I've got plenty.

It is very hard not to post a spoiler right now. On your birthday...

I would not scroll past a badly proportioned photo on a poster these days. It would catch my eye. AI slop... I cannot scroll past fast enough.

I actually winced reading that. My facebook feed is unbearable now. I'm a small business, no budget for a graphic designer, and get about one day off work a year. Taught myself how to use illustrator to make my own stuff. I did not resort to chatGPT. It's counterproductive. Awful and off putting.

That is true, I find this often happens these days on podcasts and the like.

There's a whole hour and 40 seconds with Fouracres that popped up this morning!

I love him with all I am.

I grew up & live in South Woodham Ferrers, a town created in the '70s based on the Essex Design Guide. I even own the guidebook on how they planned it. The guide is designed better than the town. Jonathan Meades called the town saccharine and mimsy. Many of our roads are named after Middle-earth.

My youngest has a show on his university radio station. He's on tonight so I was just looking at the website. What a lovely sight, such a refreshing change. Because it's free of AI slop. They've gone the other way with an anti-design thing. Grown up internet is rubbish and ugly.

I'm finding it a little frustrating one down is not filled in when it's so obvious.

Way too much time online is spent checking if something is real. I don't have time for all this fact checking admin. This does appear to be real.

this is just pathetic, all around; the joke theft, the choice of avatar, the butchering of the punchline…

True. When I was pregnant with my eldest son, who is nearly 28 now, I did sing Horny by Mousse T at karaoke. LLMs cannot do this.

Oh my. The aurora borealis, seen in ultraviolet light from space. Our planet, putting on a show ✨

Ooh there's a consultation. That is good to know. I know of a situation where a local authority ignored their duty to assess employment status, which led to false self-employment and unfair pay practices, some being vastly overpaid, and some not even minimum wage. All doing same role.

I totally forgot about the Ted Lasso link! It always a treat (although a bit of journey from Essex when I have an early start and late finish) to visit for work. I've never been in winter though. I do imagine the lovely walks I'd get to have if I lived there!

I often work round your way. I was there Saturday in fact, looking out from the top of The Petersham Hotel I was thinking how peaceful it must be to live here... but then encountering the traffic on the way to the wedding ceremony... not so much.