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There is a very painterly sky this morning.

Morning #devon

WFG until it gets too hot and I have to retreat to the house.

Morning #devon

Morning #devon

Good of Jordan Henderson to be in full kit just incase we need him to come on second half with his broken arm. #NORENG

I get that when the World Cup is in interesting places that the TV coverage has a bit of a duty to introduce people to those places and tell us interesting stories about them, but do we really need Roy Keane doing punditry whilst sitting on reproduction steel beam high up above Manhattan?

Best spot in the house for a slow start to the weekend.

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Morning #devon

A little lunchtime DIY project: having nowhere to keep chopping boards close to the breakfast area was doing my head in so I found some offcuts the kitchen fitters left and fashioned this little shelf thing for the toaster etc to sit on and create room underneath for storage.

The sea was so still this morning and the sky was clear for miles with the only cloud hanging low on the horizon so it almost looked like an iceberg reflecting the morning sun.

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So Egypt have a goal disallowed for a very minor tug several phases of play before they scored a goal, but the tv director won’t even show the Egypt player being tugged back in the box directly before Argentina break to score a winner. Okay.

Egypt are going to be disqualified from the World Cup for beating Argentina. Surely this can’t stand. Complete disregard for The Narrative from Hossam Hassan and his boys. #WC2026

I’m so glad the UK government are banning YouTube so my kid can’t be exposed to videos of how to draw cute cartoon dinosaurs but they’re not banning the Daily Mail so he can still be exposed to racism and bigotry every time we do the big shop.

Maybe Farage is resigning to run as the next FIFA president.

David vs Goliath except David wants to privatise healthcare and be able to hoover up grubby money without oversight and Goliath is our collective quality of life.

Belgium should be disqualified for not being very nice to the president and the US should be reinstated. They should be allowed to pick 5 players from other teams to play for them and they should get a 2 goal start and a bald eagle to sit on the crossbar and intimidate opposition players at corners.

Morning #devon

I think in some way that was the perfect scenario to play out with the US at the World Cup. They got to remind the world what they are as a country, to demonstrate their complete disregard for sporting integrity, and then still got spanked by Belgium. Shame on Poch too for not dropping Balogun.

This is absolute chaos 😂

So VAR just decided not to show the ref the angle where the defender clearly gets the ball? This World Cup is descending quickly into an absolute farce. #BRANOR #WC2026

Why is Bradley Wright-Phillips so angry. Is he cold? He seems furious at all times. Even his body language suggests he’s about to stick the nut in on Laura Woods. #CANMOR

Happy annual ‘oh god you’re one of them, why am I following you on Bluesky?!’ day to everyone who celebrates.

My kid went to play cricket at our local club last night, has been for a river swim this afternoon and will be on the beach early tomorrow morning for a mooch. He has no idea what a charmed life he leads.

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For six months I aggressively blocked everything I didn't want to see on Bluesky whilst leaving Mastodon largely unmoderated. Bluesky became a much nicer place to hang out. Here are a couple of Python scripts to carry bluesky mute + block lists over to Mastodon.

mrfrisby.com/notes/mute-m...

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Loathe as I am to link to instagram you need to see Ross Kemp having a totally normal one last night during the England game. 😳

www.instagram.com/reel/DaQmOmw...

Kind of annoyed that England have nicked this. Congo were fantastic until the equaliser.

Did you know that Kinchasa is the fourth most populous capital city in the world with a population of of nearly 13 million people?

That’s big.
It’s bigger than big.
It’s large.

Imagine going all the way to Atlanta in literal America to watch England play in a World Cup. Honestly think that would be a dealbreaker for me in a romantic partner. Proper icky. #ENGDRC

Why do the England players seem so pissed off? I get they’re losing but they seem angry at someone other than themselves and I can’t work out who.

@kapowaz.net thoughts? I really like it, but I suspect I’m going to be in the minority. youtu.be/LMaNY-3FFbk?...

What a morning. #devon

Morning #devon

Norway should be disqualified on the grounds that the font on the back of their shirts is embarrassingly bad.

