Sad times for Portuguese D&D fans.

Turns out I can’t spell phoenix to save my life. I have a complete mental block over how to spell it correctly.

Yes, I had to look it up for this post. 🤦🏼‍♂️

So, just starting to get my head around micro.blog’s new premium offer. It took me a while to twig that, when you set up a new blog, you’re the same user, but with an additional blog.

That means that some of the automatically set up things - like an About page - make little sense, because they’re pulling from your original user account.

It’s all fixed by creating a new About page. But it feels like we could do with more per blog customisation settings, if more users are going to have multiple blogs.

So, Reddit is selling all the free labour of its users to an AI company to train its model.

Well, that explains the API changes last year…

Setting up my second blog on micro.blog: Unknown Exposures

I hate chasing invoices. But it looks like I’m going to need to do it today or tomorrow.

Ugh.

Super rare night out for me - at the Banff Mountain Film Festival in Brighton.

The Concert Hall at the Brighton Dome, for the Banff Mountain Film Festival.

One of the Dalmatian Pelicans at WWT Arundel.

A Dalmatian pelican.

This duck is stylin’.

A scaly-sided merganser at WWT Arundel

Testing out the new coffee shop in town, Clubhouse Coffee.

Smoothie of the banana and strawberry varietyA black americano at Clubhouse Coffee in Shoreham. A pain au chocolate Vegan biscoff cakeHoneycomb brownie

Here are the small but dedicated band of protestors in their conspiratorial glory.

Anti-vaccine signs at a protest in SussexProtesters who are against the WEF and cashless payments in Shoreham. Another anti-vaccine placard in Sussex.

Bit of a “grab bag” protest in town. They’re against:

  • Cashless payments
  • Vaccines
  • Ultra low emissions zones
  • The World Economic Forum

I might not mention that I’ve been in the offices of the last one…

My paternal Shrove Tuesday duty is done.

A stack of pancakes on Pancake Day.

Friendly wee chaps.

A robin at Pulborough Brooks. Another robin at Pulborough Brooks

Evening light at RSPB Pulborough Brooks.

Warm evening light on a stand of Elm

Water level a bit on the high side, then.

Flooding near Pulborough Brooks in Sussex.

semicolons are a suitably catlike, noncommittal form of punctuation.

— Rooted by Lyanda Lynn Haupt 📚

Gosh, my daughters love the days out I pick for them!

Love a bit of crema

Crema on a black americano at Victoria’s Sponge, Steyning.

🔗 Hunter-Gathering For Wimps:

Making a conscious decision to shut the f@&£ up, not cause the planet bow and crack under the weight of more opinions, and just listen to people sometimes, even if they are talking total crap

I have realised that, in addition to its many other perks, this is a useful way to conserve energy.

Tom Cox nails it.