: In the style of the “how old are you in internet years?” meme. I realise that I’m …
: Audioblog: Wed 4 Dec 2024 If I’ve done this right, the feed should be at lloyddavis.micro.blog/podcast.x…
: “The Observer” is to the chattering classes what “The Spirit of the Blitz” …
: A time check: I’m now in the last three weeks of my fifties.
: Never meet your heroes, even accidentally. No, I’m not going to go into details., but man!
: 3 years ago: the state of text-to-image. I made a set of images using “VQGAN+CLIP via …
: At #bclxiii (barcamplondon thirteen) I told people (and myself) that I’d only been at #bcl3 …
: After 20 years of being trained to use web-mail, I think I might be ready to slouch back to …
: I’m waiting for a (non-urgent) telephone appointment with my GP. It was scheduled for 19 minutes …
: My friends in the Midlands are posting pics of snow. One of the punishments associated with living …
: It does feel like there’s a lot of “40 years on” nostalging at the moment, but …
: There’s more than one way to skin a cat, but I’m not allowed to say that in our house …
: I’m going to barcamplondon xiii next week. I went to number 3 in 2007 and number 10 in 2014. There’s …
: Good lord! It’s Friday afternoon again.
: OK. I'm seeing many places where this needs saying. Many things can be true at the same time. Even things that you have always thought were mutually …
: A bit of data with associated metadata More of this kind of thing. It’s for a thing. You don’t need to know what the thing is …
: And here’s another thing. It needs to be a bit longer and have some paragraphs in it. I …
: I’m just putting this here so that there’s something to see.
: Last night, I was cooking dinner and had a flashback to cooking dinner in the 90s: same me, …
: There’s definitely something going on.
: Did “Only Murders In The Building” jump the shark in Season 4? It feels like it was …
: If only someone would put together a YouTube playlist of Lloyd singing with his ukulele! Ukulele …
: The day of the big event. We’d been kept waiting in the hotel room all day. It was hot and I was …
: “Can the guard contact the driver?” are words you don’t really want to hear.
: Still processing last night…
: This was the morning after the night before, a couple of days ago. I’m so asynchronous! Fresh …
: This looks great. And similar to approx 97% of my dreams. www.youtube.com/watch
: People need to be told “yes! that sounds great! we can do that!” (the thing …
: Web Hosting Blues I registered my first domain in July 2001 with the same company that my father was using (for …
: example: dynamicland.org (not a ‘little thing’) “These web pages are designed to …
: Don’t you ever: a) stop being dandy, showing me you’re handsome… (obvs) but also …
: Dear fellow coffee shop patron, I understand that taking your son to college for his first day can …
: Today is one of those days when I’m glad not to be reading LinkedIn posts.
: Slow Horses S4 off to a promising start. And I’ve only got as far as as the opening titles!
: Ambient presence is one of the things the algorithmic feeds have robbed us of
: I enjoyed most of the first season of Sherwood, while shaking my head at some of the violence. S2E1 …
: A really annoying friction in interop between all these microblogging platforms is inconsistent …
: This week, I realised that I’d been talked about, pseudonymously, in an academic paper. …
: Woman on train to her small child: Ooh look! You can see that lady’s knickers, her skirt is so …
: A very tempting bargain. The fact that this is in a charity shop in Jeremy Hunt’s constituency is …
: At the age of fifty-nine and two-thirds it’s time to take action on a pension provided by an …
: My favourite kind of day. A couple of hours on trains, eight hours sitting around in a field, …
: Escaping to the Midlands for a day at Greenbelt. Hoping to have some interesting random encounters …
: I have zero interest in cars but I know beauty when I see it.
