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Struan Donald @struan.exo.org.uk · 30/09/2026

otoh my newly in progress novel about a dystopian future split into pro and anti TBI factions is going to be a great business model

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Struan Donald @struan.exo.org.uk · 17/09/2026

Proper lots of moving parts fantasy of the mostly politics and intrigue variety. Is 800 pages but flies past. And huzzah, not a festival of grim although not all funsies. Some lovely writing and characters who have nuance which is nice.

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Struan Donald @struan.exo.org.uk · 17/09/2026

scandi modernism is the route to efficient thinking, obviously

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Struan Donald @struan.exo.org.uk · 13/09/2026

if you don’t strike us down we shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine

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Struan Donald @struan.exo.org.uk · 12/09/2026

beginning to think billionaires were a mistake

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Struan Donald @struan.exo.org.uk · 09/09/2026

we keep striving to do things in the quickest and cheapest possible way only to discover some time afterwards that the things we lost along the way had value

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Struan Donald @struan.exo.org.uk · 05/09/2026

There is something delightful about the attention to detail from one hobby bleeding into the attention to detail in another

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Struan Donald @struan.exo.org.uk · 04/09/2026

This is how I find out Napoleon III is buried in the uk?

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Struan Donald @struan.exo.org.uk · 04/09/2026

you can’t fool me young man, it’s claudes all the way down

A flow chart entitled dynamic workflows with three paths where every box is labelled claude. no, really

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Struan Donald @struan.exo.org.uk · 03/09/2026

Now you can at least walk up to your boss, drop the pass on their desk and tell them you quit. Or at least drop the pass on your desk on a teams call.

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Struan Donald @struan.exo.org.uk · 30/08/2026

*Turns on hand held clothes steamer* Oooh, this sounds just like a guild navigator. The steam must flow!

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Struan Donald @struan.exo.org.uk · 29/08/2026

🎶 terms and conditions apply 🎶

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Struan Donald @struan.exo.org.uk · 29/08/2026

Cinderella but she’s a ghost. So much better than that makes it sound. It’s worth it just for the what it would be to embody a building bits. Obvs you know how it ends but it’s just twisty enough to be fun all the same.

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Struan Donald @struan.exo.org.uk · 27/08/2026

The problem of one of the parties having large funders that are, to some extent, a structural part of the party seems as relevant as the public but no one want to say "our funders don't like the idea of losing influence" because, well, that is the quiet part

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Struan Donald @struan.exo.org.uk · 24/08/2026

If you decide that being able to watch Everton, or Arsenal is actually more important to you than being the Prime Minister you can always quit.

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Struan Donald @struan.exo.org.uk · 24/08/2026

This is the bit that gets me. There are plenty of jobs where you cannot do things you might like to do as it conflicts with the job and you just have to suck it up. For a start I would bet there's many things football players can't do because they have to be playing football of a weekend.

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Struan Donald @struan.exo.org.uk · 16/08/2026

And now I would like a TNG episode with the Michael Keaton Batman helping Picard investigate a crime. It would be perfect

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Struan Donald @struan.exo.org.uk · 10/08/2026

Feels like a love letter to architecture and an excoriation of the ego of architects. Great on the power of spaces, the monomania of legacy and the unintended consequences of machines. Does a lot in a hundred odd pages without seeming to.

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Struan Donald @struan.exo.org.uk · 10/08/2026

Arthurian but not really about Arthur and more about the power and value of myth, being trapped by it and yet not. Long, slow build to a, for me, unexpected and lovely ending. The sort of book you want to read again to enjoy how it got to the ending.

The Witch Below the Dreaming Wood by H G Parry

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Struan Donald @struan.exo.org.uk · 28/07/2026

Are these socks damp or cold? The eternal debate when removing items from the drying rack.

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Struan Donald @struan.exo.org.uk · 23/07/2026

At some point it would be nice if politicians would start pointing out that many of the problems we have as a nation are because we chose not to spend money in favour of fiscal discipline and that the latter is an abstract concept that does not improve lives and, say, plentiful housing does.

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Struan Donald @struan.exo.org.uk · 19/07/2026

I’d also say that iPhones do a lot of magic to make the photos look good and it’s possible that a simple camera will do a lot less of that and it might take more work to get good results out.

