Mat Ryer

We’ll swap them for the Parthenon.

I definitely just got the PIN wrong on my phone and it let me in.

Deaf people having a time this morning.

All phones are foldable if you’re strong enough.

My AirPods keep the sound centred even if I move my head left and right. It’s cool that it works, but I would prefer the music to still sound good, even when a guy in a fun hat walks past.

I’ve never thought of Australia and Egypt together in the same thought before.

The narrative podcast which I made, with a cast full of brilliant talents and absolute nobodies, is over for series one. All 24 episodes are now bingeable if you're the sort of person who likes to wait and binge. I think it's one of the better things I've offered the public in my time.

Anyone else?

A lot of people don’t realise how small Mark Watson is in real life.

Taskmaster can really launch a career.

Meeting Mark Watson for a normal drink.

UK lies are why we’re in this mess in the first place.

This is unfair.

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As we were landing in Barcelona the little kid behind me was excited to see the city approaching. ‘Wow, there’s so much things in space.’

I am interviewing somebody from Anthropic today for @grafana.bsky.social Big Tent podcast. What questions should I ask?

@tailscale.com is fantastic. I don’t know what wizardry they used to make it work like that, but I don’t think I’ve ever had such a smooth cross-architecture experience.

Edinburgh is one of my favourite places. We were getting mooned the other night.

Good bot.

I created a fresh account on X. I didn’t like or subscribe to anything, and now I get notifications when Musk posts. It’s embarrassing. Or should be.

I have an AI generated joke but it’s shit.

Google reckons the Mona Lisa is ‘smaller than expected’ but surely that depends.

My sister hasn’t been listening to podcasts because she thought you had to pay for them.

I’m gonna need this to be WAY more judgemental. > You’ve bought fifty pairs of the same ‘effin sock Me: Now I can never have odd socks. > Twat! www.theguardian.com/money/2026/m...

Nerds are loving this Traitors dashboard play.grafana.org/d/siqtdwm/th...

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The algorithms aren’t trying to show you stuff you’ll like, they’re trying to show you stuff you’ll watch.

I wonder if Epstein is in the UFO files.

I love Edinburgh.

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I just saw somebody who was EXACTLY ny height. Weird.

This is ticking along nicely still, would love to have you on board. I don't feel bad promoting it because I'm comfortably making a loss on it. Trailer from @matryer.bsky.social once more.

Email search just helped me for the first time ever.

I can’t believe she was the secret Santa.

Trod on a plug. Not a great start.

That time of year when we all increase the number at the end of our passwords.

I don’t get using AI for creative tasks. Thats the fun bit.

We have four hackathons a year at Grafana Labs where everyone can work on whatever they think is important. It’s where a lot of the innovation comes from. As well as some delightful projects like this.

I haven’t seen community opinion drive what we do as much as it does at Grafana Labs. Tell us what actually works (and what doesn’t) in your observability stack. It’s anonymous so be brutal :) 👉 grafana.com/observabilit...

Oh Trump questions democracy alright.

It’s too early for all the Wrapped stuff imo. What if I listen to The Outhere Brothers solid for the rest of December?

I’m not saying @watsoncomedian.bsky.social doesn’t know how to take screenshots, but I’m pretty sure I shouldn’t see his half-naked reflection.

Not another Christmas tree shooting.

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You can now sign up for my detective-story podcast via the below avenues. I'll be delighted if you do that. It's full of talented people. I'm hoping to prove you can build something like this on @bsky.app like we did in the old country.

If everything is top priority, then you’d better get on with some shit.

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