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Martin Paul Eve @mpe.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

I had a most cheering visit from Dr Paula Clement Vega this afternoon!

A picture of me, Martin Paul Eve, and Paula Clemente Vega in a hospital room - we are smiling and happy.

A picture of me, Martin Paul Eve, and Paula Clemente Vega in a hospital room - we are smiling and happy and Paula is tilting her body and raising her arm in an amusing way. We are both laughing.

Martin Paul Eve @mpe.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

I do actually love Sundays, with the quiet, non-dialysis afternoon. I get but two of these per week, on Wednesday and Sunday. A friend will visit later, but for now I am writing.

A picture of me, Martin Paul Eve, writing at a computer, in a hospital, with a hospital wrist band and an Apple Mac computer running a Linux virtual machine. I am a white man, here with germinative beard and longer hair than usual by a long way (but still fairly short). I am wearing a Janeway t-shirt.

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Martin Paul Eve @mpe.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Emergency supply of caffeinated tea: delivered to the hospital by Mrs Eve this week. Saviour.

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Martin Paul Eve @mpe.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

I can safely report that this is a deeply tedious document. It includes the instruction "do not watch pornography during the nurse's visit". It horrifies me that this has happened and they must prevent it again. 🤢

The front page of the Home Parenteral Support Services in England Patients Charter (Version 3)

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Martin Paul Eve @mpe.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

Ready for tomorrow's transfer to London. It will be a bit like this, I imagine.

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Martin Paul Eve @mpe.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

Blood transfusion -- Blade vampire squad -- underway.

A picture of a bag of blood, being transfused. The blood is next to an active dialysis machine.

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Martin Paul Eve @mpe.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

@keith Hello Keith, I was just reading your blog and very much enjoying the move away from DigitalOcean posts. I then dived into the PDS stuff with respect to Bluesky and wanted to say that I could not get to, or the links weren't active at the end of, this […] [Original post on hcommons.social]

A screenshot of a section of a website that says 'links' with a set of inactive links, or plain text.

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Martin Paul Eve @mpe.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Also, the totally gratuitous Le Creuset Star Trek Galileo Shuttlecraft casserole dish that we bought arrived! www.lecreuset.co.uk/en_GB/p/star-tr… This one is absolutely hilarious and […] [Original post on hcommons.social]

The Le Creuset Star Trek Collection Galileo Shuttlecraft Rectangular Casserole

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Martin Paul Eve @mpe.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Ha - I made it to the front page of Hacker News! Level-up achievement. Though they all say my book is too long...

Screenshot of the Hacker News homepage showing a list of ranked stories. At number 24 is “Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy (2021)” from archive.org, with 42 points, posted by “succinct_ideas” 8 hours ago, and 5 comments. A large red arrow points directly at the Warez listing.

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Martin Paul Eve @mpe.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Yesterday's nadir was dangerously bad. Today, with oxygen, morphine and IV antibiotics, I managed to read some stuff online in between sleeping. And video chat... "HELLO, YES THIS IS DOG!"

My dog Luka -- a big black husky-labrador thing -- smiling with his tongue out, on a video call with me at the bottom right. I am receiving supplemental oxygen.

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Martin Paul Eve @mpe.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

Managed to get my first totally automated submission to BIROn using SWORD working today eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/57894

An image of my submission to BIROn called "A further health update..."

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Martin Paul Eve @mpe.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

There is a new 20th edition of David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas just published that features a foreword by Gabrielle Zevin. Zevin's foreword has this footnote. It's a shame she can't get my name right or actually even cite the actual piece(s) in question. But hey!

For example, the scholar Paul Martin Eve figured out that there were inconsistencies between the first British edition and the first American edition. Readers of Cloud Atlas don’t miss much.

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Martin Paul Eve @mpe.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

I receive a commission request from Times Higher Education. I note that they do not pay contributors, and that their consideration in the contract is "promotion".

