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Jon Wood

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You also don’t make the free meal kids a very visible group of kids who’s parents don’t make as much money, which can only be a good thing given the tendency of kids to be mean little shits.
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I’ve gone right off this long bank holiday weekend since realising yesterday my refill for the drugs that make my brain work got caught up in it and rather than having just enough to see me through to the next lot arriving I have -2 day’s worth. Apologies to anyone who has to interact with me today or tomorrow.

Briefly sat down on my bed while holding my phone. Now the cup of tea I was going to drink while reading my book is cold, and my book is still on the other side of the room.

Never. Ever. Use the phone in bed.

I am once again demanding that all Not Now or Maybe Later buttons be paired with a No Never or Fuck Off button.

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Don't Dead Open Inside.

I decided to quickly make a minor change to how some data was structured on Saturday morning. “It’ll be quick” I said to myself. “It’ll be easy” I said.

It’s now 4pm on Monday and somehow I’m still doing it (admittedly I have taken several very long breaks in the intervening period). The intent was to save myself a really quite small amount of time which will never be paid back, but I’m so deep down the rabbit hole I refuse to give up.

I know it’s petty but I cringe everytime I see login, logout, signup used as verbs rather than log in, log out, and sign up.

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Considerate of this hotel to provide a door sign to use when you definitely aren’t doing any crimes in your room.

It’s time for my bi-annual campaign (posting a salty post) to rename British Summer Time to British Standard Time and then abolish this clock changing nonsense. If we do that way we’ll even have the gammons on board immediately, guaranteeing success.

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Posers.

Everytime I watch it I’m amazed the BBC haven’t managed to do anything about how much the iPlayer encoders hate Gladiators. Loads of pyros, massive video walls/floors everywhere, and fast moving motion seems to make them collapse into something that looks like it was shot on VHS.

Just sent a bunch of emails which I’m massively excited for the potential of if they come back with a yes and having to remind myself they might not.

I’m convinced the iOS keyboard has some secret sequence of button presses which turns off autocapitalisation and autocorrect because every now and then I do something, the keyboard vibrates, and suddenly it stops doing anything useful.

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my mother in law talking about her ideas for hobbies after retirement

"i could do video presentations on things like how to navigate insurance, dance, exercise..."

I'm nodding, makes sense

"and do it with a character"

huh?

"so nobody knows who I am. maybe a fox"

wait

"that way i can present boring concepts but do it as an animal character"

yall shes gonna be a furry vtuber

this is incredible

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Please please please can someone volunteer to do this. I so badly want to see it!
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Cat distress, he’s fine

Over the last 9 months or so I’ve discovered I have a really quite intense fear of heights and falling. Regrettably I’ve discovered this at the same time as the fact I really enjoy bouldering as a form of exercise.

I feel like it’s getting better but it’s definitely hindering by progress a bit that anytime I get near the top of the walls, have to make a move I might miss, or (god forbid) encounter a top out boulder I instead give a hearty “fuck this” and climb back down.

Love a windy day.

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Someone suggested not pulling any April Fool's pranks this year and I think we all need to get on board with that.

Because, you know, all this.

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ios user interfaces have become truly nihilistic. buttons on top of buttons. text on top of text. multiple inscrutable hamburgers. nothing has any meaning and all human action is futile

@aparrish @rysiek Steve Jobs is turning in his grave currently.

Just got the third onboarding customer success email from a service today, “Why [service] customers stick around”.

Unsubscribed.

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Good news everyone! Copper tier, the self-service, <£1000, online checkout sponsorship option for @emf is now available! You hold a corporate card, I know you do. Go on. Stick the details in. Just a lil sponsorship. Call it learning and development spend. We won’t tell.

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I have no idea how anyone at ITV signed off on shipping their TV apps. The tvOS one loses its mind anytime you background it while playing video, it’ll come back being very upset it’s not had any video frames in the last 3 weeks. Meanwhile the Android TV version just refused to let my Dad watch the football with a friend, it just said it needed his postcode to be updated despite his account already having one attached.

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Honestly it’s very keen humans and not bots!!

My number one email today.