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Kate Griffin @griffinkate.bsky.social · 2h

The company we use for milk delivery have used an entire page of A4 and words like "thrilled" to tell us

a) they've been taken over by Milk & More
b) customers need to set up a new account with Milk & More
c) no, you can't transfer your existing account

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Kate Griffin @griffinkate.bsky.social · 5h

Love it when a client needs me to link to specific pages on their site but won't give me URLs to those pages and they have multiple pages on incredibly similar themes 🤦‍♂️

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 23h

Them: need help doing things?

Me: yes

Them: we have a doing things medication

Me: ooh

Them: hahahahaha guess what you have to do to get it?

Me: oh no

Them: things.

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Kate Griffin @griffinkate.bsky.social · 7h

So after failing to pass on the three different appointment requests I made, Pharmadoctor has now taken upon itself to book me an appointment for a Covid vaccine next week, at a date and time very much not of my choosing, and NOT TELL ME so I just found out by chance?!

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Kate Griffin @griffinkate.bsky.social · 7h

...and my Pharmadoctor account has a confirmed appointment with my nearest pharmacy. Not Tesco, but the local one I originally tried & failed to book with (feels like weeks ago now). It's not a date/time I requested and I haven't had any messages to tell me about it, so it's just lucky I logged in?

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Kate Griffin @griffinkate.bsky.social · 7h

Postscript to my Covid vaxx saga: got a text from Tesco asking me to fill in an online form. I was confused to see "Pharmadoctor referral" in the URL - I'd booked my appt directly with Tesco (after trying and failing to book through Pharmadoctor). Got suspicious, logged into Pharmadoctor site...

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Kate Griffin @griffinkate.bsky.social · 10h

I have no idea but just saw this come up again in my feed with no very useful answers so I've boosted at least

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Duncan @slamdunc.bsky.social · 1d

I'm going to be driving a minibus this weekend which is limited to 63mph. Does anyone know a mapping app that will calculate journey times using a set maximum speed rather than national speed limits? I'd be happy to set it to 60 and pretend to be a coach.

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Jon Patience @smoulderstoat.bsky.social · 6d

This is remarkable: how a Competitor Crippled a $23.5M Bootcamp By Becoming a Reddit Moderator. (Also featuring LLMs behaving badly, because of course it does.)

larslofgren.com/codesmith-re...

The Story of Codesmith: How a Competitor Crippled a $23.5M Bootcamp By Becoming a Reddit Moderator

Let’s say you decide to start a coding bootcamp. Your background is in pedagogy and you love teaching. Your parents were teachers. You find a co-founder, raise a bit of money, and pour your soul into ...

larslofgren.com

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 22h

every once in a while i see a scientific study of some kind come out confirming something a marginalized group already knew and we gotta stop trying to rip those people new assholes for "not listening" when they DID LISTEN and then they CHECKED and then they BACKED YOU UP

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Kate Griffin @griffinkate.bsky.social · 21h

Lot of discourse lately about voice notes. I used to think they were lazy and kind of selfish (wasting the other person's time because you CBA putting your message into coherent written form). Now...I think I'd rather get a rambling voice note than a text or email written by AI.

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Kate Griffin @griffinkate.bsky.social · 1d

The acute phase of Covid is a lot milder than it used to be, but it's linked to developing health problems in the long term. So it's a good idea to really prioritise resting with Covid (even if you'd normally "push through" with a cold) and do your damnedest not to spread it.

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Kate Griffin @griffinkate.bsky.social · 1d

I absolutely agree with the principle of trying to avoid spreading *any* illness! But we know Covid is linked to long-term health problems and that the extent of the damage isn't yet known. So I'm more careful than I would be with "just" a random virus. YMMV!

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Kate Griffin @griffinkate.bsky.social · 1d

I don't like having such big quantities because I'm afraid of them expiring before they get used. But it's a good tip for anyone who knows they'll be testing regularly.

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j4 @jaffa.bsky.social · 1d

Also you can usually get them for <£1 each online if you don't mind buying more at once, e.g. 25 tests for £21.59 here: www.medisave.co.uk/products/flo... (though obvs that's a bigger cost up-front, & takes more room to store more boxes)

Flowflex Lateral Flow Test SARS-CoV-2 Antigen Rapid - Box of 25 [Self Testing - Acon]

www.medisave.co.uk

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Kate Griffin @griffinkate.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds like a good approach.

Kate Griffin @griffinkate.bsky.social · 1d

PSA: Boots normally charges £18 for its Covid test bundle, but today you can get it for £10 in the Ten-Quid Tuesday deal.

The bundle is 2 packs of 5 tests each, so 10 tests in total.

We're currently in a Covid wave, so it's a really good idea to have some test kits in the house just in case!

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Kate Griffin @griffinkate.bsky.social · 1d

Ummmm...I suppose it's just a vague sense of fairness? The sense that there must be interesting people out there who "deserve" followers but aren't finding many, while maybe those with thousands of followers are a bit sick of being swamped by replies whenever they post.

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Kate Griffin @griffinkate.bsky.social · 1d

TFW you fell out with someone on The Other Place because of their bad opinions and then you see them years later being screenshotted and mocked on here for a different bad opinion

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Kate Griffin @griffinkate.bsky.social · 1d

I'm still newish on here and still actively trying to find people to follow. But literally everyone I stumble across and think "yeah, I'll give them a follow" already has thousands of followers. The only small-follower accounts I know about are people I already knew elsewhere.

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Andrew Ducker @andrewducker.bsky.social · 1d

England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave

England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet

The latest Covid situation in England and a look at where NHS services are as we head into winter

christinapagel.substack.com

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Bex Luther @superbreeze.bsky.social · 1d

When it's a scene at night, books should switch to white writing on a black page

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Celestial M Weasel @celestialweasel.bsky.social · 1d

Overall, I would say that YouTube music, as usual with Google products fails the important "does this lack the functionality that you would have put in having thought about this for five minutes" test

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Kate Griffin @griffinkate.bsky.social · 1d

That was my mental image too 😆

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Kate Griffin @griffinkate.bsky.social · 1d

And also doctors tell you not to bother taking your shoes off!

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