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John Johnston @johnjohnston.info · 26/09/2026

Park Pond, two young dabchicks with one or two parents. Never saw the parents at the same time. Fishing & feeding the wee ones. About 10 metres along another adult & young one. Was surprised as I’ve not seen many about over the summer. Nesting in the space between Islands out of sight I guess?

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John Johnston @johnjohnston.info · 24/09/2026

Lots of the ivy was alive with hoverflies wasps & bees on Tuesday. Lots of buzzing!

Hoverfly perched on a cluster of ivy flowers surrounded by green leaves.

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John Johnston @johnjohnston.info · 20/09/2026

Blustery afternoon on path to Greenside, mostly blue sky. Despite the wind a few butterflies, peacocks, painted lady, red admiral & a few speckled woods. Goldfinch in the meadowsweet. A raven circled high in the blue. The news reported less speckled woods this year, but I’ve seem more than ever.

Speckled Wood butterfly with brown, cream-spotted wings resting on a textured green leaf.

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John Johnston @johnjohnston.info · 20/09/2026

I am experimenting with gathering links with rss.chat here. I am pulling a rough post together for some of the links gathered there. Education This looks like a very interesting book. "As important as her deep reporting on the tech indust... johnjohnston.info/blog/life-in-link…

Montage of webpages: Coding Kids: Big Tech’s Battle to Remake Public Schools | Washington Independent Review of Books Todd's AI Playground Custom Post Types, Taxonomies, or Custom Fields: Which Should You Use? - Meta Box WordPress 7.0 Multisite: Did You Notice the New Connectors Screen in Subsites? – Lena’s Multisite & BuddyPress Mayhem Where The River (ft. Earl 16) | Soul Revivers ‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft OpenAI's rebel agent swarm died young, but its chilling logs live on An $18bn settlement – and Zuckerberg barely blinked. The tech titans must be stripped of their power, and soon | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian PlotLines - the classics, mapped

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John Johnston @johnjohnston.info · 16/09/2026

Just has an email telling me telex has been retired. Telex was built onto of WordPress playground and allowed you to crate with A.I. plugins and themes. I experimented and made a few. Kept a bit of a record of the prompts I used and the problems I cam... johnjohnston.info/blog/telex-retired

Screenshot of Website Testing Telex. WordPress Query Loop grid, posts illustrated with bitmap image.

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John Johnston @johnjohnston.info · 13/09/2026

Greenside morning, brighter than expected. Sunshine brought out the butterflies. Mostly Painted Ladies with a lot of Speckled Woods. One very battered Small Tortoiseshell. Near the reservoir a flock of about 50 or so mixed goldfinch & linnets, s... johnjohnston.info/blog/greenside-in…

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John Johnston @johnjohnston.info · 07/09/2026

3 photos of a raven, imagemagick B&W & montage. #corvid #raven

A montage of 3 photos of a raven in flight. Black and white, same raven.

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John Johnston @johnjohnston.info · 03/09/2026

Victoria Park, drizzle them brightened, a couple of white butterflies over the flower beds. Went to investigate. Among the bright flowers were a few thistles. A couple of bees working over the thistles ignoring the other flowers. One butterfly came off a thistle too. Not sure which type of white.

Heron sitting in willow tree winds folded open

Heron sitting on a curved branch, grooming

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John Johnston @johnjohnston.info · 29/08/2026

Out to Greenside this morning, warm, close and sometimes sunny. Butterflies: Green-veined Whites, several spotted woods, peacocks, small tortoiseshells & painted ladies on thistles. I rather like this odd view of a painted lady. few more photos on f... johnjohnston.info/blog/painted-lady

Painted Lady Butterfly on a knapweed flower. tHe butterfly is at an odd angle, facing the camera, wings outstretched, we only see aa little of the top and underside,

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John Johnston @johnjohnston.info · 23/08/2026

#bloomstrolling for #bloomscrolling in Glen Douglas yesterday. Lots of sparkles on the ground. #flora.

A 3x3 grig of images, 8 wildflowers round a maps showing where they were taken. From topleft: Eyebright, milkwort, devil's bit scabious, bog heather, map, round leafed sundew, ling, lousewort, hawkbit (or something like it)

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John Johnston @johnjohnston.info · 12/08/2026

Insects, from a walk round Ardmore point yesterday.

A Speckled Wood butterfly resting on yorkshire fog grass head

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John Johnston @johnjohnston.info · 02/08/2026

A lot of white butterflies (mostly green-veined, large & small) out & about on Friday. Some flightily red admirals too. Later, beside the track an excited green-veined white butterfly fluttering amount the leaves. Underneath a leaf a small white hanging upside down. Misplaced affection?

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John Johnston @johnjohnston.info · 31/07/2026

Talking a short walk along the Kelvin between Kelvin Bridge & The Botanics while my wife was in the dentist. These sunlit leaves above the path pulled in this speckled wood. Another flew over some sparkling water through light & shade. A happy moment.

