It’s a two-part blockbuster from @smokey with This Week on Micro.blog:

Yes, these are microblog posts. 😎

Significant parts of Facebook and Twitter run unattended.

– @manton, Unattended Algorithms

Meanwhile, on Twitter:

When a person tries to report hate speech, they are encouraged to have a heart-to-heart discussion. With the Klan.

– Megan Squire

Micro.blog is slower, but also more considered.

– @frostedechoes, Social Decay

@macgenie has often spoken about Micro.blog being “the slow social media” and the benefits to this become clearer as more people write about the platform.

We don’t need probable cause, sir. We can stop and search whoever we want.

– US border agents, via Nate Abaurrea’s Twitter account

America frightens me. The compliance, the silence, the depth of passive acceptance; it will all be remembered. We can record this now.

What’s beef?

Beef is when you murder motherfuckers on a beat, kill ‘em all, kill ‘em all

Nah, nah, what’s beef?

Beef is brothers dyin’ over shit that never mattered in the first place, lyin’ in the street

ISIS – Joyner Lucas ft. Logic

So so good.

Theresa May getting the boot the same week British Steel enters insolvency.

Strong and stable.

hashtag stop websites from vomiting their newsletter sign-ups at people 2019

I don’t have a recommendation for Micro Monday but I do have suggestions:

Enjoy! ⭐

The older I get the more I appreciate focused media publications. Not those who decide they must write about the trending topics in a desparate scramble to support their poorly constructed business plan. Specialist writing is just so good.

My favourite Game of Thrones character: Drogon. A very good boy.

The development of Micro.blog has been steady and thorough from the day the Kickstarter campaign successfully ended. Today I Learned (@til) can help you keep track of updates.

Here’s a starter pack:

Boom. Front page. Not bad eh, @manton.

Having lots of work to do makes avoiding Game of Thrones spoilers so much easier.

For all of my Micro.blog friends: please do not post spoilers for at least a few days. Not everybody has the chance to watch it live or even soon thereafter. 🙏🏻

See, the thing with John Wick is that I saw the first one and because of a particular scene early in the film I found it difficult to enjoy the majority of what was left, and do not have any inclination to enjoy the other parts of any of the films.

Seriously. Fuck that scene.

A blur at night.

Bloomberg: “End to end encryption is pointless.”

Also Bloomberg: “Use our website so we can harvest your fucking soul, pleb.”

Strahd von Zarovich is a dick.

I just used calc in CSS for the first time and in the immortal words of Mr. Reeves: woah.

There is currently a technical problem on Micro.blog, specifically with regard to photos. I’m going to take this opportunity, by way of two @til Tips, to remind members of the best places to get info in times like this:

The line between “I hate these silos and everything they represent” and “I like being part of the conversation with big groups and value the space where everybody can be found” continues to be a line upon which I stare.

Ugh. This is at the core of my neuroticism.