Why??

www.diabrowser.com/release-note... Dia introduced morning briefings which are pretty good - similar to what I've ben building in Costa, but much less opinionated about how that should work and who it should work for.

@footballcliches.bsky.social Is Voltemade vs Gill the tallest aggregate penalty in World Cup history? What would be the shortest? Surely these are the questions we are all pondering at 00:37.

Tah tah 👋

Why does Julian Nagelsmann dress like he’s wearing his dad’s t-shirt for a laugh? Does he just not have shoulders?

The reason Manchester outshines Birmingham is its cultural impact - the Beatles, Cilla Black, Jerry and the Pacemakers, Liverpool FC, The Grand National. Birmingham just can’t compete. 🙄🤣

People for whom “you get there from Euston” is the main thing they know about Coventry talking authoritatively about Coventry is very good blueskying for a Monday. Well done to all involved. 😂 #NotBirmingham #NoButReallyItsThe10thBiggestCityInEngland #Coventry

This week my website side-project is going to be building a zine-layout for my photo essays, so that I can print myself a nice physical artefact, but also as a way to subvert the idea of printing a webpage into printing something much nicer - a properly designed little book of nice photos.

Can't believe it's Monday again. What a ridiculous state of affairs.

Morning #devon

I made a website again. I've written about why it took fifteen years to get back to something I used to do for fun.

mrfrisby.com/notes/making-a-website-again

I just scored 4,290 points (including a 28-flag survival round!) in Vexil! Can you beat my score?

apps.apple.com/app/id650491...

Morning #devon

So a man who earns enough to be one of top 100 taxpayers in the country via a business handed to him for free paid £12m in tax whilst creaming £100m in handouts from the state.

And we're supposed to be lauding him for his transparency and not looting the palaces?! What a deeply unserious country.

TIL there’s a design leadership leaderboard. I’m on it - in 14th - alongside people who actually know what they’re doing. @andybudd.bsky.social is 27th. I’ll take it 😜

www.uxtopian.com/ai-design-le...

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mrfrisby.com/notes/coach/

^ I wrote a quick post describing how I have built my personal MCP server/cc @mattdavey.co.uk

(also this is the first blog-like thing on the new website, so it might be broken in many ways.)

Post-work cold-plunge might’ve saved my life. To make sure I’m going to have a post-cold-plunge cider. And then maybe another just to be sure. You can’t be too careful.

I've been integrating my experimental personal MCP server into stuff and seeing how it responds. It's actually pretty good. I don't really know what I'm going to use it for yet, but I like the idea that I can have a portable way of sharing my opinions on stuff and then use it to do things.

Morning #devon

I’m living the dream here. Two games on, not quite watching either of them. I think this might be the ideal way to World Cup.

It’s all happening in the garden this morning. That owl should be sleeping, surely?

I know I’m not supposed to but I bloody love this weather.

Shout out to historical Stuart for having a litre of cold brew ready for this morning for a little cold foam iced latte situation.

Working from the garden this morning whilst there is still some shade and I am being joined by this lot. I think I counted 11 of them. #tits

I took these out of the bean freezer at the weekend and they’re bloody delicious. I shall have to plan in another stop in Porthleven this summer to grab some more fun stuff from Origin.

@alexmanthei.com the leaderboard isn’t working so I’m sharing this so you can tell me I’m in first place manually pls.

apps.apple.com/app/id650491... I just scored 2,850 points (including a 16-flag survival round!) in Vexil! Can you beat my score?

Morning #devon

Father’s Day day lunch with my giant 7 year old a massive place of meat and beans. 🥰

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Good sky this morning #devon

What a looker. #tits

I wonder if the electronic number board the fourth official is holding could be a bit bigger. There isn’t quite enough room for two exclusive advertising partners in the current form. Might need two officials to hold up a corner each, but I think it’s doable. #USAAUS

Since when did fotmob have regens?!

Do you ever wonder how different Jazzy Jeff’s life might’ve turned out if he’d been called Jazz Jeffrey?

