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  lols: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jun/10/sales-meta-whistleblowers-memoir-careless-people-soar-after-hay-festival-silencing "Sales of the whistleblowing memoir Careless People increased by more than 300% in the UK the week after its author was “silenced” during an appearance at Hay festival following legal action by Meta, the subject of the book."

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  HONK #honk

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  Housemartins at Sea Mills station #bristol #birds

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  yesterday I learned there's a grass called Timothy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_(grass)

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  The rest of the run is sold out (sorry) but Brassed Off at the Kelvin Players was great - https://www.kelvinplayers.co.uk/ - a brass band on stage! convincing Yorkshire accents! featuring the excellent Filton Brass https://www.filtonconcertbrass.com/ Always amazed about the effort that goes into their performances #bristol

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  Binface on #radio4 rn "I'm not Nigel Farage"

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  This doccy who has Dirty Den in it! https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00v8yw4/doctor-who-19631996-season-21-resurrection-of-the-daleks-part-1

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  Did an ornithoto of the housemartins too #birds

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  #bloomscrolling from Callington Road nature reserve in #bristol

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  Some grumpy-looking but friendly cats in Stroud yesterday - interestingly curly fur and whiskers

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  #mayke 12 a #fyxe - my bag has been fraying for ages. I have strengthened it with some matching strapping

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  Ok the lora yoyo machines work, at least when they are close together! I replaced the 4 pin RGB led with some circles of leds I had around #mayke 8

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  #mayke day off today (there is no #fayle!) We did test the lora yoyo machines but only got around 50 metres' distance. It should do much more than that, I think. Might try a different channel.

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  #mayke 10 fuzzy felt mat composition

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  #mayke 11 prototype mayke sticker and stamp

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  In Our Time is about Cybernetics this week! https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002vmk4 (I just read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unaccountability_Machine which is quite a strange book, but worth reading, starts about one thing then is pivots to Cybernetics)

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  @dpk I don't know if this might be any use to you in your current work circumstances? https://third-bit.com/2026/04/08/lessons-from-disasters/ (and many sympathies)

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  Petition: that we stop referring to Trump by name, but simply use the obvious emoji: 💨

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  big fluffy chickens! #bristol #chickens

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  This is a lovely interview with Bryan Stevenson, a death row lawyer https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/628b48a4-0057-448b-8fc3-dcf609f013bd (archive: https://archive.ph/C7mAZ)

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  yesterday's #caturday today!

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  #silentsunday

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  I _may_ have invented the world's greatest sandwich: peanut butter and crispy chili sauce 😋

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  I really like this, a little thing but should improve the walking experience in #bristol https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/shorter-waiting-times-green-man-bristol-crossings/

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  oh god, WHY is it Tom Stoppard day on radio 4

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  nice work: https://www.the-londoner.co.uk/we-reveal-the-billionaires-who-really-own-london/

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  fairly epic queues for petrol at Tesco Eastville today #bristol

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  ooh, check out my frolleague* @prehensile's new futures report! https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-10-projections-things-are-not-normal *friend-and-colleague

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  Thanks for the kettle tips everyone x

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  Volunteering yesterday we got halfway through laying a hedge at Sneyd Park ("midlands style"). Second pic is a "Yorkshire billhook" used for splitting the trees. 3rd pic is a lovely hedge the ranger made earlier #bristol