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The other day someone asked “What your low-stakes conspiracy theory?”

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And I knew I had one but could NOT remember at the time. It’s this:

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The famous crop circles of Wiltshire are Swindon’s transport planning dept trying out new roundabout layouts!

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Today I am at Bletchley Park. Home of the WWII code breaking effort. Fascinating place.

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But I note that geese weren’t even valued in the 1940s!

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Content warning:Rant. Minor spoiler for Connections puzzle.

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NO Connections. I know you’re in the “New York” Times, but you are WRONG!!!

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I saw that Mermaid.js is now mermaid.ai today.

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It’s a frickin’ diagram tool!! What?!

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https://phpc.social/@preinheimer/116816670352881645

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I’m wondering if @jessie has seen this? Could be some inspiration for your class!

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https://mastodon.social/@potterybyosa/116783307016632018

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What’s been super-nice this evening is dropping some emails out to people that reported issues with Turbo Admin. They all get saved and logged and I aim to reply to each one when their issue is fixed.

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My customers are so nice and I love interacting with them.

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Turbo Admin v1.22.0 is out with the Firefox iframe fixes – amongst some other minor things.

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Useful thing… I’ve improved front-end detection of WordPress APIs, so you can pop the palette up on your favourite WP sites to search them!

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(This was broken for a while)

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I’ve had a couple of reports of my Turbo Admin browser extension injecting its palette code into places it shouldn’t when using Firefox. Seems I was a bit over-enthusiastic with my iframe handling!

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Fix is identified and implemented and will be released very soon.

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Apologies if this impacted you.

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Please sign my petition to institute a temporary and UK-nationwide standard working day of 6am – 10am and 4pm – 8pm.

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Everyone gets a long siesta and doesn’t have to work though the hottest part of the day.

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Thanks in advance for your vote!

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Realising that this is my tokens == fossil fuels analogy from the other day. It works perfectly!

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Since cars became a thing, I’ve had zero urge to walk. Something I’ve done my entire adult life.

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Just genuinely depressed. How can you get anywhere while watching money leave your bank account for moving? And how can you get that dopamine hit knowing you wasted time when a can could have got you there faster?

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So frickin’ weird…

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Four years ago I had a letter addressed to my business about someone leaving a legacy in their will – not to my company, but to a charitable organisation with a similar name.

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All seemed pretty suspicious. But I contacted the solicitors and they were going to look into it.

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Yesterday (!) I...

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Why do I have to do anything here? Seems like their mistake and they need me to make some important legal declaration to fix it?

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Anyone know what I should do here? Anyone else been through this? Does it really take 4 years to execute a will? Is this a recognised scam of some sort?

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I have a safety recall in my car. The phone for the dealership isn’t working. I’m live chatting with someone. They seem to be following a script and they are very unconcerned about the phone issue. But… responses are not instant or with a predictable delay.

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Is it a bot? It’s uncanny-valley territory. Should...

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Cross-posting in the Indigo social app is great. Except when you want to write something a little longer.

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Idea: I’d love to be able to have a “page break” that splits a longer Mastodon post into a multi-post Bluesky thread when cross-posting!

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Vote: https://fider.indigosocial.app/posts/168/page-breaks-for-easi...

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I'm sure I've said this before but I think we should view AI \"tokens\" like fossil fuels. They are single-use and supply is costly and unpredictable.

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Most computer programs are more like \"solar panels\". They cost to build but subsequent use is essentially free.

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If you use tokens at all, you should use them to...

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The prompts/placeholders in the new post screen in the Indigo app are so good. \"😆\"

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Chat today with a friend who thinks their son is ASD, their daughter is ADHD. They themselves are diagnosed as ADHD now too.

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I know we're just better at recognising & naming these things now. I know that we find each other.

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But so many people in my sphere (even outside of work) are neurodiverse.

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It really...

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Loads of sites and apps have the colourful monospace terminal look these days. Is it an AI smell? Or just a design trend?

