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Theresa May leads a gross, deeply bigoted, and hateful government. It’s OK though because money.
Two pieces of great Micro.blog news:
- Manton’s work continues apace. 👏
- Mike Hayne’s Android app, Dialog, is progressing well enough to be nearing a beta! 🙌
Wherever the beam landed, there was a sound like wind blowing through leaves.
– A government report on the farm in China that breeds six billion cockroaches a year.
Sometimes it’s difficult to explain just how sad I am that Robin Williams died. And then YouTube supplies the answer.
Kottke’s post about the health of blogging has (predictably) fared well on my tl. My favourite part:
When I log into Facebook, I see Facebook. When I visit your blog, I see you.
– Kari
Gruber agrees wholeheartedly with Jack Wellborn’s case for the menu bar. I learned how to use it in Windows File Explorer and look for it in desktop apps.
I am 3 minutes into this conversation between MBKHD and Neil deGrasse Tyson and already loving it.
Today’s song:
Google’s I/O event site has a giant countdown clock. I don’t think you have to worry about over-hyping anything, @manton. 😂
MBKHD, my favourite tech pundit, goes over the changes in the developer version of the next major update to Android. I like a lot of what I’m seeing here, especially with the continued hardening of security.
… because my content belongs to me, gosh dang it.
– Cheri Baker, from “What is This?"
This is a great way of representing the IndieWeb aspect of your online identity.
(Cheri on Micro.blog: @cheri)
I recently spoke about how good the Micro.blog slack is. It’s being awesome yet again after David Shanske, one of the developers of the IndieWeb WordPress plugins has joined in. David is also on Micro.blog. Hi @dshanske! 👋
I went from 33.6kbps dial-up to speeds of 1Mb/s on Rogers Wave. Incredible!
– James Koole, Getting Back to an Independent Web
A glorious aspect of the open web is this: people telling stories.
Google-backed startup Mobvoi just announced TicPods Free
– TicPods Free are like AirPods for Android
This is both a terrible name and ripe for numerous mocking from the Apple punditry. Still, I hope I’ll be able to pre-order them.
Who Do Tax Breaks Benefit? – John Green
(Hint: not poor people.)
I always underestimate how long something is going to take.
– Hank Green in How to Stop Being Late Forever (includes bonus homescreen!)
Same Hank… same.