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Struan Donald @struan.exo.org.uk · 19/07/2026

Basically how far away from the wall are you going to need to stand to get it all in goes up as the focal length goes up

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Struan Donald @struan.exo.org.uk · 19/07/2026

The main thing to watch out is how wide the lens is, I.e how much stuff it can get on the screen. That Fuji has a 35mm lens which is a chunk narrower than the standard 24mm on an iPhone which is going to be a consideration for taking photos of walls

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Struan Donald @struan.exo.org.uk · 14/07/2026

Is it a tweet if it’s not on twitter?

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Struan Donald @struan.exo.org.uk · 11/07/2026

And previously if you didn’t add a title it appeared with nothing in that space and now it says untitled and you need to put in a single space in the title field to have a blank title.

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Struan Donald @struan.exo.org.uk · 11/07/2026

Another missing thing is they seem to have entirely removed the image editing bit of the upload process

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Struan Donald @struan.exo.org.uk · 03/07/2026

I expect at least one pub will have it on

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Struan Donald @struan.exo.org.uk · 02/07/2026

Nuns, lady knights, bees, sulphurous ferrets, cannibalism, weird magic and limited explanation. There's a delightful edge of whimsy, the horror is not too horrible and it just gets madder as you go on. Probably not for the squeamish.

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Struan Donald @struan.exo.org.uk · 29/06/2026

Efficiency is so often at the cost of resilience, and by the time you find that out it's too late

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Struan Donald @struan.exo.org.uk · 29/06/2026

So many things now deal in such short timespans and it keeps getting us in trouble. It is so much easier to keep patching over the cracks when you know, and don't care, that the truly long term consequences won't be your problem, but slowly everything falls apart without care.

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Struan Donald @struan.exo.org.uk · 29/06/2026

Gribben says: “Private equity investment is inherently long term. Private equity firms hold investments for over six years on average.” Long term should at the very least be longer than the lifespan of the animals your business cares for and six years is not. www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...

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Good for business – or profit at any cost? The controversial side of private equity – a visual explainer

The use of private equity in essential services is attracting scrutiny. Here we examine some of its more contentious elements

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Struan Donald @struan.exo.org.uk · 27/06/2026

Fair. It does have a story arc though and his role mostly seems to be to distract people on the internet who complain about films with women in lead roles. I also find him quite one note. I did enjoy it though

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Struan Donald @struan.exo.org.uk · 27/06/2026

The Momoa stuff did seem entirely superfluous. You could remove it with almost no change and the film would still make sense.

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Struan Donald @struan.exo.org.uk · 27/06/2026

Have you asked how she will pay for the stabling fees?

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Struan Donald @struan.exo.org.uk · 26/06/2026

The title of this comes unbidden to mind at least once a week and today via @mattmuir.bsky.social’s excellent WebCurios. It used not to apply to me as I was a one pair at a time person but these days I regrettably acquire shoes at a gently accelerating rate. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp4G...

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Johnny Boy -You Are The Generation That Bought More Shoes &

YouTube video by fabtonerecords

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Struan Donald @struan.exo.org.uk · 25/06/2026

Last in a trilogy of slightly folk horror murder mystery coming of age class war sort of fairytales. Excellent main protagonist and support, some lovely writing and the right amount of wryness. YA technically but a chunk cleverer than half the stuff in the adult fantasy section. Just a joy

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Struan Donald @struan.exo.org.uk · 25/06/2026

It turns out there are many more of these than I thought and I have only tried the ones available in Lawson konbini - www.muji.com/jp/ja/store/...

muji.com

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Struan Donald @struan.exo.org.uk · 24/06/2026

I went on holiday, I wrote some chaotic notes on what I did, there are some links exo.org.uk/blah/japan-i...

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exo : japan in four hundred thousand steps

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Struan Donald @struan.exo.org.uk · 20/06/2026

I wholeheartedly concur with your train travel position. Even from Scotland it’s just so much nicer to go by train.

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Struan Donald @struan.exo.org.uk · 20/06/2026

“in order to survive, a 200-kilo shark has to consume the calorific equivalent of one and a half chocolate digestives a day” The most remarkable idea here is half a chocolate digestive as a viable unit of measurement. They are indivisible, you cannot consume a half www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Katherine Rundell · Consider the Greenland Shark

I am glad not to be a Greenland shark; I don’t have enough thoughts to fill five hundred years. But I find the very...

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