A speckled wood butterfly resting on some sunlit leaves.

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John Johnston @johnjohnston.info · 16/07/2026

Given the good weather there are quite a lot of butterflies around this week. This one looks like an old one that has been in the wars, black faded and very ragged. I wonder what tales it could tell. My butterfly by month page is building nicely.

A faded Red Admiral nectering on ragwort.

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John Johnston @johnjohnston.info · 09/07/2026

Short walk to Greenside reservoir this morning. Warm, mostly sunny. Lots of butterflies around. I’d guess I saw over 200 ringlets; a lot of painted ladies & meadow browns. A few common blues & red admirals ,one small tortoiseshell ... johnjohnston.info/blog/butterfly-mo…

3x3 grid of 8 images round a central map of where they were taken. From Top left: Painted Lady; peacock butterfly caterpillars; small skipper; Small tortoiseshell; map;2 Meadow Browns mating; small blue; ringlet; red admiral

Butterfly, looks like a small skipper, on a gras head.

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John Johnston @johnjohnston.info · 03/07/2026

Guided Tours in WordPress: johnjohnston.info/blog/guided-tours… A note about the guided tour facility in the Pootlepress Blueprint Generator for the WordPress playground.

Animated gif of screenshots of a 'tour' of the wordpress dashboard made with pootlepress playground.

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John Johnston @johnjohnston.info · 28/06/2026

Today’s daily create #tdc5280 #ds106 #dailycreate #ShowYourStripes point toward the #ShowYourStripes webpage that very neatly shows "visual representations of the change in temperature as measured in each country, region or city over... johnjohnston.info/blog/climate-biod…

An image showing the decline, 86%, in British moths from 1970 to 2018 The highest level of biodiversity is coloured bright green. Lower levels move through yellow to grey, depending upon the level of decline. Darker greys appear with greater declines.

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John Johnston @johnjohnston.info · 25/06/2026

Life in Links 67: johnjohnston.info/blog/life-in-link… A varied collection of links some of which have been sitting in my notes for a while. Frank Cottrell-Boyce: ‘We’ve treated a generation of chil… They miss school? “School is where our kids feel secure. It’s where they’re fed. It’...

A montage of screenshots of the eight webpages discussed.

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John Johnston @johnjohnston.info · 14/06/2026

Walk around Victoria park this afternoon. Warm and quite sunny. Lots of small damselflies out on the pond.

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John Johnston @johnjohnston.info · 05/06/2026

TIL copy all tabs in iOS safari. On mac, I have a nice wee AppleScript that copies to the clipboard links to all my open tabs in Safari’s top window. I’ve always been a bit frustrated that I couldn’t do the same on iOS. But I can. Tab view then the ellipsis at the top right, copy n tabs.

Screenshot of Tab menu in the all tabs view of Safari on iPhone. The Menu item "Copy 500 Links" is hilited in yellow and circled in red.

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John Johnston @johnjohnston.info · 26/05/2026

Sunday Morning on the Braes: johnjohnston.info/blog/sunday-morni… Walked out to Dumcolm on Sunday morning. A quiet day, although it looked as if it was getting busy later. Lots of birds singing, lots of flowers showing. Warm, sunny until 9am or so, then light cloud.

%x3 grid, 14 photos round a map where they were taken. From Top Left: Water Avens, bare tree branches in silhouette, looking back to wards Glasgow; a cuckoo on a post; orange tip butterfly, male with wings outspread; Green-veined white on cuckoo flower. Post with a loch behind; MAP; violet flower; primroses; bog cotton; two stonechats; small copper butterfly; painted lady butterfly; speedwell flowers.

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John Johnston @johnjohnston.info · 23/05/2026

Walk round Ardinning this afternoon. Cuckoos calling. Willow warblers & ravens heard. Corn bunting & stonechats seen & heard. Warm & breezy plenty of butterflies, mostly Orange Tips & Green-Veined whites, a Painted Lady. A few small red damselflies didn’t stay still although one landed on D’s hat.

3x3 grid of images. Photos with a map of where they were taken in the middle. From Top Left, painted lady butterfly, green-veined white butterfly, herb robert, path through bluebells, map, cuckoo flower, blaeberries, Tormentil, Ardinning Lock.

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John Johnston @johnjohnston.info · 15/05/2026

I had a walk around Ardmore yesterday afternoon. Lots of flower out. #BloomScrolling #BloomStrolling #Flora

A montage of photos round the map where they were taken. red campion, stitchwort, Wild Garlic, bluebells, thrift, scurvygrass, lousewort, Map, speedwell, Bird's-foot-trefoil, sea campion, Yellow Flag, Cuckoo Flower, sweet cicely, Green Alkanet

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John Johnston @johnjohnston.info · 13/05/2026

Went for a walk round the park this afternoon. Hailstones in May!

