Meg Pickard
@megp.bsky.social
Crafty nerd (nature/textile art/crochet/linoprint/photography/general web geekery) and charity trainer in North Yorkshire. Ex AOL/Guardian/GDS/consultant. Still looking for the place that feels like the old web (but with a faster modem).
“Hey! Why don’t we put AI in charge of the prevention of nuclear war?!?!”
Also AI, trying to design a simple exercise routine:
Also AI, trying to design a simple exercise routine:
May 18, 2025 at 8:43 PM
“Hey! Why don’t we put AI in charge of the prevention of nuclear war?!?!”
Also AI, trying to design a simple exercise routine:
Also AI, trying to design a simple exercise routine:
I asked ChatGPT to have a go but I don’t think it really understood the concept of pouting….
April 14, 2025 at 10:36 AM
I asked ChatGPT to have a go but I don’t think it really understood the concept of pouting….
Interesting to see how this works in practice. But it will herald the end of the postbox topping yarnbomb….
April 10, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Interesting to see how this works in practice. But it will herald the end of the postbox topping yarnbomb….
Post a pic of when your pet was little. This is Fred and Molly when they first arrived.
March 11, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Post a pic of when your pet was little. This is Fred and Molly when they first arrived.
This has been my strategy for the last year or so, and I now have six new blankets.
There’s been a lot of doom to scroll.
Stress crafting is absolutely a thing.
There’s been a lot of doom to scroll.
Stress crafting is absolutely a thing.
March 10, 2025 at 8:24 PM
This has been my strategy for the last year or so, and I now have six new blankets.
There’s been a lot of doom to scroll.
Stress crafting is absolutely a thing.
There’s been a lot of doom to scroll.
Stress crafting is absolutely a thing.
When the world is hard, mindless games give us something else to focus on for a bit. Casual gaming soothes the brain. (This is my best score yet on the fiendish 368chickens.com)
March 4, 2025 at 7:54 PM
When the world is hard, mindless games give us something else to focus on for a bit. Casual gaming soothes the brain. (This is my best score yet on the fiendish 368chickens.com)
Post a photo of you from a different era.
March 2, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Post a photo of you from a different era.
“…if you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit, join our club.”
February 28, 2025 at 9:12 AM
“…if you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit, join our club.”
(The chiton got repurposed as a cloak for little sister’s Cartimandua - Queen of the Brigantes - a few years later)
February 27, 2025 at 6:06 PM
(The chiton got repurposed as a cloak for little sister’s Cartimandua - Queen of the Brigantes - a few years later)
We had a Boudicca too(dicca) a few years back - complete with duct tape and pipe cleaner torc, woven chiton and bratt.
February 27, 2025 at 6:00 PM
We had a Boudicca too(dicca) a few years back - complete with duct tape and pipe cleaner torc, woven chiton and bratt.
I got to 12.28 before it all came clattering down.
February 25, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I got to 12.28 before it all came clattering down.
Can confirm that this Apple voicemail auto transcription service needs…some work. 🤔
Here’s what it made of a Geordie NHS employee calling to arrange an appointment for my daughter… none of the words transcribed here featured in the voice message, except the last.
Here’s what it made of a Geordie NHS employee calling to arrange an appointment for my daughter… none of the words transcribed here featured in the voice message, except the last.
February 17, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Can confirm that this Apple voicemail auto transcription service needs…some work. 🤔
Here’s what it made of a Geordie NHS employee calling to arrange an appointment for my daughter… none of the words transcribed here featured in the voice message, except the last.
Here’s what it made of a Geordie NHS employee calling to arrange an appointment for my daughter… none of the words transcribed here featured in the voice message, except the last.
If you see this post, quote with a bridge from your gallery…
(This one is over the Swale, near Reeth in North Yorkshire)
(This one is over the Swale, near Reeth in North Yorkshire)
January 23, 2025 at 11:13 PM
If you see this post, quote with a bridge from your gallery…
(This one is over the Swale, near Reeth in North Yorkshire)
(This one is over the Swale, near Reeth in North Yorkshire)
A friend on the school run pointed out that Tr*mp’s official presidential portrait is a dead ringer for that portrait of Vigo the Carpathian in Ghostbusters II.
Reading the Wikipedia entry, the comparison checks out.
Reading the Wikipedia entry, the comparison checks out.
January 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
A friend on the school run pointed out that Tr*mp’s official presidential portrait is a dead ringer for that portrait of Vigo the Carpathian in Ghostbusters II.
Reading the Wikipedia entry, the comparison checks out.
Reading the Wikipedia entry, the comparison checks out.
