Ian's Thing

@webhat I hear you loud and clear. I’m giving it serious thought

@diva007.bsky.social Last time I went there was before the fire. That was a few years ago now!

@crucibleofwords.bsky.social How should Labour deal with immigration? This administration inherited the ‘boat people’ issue from the previous Government, but if they’re not seen to be doing something, then that gives fuel to the Farage crowd.

@around-the-outside.bsky.social At least some of it. Also, social media doesn’t help, as there’s way too much uninformed shouting going on. Heck, Starmer is not perfect of course, but his administration isn’t ALL negative either. Let’s have some balance.

@crucibleofwords.bsky.social Nothing wrong with a little café. However, unless you impose an outright ban, many folks will go for that lunchtime pint if the opportunity and venue is there.

@manton I got my first sub-domain back in 1994, with a whole 5MB of web space. I went on to get my own domains, and set up several blogs over the years.

I’ve come to your platform, for two reasons. 1. Cross posting is made easy. 2. I can blog without having to bother with any coding at all. I can build a website, but I can’t be bothered anymore.

It’s a bit like hardware. I used to build PCs when tower systems were the thing. These days, I run Apple hardware. It just works.

I guess I just want to be a consumer now, plug-and-play if you like. I’m tired of hacking and cracking.

@stevewfolds That’s good. I donate a few dollars each month on a regular PayPal payment.

@crucibleofwords.bsky.social Nothing to do with control around alcohol. People talk. In public places anyone can listen. Safer to keep the workforce in a private bar.

@crucibleofwords.bsky.social I am not saying it’s ok to drink at work. I can’t and don’t. However, only about 10% of those working in The Palace of Westminster are MPs. The rest are mostly civil servants and other support staff. Do we really want them drinking in pubs outside where any careless chatter could give away secrets?

@kevinschofied.bsky.social Largely fuelled by the rotten UK Media.

@manton When my wife and I are out and looking for somewhere different to eat, we have quit checking reviews first. Firstly, they’re usually a mixed bunch, and secondly, it can take all night!

@stevewfolds That looks good!

@manton I’ve not yet found a serious use for Freeform. It’s a great idea in principle, but I just don’t use it. Is it very popular I wonder? I don’t use Journal as I’ve been a Day One user for some years now.

@bkryer When my parents discovered I was smoking as a teen, at one point my mother offered me a cigarette and said, “Don’t tell your Dad’, and my Dad offered me a cigarette a short while later, telling me not to tell my mother. This was fifty years ago.

@manton In the UK, one can smoke outside restaurants, bars, pubs, and so on, but not inside.

@manton I keep a journal. I sometimes use AI to add a little varnish to my words, but I write the original words to start with. So for me, in that use case, AI is an extra, not the foundation.

@manton Time Zones are weird though. I’m in the UK, and much of Spain is actually west of the UK, yet western Europe is an hour ahead. Portugal has the same time zone as UK though.

@robertbreen I have an M4 pro Mac mini and an M3 macBook air. I am use my M1 iPad Pro a lot though

@manton There’s a chain of pubs in the UK called Wetherspoons. Over 800 across the UK and Ireland. There is a Facebook group just for discussion and photos of the carpets in each of these establishments.

@manton The folks I don’t understand are those that seem to be grumpy about everything all the time. Always negative, never positive.

@news Indeed. I did initially purchase a domain through micro.blog, but over the past weekend I set up one that I already owned.

@missbluesky.bsky.social Let’s be honest. Farage and his limited (intelligence) company haven’t really got a clue have they? They shout loudest for whoever is paying them the most this week.

@manton On the other side of the coin, how about those people that we are good friends with for some time, and then, for one reason or another you drift apart, and never see them again, and wonder what they’re doing now.

@eastangliabylines.co.uk My primary school was only 5 minutes walk from home. At High School, I had a twenty-minute walk - there was no bus that went from home to school, and there wouldn’t have been money for bus fares every day either - no free rides for kids then.

@manton I regularly use the coffee shop next to my workplace. They know my order. I was off work for a few weeks following an operation and when I went back to work and into the coffee shop, I was told I had been missed. That’s kinda nice too, because in our busy fast world, that doesn’t often happen.