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Hugh Jympton 📎

@jympton.bsky.social

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Wülferhampton denizen, Derby born and bred, now living in Germany. Left-ish.

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Hugh Jympton 📎 @jympton.bsky.social · May 2

An occasional series of what my Garmin watch is saying after my #HeartBypass.

Started wearing it again about 2 weeks after the op. The watch is basically going “Dude! WTF?”

I need more rest and seem permanently stressed? Ya think? My resting heart rate is higher. Really?

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Robert Llewellyn @bobbyllew.bsky.social · 20m

Just received proof copy of The Ghost Camera. It's science fiction set now, (contains no ghosts.)
Meant to be published by Unbound but they went backrupt, folks who supported the book were left with nothing. (me too)
I'm printing these so everyone who supported the book will get a signed copy, soon.

Close up of me, Robert, holding a copy of my new book, The Ghost Camera. And yes, there will be an audio version eventually.

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Hugh Jympton 📎 @jympton.bsky.social · 22m

OMG that’s terrifying.

Hope you’re better now.

Hugh Jympton 📎 @jympton.bsky.social · 25m

Will have to find someone peckish.

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Hugh Jympton 📎 @jympton.bsky.social · 35m

I’ll eat my liver if it isn’t great!

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Gary Delaney Comedian @garydelaney.bsky.social · 3h

A story in three parts

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Hugh Jympton 📎 @jympton.bsky.social · 8h

8. mustn’t grumble.

Thursday news quiz: French reshuffles, naked cyclists and a heroic dog www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Thursday news quiz: French reshuffles, naked cyclists and a heroic dog

Test yourself on topical news trivia, pop culture and general knowledge every Thursday. How will you fare?

www.theguardian.com

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Hugh Jympton 📎 @jympton.bsky.social · 9h

Oh, I was naive enough to connect iCloud to OneDrive. In theory, all my photos automatically get backed up and I can see them on the PC. In theory.

In practice, it’s like asking the bully who shoves your head down the toilet to work together with the bully who steals your lunch.

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Hugh Jympton 📎 @jympton.bsky.social · 9h

Oh they do, and then your client complains that you’re not using their corporate colour scheme.

Excel for Windows apparently has a setting under File Info to prevent charts changing their colours.

My search history has now also gone beige, it’s so boring.

Hugh Jympton 📎 @jympton.bsky.social · 10h

True, but you don’t have to switch to PowerPoint to set up a new colour theme.

That was particularly mind-boggling.

Excel for Mac is like permanently having Jim Bowen looking at your broken spreadsheet saying „here’s how it could have worked“.

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Hugh Jympton 📎 @jympton.bsky.social · 10h

So, trying to stop colours changing in an Excel sheet on Mac.

I imagine the Microsoft development meeting went like this:

- boss, we could set it up like on Windows, so users can manage colours consistently and reliably.

- no. Punish them.

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Sundance @sundance.bikesky.social · 15h

I feel seen and attacked at the same time

Who is better at riding a bike meme from KnowYourMeme on Instagram. Comparison a chill kid riding a bike a road cyclist being fussy about their sport

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 13h

A friend kept getting sick. I said it might be repeated COVID infections.
He laughed — “You think everything is COVID”
Then added, “Everyone’s been sick lately — it’s normal now”

That’s not normal. That’s what years of COVID denial have done.

#LongCOVID #COVIDIsNotOver #CleanAir #Masks

a man says he 's in denial in a movie

Alt: a man says he 's in denial in a movie

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Hugh Jympton 📎 @jympton.bsky.social · 20h

Connections
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Hugh Jympton 📎 @jympton.bsky.social · 20h

Wordle 1,580 X/6*

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a man in a suit and tie is dancing in a room with the word bastard written on the screen .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is dancing in a room with the word bastard written on the screen .

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 1d

INCREDIBLE clip.

<Richard Holden MP shouts like an angry man in a pub>

Lisa Nandy: "Can you calm down a bit, mate? You're shouting like an angry man in a pub."

Richard Holden: "That's not fair."

<continues to shout like an angry man in a pub>

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Hugh Jympton 📎 @jympton.bsky.social · 1d

Switches the hearing aids off.

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Hugh Jympton 📎 @jympton.bsky.social · 1d

Traditionally it’s thr Germans who cross the border into the neighbouring countries.

Hey, I’m allowed, I’m German.

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Bloody Mary (mirror entity, not cocktail) @marygillis.bsky.social · 1d

Celebrating Ada Lovelace: The World's First Programmer Who Saw a World that Wasn't There Yet

Ada Lovelace Day is celebrated on the second Tuesday of October.

www.zmescience.com

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 1d

Please do not harass this creator, as while this may be an objectively offensively bad take, he is still a human being and deserves basic respect

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 2d

I’m seeing pieces and posts today about how useful digital ID could be in navigating bureaucracy etc. Yes. It would. That, however, is *not* how the government tried to sell it to us. Instead, they portrayed it as a tool to stop illegal working and curb illegal immigration. 1/4

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 4d

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

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Hugh Jympton 📎 @jympton.bsky.social · 1d

Connections
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Hugh Jympton 📎 @jympton.bsky.social · 1d

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a man is walking in front of a building with scaffolding on it .

ALT: a man is walking in front of a building with scaffolding on it .

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Blue Axeman @blueaxeman.bsky.social · 1d

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Hugh Jympton 📎 @jympton.bsky.social · 1d

Did wonder why there was no reference to chocolate on the packaging.