: I’m reading that FAFO is seen as a threatening phrase, like “just try it, and see what …
: I just saw the headline “Epic Games Store Launches for iPhones in the EU” and although I …
: I just want to register my unease with prisons being filled up with people who’ve recently shown …
: For those who find Threads “a much nicer place”, may I direct your attention to the …
: Teetering on the edge of a #ShrimpJesus rabbithole
: Handy guide to the new (in 1969) automatic ticket barriers at Oxford Circus. flic.kr/p/2mQhzmB
: It was the best of times, it was absolutely the fucking worst of times. Thatcherism was just round …
: I scraped some numbers from the wayback machine captures of my twitter profile page to see what I …
: What was in my bag on October 12th 2008? flic.kr/p/5tqfgS By Chic Outlet Shopping on Flickr CC: …
: So Threads have introduced “insights” and turns out my followers are nearly two-thirds …
: My prescribed meds have been in short supply for a while, but because they’re a controlled …
: I got my ADHD diagnosis at age 55 a few years ago. Recognition has helped a lot, so has some …
: Why am I only just hearing about shrimp Jesus?
: The proof is not in the pudding. Please stop saying that it is.
: I remembered to upload some benches to openbenches.org and then fell into an openstreetmap rabbit …
: Sometimes, I’d really like to shout at people using the derogatory terms that we enjoyed so …
: All together now… youtu.be/VwcKwGS7O…
: There’s a twist to the radical inclusivity in my work that can be tricky for some people to …
: I’ve buttered about 15 pieces of bread. I haven’t cut them, so that people can choose for …
: Has anybody torn apart the false equivalencey that says these are just “protests” or just “riots” …
: “But Lloyd, you don’t sound like you’re from Birmingham.” Well, firstly that …
: Oh god, another day of heartbreaking beauty…
: Sitting round a table at a men’s support group. I’d just got us all a coffee when three guys in …
: I just logged back in to last.fm for the first time in… oh, looks like nearly sixteen years. …
: I’ve spent the last couple of days binge re-watching “Can’t Get You Out Of My Head” by Adam Curtis. …
: So does the 3D Print of my teeth go in “sentimental objects” with my 1978 woodwork project? Or in …
: Singles. (The least embarrassing ones…)
: I can’t shake the Mission Impossible vibe, like one of those dancers is going to turn out to be Tom …
: Aldous Huxley, born on this day 130 years ago, died on the same day in 1963 as JFK and CS Lewis. …
: Tomorrow, (Friday 26th) to mark the 130th anniversary of his birth, I’m going to visit where …
: Wann startet Staffel 2 von „Kleo” auf Netflix? Heute! Keine Arbeit mehr!
: This diagram contains an important message that it’s easy to miss if you’re a person like me. The …
: Today, again, I shall mostly be observed muttering “righty-tighty, righty-tighty” but …
: I have no vote in the US presidential election, but I would prefer the “young woman of …
: My new desk surface is 72cm from the floor just like my old desk. It looks lower.
: My fyp on Threads is now a horrible mix of Americans “wondering” about British pronunciation and …
: An incredibly small number of posts “will age well”. This is an ephemeral medium, so use it for the …
: I think it would be good if I started auto-deleting any e-mails that I receive which start “I …
: 1964 babies: Boomers or Gen X? An updated handy guide to people who (have) turn(ed) 60 this year. The correct order is: Michelle …
: I’ve made a “New Parliament’s Resolution” to write more regularly to my MP, …
: It’s going to take a while for me to get used to seeing headlines with the new Chancellor being …
: Spotted taking notes at Newspeak House
: UK Parliament Petitions On Hiatus You can’t petition the UK parliament online at the moment because new parliament and therefore …
: And ChatGPT says “Twitter began rendering mentions as links from its inception in 2006.” …
: A Q for Twitter historians: when did @-mentions first get officially recognised and rendered as …
: I hope that whoever is found to be responsibe for this get a more sensible judge than Roger Hallam …
: Strong crucifixion vibe - it’s martyrs all the way down.
: Ugh! Five years for organising non-violent protest - Zoom call was infiltrated by a Sun journalist …
: “for his wound” - over to you, Jungians!
: I’ve been lucky enough to listen to Audrey Tang twice this week. And so I’m luxuriating …
: Oops, I forgot that I had automatic cross-posting on and re-cross-posted myself accidentally. What …
: This guy though… flic.kr/p/2q4RPVY
: I’m in ur micro.blog, writing like nobody’s reading… again!
: I get that space is tight, but wouldn’t it be nice if posts of the type “I asked …
: I seem to have written this 14 years ago. Plus ca change… Let’s Fix The World! - a 21st …