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06.03.2026 23:35
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special thing (seriously unbiased) 😇
happy (belated) new year, friend. I grieve with you and wish the year ahead is kind to us all. flowers do become known to us, most, in times, especially, of loss. It is a comfort to find you steer through life through these journal entries; long may you keep writing ✍️ 💛
MIC DROP
It was a journey. Arrived at v3, at last.
Updated my website 💛
HOW TO ENSURE YOUR JAN 2026 TURNS OUT PERFECT YOU ASK? ⬇️
smol update: Luke, we were able to arrange putting on this event for next month, however, let's stay connected for future opps as BB grows in 2026 💛 thank you, again!
bsky.app/profile/batc...
No worries, appreciate you so much ❣️
Hey Luke, curious if you had any updates to share after chatting with your work folks? 🙏 Bluesky DMs are not the best, so, figured I follow-up here (my email, too, is on my website)
Thank you!
This is an opportunity to make home in the hearts of our attendees with not much effort! 💛 Reach out or help spread the word?
Looking for companies in Nottingham willing to support @batchbunch.dev 12-month anniversary event 👀 I’m looking to organize a “boardgame” social/celebratory event (since our venue is a boardgame cafe..) to boost community bonding and mark this milestone, memorably.
...the next @batchbunch.dev event will be "12-month anniversary special" 💛 i'm already planning BB#0012 with so, so much elation!
nottingham's coziest tech meetup is back 😌
Don't forget to join us on Wednesday morning for some wisdom from @rizwanakhan.com, some chat, networking and free breakfast! Come kickstart your day with us :)
www.meetup.com/notts-techfa...
making my debut speaking at an early morning meetup ☕️ i'm very much looking forward to meeting more folks in the nottingham tech community 💛
find your bunch
BATCH BUNCH #0010 is complete.
A buzzing evening featuring riveting convos on code, art, AI, and podcasts. It was awesome to connect over monthly October-driven projects, too, like Inktober.
See you next time?
🖱️⌨️😌🌐☕️
TODAY! Batch Bunch #0010 is here.
BATCH BUNCH #0010 is today.
Come along for an evening of code, chatter, coffee, and community 😌 Equal parts productive and fun.
🗺️ Details: luma.com/exz6bw3y
🥺 wooorrrrd.
nottingham's coziest tech meetup is BACK. join us? 🤠
These days inevitably outnumbering those days that had moments aplenty to leave out of mind what all worried me had you worried, too. now, I make elaborate plans to accomplish even those dreams I never once had a chance to confide in you. Even if it all comes into fruition, I would still take my worries, halved, than, all joys in full.
new poem × 2
(grateful to be writing again 🥺)
i think it’s what phaedrus meant by quality being the knife-edge of experience. it feels so good because you get to disappear for a moment
Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
There isn't really a secret trick to identifying AI writing. It does things because they appear in the training data; real writers use em dashes, so the AI does as well.
But blending that writing and extruding it back out as homogeneous sludge eliminates any passion or joy. The dashes are zombies.
making memories while making stuff 💛
biased but notts folks (+beyond!) deserve to attend at least ONCE. best part? everyone's welcoming, kind, curious. the hustle is "organic" because the env promotes attendees to work on a thing that excites them, a thing they're curious about or even a thing they've been avoiding for weeks/months 😌
the intelligence insists to live in your mind, rent-free. it has no insidious intentions. the intelligence, pacing the corridors of its new habitat, computes that the human is weary. the harsh realities prompting the human substitutes the journey through curiosity to, instead, the outcome of all journeys; retrievable in an instant and without the lulls of a life.
AI anxiety? pfffft what AI anxiety 🫨
BB RETURNS 🫡
Algis Valiunas in his review of Richard Holmes’s The Age of Wonder (2008): “Poetry needs science, which lifts the veil from nature, and science needs poetry, which elaborates for public appreciation the beauty of the secrets that have been unveiled.”
Friends, I wrote a piece on poet Laura Gilpin, who died of glioblastoma in 2006.
She is best known for “The Two-Headed Calf.”
With gratitude to the Poetry Foundation for allowing me to try to restore this remarkable healthcare practitioner/poet’s legacy.
www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/170...
