There's a guy who feeds the rainbow lorikeets in his front garden, it brings in all the birds for miles.

You don't need someone else's permission to make something that wasn't there before

Beach, fence, sunset. Belgium, June 2026.

During drought Ancient Woodland is a safe haven for everything that lives Shelter, shade, massively cooler, food, & even after no rain for weeks, the water table is not far from the surface We leave them to it, including the world’s supply of Bank Voles gorging on blackberries

want to go cycling, also want a slightly melted ferrero rocher Now imagining a person wearing a life size ferrero rocher wrapper on a bike 🍫

Went for a walk without my phone and saw a child standing in a parched field the colour of straw with a fishing rod Practicing fishing, reminded me of the DreamWorks kid

seeing a barrister friend who's just informed me that tomorrow is apparently the end of the legal year, what delightful phrasing, looking forward to criming again from Saturday onwards

Shout out to the man on the train calling his bank about ID theft and who has read his name, postcode, and the long number on his card to the whole carriage.

imo the ideal Odysseus would've been Gene Wilder, but we would never have deserved that movie.

Summer is here which means WDC2026 is just around the corner! Tickets are just £99! We have an awesome lineup of speakers including @hidde.blog , @amyhupe.bsky.social , @cjforms.bsky.social @joshtumath.uk, @paavandesign.com and @duncanpetrie.com (more TBC!) webdevconf.com

WDC2026 - October 9 2026, Watershed, Bristol, UK | Web Developers Conference

WDC is the web design and development conference based in Bristol, taking place in autumn each year.

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Child, requesting Cars: "That's his name because he's fast like lightning, and he's a queen."

“The buses are actually free this summer for kids so we can all meet up. We can all get a bus into the centre” Love to hear this from young people on the bus out to Hartcliffe (South Bristol) this morning. West of England’s ‘Kids go free’ policy during the holidays is 💪

King Arthur when his court wizard snubs Guinevere

sun set nr Usk last week

Large cow gathering happening now, other side of the River Avon

Don't mind if it is inside or outside IR35. Don't mind if it is via a supplier. Don't mind going to an office regularly (though I'd prefer that office was in Bristol or Cardiff.) Also don't mind the occasional travel to further afield. Even given my website a coat of paint - www.jukes.ie

With the likely chopping up of the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology, I thought I'd explain the absolute technological faff that is machinery of government changes, through the medium of a pasta analogy. open.substack.com/pub/daverog/...

After someone posted it I cannot refrain from pronouncing "Binface" as if it were Italian. 👌

stole this banger headline from someone who didn’t use alt text

I cannot overstate my fondness for cold chocolate milk.

This website of the international earth rotation and reference systems service is a) amazing and b) exactly how it should look if it were seen on-screen on someone's SGI in a late 90s science fiction film when the scientist figures out what's happening hpiers.obspm.fr/eop-pc/index...

you can be absolutely ridiculous and also make good and important points at the same time, which is a good life lesson for all of us, really

Today I feel Belgian.

Hydration break! #BRANOR

Black Books Wine

Alt: Manny and Bernard from Black Books drinking wine. Bernard is describing the wine as “it’s like looking into the eye of… a duck.”

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arrest this ref if he ever even thinks of buying a baguette or a little bit of pâté, he doesn't deserve anything good and French for as long as he lives

aw the French players dancing Glad that's over. didn't want to see anyone get injured what game were the referees watching