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Watched: The Return of the King (Extended, ahem). šŸæ

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The series stands up exceptionally well. A fine way to mark the Yuledays.

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Watched: The Two Towers (also Extended, naturally). šŸæ

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And additionally, finally decided to sign up to Letterboxd - just need to work out a rating system now.

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Watched: The Fellowship of the Ring (Extended) šŸæ

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A fine way to spend Hogmanay.

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@chockenberry Best wishes for 2026, for you and the family.

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May your 2026 have an ample supply of box! šŸŽ

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Watched: The Fellowship of the Ring (Extended) šŸæ

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A fine way to spend Hogmanay.

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@manton @danielpunkass Such a lovely surprise for my commute home! Welcome back (even if just for one episode)! Hope you keep these up (for my sake), to whatever schedule keeps you both sane (for yours).

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@ericgregorich A grateful user of Cards Theme here! šŸ‘

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Professional Learning - ethereal materials: tartanhare.com

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Asking ChatGPT the Difficult Easy Questions: tartanhare.com

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@melvyn Itā€™s all negotiable, so far. Thatā€™s either a strength or my downfall, I guess - you can decide.

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Day 3 of #DoddieAid 2025 - and third day of the Zwift Baseline, but not sure itā€™s intended to be completed daily.

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Todayā€™s miles: 12.00
\nTotal miles: 41.38

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Been playing Chess and doing Sudoku again. Itā€™s the dark nights.

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@DandelionUtilitarian All. The. Time. I never learn.

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Day 1 of #DoddieAid 2025 - the cold and snow kept me on Zwift today.

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Todayā€™s miles: 15.99
\nTotal miles: 15.99

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Take part by signing up and doing some exercise!

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Or donate to Team Scotland to help cure Motor Neuron Disease.

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Or both. Itā€™s good for you.

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Happy New Year!

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Completed the final 10k of the year. Thatā€™s at least one a month for a year. 395km distance covered over the year - the furthest so far.

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All thanks to parkrun giving me some focus 18 months ago, and friends/family for company through all weathers.

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2025 target: a half marathon, hopefully in April.

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ā€œDonā€™t criticise my jet interior. That hurts.ā€

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ā€” Siobhan ā€˜Shivā€™ Roy, S4E6, Succession

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šŸ“ŗ Succession

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The protagonists in this ā€˜corporate family dramaā€™ are uniformly unlikeable, both visceral and human - expertly written, cast, directed, and acted. Their stories set in an intimate, beautiful aesthetic; with the most exquisite pacing and accompanied by a sublime soundtrack.

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Recommended.

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Three bridges, from the train to Edinburgh

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In selected cinemasā€¦

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NT Live: Vanya šŸŽ¬šŸŽ­

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Incredible. Andrew Scottā€™s performance is sublime. Thank you, Uncle Vanya.

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The titular uncle has regrets. If I have any it is that I did not see this in person.

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Canā€™t help but be intrigued by what Humane and others are doing in trying to refine personal computing. Of course, Humane might not succeed with their science fiction inspired ai pin, or at all, but I see more companies embracing the ethos of their mission:

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We believe in building innovative technology that feels familiar, natural, and human.

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But for me, today, a more compelling, evolutionary product in this space is the Rabbit R1. With natural language processing and Playdate-esque whimsy in their hardware design. I just hope itā€™s as functional as it is cute.

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@johnjohnston Super impressed by your commitment to the form! Enjoyed dipping in over the years.

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@mandaris I am so close to finishing this. Started a year ago. Enjoying it - but not compelled enough to read it. Must. Try. Harder.

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Micro.blog bookshelves, but for music. With Discogs integration.

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No idea what the Discogs API/restrictions look like - but would be interesting to see something in this space.

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There is never enough time. The art is in the choices we make about how to spend whatever we have.

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Live well. Make good choices.

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@SimonWoods I periodically buy notebooks, but too rarely take notes. I wish you well in your forthcoming year of noting!

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@ericgregorich Interesting. I like the ā€˜to doā€™ element of unread counts, but I interact with RSS feeds in different ways. A reader that allowed articles in some feeds to decay would be useful. If I have not read an item in 24 hours, one week, or whatever, mark it read.

