wildeaboutoskar @ wildeaboutoskar @beehaw.org

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I took over a colleague's reporting as they're leaving and with the press of a button all 4 reports broke for the whole business. During peak monthly reporting time. Whoopsie. Now waiting for IT to fix everything, which might take a while.

Also I walk into things quite a lot.

Hope it went ok

Welcome! Hope you're enjoying it here 🙂

Things are ok more or less. Went with my mum to a secure dog field yesterday so her dog could run, she loved every second of it. Still mentally blah but being able to work from home over the last few days has helped. Did another crochet workshop on the weekend and I think I'm gradually starting to understand the basics.

Got a meeting with one of the exec directors on Thursday which I'm a bit terrified about. Catsitting for my sister over the weekend which will be nice though.

She's so precious! What's her name?

That explains why so much of my wishlist is on sale, I did wonder

Cat mode?

In the UK college generally means the period between 16-18 where you do your final university entrance qualifications (A levels). People also do those at sixth forms but those tend to be attached to secondary schools, whereas colleges are separate institutions. Universities are where you get a degree.

Some universities here have colleges (in the sense that it's a small community within the university) but it's not hugely common outside of Oxford and Cambridge.

You also used to have the word 'college' attached to schools as a branding thing (to make them seem more academically rigorous) but the ones I know that have had that became academies

Yeah we do :)

I would love one please if you still have some!

Good to hear he's still at it. Wouldn't have blamed him if he took a break from everything after the last few months.

Still not had an invite to check out Tildes so not seen it, but wish him well.

I think there's a time and a place for algorithmic feeds. When it comes to Facebook i personally think it makes sense to have a way of filtering the important things first, based on who you interact with. It's a social network in the definitive sense; we care about some people more than others depending on where in the network they are. However we've seen how things go when Facebook use it with pages/news stories (which is really concerning).

For things like Twitter, I want chronological. It's a real time platform based on sharing information across a larger audience. Its use in breaking news makes timing important. It's largely gone to shit now because Musk, but in its heyday anyway.

Ideally there should always be a choice, or at least some transparency around how the algorithms work. That way everyone can choose what works for them based on how they use the platform.

We have the phrase 'every Tom, Dick and Harry' which is like that (UK)

If we're talking about a generic person it's usually Mr/s Smith or Mr/s Jones (near Wales)

Wandering through a field at Glastonbury festival once at 3 in the morning and crossed paths with a portaloo moving of its own accord and dancing. It had fairy lights on it and was playing Johnny Cash's Ring of Fire.

You often see odd things at Glastonbury but nobody else I was with saw it. Nobody else I spoke to afterwards who went saw it either. I was relatively sober as well.

It was brilliantly surreal.

How odd, being haunted by dairy!

At work (social housing) there was a phase where one of our tenants kept getting cheese slices through the door. Went on for months, they would phone up and get angry as if we were the ones attacking her with processed cheese. Then all of a sudden it just stopped. Happened to another tenant on the other side of town a year or so later.

Wow things have moved on a lot since I had a blog on Blogspot by the sounds of it!

I'd love for us to rejoin but realistically it's not going to happen for a long time. It took god knows how long for us to leave in the first place, going back (even if there was appetite for it) would take a long time. Particularly because of the damage it's caused us in terms of relationships with EU countries, can see some leaders making us wait even longer just because (which would be fair tbh). I think it will require a culture shift and we're not in the right place to do that at the moment.

I have a cloak that I got from Topshop when I was a teenager. Was great for wearing at festivals. Still have it but doubt it fits these days

I wish we had gold for comments like this. You seem like a lovely person

Great news! Heard it can take ages to get a diagnosis, must be a weight off your mind