Simon Hobeck

Nagare Pleasure Quarter, Kanazawa, by Kawase Hasui (#KawaseHasui), 1920. #shinhanga

Nagare Pleasure Quarter, Kanazawa, by Kawase Hasui (#KawaseHasui), 1920.
#shinhanga

I manage a web site that uses WordPress. I created it about 10 years ago. I rarely touch it, just occasionally updating plugins. Spent this weekend doing maintenance and noticed that the Wordpress block editor has got so much better. Feels so satisfying to remove plugins as native editor now […]

When did spiders get so big? I go my front door and huge webs like something from Tomb raider.
I think they are adapting to catch larger mammals - I bet cats will be disappearing!!

🐝🍯 Athens buzzes with urban beekeeping! Nikos Chatzilias tends 1.2M bees on city rooftops, producing 500kg of unique honey flavored by local flora. A sweet way to boost ecosystems & reconnect with nature! Read more […]

"Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and vain, it is lost in a moment."

– Dōgen

Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Dogen

I’m on record as saying I *despise* time travel; nothing good ever comes of it. But I’m making _one_ exception. NoBait is a browser extension that receives the “news of the week” via tachyon backscatter from next week, and filters out any of today’s news articles that turned out in hindsight to […]

Just joined the Green Party. At least *someone*'s trying to present a different future than a race to the far right.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/03/migration-britain-superpower-labour-green-party

Things might make more sense when you remember that humans are just weird fish that followed a very unique evolutionary path.

So instead of saying "I have problems sticking to a budget," say "I'm a highly derived lobe-finned fish which means it's hard to stick to a budget"

I’ve just been looking at a rather fun-looking long distance electric bus service covering (so far) the north half of Scotland. To use it you select the route you want on the web site and pay in advance. The bus only stops at the designated stops where people […]

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I watched Zack Polanski's leader speech at the Green Party conference. Some good moments - nothing especially rousing, but refreshing nonetheless compared to Labour /Tory/Reform speeches
#ukpol #greenparty

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1G_5VSRAyGDNydyRwT6ytObfcDV59WnUg?usp=sharing

@fantpmas that looks really well made. Good job. How long do you think it would take to fill one bay? Do you intend to let it sit whilst using the next bay, or would you frequently turn it?

@afewbugs are you able to explain more about why the casing makes a difference to make it a dogwhistle. Like you, I usually prefer CamelCase.

@internetsdairy no, sadly not. I felt season 2 was best, with Season 3 being very silly. Almost felt like the writers had given up.

Is anyone here a tree surgeon in #Bristol?
Our community orchard has lots of buddleia branches we want chipping. Material can stay on site, just need someone with a decent wood chipper.
#trees #permaculture #fedihelp

@xtaldave
Made me think ofvthis

I shouldn't need to say this, but I guess it's how social media works: just because someone doesn't post about something doesn't mean they don't care about it. If I posted to express my sadness at every atrocity, racist incident, horrific murder or terrorist attack that happened in the world I'd […]

I've been using desktop Linux for about 10 years. Got interested in Ubuntu when it took off, then switched to Mint when Ubuntu went weird with its desktop.
I've often struggled to make it work with peripherals like docks and other stuff. I'm not a dev, just a curious geek.
I've noticed in the […]

At the quiz at ArtPark (soon to be called Meeplenook). Won a race and got a voucher for 2 x cod & chips at Farrows (local Chippy).

Photo of a green board game mat with seven silver horse models as game pieces.

At a quiz in ArtPark #Totterdown, #Bristol.
Answering questions to move our horse towards the winning line.
We're horse 8 with the charming top hat.

The goose chase meme with the question “what sources of cheap and reliable energy?” repeated twice

I have a question for the Conservative Party

Sepia real photographic postcard showing a view of the River Avon at Bristol. Published by Harvey Barton & Son Ltd, Bristol, No 62, c.1910. Postally unused. Good condition, with minimal corner bumps and light album marks, but two large circular areas where the emulsion has gone matt.

The River Avon, Bristol, c.1910 - Harvey Barton RP Postcard

https://www.ebid.net/uk/for-sale/the-river-avon-bristol-c-1910-harvey-barton-rp-postcard-223287486.htm

#Bristol

I'm not a fan of James "Brexit* Dyson, but his Hoovers are well designed for repairability.
Our old Vax hoover died and within a week I found an old Dyson dumped on the street. (A gift from the wombles?)
Couldn't hurt to take and try a repair. Took it apart, gave it a clean, replaced filters and […]

Happy 200th today, Stockton & Darlington Railway!

https://www.sdr1825.org.uk/2025-bicentenary-of-sdr/

Day 3: Octavia Butler.

Incredibly dark, graphic, and disturbing near-future science fiction, which has proved absolutely prophetic. In the 1990's she was writing about a charismatic Conservative Christian and white nationalist president elected in 2024, and the horrors his paramilitary […]

A tooter who quooted a toot
Tried to tutor two tooters to quoot
He was in their replies
Over thirty-two times
But the two had the tooter on mute

Promo image for Ghosts US. A modern day couple in the middle flanked by characters from different time periods.

I enjoyed the BBC series Ghosts. The range of time the ghosts cover give very different perspectives on things and therefore contrasts our current understanding. E.g. how different times thought about fashion, gender, national borders.
Am now watching the US […]

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I think I would prefer it if Jimmy Carr presented Only Connect

Photo of people loading apples into a shiny metal scratter that chops up the apples. Next to the scratter is a pink bucket full of large green apples.

Photo of the apple press. Its like a wooden barrel with red metal bands and a red metal base to capture juice as it comes out. A spout then let's juice drip into a grey bowl.

Photo of someone pouring apple juice from a grey bowl into a round glass bottle (think it used to contain port). In the foreground are five other reused plastic bottles full of juice.

Had a lovely afternoon at the Totterdown community orchard doing apple pressing. Had lots of apples from our tree plus loads in the orchard.
Good turnout of locals as well. Now have bottles of tasty apple juice.

Have taken my son and a friend to Campus Pool skatepark. Its a former swimming pool turned into skate park in Bishopsworth, #Bristol. Very busy. Novel use for a former pool and works really well.