Paul Pod

@paulpod

Designer. Ex GOV, NHS, startups. Lives in Wales, London @paulpod on most things 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 website: Neuromantics.net 📨 signal: paulpod.404

764 Folgt791 Follower4.194 Posts

Bluesky

Ist das dein Profil?Übernimm es — dann gehört dir paulpod.dirty.social.Profil übernehmen

Paul Pod@paulpod· 1d

News headlines, next to each other: Come on, we need to talk about this

Three actually:

Amber heat health alerts kick in across most of England ahead of fifth summer heatwave

Exclusive 'National priority' to equip UK firefighters amid growing wildfire threat

Analysis Could England and Wales ever run out of water?

Heathrow says need for expansion 'clear' as it loses title of Europe's busiest airport

Paul Pod@paulpod· 2d

July *was* sunny ☀️

Chart showing solar generation off my house for july

Generation to Home 204.36 kWh
Generation to Battery 146.7 kWh
Generation to Grid 163.94 kWh

Total Generation 515.0 kWh

Paul Pod@paulpod· 4d

Kuba is refusing to pose, prefers sleep (fair) so here is one from earlier too showing his full powers

Big floofy grey and white cat Kuba with his face buried into his squirrel tail

Kuba with his minder, Mia

A cat and a dog walking down a sunlit green lane

Paul Pod@paulpod· 5d

Blimey, William Orbit was an absolute legend

Black square, white text

.
William Orbit

15 December 1956 - 23 July 2026 K
It is with profound sadness that the family and friends of William Orbit announce that William passed away at home on 23rd July 2026.
We are deeply saddened by his passing.
He will be greatly missed by us and by so many whose lives he touched through his music, friendship and kindness.
We kindly ask that the privacy of William's family and close friends is respected during this difficult time.

Paul Pod@paulpod· 24d

Need rain. Please be true

Weather chart. A list of days from Monday thru a week on Tuesday 50% rain by next Saturday, only increasing on the Sunday, Monday and Tuesday

Paul Pod@paulpod· 25d

I'm sure he has been eyeing more practical day-bins for this exact outcome

Paul Pod@paulpod· Jul 10

Ok that's getting a bit warm now

Paul Pod@paulpod· Jul 10

It's giving Cyber Fatima vibes

Frankly insane Government poster from the bizarre "cultural recovery" campaign in the post covid marketplace of bonkers ideas

Paul Pod@paulpod· Jul 2

Yeah ok fair

Google bloody Al Overview
Whether you mean a vacuum cleaner designed specifically for delicate studio electronics or a synth-based "Hoover" sound patch used in electronic music, the solutions are highly distinct:

Paul Pod@paulpod· Jul 2

Interesting! The minimal industrial design is ... bold. And the product naming gets ever more bizarre. Seeing as the 30-odd buttons on a grown up CDJ have functions, not sure this maps. I haven't even looked up the price ... what do we reckon? £1000? alphatheta.com/en/product/p...

The new CDJ-1500x ... It's a little black box with a big screen and a jog wheel

Paul Pod@paulpod· Jun 28

Did love mucking about with Wombo - fully nightmare fuel

Wombo dream prompt - Gove blobby glasses

Wombo dream prompt - Mari Lwyd horse small

Wombo dream prompt - p p pick up a penguin

Paul Pod@paulpod· Jun 26

Fuck yeah evil spire

Paul Pod@paulpod· Jun 18

Just checking the list

VPNs are illegal in:
Belarus
Iraq
North Korea
Turkmenistan

VPN use is restricted in:
China
Iran
Oman
Russia
Turkey
United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Paul Pod@paulpod· Jun 15

Ah it leaves so many unexplored questions!

Two paragraphs :
An apparent sighting of a Canadian lynx was reported to DPP on 13 May 2025 in Port Henri, Carmarthenshire, and no action was taken.

A "puma-sized cat" was also reported in Fairy Falls, Trefnant, Denbighshire on 25 October 2023, but no action was taken after an investigation by North Wales Police confirmed it was not a real cat.

Paul Pod@paulpod· Jun 11

Did you see this? Sounds a lot of fun

Instagram post by Sizemore / pic of Tardis, Ray Purchase, Stephen Toast. Caption:

Just cast Steven Toast as the Doctor. You do a crossover event between the BBC and Ch4. Friday night is an episode of Toast on 4 showing the shenanigans behind the scenes as they make the episode. Steven hates the role, has never seen the show and hates his co star, Ray Purchase, who plays The Master. Saturday night is the actual episode of Dr Who on the Beeb. Bonus: Ray has form after being cast opposite Troughton back in the 60s.

