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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 24/09/2026

Well, that's certainly an interesting dark pattern I've not seen before...

Screenshot of an unsubscribe page that switches language halfway through to make it more difficult to update the unsubscribe form

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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 08/09/2026

The garden is grateful for another sprinkling of rain after such a dry summer 🌱

A close up photo of a pink rose in bloom, showered in tiny rain droplets

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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 12/08/2026

Attempting to photograph the eclipse through a welding helmet...

Photo of the eclipse through my partner's welding helmet. The moon is blocking around two thirds of the sun.

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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 25/06/2026

Using her air fryer to.... boil eggs?

A screenshot of a BBC news piece about keeping cool in the heat. Under a photo of a very dry looking piece of steak thrown onto some iceberg lettuce is the caption "Aimie has been using her air fryer to boil eggs and cook steak"

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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 25/06/2026

Oh well, here goes nothing

A screenshot of the Intuit "global communications center" confirming that I've unsubscribed

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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 25/06/2026

Method one: log in and choose "opt out of all Mailchimp marketing communications". I'm *already* opted out:

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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 21/05/2026

Would I like them to find me people who *require* underperforming website performance? Seems like the antithesis of what I do to be honest 🧐

Screenshot of a cold sales email that says: "Hi Jem, Would you like me to get you lots of founders and directors from e-commerce stores and agencies who require underperforming website performance this June?"

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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 07/05/2026

And despite unsubscribing to the shit I didn't actually subscribe to, they're still emailing me...

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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 30/04/2026

Turns out it doesn't matter whether you opt-in or not, they'll send you shit anyway.

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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 27/04/2026

Shady opt OUT practice on the Mailchimp sign up page. You'd think a company that works in this space would know better.

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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 23/04/2026

I could be wrong, but I think someone's trying to reset my passwords...

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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 20/02/2026

This is actually my worst score yet 😆

Results from the colour game - Jem wins with 43.6, Rhys loses with 37.6

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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 10/02/2026

I too am a web design Telford based company

A screenshot of a web page with the paragraph "We are a web design Telford based company" which isn't spammy at all (sarcasm)

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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 03/09/2025

Calm your tits New Look, it's been an hour

A screenshot of the top two emails in my inbox. One is a new order notification from New Look at 06:24 today, the second is a discount code from New Look at 07:41 with the subject line "We miss you! Here's a special discount code to prove it..."

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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 16/08/2025

I've had it twice, but I was referring more generally to Embers 😂

A picture of the steak and eggs I had for breakfast this morning, at Embers Café in Coalbrookdale, Shropshire

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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 06/08/2025

Potentially taking on a new client so have backed up their site to download and audit it first (pretty standard stuff). Backup completed OK but the host wants to charge extra to download it? This is absolutely outrageous upselling. Looking at you Siteground.

Screenshot of a modal window that appears if I try to download a manual backup from the Siteground backup tool. The modal tells me that to unlock my backup I need to pay for Premium Backup services, an additional monthly charge.

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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 05/08/2025

Thanks Google, I don't know how I'll cope with the emotional impact of you bringing up this memory.

A screenshot of the Google Photos interface with the caption of "Best of July" on a thumbnail of a photo I took in July. The photo in question is of two bags of Birds Eye chicken nuggets, one pack breaded and one battered.

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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 23/05/2025

Yeah that's really helpful PayPal, thanks.

A screenshot of a PayPal page after I just sent someone money. The page includes the PayPal branded header and footer, but has absolutely no content. The URL indicates it is the "success" page, but who knows whether or not my transaction has gone through.

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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 18/05/2025

A busy bee, in my favourite rose; a gift from @gazchap.com 🌱

A multicoloured rose flower. The centre of the rose starts bright yellow and then fades to almost white towards the edge of the petals. There are deep pink flecks and lines on some of the petals, mostly towards the outer edges.

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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 16/05/2025

The climbing rose I planted last year is really going for it this year! 🌱

A climbing rose growing up a tired old fence. Many large white blooms are visible.

A closer look at the large blooms of my climbing rose.

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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 01/04/2025

Today I saw a linkedin headline that said "I fire people for a living and replace them with AI" Imagine being the kind of human that believes this bullshit. 🤢 Let's yeet this shit into the sea already.

A man in a top hat & suit yeets an elegantly dressed lady off a cliff into the sea

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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 27/03/2025

It's a good job the PHP mascot is an elephant otherwise I might take this personally 😂

My "codebeast" generated by AI. It's a blue elephant head and body with a peacock's tail feathers. It seems to have multiple drinks on the go, so is definitely bisexual.

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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 18/03/2025

Auditing a site for a prospective new client today. This never gets old.

