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Jon Wood

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@pikesley @moraghickman @Sinjo I really need to sort out some more fabulous clothes for next time. I’m a lifelong jeans and t-shirt guy, time to diversify a bit as I enter my 40s.

@james@strangeobject.space I have my sleep profile setup with a different Home Screen and even just hiding the icons for some apps makes a big difference for me.

@james@strangeobject.space focus profiles can do that, although it’s easily bypassed.

@doop@octodon.social I’m still processing it all, really need to sit down and write a blog post about it because this year really was something else. My faith in humanity has been restored, and for the first time in years I feel some hope that maybe the future might be ok.

@herdingdata oh I love that it’s named after the Roci! Not sure what we’ve have done without your rescue service charging around the place pulling vehicles out.

Enjoying the post EMF game where I repeatedly test to work out whether the extreme fatigue, muscle ache, and warmth is covid or a week of not enough sleep, physical exertion, and mild sunburn.

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Y’all know that you don’t have to do cookie consents if you don’t try to track users in ways that are creepy, right?

Like a better internet is possible? 🫥

@herdingdata I was chatting to a kid who had their 18th birthday on the Sunday who posited that maybe one day EMF would go away not because it had died but because the whole world would already be that and it would no longer be needed. I think I’m a little too jaded to truly believe that but I would be so happy if that happened.

@0x47df @eta it is impossible to see all of EMF and I kind of love that. Everyone has a different experience of it based on which bits they saw.

@andrew @moraghickman extremely strong agree, it really tied everything together. It’ll be remaining as my desktop wallpaper for some time to come.

@pikesley I’m currently on the way home, despite several coffees, a bottle of Mate, and a Coke Zero today I’m fighting off falling asleep so I don’t miss my station.

@sophiegarrett EMF is the best workout I get. A week of walking 10k a day, healthy food, and then a rigorous upper body workout taking down kilometres of fencing.

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If you are the person who abandoned a tent full of crap at EMF: We are going to find you.

You have enraged a group of people who enjoy puzzles and suddenly have a lot of free time.

Run.

@andrew there seems to be something in my eye. Beautifully summarised why we do this ridiculous thing.

I once saw someone post on Twitter about a tiny camping festival for nerds, impulse bought tickets from the back of a car, and found my people in doing so.

12 years later it has escalated wildly, and I got share it with my son, who wasn’t even born in 2012. He was in tears last night, because he too has found his people, and is distraught that it will be over so soon, and it’s two years until the next one.

@jonathanhogg I had an explore of the site last night, you’ve done an amazing job with the installations! Everywhere I look there’s another delightful surprise with a little plaque next to it.

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“The average festival has 4 million addressable leds” factoid is actually just statistical error.
Average festival has 1000 addressable leds. , who lives in a field in Ledbury has over 18 quintillion addressable leds is and outlier and should not have been counted.

I’ve spent the last four hours (was meant to be two) out in the real world. Do not recommend, will be returning to EMF imminently.

Our cozy little 200 person construction worker cosplay camping trip has been rudely invaded by several thousand people who seem to think there’s some kind of festival on. Quite rude really.

@gsuberland I’ll try to catch you, mostly been hiding in HQ this evening trying to get stuff done.

@gsuberland oh, was that you with the stack of orange boxes. I'd have said hello if I realised.

OH: "You're another person who's younger than my boots"

“I don’t want to call when I’m on the train because I’ll have no privacy” says the woman talking loudly into a phone behind me in the waiting room. Volume is turned up loud enough I can hear both sides of the conversation.

Train to EMF leaves in under twelve hours, so I guess I’ve put off packing for as long as possible now.

Me, in the normal world: "Ugh, why wouldn't you say think you? It's just basic good manners."
Me, when using a ticketing system: "Ugh, why did you say thank you? Now I have to close the thread again."