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martinhowitt

@martinhowitt@urbanists.social

Technology lead at The Data Place, a social enterprise that helps organisations and communities do better things with data. Product owner at Placecube.
UK Local Government survivor. Terrible bassist. Pseudo-grandparent. I love trees and hate rhododendrons.

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purplepadma, to random
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The cat is in and out and in and out on these summery evenings

martinhowitt,
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@purplepadma Percy has taken to howling at us across the house when he comes in, he sounds like a wolf

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Morning. Miss Cinnamon didn’t come home last night. Tom slept downstairs to listen out for her, but nothing. I’m very anxious.

martinhowitt,
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@purplepadma Tom’s a keeper isn’t he? I like to think I’m a good performing partner but he seems off the scale.

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Percy. Never knowingly understroked.

MikeInTheGarden, to random
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Happy Thursday.

Well folks, I seem to have the worse cold imaginable.

And yes, I am the world's worse patient too.

Had hardly any sleep last night, and my nose feels a few arctic trucks have been trundling through it.

Any cold remedies or advice that work for you will be greatly appreciated.

Achoo!

🤧🤧🤧

martinhowitt,
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@MikeInTheGarden I recommend a strong curry and guiness.
I mean, it might not work, but at least you’ve had a curry and a drink

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One of my sisters has digitised all of Dads photos and now they are all sharing them on the Fam WhatsApp group.

All I can say is, when she was a baby my little sister looked just like Boris Johnson.

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It's got to that bit of March when everyone assumes winter is over but it isn't really and it's still cold and rainy and blowing a flipping gale etc etc and so on.
I'm off out to shout at cars on the inner bypass

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Always good to see a taxonomist get into the final

futurebird, (edited ) to random
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It's like we all decided that imperialism is bad, which it is, so the solution is no one talks about imperial ambitions or power unless it's to insult a bad guy.

So in the US press you might hear Russia call imperialist, but you'll never get an honest discussion of the vectors of American imperial power, this means that US foreign policy is inscrutable to most Americans.

"Why are we giving Ukraine so much money?"

Like we are handing out gift cards, Benjamins and Obama phones.

1/

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@futurebird strongly agree with this. It's an investment with a clearly defined future economic and diplomatic payoff. Also the ROI is pretty good.

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Icymi, Jon Stewart is back:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=NpBPm0b9deQ&si=jrfA6X-GRSMi9wq9

martinhowitt,
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@fulelo this was surprisingly not snarky and even quite inspiring in places too, thanks for sharing :)

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New cat litter tray purchased, but before I could deploy it….

stefan, (edited ) to mastodon
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Thinking about opening a feature request.

EDIT: Here it is https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/27731

martinhowitt,
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@stefan I will usually caption/alt-text images, as I have reminders in place to remember to do it.
The reason it doesn't get done as often as it should, IMO, is that people aren't in the habit of doing it. So making it mandatory in clients would be one possible option, or adding reminders during the posting workflow.

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Looking for a shared calendar product aimed at non-developers that isn’t Google calendar.
Simple as possible. It’s for sharing Dad’s care rota amongst a group of family, friends and carers.

Any ideas out there? Please boost for reach

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@Edent ideally they’d all be able to edit.

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Half of Britons can’t name a single historical figure

Full disclosure: I’m one of them. Or I was until reading the article
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/oct/26/half-of-britons-cant-name-a-black-british-historical-figure-survey-finds?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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@futurebird this may be relevant to your interests. Display in Exeter museum

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    @Pagan_Animist I'm so sorry to hear it ❤️

    martinhowitt, to random
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    Today is the second attempt at getting my dad to agree to additional care support.
    I will not get angry.

    Jyoti, (edited ) to random
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    Another POLL of IMPORT:

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    @Jyoti are the digestive biscuits dark or milk chocolate?

    dancinyogi, to random

    The movers mentioned my plants and I completely forgot about that. I have a lot of plants! Can someone advise me on what you might have done if you moved and had a lot of houseplants, some of them very delicate?

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    @dancinyogi my partner has lots, some houseplants but also some outdoor plants in pots. When we moved we did a dedicated run just for them in a large van. IIRC there were 30-40 of them

    martinhowitt, to random
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    I know enough about modern IT infrastructure to be dangerous, and only occasionally useful.

    martinhowitt, to random
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    Docker container prune. Ah shit i definitely shouldn’t have done that.

    Still, we have backups.

    We do have backups?

    ProjectFearlessness, to UKpolitics

    U.K. PM Sunak's latest wheeze is to stop local councils from applying 20mph speed limits in built up busy areas, in a bid to win the 'motorists' vote.
    Is it really a vote winner though? Are all the 'motorists' suddenly going to switch to voting Tory? I think he'll find that the 'motorists' that will vote for him based on this policy are the same 'motorists' that we're going to vote for him anyway.

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    @ProjectFearlessness my local Nextdoor clearly agree with him.

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    Dragonfly loitering around the pond in my Dad’s garden

    martinhowitt, to random
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    “I’m really happy with what we’ve achieved and would like you to invoice me” is exactly the right thing to be hearing from a client at lunchtime on a Friday

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    No sure what this one is, (when I get more time I want to do a foraging class)

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