Heron head, blue water behind with raindrops

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John Johnston @johnjohnston.info · 08/05/2026

The hawthorn is starting to come out in the park.

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John Johnston @johnjohnston.info · 30/04/2026

Victoria Park this afternoon sunny and very warm. In a sheltered spot near fossil grove we watched 2 Speckled Woods spiral, jousting up and around for quite a while. A Red Admiral and a coupe of orange tip butterflies around too.

Speckled Wood butterfly resting on a green leaf, wings closed.

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John Johnston @johnjohnston.info · 26/04/2026

Life in Links 66: johnjohnston.info/blog/life-in-link… I've not posted a set of links for a while, keep saving them, but retired life is busier than I thought it would be.

Montage of screenshot of thewebpages linked to in the article. Own Your Web – Issue 18: Curators • Buttondown Own Your Web • Buttondown About - Link Punk: A Linkblog i.webthings hub Commonplace Puter

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John Johnston @johnjohnston.info · 24/04/2026

Ardinning this afternoon. Very sunny & bright. A few butterflies, mostly peacocks & some orange tips. A couple of peacocks spiralled up high. Cuckoos calling. At the bench beside the loch we heard a big splash. Looking round through the bushes we saw an osprey come out of the water & fly off.

A tranquil lake under a clear blue sky, bordered by trees and low shrubbery

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John Johnston @johnjohnston.info · 23/04/2026

Short walk on the Kilpatrick Braes this afternoon. Warmest day of the year so far. Quite a few butterflies, peacocks and Orange Tips around. Lots of wee flowers. The usual suspects singing in the trees, a grouse & stonechat on the moor. Larks singing. #bloomscrolling #bloomstrolling

A 3x3 montage, 8 phots around a map of where they were taken. From the top left: Lesser Celandine, dog violets, primrose. Wood anemone, map, chestnet leaves and flower bud. Dandelion, bluebells, wood sorrel

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John Johnston @johnjohnston.info · 19/04/2026

Took the short walk to Greenside reservoir this morning. Lots of spring happening, bird song, especially chiffchaff & willow warbler. Heard blackcaps (confirmed with merlin) and finally saw some. A cuckoo calling, the first this year. A few butterflies around including one small tortoiseshell.

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John Johnston @johnjohnston.info · 17/04/2026

Walk in the rain round the short Kilpatrick loop this morning. Lots of birds singing mostly out of sight. Tree pipets in good voice, & displaying in the trees at the edge of the moor. Blackthorn fully out, trees starting to bud. Flowers hanging their heads in the drizzle.

montage of 8 photos around a map of the locatinos they were taken. 3x3
From Top left: Tree pipit signing in branches, silhouette; Violet; blackthorn blossom; primrose; map; pheasant's egg; horse chestnut leaves coming out; Wood-Sorrel; opposite-leaved golden-saxifrage

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John Johnston @johnjohnston.info · 17/04/2026

A haze of blackthorn in the Drizzle.

A drizzle smeared landscape with yellow gorse, green hawthorn bushes, and white blooming blackthorn under a hazy hillside backdrop.

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John Johnston @johnjohnston.info · 07/04/2026

Kilpatrick Braes, the blackthorn here still in bud, later than others places I’ve been recently. Warm & sunny with a bit of a breeze. Few bumble bees out exploring the ground. Several butterflies, probably peacocks, rushed by. Lots of birds ... johnjohnston.info/blog/kilpatrick-b…

A narrow path through a grassy area with sparse trees and a mostly clear sky. Moorland beyond.

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John Johnston @johnjohnston.info · 30/03/2026

AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying -Kevin T Baker – Guardian 28 March 2026. Lots more worry about in this article, but this jumped out.

photo of clipping from Guardian newspaper. Text: The Maven interface looks like a military-skinned version of corporate project management software crossed with a mapping application. What the military analyst building the target list sees is either a map layered with intelligence data or a screen organised into columns, each representing a stage of the targeting process. Individual targets move across the columns from left to right as they progress through each stage, a format borrowed from Kanban, a "lean manufacturing" workflow system developed at Toyota, and now widely used in software development.

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John Johnston @johnjohnston.info · 26/03/2026

A raven flew through the trees and circled above. on each loop diving, folding & twisting in a relaxed, effortless way, despite the speed.

composite image of a raven circling & diving. Black & White

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John Johnston @johnjohnston.info · 25/03/2026

Spring this morning was followed by sleet and the some hail in the afternoon.

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John Johnston @johnjohnston.info · 21/03/2026

WordPress, the new HyperCard?: johnjohnston.info/blog/wordpress-th… Iâve Ben trying out my.wordpress.net and can see some interesting parallels with my all time favourite software HyperCard.

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John Johnston @johnjohnston.info · 19/03/2026

Rather a blurry photo, but the first peacock butterfly of the year for me. Saw quite a few on the Greenside Reservoir track this afternoon. A warm day, bumble bees flying.

A blurry photo of a peacock butterfly sunning on a log

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