Dominic Sayers

A grainy portrait of me

Me reflected in an Anish Kapoor sculpture at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection

A setting on my Android phone to block calls from unknown numbers

Why have I only just found this setting?

...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site

While Andrew was boffing teenagers (dirty boy), The Sun was still printing topless pictures of young women the same age as Andrew's victims. And continued to do so until 2015. The Daily Star only stopped in 2019. But let's focus on one nonce instead of the mass cultural institutions that […]

The system is broken, so why are we not more concerned? by Tess Machling [A download/print PDF version can be found at the end of the paper] Abstract The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) – the detectorist-facing branch of archaeology – whic…

The piece where I get to say everything that's bugging me about the world of detecting & archaeology & ask - why are we not more concerned about this?

(Thank you to everyone who read through drafts & offered thoughts, advice and ideas.)

#Archaeology #Detecting 🏺

bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/10/27/t...

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TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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Does this mean they're down to one MP now?

Senior Full-Stack Engineer - Tussell SUMMARY. Tussell is seeking a full-stack engineer to join our internal engineering team. This is an influential role, offering the successful candidate the chance to join a new team at a pivotal ti...

It clipped off the job ad. Apply here: tussell-1726842126.teamtailor.com/jobs/6537055...

I’m #hiring. Are you a full stack Ruby on Rails person? Happy to do 3 days in the office (in Hoxton, with gym and free coffee)?

You need the right to work in the UK, but otherwise we're an inclusive company and I'm trying to build a diverse team at https://tussell.com […]

DNS.

It's always DNS.

1 Nurse: It’s become a real problem in this area 2 Nurse: We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction 3 Show a building sign posted: Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it Nurse: Ministers, Spads, Researchers… 4 Nurse: Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely [Nurse on phone taking a call] Ok - we’ll be right over 5 Nurse: We just have a gentle chat [Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster Minister: I understand your concerns… 6 Nurse: Are you OK love? Minister: Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters 7 Nurse: That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian [Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters] Nurse 2: Give us your phone, love 8 Nurse: At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to [We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.] 9 Minister: YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR [woman looks baffled] 10 woman: I just want a bus service Minister: LOOK AT MY FLAG [produces a St George's flag] [ends]

Dear Scottish Government, you might want to renew the cert on your procurement API server: https://api.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/

An email from my mortage provider saying my mortage deal ends 2026 undefined NaN

Poor Nan.

Receipt from Amazon Fresh showing I was in the shop for 53s

Don't get me wrong, I'm not an Amazon stan. But 53s to get my lunch is a good use of my time.

Took about 10 mins the first time I went in an Amazon Fresh while I worked out what the hell I was supposed to do. Now it's about the most efficient form of retail […]

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A club statement from Blackpool saying Steve Bruce has been sacked along with coaches Steve Agnew and Stephen Clemence. Stephen Dobbie and Steve Banks will take temporary charge.

You don’t have to be called Steve or Stephen to work at Blackpool, but it does help.

October 2025 Meeting | London Ruby User Group The October 2025 meeting of LRUG will be on Monday the 13th of October from 6:00pm to 8:00pm (meeting starts at 6:30pm).

Here's the bit that got cut off at the end there:

I am, however, hiring for a small team. So if you're looking for a senior Ruby role (preferably with some React) come and say hi to the bespectacled greybeard.

lrug.org/meetings/2025/october/

A Bond villain stroking a white cat

Going to my first London Ruby User Group (@lrug) on 13th Oct. My Ruby is a tiny bit rusty after 3 years Python & Typescript so I'll keep my ears open and mouth shut on this occasion.

I am, however, hiring for a small team. So if you're looking for a senior […]

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Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

Abby Ward with the world cup and her child

The England team celebrating

The stadium and fireworks

Confetti for the winners

This, though, is officially shit. Entirely predictable 82,000 fans leaving the stadium. How are there not enough trains?

Twickenham, rammed

WORLD CUP FINAL!

#wrc2025

Twickenham: NZ v France

Twickenham stadium scene

Dominic wearing his 2003 rugby world cup winners shirt

Right, off to Twickenham then

Space Tangle Exploring outer space; the ultimate landscape of possibility

@spacekate.bsky.social Private view for exhibition by space-themed artist Sarah Fortais, in case you hadn't already been invited: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-east/eve...

A list showing 3 buses arriving between 8 and 9 minutes hence

The 277s have started hunting in packs

Lidl are selling mince pies already

Season's greetings to one and all

Just discovered mise-en-place (`mise`)[https://mise.jdx.dev/] as a version manager for multiple tools and I'm very impressed, as indeed I was using `uv` for a Python project recently. There is hope in the world.

I acknowledge the previous commenters who mentioned Dunbar's Number (150) [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number]

It may also be worth mentioning the Bernard-Killworth numbers (290 or 231 depending on whether you use the mean or median), based on US social media datasets.

I am in darkest Surrey