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Tuesday tunes: Freak Out! by The Mothers Of Invention šŸŽµ

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I am so far the only person I know that is not one extreme or the other when it comes to Frank Zappa. People tend to be zealots or indifferent. Me, I rock the middle ground. Freak Out! remains a favourite, however. Both of and before its time.

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More human than human. SlĆ inte mhath!

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Under electric skies

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@siracusa Qualified ā€œYesā€. I very much like absolute silence, either to take a ā€˜momentā€™ or for reading, but if I am doing anything else thereā€™s usually music on at home if I have the con.

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Aside: From here on micro.blog I assume this is a mastodon poll. Now wondering how this fits into ActivityPub. Or perhaps it doesnā€™t. Thoughts, @manton?

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@johnjohnston I had revisted these and other moments myself tonight. Sadly she never got to see signs of even a ceasefireā€¦

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@daveverwer Unfortunately, few publications trust their content and most instead rely on clickbait/confrontation to drive traffic. Even once respected sources.

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@_Davidsmith Great episode, for lots of reasons! Thank you!

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Appleā€™s iOS 17 Preview:

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The new Journal app looks interesting, but from the limited demo it seems entirely local, with no sharing - unless Iā€™ve missed something?

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No one but you can access your journal.

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With the integration with Shortcuts, and the potential for third party apps to contribute via the Journaling Suggestions API, all it needs is a little love for ActivityPub and it would be a powerful source for (micro-)blogging platforms like micro.blog.

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@danielpunkass Every day!

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@Aterris Thought provoking post, thank you. I am not sure I have found community here or that I have tried to, but i do enjoy reading the thoughts of many individuals. And the lack of metrics and ā€˜likesā€™ (neither a bad thing) means I have no idea if I post something ā€œinterestingā€ unless someone explicitly tells me so - and they tend not to, soā€¦

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When implementing humane gun laws is beyond your societyā€™s ken, I suppose you can always try the Winnie the Pooh gambit. But maybe, just maybe, try a bit harder on the gun laws?

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ā€œDanger is scary, but our legendary friends Pooh and his crew are here to help us through,ā€ reads one page.

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ā€” Winnie-the-Pooh book teaches kids to ā€˜run, hide, fightā€™ in a shooting, Washington Post

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@dgs Thatā€™s a faux Stone of Scone aka Stone of Destiny aka Jacobā€™s Pillow.

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Scone Palace

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Today I ate a scone in Scone.

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Travel notes:

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Moot Hill, Scone Palace

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@manton I missed this when it rolled out, but itā€™s a really nice ā€˜littleā€™ upgrade. Loving how Micro.blog is incrementally and humanely improving.

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@Cdespinosa No Tesla. No button. No camera (until current car). Decades of reverse parking. Driving backwards into a ā€˜controlledā€™ space allows drving forward into possible traffic. A mystery of my life is why anyone wouldnā€™t. :)

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@manton Yeah, sitting here with my coffee, I am already glad I donā€™t have to implement it. :)

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@pratik Completely agree. Apologies if i was not clear. I was suggesting that an email reply is sent via ggd micro.blog gateway as a DM rather than using a web form. Although i can foresee all sorts of edge cases @manton may prefer to avoid!

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@manton Would a reply by email be out of the question? Then you could shorten the retention period even more - unless you had abuse concerns, I suppose. And it would lower friction. Authentication concerns perhaps?

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@danielpunkass The mastodon support and increased usage of that service has added an interesting dynamic to Micro.blog, and I have enjoyed being able to follow mastodon users from this account that I previously had to use Twitter for - but I am equally lucky enough to not have a ā€˜profileā€™ that would mean that I attract unwanted attention from over-exposure. It will be fascinating to see how it develops.

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@vincent I like pure black, but can struggle to find an appropriate foreground colour that is readable with it. Off-black, a bit like off-white, is often therefore easier on the eye.

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@Miraz In which case, sure, that makes sense. :)

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@Miraz @Medievalist I would prefer no ratings, itā€™s one of the Micro.blog perks that there is none of that. But perhaps a curated monthly ā€˜cookbookā€™ collection of recipes - the culinary Discover section.

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