Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Iridescence, any bird whose colour changes with light on them. When you catch a starling in the right light and a drab bird is suddenly purple and green and gold... #birds #birding #wildlifephotography #putney #starling

Recent Reads: Prophet Volume 4 - Joining. Brandon Graham's deeply weird far future graphic space opera takes a sharp turn, as stories of the clones of John Prophet begin to converge in a rebellion against the inexorable rebirth of the Earth Empire. A world of specialised posthumans is about to fall.

Recent Reads: Swordheart. T Kingfisher's fantasy romance pairs up a snarky, smart widow with a man in a sword. The path of true love is not smooth, much like the roads that make up much of the story as Halla seeks justice and villains seek her sword (and its guardian). You'll root for the lawyer.

There can only be one Duo. And it’s still chugging along…

In which D&D becomes today's Torment Nexus. "We do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence" Alignment? Apparently, it is a thing now, and this is Anthropic's "Alignment Science Lead". Shortcuts used to teach improv to gamers are not a map to the real world. Aaaaargh...

Disgraceful that the RNLI have to say this today, but here we are 😞. If you would like to donate👇🏻. rnli.org/support-us/g... #RNLI #RNLISavesLives

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is: #ABCD, any bird beginning with these letters. Alt is #RSTU, any bird beginning with these letters. A is for Avocets B is for Black-headed Gull C is for Cormorant D is for Dunnock R is for Raven S is for Swifts T is for Tufted Duck U is for Ugly Duckling

This might be slightly silly, but I am using the new Sonos MCP server to add command line control for music from inside Visual Studio Code. "play buggles on office sonos"

The Buggles - Plastic age - funny space invaders tweaking out

Alt: The Buggles - Plastic age - funny space invaders tweaking out

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"It is time." @onlyphrynes.com would like me to know that it is dinner time.

The RNLI saves lives every day. They are volunteers. They aren’t just lifeboats - they’re lifeguards and all the support crew that goes with it, plus uk and international water safety and anti-drowning projects. They are almost entirely charitably funded. rnli.org/support-us/g...

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"Honey, I think we broke NATS." My rooftop ADSB at 15:50 today. There should be a few more planes up there... (The circle to the left of the centre is Heathrow.)

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme challenge is #BirdBuddies: two different bird species sharing the same space. The alt is #BirdsInGreen: any shade of green on a bird's plumage. This meeting of a teal and a black-headed gull gives us a twofer! #birds #birding #wildlifephotography #wanfle #gull #teal

Decided to write this week's Microsoft dev column on tooling that we usually ignore, but is critical to everything we deliver. I do love delving into the plumbing.

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Herons&Egrets. From down at Point Pleasant, a pair of grey herons being territorial at low tide. Heron squabbles are hilarious low altitude gliding contests... #birds #birding #wildlifephotography #thames #herons

Wooden towers also solve the transportation problem for remote windy sites. Utilities in Germany and Scotland have ordered pilot units. Analysts believe timber could replace steel in thirty percent of onshore towers by 2035. Source : Swedish Environmental Research Institute Lifecycle Study, 2025

This weekend we have reoiled the wooden surfaces in the kitchen. This does mean I am on my second asthma attack, but they do look nice and shiny again.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay themes are a simple pair today with #Pigeons, any pigeon will do, and the alt theme is #SittingOnWater, any bird sitting on water. A mourning dove, in morning sun, on a fountain in a California garden gives us a twofer. #birds #birding #wildlifephotography #sanjose #dove

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Flying Ant Night. Ugh.

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is: #InFlight, any bird in flight. "Speak softly and carry a big stick." A juvenile herring gull flying down the Thames, carrying its stick. #birds #birding #wildlifephotography #thames #gull

Babe, do you want to kiss in front of the Leia Choking Jabba The Hutt statue at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art 😳👉👈

Do you get free access to the London showing of the Bayeux tapestry if one of your ancestors is in it? Asking for a Norman.

Today's theme for #BirdOfTheDay is #BirdNaps, any bird caught snoozing, napping or just looking incredibly sleepy! A great-crested grebe folds up for a snooze while drifting on the Wandle delta. #birds #birding #wildlifephotography #wandle #grebe

Recent Reads: Avengers Dissemble. Barnaby Eaton-Jones' novelisation of an unrecorded Goodies revival podcast drama maintains the same anarchic sense of humour as the TV original, with bonus Joanna Lumley. Footnotes add laughs, while the superhero plot skewers the MCU. A children's programme? No way!

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is: #Contrast, light birds against dark backgrounds or vice versa. A moorhen makes its way across the mud of the Wandle delta at the end of summer. #birds #birding #wildlifephotography #wandle #moorhen

A note to publicists: Maybe hold back from saying how much your client loves what they're promoting unless you're absolutely sure. Meet the fabulous Mr T www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

‘I don’t chase the dollar. I never did’: the astonishing hidden life of Mr T

He grew up in the ghetto, became a global superstar – then gave it all up. Why did he step away from the spotlight?

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The first day in ages that the new Tintin livery A320 comes into London over my house and the cloud level is far too low to see it...

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #ItsAllWhite, bird's main colour is White. A black-headed gull (in its non-breeding plumage) was fishing in the weir pool at the Wandle delta. Up, up and away! #birds #birding #wildlifephotography #wandle #gull

Watching an episode of Tracker and I am pretty sure the hacker character just wrote a cross-database query in KQL…

I look at this face and I see any one of the folk back home on Jersey from the old Norman island famiies.

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They're all dead, Dave.