Four-panel The Oatmeal comic satirising requests for creative work in exchange for “exposure.” In the first panel, one character says, “Hello creative person! Thanks for making that thing!” The creator replies, “You’re welcome. Here’s an invoice.” In the second, the customer rejects it: “An invoice? Never mind that! You’re doing it for the EXPOSURE!” In the third, a hand gives the delighted creator a banknote labelled “EXPOSURE!” and says, “Here’s your EXPOSURE!” The creator replies, “Oh wow that’s a ton of EXPOSURE! Thank you!” In the final panel, captioned “LATER,” the creator tries to pay for food at a street cart with the exposure note, asking, “Do you accept these?” The vendor replies, “haha fuck no.”

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Martin Paul Eve @mpe.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

[I am on a social media break but still posting health/project updates] I remain in hospital on IV feeding. I will need this for a long time, it seems. I also now have a bad pneumonia and am on heavy duty IV antibiotics. I contracted this because of my […] [Original post on hcommons.social]

A medical intravenous pump device with digital frontage

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Martin Paul Eve @mpe.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

This photo of Luka at home is cheering me up in hospital.

A photo of Luka, a large black dog of indeterminate breed. He has a grizzled white face as he is 11 years old. His tongue is out and he has a happy expression.

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Martin Paul Eve @mpe.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

I have an excellent, knowledgeable and helpful rheumatologist whose first name is Mohammed. He doesn't call himself Dr <Surname> but instead opts for "Dr Mo". This is all very nice and familiar, but I can't help but think of...

Dr. No from the 1962 James Bond film, 'Dr. No'. He is wearing a white up-collared shirt with black gloves on. There are large candles on the left of the image. The character is played by Joseph Wiseman, who, according to Wikipedia, is a "Canadian-born American actor of stage and screen". He is a white male, with a receding hairline but a strong black hair high on the forehead. He has no beard or mustache. He has a sinister air/look!

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Martin Paul Eve @mpe.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

I was interviewed by Mitsutoshi Horii on the "crisis" of the humanities and the universities. works.hcommons.org/records/ejxeg-63…

A screenshot of Martin Paul Eve and Mitsutoshi Horii

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Martin Paul Eve @mpe.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

FREAK. LE FREAK, C'EST CHIC. New Fluke t-shirts ("Freak", "Absurd") arrived here, today. The band also sent me an extra one ("Bullet") just as a gift! fluke.fm/resources/official/the-sec…

A picture of me smiling at the camera in front of wooden cupboards, wearing glasses and a burgundy Fluke T-shirt with the word “Freak” across the chest in a heavily stylised pale-pink font.

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Martin Paul Eve @mpe.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026

One of my sisters-in-law is currently at the Margate "Kate Bush Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever" event and it looks hilarious 😂 I couldn't attend due to dialysis but I regret this! Haha!

A large outdoor gathering of people dressed almost entirely in red fills a seafront plaza for a mass performance inspired by Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights. Hundreds of participants, many wearing flowing red dresses, skirts, or tops, are spread across stepped terraces and open paving, chatting and preparing to dance. In the foreground, a marshal in a high-visibility orange vest stands among the crowd, while speakers, barriers, and potted plants frame the performance area. Bright yellow and orange pop-up gazebos sit behind the dancers, with a large brick building and blue sky with scattered clouds in the background. The atmosphere is festive and communal, capturing the scale and anticipation of the famous Kate Bush The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever dance gathering.

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Martin Paul Eve @mpe.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026

Wikipedia's article of the day is the Nile and it's bringing back amazing memories for me. If I could do one thing in my life again, a riverboat down the Nile, in Egypt, would be it. (However, if there's one thing in my life that it is most unlikely I will […] [Original post on hcommons.social]

A picture of me, smiling, wearing a light-coloured wide-brimmed sun hat, long-sleeved shirt, and backpack stands beside a signpost in a sunlit desert landscape of pale limestone hills, in Egypt's Valley of the Kings. One hand rests on my hip as I pose for the camera. The signpost points in two directions and reads: "TOMB OF TUT ANKH AMON NO: 62" on the left arrow and "TOMB OF MERNEPTAH NO: 8" on the right arrow. Low white stone walls border the path in the foreground, while the barren rocky hills rise behind under a cloudless deep blue sky. Warm late-afternoon sunlight casts long shadows across the scene.

