The downside is that I’ve virtually stopped writing blog posts and rely on the “microposts”. Not sure if that’s why I started a blog.

I’ve tried all sorts of things and have settled on using Wordpress with a rss widget which publishes my rss feed from Mastodon (it picks up certain hashtags to avoid publishing everything - eg. #blog). It publishes pics and everything. It also works with Pixelfed (maybe not Bsky). There’s probably more elegant ways to do this - and ones involving activitypub - but this one works without much effort setting up.

Work kills. Those it doesn’t immediately finish off are made mentally ill. Only a society without Work would be a well and healthy society.

Thank you. You are absolutely right and it was right there in front of me!

Could you set up a Cloudflare tunnel and make sure the security rules are tight enough to keep others out?

Can you export playlists from Navidrome? I’m running it and can’t see a way of doing that. (The workaround I’m using is building playlists in Synology Audio Station and then setting up Navidrome to import them. If you know a better way of doing this I’d be interested.)

If the rumours that DW is going to be put on hiatus for 10 years and the sets taken down and production staff let go I can only say… it’s about time.

The (original) show was never about cartoony, fizzed-up comic action without subtlety or nuance that tried to pick up the audiences of Strictly and Love Island. It didn’t need a budget of $1 million per episode. It didn’t need Disney. Time for a rest and then a regeneration.

It should be the showrunners who need to go. Ncuti is not the issue; it’s the infantile, lowest-common-denominator storytelling that is the issue. It needs it’s budget halved, stop making design decisions based on merchandise and a fiery young upstart team to play punk SF with the show. AND in the name of Rassilon, get rid of the sonic screwdriver, somic guitar, somic sumglasses and all that trite nonsense. AND if they need a new Doctor, hire Matt Berry.

Politicians on the radio already saying they will need to cut welfare budgets to pay for “defence” increases!

Big bonuses on the way for bosses of arms companies everywhere and dividends galore for investers. Whatever happens all this pantomiming will only benefit the already excessively wealthy.

And yet they’ll be millions of UK voters who will raise their Weatherspoons pints and cheer this on. Most likely 51%. All the same ones who hate foreigners, hate woke and hate anyone to the left of Enoch Powell.

I struggle to understand economics. How is it that almost all the major big businesses in UK have been reporting strong if not record profits recently? And yet hardly any growth… hmmm…

Have you been listening to and analysing the lyrics of mid-1970s Pink Floyd? If not then that could be your next move.

I wonder if Fantasy/SF/Horror have a cyclical rotation and that kids are just into Fantasy at the moment? Of all the AoS armies, Skaven are the best and there are some crazy miniatures. I was TERRIBLE beyond belief when I started painting but I found that if I took things slowly and watched some tutorials my skills really did improve. (Another thing to watch out for is Yugioh! - my son is OBSESSED with the card game and it’s bankrupting us!!! 😆 )

My son got into 40k and wanted me to go with him to the shop and help paint figures. We bought him the Starter Set and he played as Tyranids and left me with the Space Marines. He moved onto Age of Sigmar (and I get the impression that most kids/teens seem to be more into Fantasy than grimdark SF). I enjoyed the painting and started to play.

My only regret was choosing an army too soon. I wish I’d taken longer and learned more about the lore before choosing. (My son is mad about Skaven currently!)

Like all Westminster parties, a party 99% composed of grifters who see politics as a means of becoming wealthier. Behind the scenes, most Tories and Labour mps socialise and generally share the same views.

Yes. I have a 4gb Pi 4 and self-host a Wordpress website, Bookstack, Trilium, Syncthing server and a server to serve images and a couple of other apps which are all internet available through a Cloudflare tunnel. Far from struggling (though admittedly nothing is processor intensive).

I’ll be surprised if Labour do anything to challenge anything about MATs and the crooks who run them. Take a look at the “experts” involved in the curriculum review - all pro-academisation and many of them already raking in the cash as either CEOs or advisors to MATs. I think parents would be genuinely shocked if they knew the extent of the (for want of a better word) corruption in education. Like all aspects of governing a modern state, politcians don’t want to actually manage anything and are quite happy to let the grifters do it for them.

I was an active member of NUT until I found out that our local rep had his salary paid by the LEA in a deal with the union. He helped shut our school and refused to carry out collective bargaining even when we voted unanimously. He “advised” LEA in how to deal with staff. When we complained to the union, they refused to listen. Left with the impression this sort of thing happened a lot. Didn’t renew my membership and wouldn’t ever rejoin.

There’s a primary and secondary element to this: fast elevating grifter-types who are thrilled with “managing” others out of the classroom (especially if they’re not good teachers) and awarding them excessively large salaries. £300-500k plus a chauffeur anyone for parading round in a suit and making the “big decisions” like employing cheap non-qualifieds.

I’ll eat my hat if I see any of the senior managers of academies and MATs being made redundant.

Shhhh! Don’t mention the atomic waste. Nuclear is clean energy that’ll save the planet… if it doesn’t irradiate the planet first.