More stuff - Changed to the music page so that when a CD is opened its neighbours form a stack below the opened CD which moves to form the header for the details panel that opens below it - the panel now includes track listings.

Also added a Colophon and a Changelog because why not.

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What the fuck is happening. It’s the 23rd minute of the game and I’m watching Emma Hayes drawing on a literal chalkboard with some bulb in a cowboy hat on the PIP. At least there’s also some awful music playing in the stadium.

22 degrees in an enclosed and air conditioned stadium. Stopping for a little drink. Games gone.

Is the massively oversaturated picture an ITV problem or an American problem. The Croatian goalkeeper looks like he’s just emerged from a nuclear reactor. It was like this for the Dutch game the other night, too. #ENGCRO

Oh god not Hiddlestone.

Did some nerdy stuff on mrfrisby.com last night as a chance to learn about some things I’ve not played with before - P3 Colour space, OLKCH palette, webmentions, view transitions, etc, etc.

It’s coming along, and I’m learning stuff, and that’s nice.

I’m not having Darren Cann describing his phone as “blowing up”. Completely unacceptable language from a man of his standing in the game. @footballcliches.bsky.social

What a world we live in where a fifteen year old can apply to join the literal army but can’t chat to his nan on Facebook.

Still, with all that free time they’re going to have they’ll be able to not get a job nor afford to continue into university education nor go live and work in Europe for a bit.

The latest experiment to go live on mrfrisby.com is a personal MCP server. I have taken a lot of the personal and professional context I wrote for costawork.app and have bundled it into an MCP server which knows what I think about lots of things related to design leadership (cont.)

I’m solo parenting this week and also have a job and I don’t understand how these two things are supposed to be possible together.

Oh yeah, sure, I can come to school sports day for 3 hours during working hours. That’s fine.

Pierluigi Collina is looking well.

Waiting for Ally McCoist on co-comms to mention the centuries long trade alliance between an otherwise isolationist Japan under the Tokugawa shogunate and the Netherlands via the Dutch East India Company (VOC) on the artificial island of Dejima near Nagasaki and its major influence on Japan.

Aside from all the deaths, the worst thing to have come from the pandemic must be people referring to the National Health Service as “Our NHS”. Makes me want to vom. Truly awful.

Morning #devon

View from the roof tent. Not bad. Need someone to deliver a bacon sarnie. #devon

Watching my first bit of the World Cup. In retrospect maybe the last one wasn’t so tin pot after all. Everything about this feels like a cheap impersonation of a football tournament.

Spotted this little bit of light reading in the book swap at the local garden centre book swap sandwiched between a trashy novel and a Gorgonzola cook book.

Morning #devon

Happy Spend the Best Day of The Summer Getting the Garden BBQ-Ready for Summer day to everyone celebrating.

The Venn diagram between people who use “compute” as a noun and people who are incels is a single circle.

A new (ongoing) photo essay: Morning Observations of the Sea.

Mornings on the South Devon coast, recomposed into a single aggregate day - the sun and moon placed by their altitude and bearing, the tide charting a full lunar cycle.

mrfrisby.com/photos/south-devon-sea

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Morning #devon

I’d love to not be wearing a fleece in *mid-June*.

Morning #devon

I just published the first photo essay on the new version of my website. This is the first time I've designed something like this, so go easy on me - I think it's looking pretty good for a first stab with some things left to iron out.

mrfrisby.com/photos/nakas...

The next bit of mrfrisby.com I want to play around with is a photos section. Rather than a hosepipe of all of the crap I post here I figured I would instead create some nice editorial style photos essays for trips or themes or whatever. First up though a vageuly 1950s National Geographic index page.

To celebrate Bluesky increasing the photo limit in posts from 4 to 10, here are ten photographs I took on my last trip to Japan.

Pretty happy with how this /music page is coming along. I have it now pulling currently playing stuff out of the library into it's own feature section and some cover-derived colour stuff happening in the grid. Make Websites Fun Again.

mrfrisby.com/music