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With my work hat on 🎩 I wrote about how important it is to know when trying to automate a task is going to take longer than just sitting your bum down and doing it properly. www.linkedin.com/pulse/someti...

Sometimes you just need to sit down and do the boring, time-consuming job“There must be a faster, smarter, less boring way to complete this task!” Maybe, but how much time are you going to waste looking for it? And sometimes it’s better to do the job manually anyway. I’ve ...www.linkedin.com

Itching to hear from people who've read this. Which stories did you like best?

Ah, yes, now, I have actually been scared while playing horror themed games. (Or just, like, Sonic the Hedgehog when it gets too frantic.)

Someone asked for recommendations for horror films that are actually scary which reminded me of this. precastreinforced.co.uk/2025/10/16/w...

We need our flinches: on the cosiness of horrorIt’s cowardice, isn’t it? That instinct that draws horror fans to old movies; camp, arch, silly films; and contemporary films set in the comforting warmth of the hand-knitted past. The word ‘cosy’ …precastreinforced.co.uk

“‘Frictionmaxxing,’ a term that writer Kathryn Jezer-Morton coined to refer to a rejection of technologies of convenience in favor of slower and more analog processes, has escaped containment, coming to mean the general choice to choose pre-internet ways of creation and problem-solving.”

In the Age of AI, the Analog Restaurant Feels RadicalSome restaurants are leaning into handmade touches, as AI-generated food photos and flyers become commonplacewww.eater.com

Anyway, that's now at least two services (LinkedIn and Tidal) that have made a big deal out of giving people tools to push back against AI-generated content. Interesting. Very interesting.

The most interesting streaming service. This time: apparently every single thing Mark Jenkin has ever done, including an “unsettling film shot on Super 8 with an entirely Stylophone produced score”.

I've been struggling to find anything to photograph lately. This happens when you've lived in the same (fairly small) city for a decade. But this evening I mixed things up and (a) went black and white and (b) used flash, despite the sunshine. 📷

“Do you get the urge or is it just me? You’re walking along and you see a half-eaten sandwich lying on the ground, covered with bits of grit and crawling with ants, and you think: I want to eat that.” precastreinforced.co.uk/2025/06/15/f... (Contains eating weirdness; food; horror.)

FICTION: Do Not EatDo you get the urge or is it just me? You’re walking along and you see a half-eaten sandwich lying on the ground, covered with bits of grit and crawling with ants, and you think: I want to eat that…precastreinforced.co.uk