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Aug 17, 2025

Vlog: walk through the burnt Cyprus mountains
In this video I walk for the first time through the parts of the mountains that were burnt down in the recent wildfires.
Cory Doctorow explains the problems in Bluesky’s privacy policy: Pluralistic: Bluesky creates the world's weirdest, hardest-to-understand binding arbitration clause (15 Aug 2025) pluralistic.net pluralistic.net...
I caved and bought a pixel 9a. It’s heavily discounted. Getting rid of grapheneOS just seems to be too much of a pain.
🏃️ ⏱️00:30:50 🛣️5.43km 🗻0m 🚀05:41/km ❤️‍🔥176bpm 🍔686kcal Sneaking in a cheeky 30 minute 5km to open up my right hip - felt pretty under fuelled towards the end, but one of my fastest efforts of the year.
Shows I’ve been watching
Things are getting a little more settled in after the move and I’ve had time to curl up on the weird green canvas sectional from IKEA and watch some shows. I have opinions and that means !!!spoiler warning!!!FoundationI was and am most excited about Foundation S3. The finale of S2 was SO GOOD, and S3 has been amping up the wide angle shots and cool space stuff. There’s more than a few sci-fi throwbacks in there, including a shot of a planet while a...
AI this, AI that
If someone manages to create a content blocker for MacOS/iOS that prevents all the content that mentions either AI or vibe coding to reach my screen, I’d buy it in a heartbeat. I am so goddamn tired of reading about AI, GPT models, and people vibe-coding. I get it, it’s fun tech, but it’s exhausting. It’s the crypto/NFT craze on steroids. Thank you for keeping RSS alive. You're awesome.
🚴 ⏱️00:53:30 🛣️26.7km 🗻192m 🪫150w ❤️‍🔥146bpm 🍔460kcal Steady Z2/3 effort on Arta to Play de Muro, the second leg of Rouvy's Explore Mallorca challenge. Struggled for training hours this week, but tried to keep on top of diet. 🪴 in
I really like the new calendar in Route's rider portal... if only it broadcast externally via iCal. It makes event invitations much easier to view / accept. 🪴 in #cycling
📷 🐕 Here is Ruairidh, off to terrorise the Royal Dyche again at DycheHound event 2. Spaniel incoming. 🪴 in #caninechildren
📝 17 August 2025 at 07:35 - I …...
I switched from Notesnook to #Obsidian last week for notes on my phone (separate from [work notes](https://kevquirk.com/blog/follow-up-on-notes)). I see what …