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Well I really liked the Odyssey.

In many ways it reminded me of the 7 years I spent working at Deliveroo. 😂

What the fuck are we doing with our lives.

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A friend asked what my My Life in Five songs would be and I’ve thought about it almost constantly for the last three days and this is the answer:

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Obviously it’s awful that the road across Slapton Ley towards Torcross is still closed to traffic after the winter storms, but being able to ride, scoot and walk down here without cars zooming past at 50mph is undeniably an improvement, even when the storm clouds are approaching. #Devon

Obviously it’s awful that the road across Slapton Ley towards Torcross is still closed to traffic after the winter storms, but being able to ride, scoot and walk down here without cars zooming past at 50mph is undeniably an improvement, even when the storm clouds are approaching. #Devon

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I've been working on a new silly side-project called Covert Stories which is a set of notebooks posing as political non-fiction where the joke is that there's nothing inside. Perfect Christmas gift for boomer uncles :D

They're not quite ready yet, but should be available to buy soon.

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Morning #devon

These lads need to get better. Their exclusive is 12 days late. #pusb

Morning #devon

Morning #devon

How was your morning I spent mine excavating, exposing and then clambering down and cleaning a sewer inspection chamber so if I die of dysentery you’ll know why.

God I’m exhausted. A whole week of shitty sleep and 4-5am starts has beaten me.

Super pumped for another week at the coalface.

Neil and Christine are back in the garden this morning.

Commiserations to Gianni Infantino on Argentina’s defeat.

Shame for Emi Martinez, the absolute shithouse knobhead. Imagine losing the World Cup final and then also having to go back to Aston Villa. 🤣

Yamal should just retire now. He’s completed football before his 20th birthday. Unreal.

“José de San Martín, Juan Manuel Fangio, Diego Armando Maradona, Carlos Gardel, Eva Perón, Lionel Messi, Jorge Luis Borges, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento - can you hear me, Argentina? Can you hear me? Your boys took a hell of a beating! Your boys took a hell of a beating!”

What a shame for Argentina, such a lovely bunch of lads.

Foul against the narrative.

Horrible little shit.

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First time I’ve ever been happy to see Romesh Ranganathan pop up on screen.

Maybe this will be the thing that brings us and the Argentinians together. A shared hatred for whatever in the name of all that is shit that the Americans are subjecting us to.

I’d rather watch Eurovision sober than this absolute dross.

How are they not all deeply embarrassed?!

Why are we listening to the American anthem? Have FIFA reinstated them to play in the final? Has Balogun been given the golden boot? Does Messi get to play for the US now because he once transited through Dallas?

As much as I would never say this I do actually think that being a morning person makes me morally superior to anyone who isn’t a morning person.

It’s 10:24.

I’ve been up for five hours.

What have you done today? Nothing.

What have I done? Also nothing but in *double* the time.

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Amsterdam
Fukuoka
Tokyo
Wellington
Kyoto

At least now I won’t have to work so hard to avoid the 30 minute long Chris Martin half time shambles during the final. I hated this World Cup.

At least the Argentina players are a really likeable bunch 😂

So they’re saying that aside from the 3 minute ad break there were no other stoppages. Okay then.

There is a very painterly sky this morning.

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

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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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^ 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.

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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.