Gideon Hallett

RE: @Opfoss@c.im

All together now, in four part harmony and with feeling! (and 27 8” x 5” colour glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one…)

You can get anything you want at Alice’s Restaurant…

When someone in public life says ‘but think of the children’ (or similar) as a reason for doing something, ask yourself what they *don’t* want you to think about instead - and why.

Morning word-nerd silly thought: is there any more fatuous phrase for resolution or determination than ‘a line in the sand’?

Sand? Just about the poster child for impermanence and mobility.

Sudden random flash of memory and spotting a pun I’d never clocked before.

Yellow Submarine, just after the four board, and Ringo says: ‘I wonder what happens if I pull this lever?’

Young Fred: ‘Oh no, you mustn’t touch that!’

Ringo: ‘I can’t help it. I’m a born lever-puller.’

*groan*

(Haven’t seen the film in decades. Don’t ask me why I just realised now.)

I have a new toy. It is cute and beautifully made and shiny.

Also very well-made, very sturdy and likely to be very useful for fiddly little jobs.

(It’s the Metmo Fractal Vice, if you’re curious.)

And that was that - for me, at least.

iOS 26.4.1 dropped this evening, and either the 18-year Apple account limit has been dropped, or they’ve added in other metrics (I bought my first bit of hardware direct from Apple in 2005 - 5 years before I had an iCloud account).

It’s still a Bloody Stupid Faff and - as a technology, has more problems than a logician’s wet dreams, but I can at least use my phone for work again without fearing it’ll block or report me.

Seen in St Paul’s Churchyard.

No argument with the point in question - but dear God, the scansion…

That faint vibration you feel might be the Central Line; it might also be the remnants of John Donne rotating at generator speed.

@KrissyKat@hoosier.social It’s a thing that particular type of leader loves doing.