Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 16/05/2025Being a good parent is exhausting sometimes. Particularly when ep 1 of Murderbot drops and you’ve promised your daughter you’ll watch it together when her A levels are done. Almost a month from now. 030
Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 08/04/2025Alongside the other billion and one reasons why my daughter is fabulous is telling me about this screensaver. That I’ve never noticed it before is mortifying. But as a 35-year Mac veteran, all the way back to System 6, this is Clarus-level joy for me. #hiChicago 020
Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 18/03/2025New life rule. If I buy something from you and you ship it to me via #Evri (and don't give me an alternative), I won't buy from you again. Twice in two weeks an Evri delivery has been left somewhere utterly stupid. The first time, it was stolen. The second, thankfully not. Never again. 110
Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 18/02/2025Nothing I’ve ever done screams “nerd” quite as loudly as the fact I’ve just read this inordinately long piece about a font from top to bottom. Still recommend it, though. It’s lovely. The font AND the piece. (Thanks to the wonderful statusq.org for the link.) aresluna.org/the-hardest-...aresluna.orgThe hardest working font in ManhattanA story of a 150-year-old font you have never heard of – and one you probably saw earlier today. 110
Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 07/02/2025am I a bad person for being onboard (sorry) with this? www.thelocal.fr/20250206/fre...thelocal.frFrench train passenger fined €150 for using phone on speakerA passenger on the French rail network SNCF has revealed that he received a €150 fine for using his phone on loud speaker within a train station. 140
Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 05/02/2025Interesting work from @danneidle.bsky.social and taxpolicy.org.uk on Companies House failings has prompted thoughts on broader strict liability "control offences" - and a spot of personal history to boot. www.jcsj.uk/2025ii4-tues...jcsj.uk2025ii4, Tuesday: Fruit.We often think of the roads less travelled in our lives. More often than we might think, that phrase should end with the word "yet" - my becoming a barrister in my 40s is testament to that. (And somet... 000
Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 03/02/2025This resonates. Loud and clear. A key question, always. open.substack.com/pub/richardb...open.substack.comWho Flourishes Because You Have Power?Theologically, I've always had an ambivalent relationship with power. 000
Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 29/01/2025Jason Kottke (that global treasure) took me to the astonishing Questlove mix of SNL music (kottke.org/25/01/questl...). And that led me here... a beloved, multi-handed work of genius which for 35 years has taken me to a place where the soul flies free. A blessing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJXb...youtube.comGang Starr & Branford Marsalis / Jazz Thing (Instrumental) / 1990YouTube video by tw19751 000
Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 28/01/2025I've still got my Pebble somewhere. Don't really use it. But it was an absolute masterpiece when it came out more than a decade ago. Just wonderful. So, yes. Of COURSE I've signed up to express interest in buying a new one... repebble.comrepebble.comWe're bringing Pebble back!Eight years later, you still can't beat a Pebble 000
Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 26/01/2025Two people I care about are to be KCs. Amid my huge delight for them, a few musings on progression - and personal relationships. www.jcsj.uk/2025i26-sund...jcsj.uk2025i26, Sunday: SilkI can't be alone, thank goodness, in taking a particular joy in other people's success. It's great to win, of course. One's own victories are sweet indeed. But I think there's something truly specia... 010
Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 15/01/2025After 35 years of Mac use, there’s always something new to learn. An inadvertent keypress showed me that ctrl-Enter pops up a context menu (at least in Word, Notes, Bear and other text entry situations). For lovers of keyboard shortcuts, very useful. (Apologies to those who’ve known it for years!) 010
Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 10/12/2024I always loved this pic. My beloved gave me a poster of it long ago and it stayed on our wall for years. And this story - www.nytimes.com/interactive/... (shared by the great managingeditor.substack.com/about) - sung its soul good and loud. Blessings.nytimes.com58 Jazz Musicians Were Photographed for ‘Harlem 1958.' Only One Remains.Art Kane’s “Harlem 1958” gathered giants of the music. Sonny Rollins, 94, looks back at the historic picture. 000
Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 07/12/2024This, from a piece by Tim Goodman about why professionals don’t vote Tory, is hilarious. Unrecognisable in its lack of connection with reality. A picture-perfect example of someone seeing their own biases and mistaking them for the outside world. 011
Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 02/12/2024One of my most firmly-held beliefs is the critical importance of finding beauty in the small things. The view south-east from the platform at Milton Keynes Central just now. This alone makes the morning a thing to treasure. 010
Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 01/12/2024Yes, a thousand times yes. “Around” in this usage makes me seethe, too. www.ft.com/content/b589...ft.comThe battle around ‘around’ and other awful woolly wordsThe fuzzy meaning space is becoming depressingly overcrowded 000
Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 21/11/2024This post ends: “Experimental History is a RUNK in progress.” It is. It absolutely is. (That’s a compliment, btw.) For those (like me) who didn’t know what a RUNK is - and you’ll want to, it’s a thing with buckets of *positive* explanatory power - read on. open.substack.com/pub/experime...open.substack.comUnderrated ways to change the worldHow to get a good heart unstuck 000
Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 20/11/2024Finally (!) finishing ST: #Discovery. (Penultimate ep.) And musing, once more, on the wonder that is Doug Jones’s Saru. Amid the Forehead Aliens, a five-seasons-long note-perfect portrayal of someone genuinely alien (right down to the body language) yet hugely approachable. Glorious. Just glorious. 110
Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 20/11/2024A friend, a stalwart of my found family (in capoeira and much else), and a woman I greatly esteem, has (re)found herself. She declares: “I’m an artist.” Which she is. Rightly. Unquestionably. And it makes my heart sing to see her say so. She tells the story here: open.substack.com/pub/sharpeni...open.substack.com239# A Newsletter for the Culturally CuriousSHARPENING MY PENCILS 000
Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 12/11/2024Spend day in police appeals tribunal. Note with delight venue is close to fabulous Korean takeaway. Gleefully buy food for wife, daughter and self (all of whom love the place). Run from venue to station to get home in time for everyone to eat. And then leave the food on the effing train. Sigh. 000
Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 01/11/2024I'm in Aldeburgh for a few days next week. The map tells me it's just down the coast from both Dunwich and Walberswick. And my old #CallofCthulhu muscles started twitching. Fond (perhaps not quite the word) memories of a White Dwarf scenario set in the latter... and another one set in the former. 000
Reposted by Jeremy Scott-JoyntThe Transparency Project @seethrujustice.transparencyproject.org.uk · 24/09/2024Dear legal bluesky - can we get a whatever you call a retweet please? trying to help people to find us in this place and could do with your assistance! TYIA 12556
Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 28/10/2024TFW: 1. You nostalgically browse the bit about ST:TRPG in @stuhorvath.bsky.social’s magnum opus. 2. You yarn with 17yo daughter about it, and the Zahn Trilogy, and how they kept the #starwars flame alive. 3. She goes to ComicCon… and buys you Heir to the Empire. Could any parent be more blessed? 120
Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 18/10/2024The problem with this - from the FCA's CEO, in www.ft.com/content/8774... - is that it runs directly contrary to the FCA's previous stated estimate: that two thirds of its recently-opened investigations would be subject to the naming provisions. I don't think both statements can be true. 000
Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 21/09/2024The depressing thing is how obvious it is, in retrospect that - if it came out - this would be unhelpful and damaging. And always assume it's going to come out. So yes. Get the Commission up and running, commit to accepting its rulings, and make it someone else's problem. 020
Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 19/09/2024We lost a colleague last month. It hit hard; he was young, with a young family. A scholar and a gentleman. Yesterday something I heard triggered a need to write - about him, about endings, about how we survive them. So here we go. www.jcsj.uk/2024ix19-thu...jcsj.uk2024ix19, Thursday: Wonder.A truth in life is that the older you get, the more endings and fewer beginnings there are. You don’t lose beginnings altogether. Heaven forbid. There is always the space to to encounter something or... 332
Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 14/09/2024This feels horrifically cheeky. But these are good, generous people trying to build and maintain something beautiful, in a place that needs beauty and fellowship. If you feel like helping, and you can, I can’t tell you what it would mean. www.gofundme.com/f/believe-in...gofundme.comBelieve in Brazilarte Community Southend on Sea, organized by Emma Gibbs De OliveiraThe Brazilarte Academy is home to many different people young a… Emma Gibbs De Oliveira needs your support for Believe in Brazilarte Community Southend on Sea 000
Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 24/08/2024Not every day when you have a whole new sensation, and it's one you hope never to repeat. To wit: the combined feeling of horror and relief when you discover (1) that you left the car keys in the ignition two hours ago, but (2) that the car's still there for you to find that out. 040
Reposted by Jeremy Scott-JoyntJames O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 16/08/2024No, the government isn't planning to introduce ID cards (FREE TO READ!) takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/trust-but-...takes.jamesomalley.co.ukNo, the government isn't planning to introduce ID cardsWhat the government is actually planning for digital ID 22310
Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 16/08/2024One refreshing thing about this non-hellsite world: one particular annoying person hasn't joined yet. They dislike some work I did. And (pseudonymously) keep tagging me in tweeted whinges. Despite knowing that (owing to privilege and privacy issues) I can't respond. Very brave of 'em. 040
Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 15/08/2024A terrifyingly common and harmful error, across so many fields. Although the way things are going @dsquareddigest.bsky.social would probably have something to say re #POSIWID. (If he’s not fed to the back teeth of people saying this already. Lovely book though.) 000
Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 15/08/2024In the highly unlikely event that anyone reading this is (a) in Essex and (b) interested in #capoeira, we’re doing a display in Basildon on Saturday. Noon in Northlands Park. 210
Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 14/08/2024I’d love to crack some smart gag about my cat helping me work. But as anyone owned by cats knows, that’s bollocks. Rather, it’s: “bored and lazy. Need comfort and company. You’ll do. At least till I decide otherwise.” In the utter (and justified) confidence that spineless human will comply. 150
Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 14/08/2024This - via John Naughton - is magical. Something truly lovely about a shared, simple academic thrill of discovery. youtu.be/LUxFzh8r384?...youtu.beThe Babylonian Map of the World with Irving Finkel | Curator’s Corner S9 Ep5YouTube video by The British Museum 2101