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Social media ban press conference.

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GB News guy says: “Many children will be watching this on our morning programme”

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Can we ban that??!

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I’m hearing Siri on iOS 27 will be using LLM technology by default. And it will route to a cloud-based model (albeit a private one) as a first point of call, possible utilising a local model if the cloud one says it should. Is there no way to turn this off? Are all iPhones suddenly using cloud LLMs?

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Well, this week was a thing.

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– Kid stood on small rusty nail. Infection panic! (All well)
– Foot hurting so drove him to school. Road closed. 90 mins to drive 6 miles
– 4-hour power cut
– 2 birthdays
– News that a close relative is very ill -> emergency 275 mile drive. Solo parenting for a few days

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I have done the “shake and fold” twice so far this weekend.

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I believe this needs to be reported to you. \"😃\"

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Fun fact. Many years ago I got annoyed with people posting “Happy Birthday” on Facebook because Facebook had told them it was my birthday and had given them a button to press. A real friend – I argued – has gone to the effort of putting it in their calendar and actually writing a message.

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I deleted my...

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Oh yay!!!

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https://social.lol/@r0b/116716613536537333

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@Ron Nooo. You’re not ACTUALLY supposed to do it. 😂

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I hope you made that up.

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@jack Hah. That's funny.

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@manton Thanks. This was in Gmail. I copied the link and got logged in.

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@manton Trying out Icro for Mac. Are you aware that the \"button\" in the email sign-in doesn't work as a link? Seems to be <icro://SOMECODEHERE> rather than an a tag. I think this is your responsibility rather than the Icro guy's?

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@eli Thanks. I found one that actually added words to the scene frmo the titles! 😃

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www.ranzey.com/generator...

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@daveberry Make sure you don't wash yourself with the yoghurt!

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@colinwalker Welcome back. I hope this space is safe enough to aid your recovery.

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@Cassinato Look here: www.bbc.co.uk/programme...

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But it should be on iTunes and all good podcast apps.

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@JohnPhilpin Let me know if you have any questions or need help. I’m out and about but will respond when I can

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@JohnPhilpin Here you go: wordpress.org/plugins/s...

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It pulls pins into WordPress. My plan is to include the block into the plugin so I can include recent pins in a weekly roundup.

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@JohnPhilpin well. The block has a start and end date/time and it lists - in the block’s output - pins created between those times.

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Did you see the original plugin I made?

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@johnjohnston Wow. That must have some engineering challenges.

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Is it well-used?

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@johnjohnston Ah. You’re a teacher. I suppose it’s also hard to convince the powers that be to add plugins to the multi site too?

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@johnjohnston interesting. Do you work in this area or are you just an interested, tech-savvy parent?

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@johnjohnston Well that’s pretty simple. Micro.blog can do that! But you still have to get the parents to look at it and the parents are on Facebook, aren’t they?!

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@matthewlang I have ideas around school comms that kinda bridge this gap. But given school funding there’s probably zero money in it.

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@philbowell oh cool. I’ll look that up. Thanks!!

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@johnjohnston Pulling from a specific tag is a good idea. I wouldn’t create posts...I’m creating pins in my own custom post type. So no point creating drafts really. I don’t think.

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@tmv I redeemed myself by drinking some instant, decaffeinated coffee and eating a chocolate bar. 👍

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@daveberry Feeling your pain. And happy birthday Reuben!

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@daveberry Most of that is the beard!! 😉

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(Seriously...amazing stuff. Well done!!)

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@hollingsbee Hey, no problem! It's quite the revelation when you find out about it.

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@daveberry You’ll never be on any social media platform “for good”!! 😉

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But nice to have you here again.

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@amit Thanks - just posted another from this morning too!

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@macgenie Thanks.

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I see you have a guinea pig called Ada. This is ALSO brilliant.

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I have a 3-year-old girl called Ada.

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And she calls guinea pigs \"mini pigs\" 😍

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