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Martin Paul Eve @mpe.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026

I finally read Han Kang's The Vegetarian. Certainly a disturbing, unsettling, and poetic book. Compelling and intriguing, but violent. I have not properly collected my thoughts on it yet but suspect it will remain with me for a while.

Alt text: Book cover for The Vegetarian by Han Kang. Across the top, in bright magenta uppercase text, it reads: “WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE”. Beneath this, the author's name appears in very large bold black capitals: “HAN KANG”.

Below the author's name are two review quotations:

“‘An extraordinary experience’” — Guardian

“‘Terrifying and terrific’” — Lauren Groff

The central artwork is a stylised, close-up image of a pale human torso and shoulder against a dark grey background. The body is decorated with flat, graphic flowers in vivid colours. Three large white daisy-like flowers with bright magenta centres are placed across the shoulder, chest, and lower torso. Four smaller red flowers with black centres—some resembling poppies and others with elongated petals—are scattered around them. The composition is minimalist, with smooth gradients and high contrast between the pale skin and the saturated floral colours.

At the bottom, the title appears in very large bold black uppercase letters: “THE VEGETARIAN”

Directly beneath the English title is the Korean title in bright magenta: “채식주의자”.

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Martin Paul Eve @mpe.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026

I am impressed by their "Try Eliza" page: findingeliza.org/try.html (Though it does show how bad this chatbot is, by contemporary standards) It's a Javascript implementation, with source here […] [Original post on hcommons.social]

Screenshot of an ELIZA chatbot simulation styled as a dark green, retro computer terminal. A header reads “ELIZA · DOCTOR · CTSS (EMULATED),” beside three glowing green circles. The conversation appears in green monospaced text, with ELIZA’s responses in uppercase:

“HOW DO YOU DO. PLEASE TELL ME YOUR PROBLEM
I cannot sleep
HOW DO YOU KNOW YOU CAN’T SLEEP
Because I am awake most of the night!
IS THAT THE REAL REASON
Err, yes
YOU SEEM QUITE POSITIVE
Well, I have to get up and make a cup of tea to try to go back to sleep
YOU SAY YOU HAVE TO GET UP AND MAKE A CUP OF TEA TO TRY TO GO BACK TO SLEEP
Funnily enough, yes
YOU ARE SURE”

At the bottom is an input prompt reading: “> type and press enter…”

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Martin Paul Eve @mpe.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

I will be giving a keynote at the ACM Hypertext 2026 conference, hopefully in person, though this is dependent on health. But I love these countdown banners. As though there is an urgency to get tickets to see me (and others) speak. Ha! ht.acm.org/ht2026

White webpage screenshot for “Hypertext 2026.” Text reads: “Hypertext 2026. London, England. September 14–18 2026.” Centered below is a magenta countdown timer reading “66 : 13 : 08 : 09,” labelled “DAYS HRS MINS SECS.” At the bottom, a block quote with a vertical black line reads: “The topic of Hypertext 2026 is Hypertext as Method. More than just a technological structure, hypertext embodies a way of thinking – nonlinear, networked, dynamic – that allows new forms of storytelling, new approaches to argumentation, new approaches to sense-making and knowledge.”

