Jon Hickman

Good work

Logged off for a bit this afternoon, can you confirm you did find and are wearing trousers to the jacket shop?

This is such a funny paragraph of a BlueSky-style "well actually" in real life.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Portal 1 & 2. I will continue to take every other remaster, remake, reissue as a personal insult against me and my family until this demand is met.

Innit. I am clearly still scarred! Good luck with the steam cleaner 🚂

I really hate the Internet sometimes 😅

A things library sounds amazing!

(Sadly I’m an ex steam mop owner so I can’t help with the actual problem)

I once posted on freecycle that I needed a fence post spade, which is super niche, unless you’re a fencer, “does anyone have one I can borrow for an afternoon” and I got threatened with a ban because that’s not what freecycle is for.

So I went and bought one and used it for 4 hours.

To any journalist who contributes to this sort of thing: quit your job.

You don't have to do this!

There is another way!

Ask yourself why you wanted to become a journalist. Did you have dreams of daily meetings about pageviews and SEO headlines? Or was it something else that drove you to the job?

A Facebook post from the Newcastle Chronicle saying: "Lloyds, Barclays, NatWest customers urged to close account within 48 hours" with no other details.

Local journalism update: this Reach title is trying to cause a run on the banks.

WHAT3WORDS AUDITED ANNUAL REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024

Interesting to watch What3Words circle the drain. Losses in 2024 of £10.6M on turnover of £2.2M; net assets £15.6M versus convertable loan note liabilities of £4.6M. Has burned ~£40M over 12 years to get here. Not a great ROI.

* find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/0843...

Chewbecca on heat in handcuffs

After all these years I can still spot something new in Star Wars. When they do the Wookie prisoner ruse, Chewie is SO horny, he’s just checking out everyone’s arse. Seriously. Even the droids that go past. My guy loves it when he’s in handcuffs. You couldn’t do this in a film in 2025.

Building A Newspaper Out of the Internet with Molly White Podcast Episode · Better Offline · 08/06/2025 · 35m

Here's this week's Better Offline. I'm joined by @molly.wiki to talk about how RSS can purify your news experience, the challenge of the newsletter economy, and what gives her optimism for the future.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
linktr.ee/betteroffline

(Bit of a repeat here, sorry!)

Anyone working for a UK charity:

can you spare 5 minutes to reflect on your learning and development?

👉 Trustees can contribute too 👈

It’s for my other half’s final MA project.

Reposts and responses are equally appreciated 🙏

forms.office.com/e/G8cwP9V607

*careless people. They did have several cars mentioned in the book.

Sub-clause (A) especially if your book requires you to frequently say a word that sounds deranged in your accent

(The Carless People book about FB, she has a nice voice but she is afflicted by being a kiwi and so she cannot say “data”, or rather “dar-ta”)

Imagine how low it must feel to know your the shittest brassica

Have you got recipes for crisps?

Omg that’s actually a banger idea for a recipe book isn’t it?

When I used to get one of those boxes honestly it felt like Kale was some sort of organic packing material they put in there to protect whatever other bullshit they sent (a single quince, a hundred weight of Jerusalem artichokes). I liked kale (would you like a recipe?!) until they ruined it for me

Ghost 6.0 Networked publishing, native analytics, and $100M earned by indie publishers

my god, just look at that changelog. looks like it's upgrade day for me!
ghost.org/changelog/6/

Ghost 6.0 is here The new version of the CMS gets social and analytical…

Ghost gets social and analytical: Ghost 6.0 is here

I bet there was! Nans are cool. The head matriarch is the absolute dream position in a family, isn’t it?

Ugh that apostrophe is haunting me. What I wouldn’t give for an edit button

I’m assuming this wasn’t a core part of her vibe? Though I bet nanna’s cook the best chips. (Probably because they’d have a proper chip pan and the oil would have a rather long vintage to it!)

“Yeah this is my whole deal, to be honest, Jyn”

Andor’s whole “we are with you Jyn!” speech on the deck on Yavin IV before they all steal a ship and go off an unauthorised flight sure hits different when you know he literally stole a ship and went off an unauthorised flight like a day before. And a few days before that. And a few days before that

n+1 meals

My dad survived the Queen by about a fortnight and for some baffling reason the vicar at his funeral went off on some bit about “and he could be up there now. Having tea. With the Queen. Imagine that”

And to be honest it’s all I’ve thought about ever since 😂

Kiss the badge!

I don’t not hate it!