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Sarah Mount

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Service Lead at dxw | author | Software Sustainability Institute Fellow | recovering academic

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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 28/05/2026
Over in the Other Place the Pope is receiving advice on his SEO
Image of a Tweet with the text: 

Daniel Tenreiro replying to @Pontifex

Holy Father the post will perform better if you append the url in a threaded reply as opposed to linking it in the tweet
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 16/05/2026
Surprised to discover that the Telegraph believes Ed Miliband to have the power of Cnut the Great. England never changes, I guess.
Telegraph image with a photo of Ed Miliband and the words "Ed Miliband vows permanent shutdown of the North Sea".
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 25/04/2026
No amount of predictive text could generate, or indeed prepare you, for this story
When Tekashi 6ix9ine, the rapper and former gang member, finished serving a three-month sentence at Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center, he left carrying a peculiar souvenir. He showed it off to two friends who were waiting outside the jail to collect him: it was a homemade SpongeBob SquarePants figurine with a jagged series of lines-not unlike a heartbeat monitor, or a mountain range scribbled on it. This was, 6ix9ine explained, the autograph of Nicolás Maduro, the President of Venezuela. The signature was also dated, in Spanish, "2.º Abril."

"Look, one of one," 6ix9ine said, holding up the SpongeBob, which, he later explained, another inmate had meticulously crafted, folding six hundred pieces of paper and sewing them together, over the course of two weeks. "Maduro signed it," he said, proudly, before adding, "Venezuela forever."
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 18/04/2026
Rare sighting of a sub that outclasses the headline by a country mile
Daily Mail sub for an article saying "The restaurant owner said the two crustaceans were pets named Ronnie and Reggie"
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 16/02/2026
Birmingham has, apparently, always been amazing. And noisy.
A photograph of a wall with the following quotations painted on it:

'Birmingham has changed a lot, but for me it's still the centre of the universe.' Benjamin Zephaniah, 2005

'Its inhabitants work as if they must get rich by the evening and die the next day.' Alexis de Toqueville, 1835

'I was surprised at the place, but more so at the people. They possessed a vivacity I had never beheld.' William Hutton, 1741