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Martin Paul Eve @mpe.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

I love to start my day with a bit of heart-stopping technical work. Ha! But Knowledge Commons Sites and Groups are now operating on WordPress 7.0. That sounds trivial, but with tens of thousands of Sites and users, we can't mess up on a big upgrade like […] [Original post on hcommons.social]

The homepage of Knowledge Commons. Website hero graphic with an abstract green, cream, and teal overlapping-leaf background. Large white rounded panels overlay the design. The main headline reads: “Resist enclosure. Join the Commons.” with “enclosure” and “Commons” in rust red. Above it, a pale green pill with a globe icon reads: “Open access, open source, open to all.” A smaller white panel below says: “Knowledge Commons hosts a growing coalition of open knowledge creators across the disciplines and around the world. Discover, connect, and share in a community that believes knowledge should be free.” Three dark green buttons read: “Create an Account,” “Explore Works,” and “Become a Champion.” On the right, a raised white donation card with a thin red left border reads: “Support the Commons. Help us keep scholarly resources free and accessible to everyone. Your contribution sustains a community-owned platform that resists commercialization of academic work.” A red button says: “Contribute Now.”

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Martin Paul Eve @mpe.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2026

"Reed–Solomon codes RS(n, k) are able to detect and correct multiple symbol errors. By adding t = n − k check symbols to the data, a Reed–Solomon code can detect... any combination of up to t erroneous symbols, or locate and correct up to ⌊t/2⌋ erroneous […] [Original post on hcommons.social]

An image of a Wikipedia warning box that reads:

This article may be too technical for most readers to understand. Please help improve it to make it understandable to non-experts, without removing the technical details. (January 2026) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

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Martin Paul Eve @mpe.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/06/2026

It was good to be in London today - and not for a hospital appointment. Of course, I am now speeding home so I can go to hospital for dialysis.

A photo of me outside the British Library

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Martin Paul Eve @mpe.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2026

I have been depositing the Shadow Libraries chapter in my repositories, using a CC BY-NC-ND license. KC Works: works.hcommons.org/records/s8y2y-nc… BIROn: eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/50133 I know I am biased, but I love the setup and rich […] [Original post on hcommons.social]

An image of KC Works hosting the metadata record and files for my Shadow Libraries and Pirate Infrastructures chapter

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Martin Paul Eve @mpe.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/06/2026

Stumbled across this photo again and I swear that I had an air about me, even from childhood, that signposted an academic future. It's the chair here, the casual lean, the geeky glasses etc. The dungarees help, too. Hilarious.

Me as a child sitting in a chair. I am wearing dungarees and glasses

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Martin Paul Eve @mpe.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/05/2026

PLOS releases big new report. But the main news as far as I'm concerned. PLOS moving to the Janeway platform that I founded, with Andy Byers, for submissions and contributing work upstream to the main project! explore.plos.org/the-open-science-e…

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Martin Paul Eve @mpe.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/05/2026

A talented friend sends me a birthday card etching that she did herself. Blown away by the talent and the generosity. "Oh, I'll just knock up an amazing etching for your birthday card, not even framed".

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Martin Paul Eve @mpe.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/05/2026

We're doing the major @hello login-system upgrade today. Eeek! A huge piece of work that we are now lifting into place.

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Martin Paul Eve @mpe.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/05/2026

Today, I have mostly been catching up on sleep after late night dialysis yesterday and then being up half the night. However, I did repair the power supply unit on this Synology NAS. And it works! So that's a huge plus...

The inside of a Synology 1819+ NAS unit with the power supply unit exposed

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Martin Paul Eve @mpe.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2026

[My dog bite wound on which I will have surgery on Monday] I thought I would post the dog bite wound I sustained so people understand how bad it is! I am having skin graft surgery on Monday. Mastodon having a content warning is a good idea!

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Martin Paul Eve @mpe.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/05/2026

I have a new, folding powerchair! This will fit in the car so we can now go places and DO THINGS! Helen Eve can fold it and lift with ease. Hard to say concisely what this means, but the nearest term is: "freedom". An example: yesterday was a bank holiday. We […] [Original post on hcommons.social]

The Motion Photon Lite powerchair. An electric wheelchair.

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Martin Paul Eve @mpe.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/05/2026

I turn 40 this month. I never thought that the most seemingly exciting "present" that I might covet at this age would be a folding powerchair that can fit in our car. But it is, because it would let me go places in the car and be able to move at the other end. I want this one.

