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Satellite Eyes is a free, open source MacOS app that sets your desktop wallpaper to the satellite view of your current location. I've just released 2.0, which adds an option to shuffle through a selection of interesting-to-look-at places from around the world. satelliteeyes.tomtaylor.co.uk

Fit / moodboard goals: methodical but weary / magnificently rumpled

Nicely done from Giles: "why text-heavy slides fail in front of an audience"

gilest.org/notes/2026/q...

BBC Radio 4 - Desert Island Discs, Jesse Armstrong, writer Jesse Armstrong, writer, shares the soundtrack of his life with Lauren Laverne.

A good episode: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

“Retired with immediate effect”

I lost my favourite scarf. But I retraced my steps (with Swarm) and the cafe had kept it in their Box Of Scarves. Such a joy.

Oh wait, here's 20 ideas that could help: whotargets.me/en/restoring...

Giles says it better than I could: gilest.org/notes/haudoo...

Tap to see my listening activity see what Russell Davies is playing. on your homescreen.

Let’s scrobble again, like we did last summer i.airbuds.fm/russell.davi...

Non-fun run I've slightly been in denial about this. Various things have prevented training. But, I'm going to do the Royal Parks Half Marathon in a few weeks. And that now means that I'm supposed to ask you to ...

I am once again running a pointlessly long distance.

So now I have to ask you for money.

www.justgiving.com/fundraising/...

GDS

I think 1 and 3 were Mike

I stole 2 from the Olympics "Citius, Altius, Fortius"

On Feb 1, 2012, apparently www.flickr.com/photos/russe...

Paul! Very excited that you’re coming. See you then.

Aww. That’s kind. Thanks.

Afternoon Slow 5 things. The first Sunday of every month. Roughly.

Newsletter goes out in about 6 hours. Climb aboard for quotes about mud and trumpets. buttondown.com/russell

Screengrab describing an exhibition at the V&A about ‘the golden age of the mug…’

I would see the hell out of The Golden Age of the Mug

A view from the stand at Craven Cottage as Fulham play Nottingham Forest

Keeping an eye out for @worklesshard.bsky.social

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I saw this and thought of you https://www.ft.com/content/18c06f51-5162-4cf1-8301-c5b85b4a0aab

Green Paper From Hype to Hope How Networked Neighbourhoods can make innovation work for everyone - Rachel Coldicutt OBE January 2025

As everyone's becoming an expert on Nvidia stock prices and moats and Jevons paradox, I've got a new Green Paper out on inclusive innovation, social capital, and technology diffusion - three things that literally no one is talking about! www.careful.industries/inclusive-in...

Thanks boss. Very good of you to spread the word.

Awww. Thank you thank you.

Thank you thank you thank you

The loneliness of the long distance generative musician I first came across Tim Exile at Music Tech Fest about ten years ago. He builds really interesting generative music tools and communities. There was a time where I regularly missed my tube stop playin...

The Loneliness of the long distance generative musician: russelldavies.typepad.com/planning/202...

Small brown book with the title How to set a goal by Julia Whitney

Also! How to set a goal. Magnificently and definitively written for you by Julia Whitney. The perfect Christmas gift for the slightly drifting. fitzrovialightindustries.com/products/how...

Thank you for your service

A small brown book called How to grow potatoes by Giles Turnbull

How to grow potatoes, lovingly and expertly written for you by @gilestur.bsky.social, the perfect Christmas gift, buy now!

fitzrovialightindustries.com/products/how...

Screen grab saying “When I think of her now, I realise that it’s hard to describe a close friend because what one sees and thinks about is the feeling, the mood, the enduring microculture you generate together.”

A bit like describing your own bit of a social network (AND THE WALLS BECAME THE WORLD ALL AROUND Johanna Ekström
& Sigrid Rausing)

‘Cosmos’ at the end is magic — lots of varied animation projected on four huge walls. Featuring lovely arpeggiated synths. Could have stayed in there all day.

Absolutely brilliant edition of @jim.londoncentric.media's London Centric just hit my inbox, with a detailed, heroic expose of why Westminster Bridge is currently a lawless ribbon of anarchy. It's like an encapsulation of everything that doesn't work in Britain. You need to subscribe.

A photo of two small pamphlets. One called How to grow potatoes by Giles Turnbull. One called How to set a goal by Julia Whitney

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Cutting saying: I DON'T LISTEN TO PODCASTS. I don't know what they are. People interview me occasionally - it wouldn't be that, would it? Gyles Brandreth and I just did something like that. We just chatted. I don't suppose it's different to anything else, really.

Jilly Cooper on podcasts.