Somebody googled me recently and emailed me asking if I was ‘the criminal profiler’, or at least connected to him.

I am, and back in 2017, I wrote a little post connecting the two of us.

I have just added the full story of when we ‘met’ a loooong time ago -and appended it to the 2017 post.

🖇️ You will find it here.

(The story started before Google.)

In 2024 if you Google “John Philpin”, you will indeed find that there are two of us, but back then, there wasn’t a Google … I know kids .. hard to believe. There was something called ‘Alta Vista’ and Yahoo - but nascent at best.

📺 Presumed Innocent

Another in that 🖇️ theme of ‘TV shows that were movies’. Just watched the last. Unusually for me, not as a binge - but week by week - and loved it.

Information on Reelgood

‘All’ My TV Shows

In case you were wondering about 🖇️that last post, 🖇️ I just dispatched this on Substack, which links back.

Thinking about performance.

📸 🌊 On 🖇️ yesterday’s post I remarked how all the boats had collected in one corner of the bay. In the comments a friend wrote

The boats are huddled in the corner because the wind is meant to swing around to the east.

.. a ‘sea farers’ explanation - which I kind of had in my head - but when it is so pretty, it is hard to think that it is going to get worse.

Anyway. It did. This was taken earlier today - and that has been the high spot! Next job move the cushions inside.

There are 56 in the series .. I just counted. There only going to be two more and then the unplanned series that you probably thought was never going to end .. well, it is ending.

🖇️ The Photo Gallery

🖇️ For posterity - because the photo gallery will get redefined soon.

It all starts at 🖇️ john.philpin.com - which reposts to

🔗 Threads and 🔗 Bluesky and 🔗 Mastodon

Seperately my blog on john.philpin.com is revealed as @me@john.philpin.com on Mastodon - which is also followable - so of course i follow it with my (real) Masto account.

So if i post on Masto with my ‘real’ Masto - my blog’s Masto can see it and so those posts can manually find their way back to the blog …

I can also post a message on Threads and Bluesky BUT those messages would stay in their respective domains … until today.

I just enabled Fediverse sharing on Threads - so now if I post to my blog, like always it gets pushed to Threads - which is now visible on the Fediverse - so I can follow myself with my Threads account on Masto - and I presume vice versa.

I am writing this to get my head straight.

So far - BlueSky is only federated via Bridgy which I am not going to use because there is enough to do now in working out what goes where, why and how on my accounts - and do not get me started on the new accounts I am setting up for The Future Found - where I have already enable the Threads account for Fedi access.

I mean, you’re either ‘all in’ or why bother. Right?

A. There is a lot wrong with that last sentence!

And kind of related to 🖇️ that (the previous post) - but this is ‘Ted’.

🔗 Link with my highlights

🔗 The Original