Brilliant to see this on page 3 of #TheGuardian #IrisMurdoch https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/aug/14/iris-murdoch-artworks-secret-room-self-portrait-novelist

Iris Murdoch artworks from secret room go on display – including self-portrait

Second world war paintings and sketches show novelist ‘engaging with her world in a new light’

theguardian.com

Bro. People are cool as fuck.

Walking walking walking I’m on the railways today - bit concerned that my journey to Chichester might fall apart en-route! Loconundrum #151 ⬜⬜⬜ 🚂🚶 🟩🟩🟩

Despair is not just wrong. It's irrational. Things can change, at astonishing speed. In fact, the flip might be happening already. My article for the Guardian's climate support campaign. www.theguardian.com/membership/2...

Don’t despair about what’s happening to our planet. That’s what they want you to feel

There are social tipping points when the seemingly impossible suddenly becomes inevitable. Good journalism plays an essential role in helping drive these shifts and shows us how real change can happen

theguardian.com

Gotta say, the proposed investment in #LFC or is it #FSG is welcome, the investors are not 😵‍💫

#TheArchers - ah, Bert Horrobin = Worzel Gummidge

What you don’t want to find out on your holiday is that your CRM has suffered a wide data breach… especially when it is from a different organisation you support! Thankfully the team are 💯 on it and I can enjoy the rest of my holiday 😎

In the olden days (2009 - 15) I would call on the hive mind of the other place. Does this place works similarly? I'm looking for a short poem/song lyrics or the like that may appeal to late teens. S/thing about death of a peer. Or Dylan's death having no dominion. What say you BSky?

I’m ok with this, apart from a guess two over-shot Loconundrum #143 ⬜⬜⬜ 🚂🚂🚂 ⬜⬜⬜ 🚂🚂🚂 ⬜⬜🟨 🚂 🟩🟩🟩

Is there a housing estate agency or one which has “future proofing” filters - ie it will only show houses with heat pumps, dbl/triple glazing, air cooled, air conditioned, passivhaus etc - essentially, I’d like a house suitable to live in for the next 20 years 😆

"After careful consideration, PLOS has now had to make the difficult decision to retire the independent blogs section of the PLOS Blogs Network, which includes ECR Community." https://ecrcommunity.plos.org/2026/07/29/farewell-reflections-looking-back-on-my-experience-as-a-community-editor/ […]

Whoops, went the wrong way at first Loconundrum #136 ⬜⬜⬜ 🚂 🟨⬜⬜ 🚂🚂🚂🚂 ⬜⬜⬜ 🚶🚂 🟩🟩🟩

So fed up, helping a friend with a Wordpress site, hosting company say auto-updates enabled and yet it’s been hacked with this latest vulnerability 😤 - this sort of thing drives me nuts and I’m supposed to be on holiday!

I've set up a Matrix space for anyone up for forking #Rails away from #DHH's influence. Let's start actively working on this. https://matrix.to/#/#forking-rails:matrix.org (If there's already a space for this, do let me know, I'll go there instead)

I looked at a map for the final clue… Loconundrum #128 ⬜⬜⬜ 🚂🚂🚂 🟩⬜⬜ 🚂🚂 🟩🟩🟩

#TheArchers - for some reason I’d assumed that the lost child Wren was a girl, not a boy 🙃

iOS has a really handy way of looking at how much storage is used by downloading music, grouped by artist. It shows how much space is being used by each one in A-Z order. Can you sort by size? You know, basic functionality? Can you ‘eck - flippin’ useless 😤

If you're in #Sheffield and want to be one of the first to try our new #coffee coming this week, delivered by #cycle couriers Feral Express, then this week is the perfect opportunity. We will be sending this Nicaraguan grown by Katherin and her family in […] [Original post on mastodonapp.uk]

Argh! Loconundrum #126 ⬜🟨⬜ 🚂🚂🚂 ⬜⬜⬜ 🚂🚂🚂 ⬜⬜⬜ 🚂 🟨🟨⬜ 🚂 🟩⬜⬜ 🚂 🟩⬜⬜ 🚂🚂 🟩🟨⬜ 🚂🚌 🟩🟩🟩

Just watched this on Denis Healey - once you get past the random intro - it is, I think, a good one. Having said that, I’m still not sure on his monetary policies etc, but that’s all in the past and I’m sure Labour Party members don’t hold grudges like that. 🙃 […]

I’m sure some of these timings are a bit short 🤷‍♂️ Loconundrum #124 ⬜🟨⬜ 🚂🚂🚂 🟩⬜⬜ 🚂🚂🚂🚂 🟩🟩🟩

Nice! Went wrong way for number two, but very close for 3! Loconundrum #123 🟩⬜⬜ 🚂🚂 🟩⬜🟨 🚂🚂🚂🚂 🟩⬜⬜ 🚂 🟩🟩🟩

Overshot, undershot 🙃 Loconundrum #122 ⬜⬜⬜ 🚂🚂 ⬜⬜⬜ 🚂🚂🚂 ⬜⬜⬜ 🚂 ⬜⬜⬜ 🚂 ⬜⬜⬜ 🚂 🟩🟩🟩

I’m so tired of seeing Widdecombe’s face right now 😤

More thinking is required! Loconundrum #121 🟩⬜⬜ 🚂🚂 🟩⬜⬜ 🚂 🟩⬜⬜ 🚂🚂 🟩🟩🟩

I’ll take this as a win! Loconundrum #120 ⬜⬜⬜ 🚂 🟨⬜⬜ 🚂 🟩🟩🟩

Faffed about in the wrong direction, but got there in the end Loconundrum #119 ⬜⬜⬜ 🚂🚂 ⬜⬜⬜ 🚂🚂🚂🚂 ⬜⬜⬜ 🚂🚂 ⬜⬜⬜ 🚂🚂 🟩🟩🟩

Oh, a tricky one, I went all around the houses! Loconundrum #118 ⬜⬜⬜ 🚂🚂 ⬜⬜⬜ 🚂🚂 🟩⬜⬜ 🚂🚂 ⬜⬜⬜ 🚂 🟩⬜⬜ 🚂🚂🚂🚂 🟩⬜🟩 🚂🚂 🟩🟩🟩

Made at least one daft mistake with this Loconundrum #117 ⬜🟨⬜ 🚂🚂🚂 ⬜⬜⬜ 🚂🚶‍♂️🚂🚂 ⬜⬜⬜ 🚂🚂 🟨⬜⬜ 🚂🚂 ⬜⬜⬜ 🚂 🟩🟨⬜ 🚂🚂 🟩🟩🟩

Fucking "app culture" drives me crazy. I got asked to install a mobile app just to look at the itinerary and accommodation information for a trip I'm going on. Why isn't it just a web page? So obviously I said "fuck that noise, hold my beer", reverse-engineered the app, and re-implemented it […]