iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 17/06/2025

CN at home. NG in chambers. Lord know what that says about me.

Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 16/05/2025

Being 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.

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Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 08/04/2025

Alongside 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

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Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 24/03/2025

Clearly a cat problem. Not a "my cat" problem.

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Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 19/03/2025

I wish I was surprised. I realise they’re probably dirt cheap. But businesses that use Evri are telling a story about how much they value their reputation, and our custom. I’ll be happy to pay close attention to that story in future.

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Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 18/03/2025

New 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.

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Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 18/02/2025

Nothing 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.org

The hardest working font in Manhattan

A story of a 150-year-old font you have never heard of – and one you probably saw earlier today.

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Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 05/02/2025

Interesting 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...

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2025ii4, 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...

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Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 03/02/2025

Mornings like this - crisp and clear, with the light just the right shade of gold on the water - make it such a privilege to work in this city. The walk from fenchurch street to the temple along the Thames path is a blessing. Especially now there’s no more need to detour along upper Thames street.

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Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 29/01/2025

Jason 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...

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Gang Starr & Branford Marsalis / Jazz Thing (Instrumental) / 1990

YouTube video by tw19751

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Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 28/01/2025

I'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.com

repebble.com

We're bringing Pebble back!

Eight years later, you still can't beat a Pebble

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Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 15/01/2025

After 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!)

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Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 31/12/2024

This whole thread. And especially this.

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Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 23/12/2024

That’s beautiful and worthy indeed, Adam. A reminder that faith (in others, in a future worth fighting for), hope and love are the great virtues - and it doesn’t matter whether religion underpins them or not. I hope it won’t feel rude if I remember you and your mum on Friday. Her echo lives on.

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Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 20/12/2024

Sure am. Hoping you’ll find your way there one day…

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Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 16/12/2024

From left to right, I had numbers 2 and 4 at one point… just wonderful.

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Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 10/12/2024

I 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.com

58 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.

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Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 07/12/2024

This, 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.

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Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 04/12/2024

“May have”. Hypothetical nerd purchases are the best nerd purchases.

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Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 02/12/2024

One 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.

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Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 28/11/2024

Point. But it could be built into the first appearance which is always going to take place, and perhaps one part of such a reform would be that all such first apps are before a district judge, not a bench.

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Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 28/11/2024

Your 1 and 3 might combine well - part of the prelim hearing might be to justify the Full Code Test reasoning, for instance. One could still offer privileged advice; but a statement of why a case passes the test could be public, and open to scrutiny and argument.

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Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 28/11/2024

There’s a place for private prosecution, in a world where the public sector just doesn’t (or can’t) turn up. But better controls, and real and painful sanctions for misconduct, are a must. As for SJP: only a fundamental rethink (at the very least) will do. Or scrapping it and starting over.

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Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 21/11/2024

I continue to treasure - honestly! - all the (many) occasions when mine started a sentence with “I don’t want to hurt your feelings, but…” before delivering some devastating, but deserved, critique. All the more effective because genuinely delivered with love and sincerity, and without malice.

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Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 21/11/2024

This 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.com

Underrated ways to change the world

How to get a good heart unstuck

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Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 20/11/2024

Also of note: the elegant, subtle way in which Saru’s relationship with T’Rina is character-led, with story emerging therefrom. I love scifi, but it often doesn’t get that the right way round. (Kanan/Hera being an honourable exception.) With these two fabulous actors, and caring writing: nailed it.

therefrom.love

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Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 20/11/2024

Finally (!) 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.

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Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 20/11/2024

A 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.com

239# A Newsletter for the Culturally Curious

SHARPENING MY PENCILS

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Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 16/11/2024

More and more gutted that my stuff went the way of all things. This is just glorious.

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Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 13/11/2024

Blood Bowl as a gateway drug for RPGs. Love it. Found an archive of all the old (pre-Warhammer only) White Dwarfs as PDFs. Astonishing how evocative they are.

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Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 12/11/2024

Pretty certain I had that edition of shadowrun too. Good times.

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Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 12/11/2024

Spend 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.

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Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 12/11/2024

Gotta love the GDW deep cuts there. All my old paper stuff got lost in parental house moves decades ago. I still miss my #Traveller little black books. PDF just isn’t the same…

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Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 07/11/2024

Half way through. Excellent, although the constant throwaway reference to things "which will be discussed in a later chapter" is a stylistic wrinkle that rankles.

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Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 01/11/2024

Arrived on Wednesday. First 20 or so pages promise good things...

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Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 01/11/2024

I'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.

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Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 30/10/2024

A boss-level example of what in old school Paranoia (the West End Games original - god, how I loved it) used to be the Spurious Logic skill. Class.

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Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 29/10/2024

From the description, pretty certain I will. And I feel for you. Moving house can be misery squared...

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Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 29/10/2024

The history book now ordered. Looks fantastic.

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Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 29/10/2024

Haven’t Acolyted yet. I’ve a few days off next week. Might binge it then.

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Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 29/10/2024

Rebels is worth your time. Occasionally it remembers it’s meant to be a kid’s show and panders unsuccessfully to that. But mostly (particularly in season 3 and then spectacularly in season 4) does honour to its subject matter. At its best, it’s superb. And totally sticks the landing. No BSG here.

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Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 29/10/2024

If you think that’s weak, come and look at the ahsoka t-6 sitting on a shelf in my room in chambers…

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Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 29/10/2024

I’m usually ok with a retcon that works. But when it doesn’t… oh boy. Sore thumb.

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Jeremy Scott-Joynt @jcsj.uk · 29/10/2024

And balls. Just noticed I wrote ST, not SW. Sigh.

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