Started the day at mum’s house, looking out over the islands. Ended it by the fire at home in North Yorkshire.
Seven hours of driving, an hour on a ferry in between.
Back again next month.
Seven hours of driving, an hour on a ferry in between.
Back again next month.
January 11, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Started the day at mum’s house, looking out over the islands. Ended it by the fire at home in North Yorkshire.
Seven hours of driving, an hour on a ferry in between.
Back again next month.
Seven hours of driving, an hour on a ferry in between.
Back again next month.
We’ve got freezing fog here (ahead of snowmageddon, if the headlines are to be believed…) so no chance but you may have more luck…
January 4, 2025 at 6:54 PM
We’ve got freezing fog here (ahead of snowmageddon, if the headlines are to be believed…) so no chance but you may have more luck…
This is beautiful! They got much further than I did in 2007ish with my minimalist version (still unfinished, as with so many projects…)
December 29, 2024 at 8:43 PM
This is beautiful! They got much further than I did in 2007ish with my minimalist version (still unfinished, as with so many projects…)
I have no memory of listening to things which I would define in these terms, but if Spotify wants to depict me as an eclectic, hand-crafted, edge-of-the-known-world-dwelling shabby intellectual then who am I to disagree?
December 5, 2024 at 9:09 AM
I have no memory of listening to things which I would define in these terms, but if Spotify wants to depict me as an eclectic, hand-crafted, edge-of-the-known-world-dwelling shabby intellectual then who am I to disagree?
Post you from a different era:
1996, at a celebration while doing ethnographic fieldwork at a settlement in the Bolivian Andes
1996, at a celebration while doing ethnographic fieldwork at a settlement in the Bolivian Andes
November 21, 2024 at 3:59 PM
Post you from a different era:
1996, at a celebration while doing ethnographic fieldwork at a settlement in the Bolivian Andes
1996, at a celebration while doing ethnographic fieldwork at a settlement in the Bolivian Andes
Still looking for that screengrab of the Blogger timestamp synch (I’ve got COVID; spelunking through old files is about all I’ve got energy for).
Found this, instead…
Context: Blogger had server issues; early users sent them $$ to help; 6 months later we got stickers.
Different times.
Found this, instead…
Context: Blogger had server issues; early users sent them $$ to help; 6 months later we got stickers.
Different times.
September 17, 2024 at 12:44 PM
Still looking for that screengrab of the Blogger timestamp synch (I’ve got COVID; spelunking through old files is about all I’ve got energy for).
Found this, instead…
Context: Blogger had server issues; early users sent them $$ to help; 6 months later we got stickers.
Different times.
Found this, instead…
Context: Blogger had server issues; early users sent them $$ to help; 6 months later we got stickers.
Different times.
I was an early Twitter/Flickr/Blogger user too.
I liked the optimism of new social sharing platforms back then. Launching out on new ships, still creaking because the joints hadn’t yet swollen and settled. Heading into wild currents, to unknown lands…
Feels a little more like a turgid pond now.
I liked the optimism of new social sharing platforms back then. Launching out on new ships, still creaking because the joints hadn’t yet swollen and settled. Heading into wild currents, to unknown lands…
Feels a little more like a turgid pond now.
September 17, 2024 at 10:14 AM
I was an early Twitter/Flickr/Blogger user too.
I liked the optimism of new social sharing platforms back then. Launching out on new ships, still creaking because the joints hadn’t yet swollen and settled. Heading into wild currents, to unknown lands…
Feels a little more like a turgid pond now.
I liked the optimism of new social sharing platforms back then. Launching out on new ships, still creaking because the joints hadn’t yet swollen and settled. Heading into wild currents, to unknown lands…
Feels a little more like a turgid pond now.
In case anyone’s wondering how Rishi’s pitching himself to the constituents of Richmond & Northallerton, please note the size of his photo on this A5 leaflet which arrived today.
You’ll need to zoom in to see him.
Keep zooming in.
Bit more.
Just to the left of a guy in safety goggles. And Hunt.
You’ll need to zoom in to see him.
Keep zooming in.
Bit more.
Just to the left of a guy in safety goggles. And Hunt.
June 14, 2024 at 6:46 PM
In case anyone’s wondering how Rishi’s pitching himself to the constituents of Richmond & Northallerton, please note the size of his photo on this A5 leaflet which arrived today.
You’ll need to zoom in to see him.
Keep zooming in.
Bit more.
Just to the left of a guy in safety goggles. And Hunt.
You’ll need to zoom in to see him.
Keep zooming in.
Bit more.
Just to the left of a guy in safety goggles. And Hunt.