Screenshot of a code editor showing an array of forcibly disabled plugins, one of which is the "pipdig power pack plugin". I outed pipdig for planting backdoors and malicious code to ddos competitors on their client sites back in 2019.

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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 23/01/2025

Severn Trent's new billing portal has stronger password requirements than my online banking. Doesn't work though - every attempt to update throws a "please try again later" error 🫠

Must be at least 15 characters long
Include both uppercase and lowercase letters
Include at least one number and one special character (e.g. £, #, %)
Cannot match your last 3 passwords
Must not contain your account number, email, or common passwords (e.g. “password”, “football”)

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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 10/01/2025

I cancelled my last hair appointment in November because I had a couple of unavoidable meetings. Think I might need to hurry up & rearrange it... 🫣😂

Selfie taken just now. My hair is sticking up in all directions and my usual shaved sides have completely grown out.

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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 24/12/2024

This'll have to do, I suppose 👀

Jem holding an open bottle of champagne in front of the Christmas tree. She may or may not have had a glass already.

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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 28/11/2024

Beautiful pink tinge to the sky out there this morning, and a heavy frost on my herbs 🌱

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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 26/11/2024

If you see this, post a picture of yourself looking silly and/or fabulous.

Selfie of Jem and her partner Shane at the 90s festival in Birmingham earlier this year, Jem is sticking her tongue out and pulling a silly face as she leans backwards into Shane's shoulder

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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 25/11/2024

The hardest part of today's workout wasn't the lifting, it was working out the maths on this monstrosity 😂 Santa needs to bring me some 5kg plates 🎅

$A photo of one side of a loaded barbell with a 20kg plate, 2 x 2.5kg plates, a 1.25kg plate, and then 4 fractional plates at 1kg, 0.75kg, 0.5kg and 0.25kg. It looks ridiculous.$

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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 21/11/2024

Few days ago I was saying I couldn't believe how much was still flowering, and just like that, it's all gone... buried under the weight of 3+ consecutive snows.

A photo of a slowly wilting Cosmos flower laden with fresh snow, pink petals gently curling as they succumb to the sudden harsh temperatures.

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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 21/11/2024

That feeling when you're doing a search and replace and accidentally leave "regular expression" turned on 🙃

A screenshot of a Notepad++ window where I've tried to replace "[LOCATION]" with "$location" but because regular expression is turned on, it's had disastrous consequences, with every L, O, C, A, T, I, O and N being replaced with $location

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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 20/11/2024

Someone is enjoying the snow though

Photo of a slim yellow Labrador wearing a red collar, sat patiently waiting at the bottom of a snowy field. He's waiting for me to throw his ball. His name is Sherbet.

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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 19/11/2024

I asked a kid at the top of my road if I could take a picture of his snowman. He looked dead proud until halfway through the photo Sherbet decided it'd be a great time to poop (not pictured). Kinda ruined the moment, not gonna lie.

A small snowman with stones for eyes and a cute carrot nose

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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 16/11/2024

Yes! Big fan of these bad boys. Although too many give me heartburn (I'm so old 😂)

Photo of Moth: Margarita tiny tinny (premixed cocktail in a tin)

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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 15/11/2024

Misloaded the bar, missed a micro plate from one side. I'm a liability to myself and everyone around me (just bob, actually)

A "bob" man-shaped punch bag thingy, designed for practicing martial arts on. He watches me as I squat. Pervert.

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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 15/11/2024

But my recent pictures look like this 🫣

Jem, with short dyed red hair, wearing a white t-shirt featuring a lady bathing in a pint of guinness and a salmon coloured waterproof jacket. Jem is shoving a chocolate covered cronut into her mouth.

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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 14/11/2024

I love automated mass mailings to my old freelance biz, they make me feel weirdly detached from myself

A screenshot of the top of a mass marketed spam email to my old freelancing email address. The subject line reads: "Jem, I'd like to ask a question about Jem Turner". The start of the email reads: "Hello Jem, I emailed you a few days ago about Jem Turner".

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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 12/11/2024

We went out again this morning but on the streets/road this time. This is how we got on...

A screenshot of a Strava pace graph for a 4.5km run with various dips in pace annotated according to reason: "Wee, Wee, Poo, Sniff, Poo, Sniff, Sniff". Graph ends with a sudden increase in pace, annotated with: "realises he's nearly home"

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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 10/11/2024

Ran with Sherbet for the first time this morning. It was one of the reasons I got him but his lead manners have been so bad historically, that it's taken 3 years to get to this point 😅 Four miles and he doesn't seem remotely tired.

Photo of a yellow Labrador lounging against a yellow cushion on a black leather sofa. There's dog hair everywhere (of course)

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