According to 30p Lee that will buy a family of 5 a month's worth of evening meals with enough spare for a cake. If it doesn't even cover a meal that sounds like a them problem, £50 is pretty much a week's worth of food shopping for me.

Sky News@news.sky.com · 3w ago

'£50 doesn't even buy a meal': What people think of Burnham's electricity VAT cut

Content-first prototyping, low-fidelity prototypes, and why I like to keep things sketchy for as long as possible. www.linkedin.com/pulse/keep-y...

Keep your designs low fidelity until the thinking is done

There’s a constant battle in content design to hold off higher-fidelity prototyping until we’ve finished thinking and collaborating. Content designers often push for a ‘content first’ approach.

linkedin.com

@raynewman.bsky.social thought this was one of your retreats at first! bsky.app/profile/unxp...

Heather@unxpctdisvry.bsky.social · 4w ago

Just my 3 year old telling me that sometimes Skeleton Man (a toy skeleton) is named Ivan and he loves collecting crystals. My dead grandfather was named Ivan and he collected crystals and rocks. He was a huge rockhound. So that's one of the creepiest and most interesting things he's said to me.

Was intrigued by this #EMFCamp talk about RSRE Flex on PERQ by @stapleton@old.bytes and wondered about its relationship with Ten15, and therefore OSF's ANDF. en.osm.town/@stepleton@o... A very useful post from Martin Atkins explains this: mca-ltd.com/martin/Ten15...

Starting a 🧵 of galls & gall causers to watch for: first up Ozirhincus spp. on Tansy. Better photo here bsky.app/profile/lloy... MT @rogerhorton.bsky.social @vc28nature.bsky.social @brianecambs.bsky.social

SK53@sk53.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · last mo.

If you have clumps of Tansy in the garden, or nearby, it's worth looking for Ozirhincus spp. (Cecid gall midges) ovipositing into newly opened florets. #GallsToFind

Interesting aspect of #geocoding: in this case hand-coded entries for a readable hierarchy of folklore and ghost stories in Stockport & NE Cheshire. HT @raynewman.bsky.social thepeculiarpath.co.uk/2026/06/01/m...

Mapping the Archive: On Post Towns and Shifting Counties

At its heart, The Peculiar Path is a map of Haunted places and as I’ve recently been bringing the archive online and updating the website, there’s been a lot to consider about how to best organise …

thepeculiarpath.co.uk

I guess I think about alt text quite a bit because it's part of my day job. I notice it's become a point of tension on Bluesky and hardly a day goes by now when I don't see someone complaining that they've been told off for not including it, or for doing it wrong. I'd say... 🧵