My blog’s changelog:
simonwoods.online—> swoods.net
My blog’s changelog:
simonwoods.online —> swoods.netUnpaid, but productive.
— Anna Havron, absolutely fucking nailing it.
For those people who are gainfully employed; remember the power you have, for which some of us can only wish.
Wildfires in England…
THIS IS FINE
I love the choral moments from The Lord of the Rings soundtracks…
— Holly Honeychurch, Planets I on Bandcamp
Same. Those moments have been a welcome accompaniment along various paths, especially in my younger years.
Fixed a handful of bugs this morning, little things that no one notices and bigger things like push notifications and Webmentions broken for the last few days. Think I need to dedicate June to just working on stability.
That work has been apparent to me. 🙌
I don’t like this thing and will now quit it, and then later fail to stop myself from going back to it, before again complaining and quitting.
— The Internet, every year.
I remember @jack once said “Don’t tell me what you’re quitting, show me what you’re doing next.” 💯
I don’t understand it, or why you would do it. Maybe one day I will do it, but I don’t see that. I don’t understand why you would want to tell other people, people you don’t know, what is good or not so good in the moment.
— Jurgen Klopp on why he “doesn’t do social media”
But why go through the effort of blogging at all? If you like to engage with the world of ideas, blogging is one of the best ways to do so. Writing and publishing forces you to solidify and clarify your thoughts.
What would happen if we didn’t tweet?
— Leon Paternoster, Just step sideways round this grubby world
… I’m a private person … I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good then you should go do something else wonderful, and not dwell on it too long… just figure out what’s next.
I believe that our interactions online should be worth something, should be more meaningful than metrics and anonymous validation.
Continental Europe successful synchronisation with Ukraine and Moldova power systems
Excellent news.
We had to speed up by more than 1 year!
Real people getting important work done, with none of the glory this accomplishment surely justifies.
I mean, you could just talk.
– Ian Hislop absolutely nailing the pointless nature of Twitter
Specifically, as a space to convene and discuss serious issues? We’re past time for everybody to stop pretending like that’s a good idea.
I feel like there was something I wanted to communicate about the seemingly illusory nature of human identity, the criteria we use to decide when someone no longer gets our empathy, how little we actually know about each other, especially online…
New Kid on the Blog
Great to see Micro.blog included in the yearly review from Ulysses. This was included in their newsletter.
It would be good to see the Micro.blog team do this. Not even weekly; just something to help highlight events and the like.
Why do I blog? Why do I share? What is the point?
I read this and all I can think is:
Yep! Also, replying is hard.
(also: the Micro.blog Mac app is convinced I’ve typed over 400 characters at this point)
How can I invite someone into a community that doesn’t recognize the power and violence of language, asymmetrically deployed by the privileged against the othered, that doesn’t truly respect the individual?
– Smokey Ardisson; Friday thoughts, part deux
Chocolate-chip cookies are the favored kind of cookie. Raisin cookies are for people who secretly hate themselves. A real cookie shouldn’t have fruit in it. A real cookie is bad for you. It is like a delicious nail driven directly into your heart.
Anybody else having issues with undo in the Micro.blog editor? (on a Mac -> browser)
Do not build new companies because you will not be able to sell them
– Meta’s lawyers, arguing against a ruling by the CMA
Apparently the only reason to build your own company these days is so that you can eventually sell it to a monopolistic megacorp.
Bourne > Bond
FastMail > ProtonMail
And I’m just comparing their web apps.
Cleanup. Then, done.
– Patrick Rhone, When Things Are Done
I’d like this on a t-shirt, please and thank you.
Neighbour wins privacy row over smart doorbell and cameras – Jane Wakefield
The judgment reads that Dr Fairhurst was “alarmed and appalled” to notice that he had a camera mounted on his shed and that footage from it was sent to his smartphone.
YouTube -> “good mood lofi” -> queue on queue on queue -> 😎