Paul Pod@paulpod· Jun 10

So that's clear then... Fucking useless

Guardian Live Snippet
No 10 declines to say what Starmer meant by PMQs pledge to crack down on people like Musk fuelling division online
At the post-PMQs lobby briefing the PM’s spokesperson was asked what Keir Starmer meant at PMQS when he told Ed Davey that the government would crack down on “anyone who is fuelling this division” on social media. (See 12.30pm.) This was in response to a question about Elon Musk.

The spokesperson refused to give details about what a crackdown like this might involve, but he did say: “We’ve taken action before and we won’t hesitate to do that again.”

Paul Pod@paulpod· Jun 8

Fully opaque, yesssss

News about the next apple Ui we all* were patiently waiting for (ie not upgrading because fuck that, right?)

Apple said it has heard user feedback, which it
"deeply appreciates," and is now making adjustments to the underlying foundations of how Liquid Glass is constructed. Chief among those changes is a new slider that lets users control transparency, ranging from fully opaque to completely clear.

Paul Pod@paulpod· Jun 6

IBM on the money here in 1979

A COMPUTER
CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE

THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER
MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION

Paul Pod@paulpod· Jun 6

Incredible story, one key detail here... www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Marketers chose the slogan after consulting an AI tool, looking for suggestions, Shinsegae Group said. It turned out some managers who approved the campaign never opened the email attachments showing the marketing material.

Paul Pod@paulpod· Jun 3

Organising the world's information my absolute arse

Google not-actual-search but complete fucking fiction

Question: does Bono like squirrels

Yes, Bono appears to like squirrels. In fact, U2 fans have long celebrated his endearing reaction to seeing them in nature, often affectionately referring to a popular fan-favorite clip as the "Elvis Squirrel video" because of his sheer joy watching the animals.

While we know the U2 frontman enjoys watching them scamper around, it's not clear if he is familiar with the grey squirrels often found locally in the Treharris area, or if he prefers the native red squirrels he might see closer to his home in Ireland.

Would you like to hear about the different types of squirrels found in the UK, or are you just looking to see if your favorite musician shares

Paul Pod@paulpod· May 31

Rakuten whoever you are, never been pressed. The fourth button sure is weird

Close up of an LG tv remote with the 4th button "Rakuten tv"

Paul Pod@paulpod· May 26

Lying on the grass under the shade of the big chestnut tree us very pleasant right now

Looking up at blue sky and perfect green canopy while lying on green thick grass is working out great

Paul Pod@paulpod· May 25

Ah, how does late June look on the doom-o-gram?

ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social

Chart with a line showing global oil inventories going down sharply from April through June (operational stress level - bad) and September (operational floor level - catastrophic )

1/ The world faces a catastrophic cliff-edge shortage of oil due to the Strait of Hormuz blockade in the next four weeks, analysts warn. This will cause a deep recession, fuel rationing, the shutdown of entire industries, and oil prices potentially as high as $370 per barrel.

Paul Pod@paulpod· May 25

The the orange clown said the opposite... oh no, shocker

Headlines on iran

IRAN'S FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESPERSON
SAYS THE POTENTIAL MOU HAS NO SPECIFIC DETAILS ABOUT THE
MANAGEMENT OF THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ
Fin Twitter @fintwitter.bsky.social • 32s
IRAN'S FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESPERSON SAYS WE DO NOT HAVE CURRENTLY A PLAN TO SEND A DELEGATION TO PAKISTAN
S
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social • 1m
IRAN'S FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESPERSON SAYS WE'VE REACHED A FRAMEWORK BUT NO BODY CAN SAY THAT AN AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE U.S. AND IRAN IS IMMINENT

Paul Pod@paulpod· May 24

The forbidden yellow cake

Paul Pod@paulpod· May 24

I think yesterday was the first time we ever exported more electricity than pulled off the grid. That's quite fun, for May eh?

Chart with pink and green bars mostly between 4pm and 7pm showing Electricity exported, where you get paid the most for it. Total £1.95

Chart with pink bars between 2am and 5am showing Electricity used, almost all at cheap rate to charge the battery overnight Total £1.37

Paul Pod@paulpod· May 21

Yeah i am sure i saw the needle move. Just the tiniest bit? Oh my car insurance has come up. Bugger.

Guardian Headline
Reeves cuts VAT on summer days out to 5% as part of cost of living support

Paul Pod@paulpod· May 14

The 2026 augmented reality darts instructions

Paul Pod@paulpod· May 12

Coronation of Streeting, golf clap for that

A picture of Andy Burnham looking like some has pissed on his chips alongside headline
"Burnham allies warn against quick
'coronation' of Streeting if Starmer quits"

Paul Pod@paulpod· May 12

I was doing a house viewing and when we returned from a tour of the garden, Kuba was on the steps half way through munching what looked suspiciously like a small rat. Blood, entrails etc. Awesome work Kuba!