'Bremicham, swarming with inhabitants, and echoing with the noise of Anvils, for here are great numbers of Smiths.' William Camden, 1586
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 31/01/2026
Giving Club Mate another go and it's definitely better without corn syrup
A bottle of Club-Mate zero
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 29/01/2026
Great to be at #WPLDN tonight meeting old @dxw.com friends and making new ones
WordPress London venue showing a projector screen with a WordPress London logo
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 23/01/2026
This is the single most Stanley Kubrick headline I have ever seen
Headline from a news site: "A new obelisk 'lifeform' is hiding inside humans"
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 07/01/2026
The post has brought some light reading and I have very mixed feelings about my last favourite university course suddenly becoming so commercially useful.
Queuing Systems Volume 1: Theory by Leonard Kleinrock
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 07/01/2026
The post has brought some light reading and I have very mixed feelings about my last favourite university course suddenly becoming so commercially useful.
Queuing Systems Volume 1: Theory by Leonard Kleinrock
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 28/12/2025
Perhaps 2026 will be the year of online form validation
A screenshot of a form element showing the text "Email address please avoid extra spaces at the end of your email"
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 23/12/2025
A Kevlin Henney at Birmingham Bull Ring today
A large screen in a shopping centre showing an EFI shell with an error message "map: cannot find required map name"
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 21/12/2025
First time I've seen Coombe Abbey all lit up for Christmas #luminate
The lake at a Coombe Abbey looking towards the side of the hotel lit up for Luminate
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 16/12/2025
I appreciate tracking health data except when the data is miserable
RingConn sleep score of 32 (out of 100). Labelled "Improvable", no kidding.
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 06/12/2025
Who is Bentley?
Three different coloured recycling bins all with the word 'Bentley' written on the front
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 24/11/2025
The cheaper train line near me has new rolling stock and I am alarmingly excited about it
A shiny new train carriage with an electronic sign stating that each carriage has seats free and that the toilets are not currently occupied
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 18/10/2025
Discovered today that the local café has a little dog called Timmie
Timmie the tiny Jack Russell chilling in his dog bed
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 20/09/2025
What on earth is going on with this timeline? Original post: fed.beatworm.co.uk/@cms/statuse...
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 16/09/2025
"The world changed on us, Marty"
Sneakers movie poster
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 07/09/2025
Saw a Kevlin Henney in the wild last week
A jukebox or games machine showing an error message: "AN ERROR HAS OCCURRED PLEASE CONTACT THE MACHINE OPERATOR"
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 24/08/2025
Library of Birmingham all lit up for the Ukrainian Day of Independence
Library of Birmingham lit up in blue and yellow
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 18/08/2025
Selfridge's still has their life size Lego™ Ozzy Osbourne of slightly questionable likeness
Lego Ozzy Osbourne ish
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 09/08/2025
The most important goal for your advert is to inspire confidence in the viewer
An advert with the words "Samoan Joe's Tiki Bar - MORE TOILETS"
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 26/07/2025
Half the world seems to have come out to remember Aston's favourite son. Queues of over an hour for the book of condolence, queues round the block for the local museum and everyone super chill.
Ozzy and his star from the Birmingham walk of fame
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 26/07/2025
Half the world seems to have come out to remember Aston's favourite son. Queues of over an hour for the book of condolence, queues round the block for the local museum and everyone super chill.
Ozzy and his star from the Birmingham walk of fame
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 26/07/2025
I could quite happily live in Tiger Bites Pig
A much recommended peanut chicken rice bowl
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 21/04/2025
#DataVis Original post: mastodon.social/@bagder/1143...
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 06/04/2025
I do love this sculpture, but it blows my that Birmingham City Council allowed it to go up
A photograph of the sculpture Iron:Man by Antony Gormley
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 05/04/2025
Worrying developments in Solihull
Cyberdyne Systems
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 05/04/2025
First decent night of sleep in a couple of months
Screenshot saying "sleep goal gap +3 hours 22 minutes,"
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 29/03/2025
Even considering swapping editors still makes me feel very disloyal to Emacs...
A copy of "vi and Vim Editors Pocket Reference" by Arnold Robbins
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 23/03/2025
You are never more than 3 feet away from a software off-by-one error...
A Tweet by Michael Rosen saying:
"I showed the bar code of my M&S bag to the auto till. I loaded my shopping into it. I was asked how many bags I had. I tapped ‘none’ because I didn’t want to pay for the  bag twice. Supervisor says I should have pressed ‘one’ bag. Big stand-off at the M&S auto till…"
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 14/02/2025
London ain't so bad
A photo of the London Eye lit in purple
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 18/01/2025
If you are also spending Saturday here at @ukgovcamp.bsky.social we'd love you to come and say hello to the @dxw.com team #ukgc25
The dxw desk at UkGovCamp with cool branded stickers and tote bags
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 11/01/2025
The obsession with Roman parrots is also... unusual
Duolingo lesson translating "The parrot is greedy for your gems" from Latin to English
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 11/11/2024
"Tomato-forward" cannot possibly be a real thing that real people say
Newspaper article with the caption "Tomato-forward chicken fricassee is warm and hearty" and a photo of the fricassee
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 26/10/2024
"Do you have Work by Ford Maddox Brown on display today?" "Nope, not at the moment". LITERALLY round the next corner, this guy:
Work by Ford Maddox Brown
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 26/10/2024
Ima gon work, work, work every day...
A photograph of Work by Ford Maddox Brown on display at the Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
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Sarah Mount @snim2.org · 26/10/2024
So glad that BM&G has opened again, not least because this amazing work is on display
Benny's Babies a photomontage about the city of Birmingham by Cold War Steve
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