I'm hiring 👀🐙⚡

This is a rare opportunity to join the Data Visualisation team at Octopus Energy, the largest (and most exciting) energy supplier in Britain.

It's a tiny team with a big remit and an outsized impact. You'll be working directly alongside me to help shape how the public understands the energy transition.

You'll turn complex energy data into clear, compelling stories; working closely with senior leadership, marketing, policy, press and product teams.

https://jobs.lever.co/octoenergy/bc8c843f-5f07-4522-8da8-d27f0ceeed1b

I’m thinking about ways to fight both AI slop and AI witch hunts on social media.

And I think gandersocial.ca mostly has it right.

They verify humanity by facial scans and Canada Post’s Identity+ app.

Meanwhile, trying to differentiate whether or not text is human-made is a losing cause because that mostly depends on AI detectors anyway—most which are not accurate. But you should give people the opportunity to disclose when they use AI if and when they use AI.

Human verification, though, gets rid of 95% of AI slop. And when people have confidence they are talking to actual humans, AI witch hunts will become less prevalent.

I have no mobile phone service at all at the factory. It may be time to invest in a 5G flip phone. Any recommendations?

Quietly waiting for more companies to discover that "AI-free environment" is the magic phrase that will attract the smartest, most dedicated experts in the world to come work for you. We don't often get magic phrases with zero downsides but we've got one right now and you can just, you know, use it

#antiAI #noAI

Mosquitos on Halloween. It's not a good sign.

🧵I've posted them before, but here's my thread of horror/kids' TV double-bill cinema posters. Happy Halloween...
#halloween #cinema #graphicdesign #poster

Welcome to #BikeNite on Friday, October 30th!
Thanks for joining our chat. Anyone can join, now or later. Reply to what you like, and boost for visibility.

If you want to follow questions only from this BikeNite, I will be using #BikeNite44_2026 for this week.

Our intro, and a question from @uxMark:

Q1a. Where are you posting from today?

Q1b. What, if anything, is the biggest difference between how you cycle now and how you cycled in the past (5 years ago? 10 years ago? 20 years ago?)

Conversely, what *hasn’t* changed in the intervening years?

#BikeNiteQ #BikeNite #BikeTooter #Cycling #MastoBikes #BikeNite44_2026 cc @bikenite

Looks like Mastodon is one of the things that doesn't work properly with the #Palemoon browser.

I'm so excited for tonight's Critical Mass! I'll be going in costume, prepared to take chances, make mistakes, and get messy!

👩🏻‍🦰🪄🚌

Doug Ford has milled out 1KM of bike lanes, jeopardising the safety of /all/ Etobicoke residents, at great cost to the public. Let's party together and take up space ✨

https://www.instagram.com/p/DfAVw8zFplu

#BikeTO #CriticalMass #BikeTooter #Toronto #FightForBikes

This remarkable Mycenaean owl appliqué was found in a tomb at Peristeria, dating to 1630 to 1510 BC. 🦉

Measuring only 3.8 cm in height, it was made of gold sheet and was likely sewn onto a garment of the deceased.

Currently on display at the special exhibition
"Pylos of Nestor. A Mycenaean Kingdom revealed" at the National Archaeological Museum, Athens.

📷 me

#archaeology

I miss the little coffee shop that the college had years ago.

#books #heists #library #DeweyDecimal

Well. Got laid off, position terminated this Saturday. I need some time to remake my resume and everything but if anyone is looking for a Front-End engineer with 12yrs of exp in the Bay Area/Remote U.S. Ping me.

#getfedihired

Trapped in a new job. :-/

How did the grid react as Storm Austen and Storm Boelo passed through over the weekend?

This is something I pulled together over the weekend. It's part of a new video format that I'm exploring to better explain what's going on within the energy system and the wider context surrounding it (such as the weather).

As always, a huge credit is due to all the open data sources that make these visuals possible. I've listed them all at the end of the video, please check them out.

(Much) More soon…

An entire metro train car for bikes and their riders. #Copenhagen

Meanwhile in Canada, spooky season gets into gear ... while the pumpkins look on in horror.

#october #halloween #moose #canada #humor #humour

Normal people drink two litres of strong, loose-leaf black tea in a day, right? I don't need an intervention or anything. Just a normal guy being normal.

#tea

What did I just randomly stumble upon?
#foldingbikes #bikenite

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dc33jWHM_y6/?srtk=MXdvMHVyZmE0ZnNoZg==

Thanks to everyone for the likes and shares Diolch yn fawr iawn