The Sunrise Medical Quickie Q50 R Carbon Comfort Folding Powerchair. It is an electric wheelchair.

The Sunrise Medical Quickie Q50 R Carbon Comfort Folding Powerchair in its compact, folded state.

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Martin Paul Eve @mpe.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/04/2026

Happy 60th birthday to The Crying of Lot 49, published April 27th, 1966. A strange, hypnotic novel that fascinated me as an undergraduate.

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Martin Paul Eve @mpe.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/04/2026

Shout out to all blood donors with a huge thank you. I am having a blood transfusion right now as my haemoglobin has dropped to 63 (normal: 130-180). Another tomorrow.

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Martin Paul Eve @mpe.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/04/2026

One of my sisters-in-law helped me rewire my office and music studio. Not only is it all functional, but I can see my pretty PC internals in all their glory!

My watercooled PC with neon red coolant on display

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Martin Paul Eve @mpe.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/03/2026

Ah! After reading James Draney on 'creeps', yesterday, in PMLA doi.org/10.1632/S0030812925101429 I find that there is a whole open-access book on creeps with punctum books punctumbooks.com/titles/creep-a-lif…. I published […] [Original post on hcommons.social]

The front cover of my book Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy. It features a skull.

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Martin Paul Eve @mpe.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/03/2026

This morning's reading, from the new PMLA in the post box. Useful for my next book chapter writing project...

An image that reads: The Creep’s Dilemma: The Novel in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism
JAMES DRANEY
Visible opening text:
“In 2012, Google announced a new line of computerized sunglasses called Google Glass. Glass, according to Google’s cofounder Sergey Brin, would collapse experience into a manipulatable interface, thus rendering the world searchable, knowable, and recordable.”

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Martin Paul Eve @mpe.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/03/2026

I am getting excited about the fact that we are drawing close to the launch of the new Profiles system at Knowledge Commons. Just one of the features is this nifty chart of KCWorks deposits over time! (Do not ask how long it took me to get that drawing programmatically.)

A chart of KC Works deposits, showing the different types of deposit made by a user over time

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Martin Paul Eve @mpe.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/03/2026

Love MusicBrainz. Suggest an artist as Mr. Tea. Best suggestion: Mr. Tea (featured on 'Massive Wanker' by Hellfish).

Suggestions for Mr Tea on MusicBrainz, including Mr. Tea (featured on 'Massive Wanker' by Hellfish)

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Martin Paul Eve @mpe.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/03/2026

Ellipses is a very gollum-ey word. I keep wanting to say it in his voice from the LotR movies: ellipseses, my precious

Gollum, as in Peter Jackson's movies, the Lord of the Rings trilogy. He is glaring malevolently at the camera

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Martin Paul Eve @mpe.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/03/2026

Book clearance over the weekend. Before and after.

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Martin Paul Eve @mpe.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/03/2026

An amusing note. Mrs. Eve presented me with an Easter egg this morning. She said it was a Valentine's Day gift which we do not celebrate. However, she'd forgotten that she'd bought it!

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Martin Paul Eve @mpe.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/02/2026

Writing a commissioned/invited book chapter this morning. Been recounting therein debates about print/digital fixity and preservation, from Eisenstein and Johns, through @kfitz, up to @ianmilligan1.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy. Now, though, Robyn is demanding a cuddle. Who am I to say no?

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Martin Paul Eve @mpe.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/02/2026

This is what AI scrapers are doing to our platform. Our database capacity is just being ruined every time they initiate a fresh scrape and our tech team has to scramble, taking radical measures, to keep the platform up.

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Martin Paul Eve @mpe.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/01/2026

So, another cool thing that we make and maintain, here at @hello is the open-source, open-collaborative review platform, Pilcrow. I have been using it, with others, to comment on a document we are working on. It's working really smoothly!

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