar Allan’s Retro deck, that’s self-explanatory, and finally, uh, the Tower from the Thoth deck, sorry”
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my copy of the Alleyman’s Tarot arrived recently and it’s made me wonder: has anyone done the same one-card-from-each-deck type mix-match approach to those corporate ideation toolkit card decks yet?
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*changes Twitter timeline back to “latest tweets”*
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