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Mat Waugh
@matwaugh.bsky.social
Children’s indie author. Fast walker. Slow cooker. Average dad. Tunbridge Wells.
Can anyone figure out this ‘motivational’ letter, arrived in post to my Year 13 daughter? It’s a year late. It’s from a mysterious Kemi. It’s full of URLs she won’t be typing in - “it’s just junk, Dad!” Weird boomer attempt at nudge theory? Maybe @samfr.bsky.social knows?
September 17, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Left 3 items outside my mum’s house this AM for anyone interested. A safe with no key for scrap. Working monitor. Brand new camping coolbox. Monitor went quickly. 20 mins more, safe had been thrown to pavement in vain effort to open - and flex had been cut off coolbox to trash it. Hard to fathom.
March 2, 2025 at 11:03 PM
I'm an idiot. It's "at pace" that irks me, not speed, a much more recent tic. Barring a tractor, a hare and terrorists, nothing moved "at pace" until 2000, when Dr Fox set it running. Naturally, I remembered how much I loathe it when a minister said today that they're working at pace blah blah
January 2, 2025 at 6:40 PM
and it got me poking around, too – in search of a time when the only things that moved 'at speed' were warships and cars, not ministers making promises
January 2, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Is this what they mean by trickle down?
December 23, 2024 at 2:57 PM
Three thoughts in rapid succession:
- that’s one *ugly* Oxford comma, and I say that as a fan
- are vapes and ecigs different then?
- Never considered cigarettes as little cigars before now
Then, happily, it was time to get off
December 21, 2024 at 9:55 PM
Pretty sure Peugeot have their own engineers, but tech is definitely cobbled together by an intern. Who else would put footnotes against a password? #UXFail
December 2, 2024 at 12:58 PM