3rd August - 9th August #SilentSunday Car boot sales are so full of broken dreams; musical instruments, skateboards, home fitness equipment. They are also a monument to maturity; books read, films and games completed, toys and clothes outgrown. We also see the inexorable march of progress in the "obsolete"...

I have a small bugbear: the trope that old people aren't tech savvy. A guy at work brought it up this week — a joke about how if you want to do some exploratory testing, just give the app to his mum and she'll find a way to break it. She's rubbish with computers, apparently. And honestly, as a sweeping statement (I...

Andreas tells a story of seeing an image of cats on social media with several many comments decrying it for being "AI generated". Do we now have the obligation to check each and every picture, video, quote, text, post, etc. that we come across for whether it's human or AI generated? Do we have to apologise profusely...

27th July - 2nd August The morning is crisp and clear enough to hear the plaintive bleating of sheep from over the fields. Sheep always sound alarmed like everything is distressing them. Same, sheep. Same. I am trialling folding my #SilentSunday photography shares into my weeknotes (see above) because they're both...

Happy August! Here are a few photos from my phone from the last month with neither rhyme nor reason to the theme. Thanks for reading this post via RSS! Let me know your thoughts by sending me an email: rss@thomasrigby.com.

I have actually fallen in love with Mouth Ulcers. The band. Obviously. Seven-track EP "Silent Pictures" (a bargain at £5 on Bandcamp) is simultaneously fresh and 40 years old. Aside from the obvious comparisons to Joy Division and The Cure, the goth four-piece from London channel Long Blondes and Maven (ex-Nitzer...

Lo Blackwell is an aspiring travel journalist who gets the gig of her career; the maiden voyage of an intimate luxury nordic cruise liner, and witnesses a murder — or did she? Our erstwhile heroine is a borderline alcoholic with a head injury and so sleep deprived she's the end level boss of unreliable narrators,...

20th July - 26th July The weather broke overnight. Woke to the blessed sound of rain on the window pane. The rush of cold air as I opened the back door as welcome as a lover's touch; the fine misting drizzle, a kiss. A short week at work coupled with multiple project kickoffs and a pitch meant it was less like three...

Why is it that when I see anime nerds discussing translations of anime/manga they use the term "localization" and not "translation"? Are they just trying to be fancy, or is there a valid reason? David @ Setouchi This came up recently in a conversation online and, following my rule of "if it's more than three tweets,...

What Collins does impeccably is plainly state the magical element: some people can extract memories from people and store them in books. There's no real history or explanation for how or why — it's simply a universal truth and unexamined. The book is split into three acts, all written in first person. Emmett, our...

Alex over at The Wry Writer started Five Ws of Reading. It was brought to my attention by David, who found it through Frances Crossley who got it from the fabulously named Explicating Elle. WHO - An author you would love to have a ‘one to one’ with? Although I'd like feel a right idiot, I'd love to have a chat with...

I find myself doing this every month so I find myself Googling this every month so, in the spirit of "write about it so you never forget it", I decided to write it down. And, who knows, it might be useful for you too. When I get my photography scans back from the lab they arrive named with a sequential number that...