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Nothing quite like some music from the wonderful Zoë Keating to hit that perfect spot where calm meets focus. 🎶
No, seriously, tell me about your “Euroskeptic” bullshit whilst I sit here frightened for my wife’s life because apparently disrupting access to medicine is an acceptable cost to the millions of people who voted Leave, then proceeded to google “What’s the EU”.
Fuck all of you.
I’m like “I should start a Brexit podcast!” and then I’m like “wait that means I’d have to keep on top of the events and whatnot since I don’t like doing anything half-arsed” and then I’m like “so I would have an excuse to do that and not feel totally shit” and then I feel tired.
Torn between two choices:
- Continue ramping up Today I Learned, publish longer writing to my blog Mon-Fri, and pursue a career via public remote independent work.
- Ditch the public approach in favour of privacy, write without sharing, and focus my time between carer + writer.
The more you learn about the modern web, the more you have to admit the reality; a handful of companies control everything and any moralistic decision to “extract myself from the monopoly!” is, for the most part virtue signalling and nothing more.
Source: I cut the tech giants…
Oh look, it’s Micro Monday! I need to talk about @hollyhoneychurch for a minute. Between the photos of the sweet precious angels, the honest and insightful blogging, and such a willingness to share on her own terms, Holly has been a source of joy on my timeline.
I have two aims regarding my opposition to the corporate web;
- establish alternative means of communication and updates for my family;
- attempt to do the same for my voluntary work.
Then next year I will look to spread this effort across the rest of my local community.
Three different recommendations for your consideration:
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Considering getting a paper dictionary for my desk, since web dictionaries are as awful as so many modern websites tend to be.
Perhaps I am well and truly getting old – or maybe ageism continues to influence my thought process – but I could have sworn those of us who used the web 15 years ago all agreed that most of it was the last place you’d go to for your news. That is still such a good idea.
Pirates of the Caribbean Theme but it’s played on two calculators
This was the whole point of YouTube before they fucked it up.
Today is another day in which I am grateful to live in a country where guns are difficult to obtain and mostly illegal – maybe even entirely illegal, I don’t know, because I have never felt the need to know.
Looking back on Dean Allen’s Twitter feed and thinking yep, that’s how it should have gone.
“Just” is a dangerous word.
Just writing is more important than your choice of software, platform of choice, or even your domain.
Write first. The fiddly technical bits will happen later.