Leaving Twitter for personal use has become a form of self-care: Exhibit #WE’VE-STOPPED-COUNTING-BY-THIS-POINT
Leaving Twitter for personal use has become a form of self-care: Exhibit #WE’VE-STOPPED-COUNTING-BY-THIS-POINT
Oh, I see verification via website has made its way into Mastodon. It’s fair to say I agree with this approach. 😊
I feel good about getting the first issue of the new series from the @til Updates blog out today: The Macro Report. This is the first of a few new things for the project; I’ll post an update covering everything in the next couple of weeks.
I missed a whole god-damn batch of updates for TIL last month. 😐
Replying to one of these usernames will send a Webmention to that user’s external web site.
– Manton Reece, Usernames on Micro.blog
That’s just fucking cool.
Testing IndieWeb username. Hi, @eli!
The photography on display across Micro.blog is fantastic. You can see a selection of it in the photo filter for Discover. ⭐
Between the Hacker News post and the brand new feature for connecting your Micro.blog account with Mastodon it’s fair to say even through my limited view there has been a lot of excitement on Micro.blog!
For newcomers, hi! 👋🏻 I have a personal Introduction here.
Got my On This Day page up and running. I hit 1 year on Micro.blog just under 3 weeks ago, on the 18th of October. 🎉
You can create this page for yourself thanks to @cleverdevil, using the instructions on his GitHub page here. Thanks, Jonathan!
It’s great to see another third-party Micro.blog app in the works, for both iOS and Android no less! @vincent is blogging about developing the app on his site and you can also get information about Gluon on there. 🙌🏻⭐
Feeling relieved to have a project keeping my hands full. At least there will be progress on @til as a result of these damned elections.
Good luck to every USA citizen tonight, and those around the world who are affected by the decisions made by leaders of said nation.
I don’t have a recommendation for Micro Monday but I do have suggestions:
micro.blog/USERNAME)Enjoy! ⭐
Just used the new Discover search on Micro.blog for the first time and it worked really well. ⭐
Now that NaNoWriMo has begun proper, it’s worth remembering the special Discover feed for finding posts about the event. ⭐✍🏻📚
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Some weeks are busier than others. Of the many goings-on of my life right now, it’s fair to say Wednesday holds almost all of my attention and takes the greatest portion of my energy; I’ve updated my Now page to reflect this fact. 💒
It’s too easy to dismiss Donald Trump as a buffoon – to point and laugh at a man whose worldview is as ridiculous as his hairdo. But to do so is to make light of a very serious threat.
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As I test Gutenberg, I keep coming back to one question: is it good for blogging?
– Manton Reece asks a question with which the people at Automattic may not be overly concerned
I can only imagine the modern backlash against the social media giants have fuelled this kind of development, especially with the recent news regarding Facebook’s deception with their promises about video. Modern blogging and CMS services do so much of the work for you whilst you are able to maintain varying degrees of ownership and control as compared to the silos.
As such the decision to opt for such services is a no-brainer for anybody attempting to make money from publishing in any significant way.
Meanwhile, those of us who aren’t looking to maintain particularly complex websites but prefer to focus on writing have plenty of choices of our own, not least of all Manton’s own Micro.blog.
In anticipation of impending changes I’m preparing to delete some more items from my WIP Micro.blog wishlist.
Explaining his decision in a speech to Parliament, Mr Abiy said women were “less corrupt than men” and would help restore peace and stability.
Ethiopia’s PM gives half the cabinet to women to ‘restore peace’
In my thirty-five years of teaching college students, I’ve not encountered a generation as dedicated to making the nation better as yours.
– Robert Reich has a message for millenials: register and vote
What a damning indictement of our society, that a number of those of us on the older side feel the need to beg for help from the younger generation… that so many people get older and do one of two things: stop bothering or become nastier. We’re calling for more from the people for whom we ought to be making things better.
History will remember the consecutive string of generations for who their selfish needs were more important than making things better for others, despite the fact we had so much of just about everything.
The question is asked, then: what will you do? Will you add to the pile of shame felt by later generations? Or will you become a counter prevailing force to those who pounce upon opportunities presented to them as a result of apathy, to those who bet on people not caring?
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