Wow. I only just noticed the appearance controls in Ghost’s ActivityPub reader.

Lovely stuff.


Today is tenuous links: what media publishers can learn about AI from…

Warhammer.

Slop for the slop throne!

A young girl assembles a free minature of the month in a Warhammer store.

Fascinating to see some details of the early life of a distant famous ancestor George Tinworth, in this Times piece.

Although Tinworth’s mother, Jane (whose first three sons — like approximately a third of babies born in early 19th-century London — died in infancy), did her best to keep the bailiffs from the door, the family endured a daily struggle to make ends meet. Even a child-sized wheelbarrow, made for the young George by his father, had to be sold; 60 years later he wrote that “I never forgot the boy that had my barrow”.


London can be very literal sometimes.

Yes, I’m in Angel.

A large, intricate metal sculpture resembling wings stands prominently in an outdoor public space, surrounded by modern architectural elements and greenery.

Substack now has an AppleTV app. But the headline calls it a “newsletter platform”.

It’s not. It’s an increasingly walled garden social content app, whose only difference from the others is the monetisation strategy is audience revenue, not ads.


Oh, brilliant. Ghost has added filters to its web analytics - and full support for UTM parameters. Get in there!


I just discovered the Moodle (and Moodle email) supports Markdown, and I could not be happier. I’ll certainly be more efficient…


Best ever feedback from an in-house training/workshop delivered a few months back:

“He’s a proper journalist, who swears and everything”.

That is so going on my gravestone. It should probably be my LinkedIn bio, too…


When I was a regular at the Barbican in the early 90s, back when the RSC had a residency there, I never dreamed that I’d find myself on that stage twice a year 35 years later…

#CityStGeorgesGrad


Just discovered that I need a 30 year old filling replaced.

Fabulous start to the week. Now I have to decide which day I want to sacrifice to that delight in the coming months…