Lawrie
@lawriecape.bsky.social
Interactive Computer Chump. Design System dev at Trustpilot.
"Blackbird?" *smokes his little cigarette* "It's been a long time since I heard that name."
Got up early in hopes of catching this photo before work this morning. There's only a few days each year where it's cool enough in the morning to make this shot possible. Thankfully, today was one of those days! #wildlife #birds
Woodblock by Kasamatsu Shirō (Japan, 1898-1991) ‘Woods’ 1955. Dimensions 37.5 x 24.1 cm.
One lesson from the Epstein–Mandelson affair is that we need to stop routinely rehabilitating political careers after serious scandals. When politicians knowingly engage in grave ethical wrongdoing, that should permanently end their political careers. Being "talented" should not override that.
i did pretty good - got the right basic shape but there were some optimisations i left on the table 🥇 Excellent! 🥇 91%
enclose.horse
A puzzle game about enclosing horses.
enclose.horse
more daily play games where the url is also the title imo enclose.horse Day 9 🥈 Great 🥈 86%
ok the gold rings were a nice touch but you've mostly just given me a ton of birds.. hmm? sorry, what are the maids doing? interesting.
This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
I love being in the right place at the right time and getting one of the secret "cleaning" drinks from the office coffee machine. #serendipitea ☕
back on my bullshit (erasing the wheels off buses)
What a weird name for a dog. But sorry for their loss.
Just because I was walking past in the sun and I love it 😍
Something about it photo makes it feel like a render from a late 90's PC game.
Saughton Park bandstand. #Edinburgh
For the past few years, me, Kris at Naive and Matt at Reddit have been running the Tiny Awards, celebrating the good bits of the web. THEY ARE BACK IN 2025 AND NOMINATIONS ARE OPEN! Please tell your friends and share the link, as a small act of resistence to everything being shit: tinyawards.net
Tiny Awards
This is the home of the Tiny Awards, which, since 2023, has celebrated the best of the small, poetic, creative, handmade web.
tinyawards.net
Humphrey Smith is a very, very odd man. Glad someone finally wrote about him. He's notoriously litigious so has escaped coverage for years. Fantastic piece. www.theguardian.com/news/2024/de...
Humphrey’s world: how the Samuel Smith beer baron built Britain’s strangest pub chain
Since the 1970s, Humphrey Smith has acquired scores of pubs and historic properties around the UK. But time after time, he has left the buildings empty. Why has he allowed his empire to moulder?
theguardian.com