TickTick are on a roll lately with expansion of their cross-platform approach. Whilst I like the idea of using Google Tasks in an effort to further reduce the number of accounts I have for utilities, it’s going to take a lot of work for Google to justify that switch.


There are days when I just fucking hate chores.


Claire and I recently moved into our first house, a change that has inspired thoughts of exactly how this place should fit into the way we live.

Fortuitously @patrickrhone has sprinkled his magic on the topic and brought such clarity that can be difficult to find on the web.


In this tweet are the reasons for my change of heart over the past two decades, from:

I’m definitely visiting parts of the US.

to:

… eh.


It is 2018 and people continue to use black text on a red background for their professional identity website. 😢



In the wake of Twitter’s latest shameful treatment of third-party developers, this week’s special from @monday is right on time:


We watched The Big Sick for the first time last night. Whew.


I strongly support traditional family values

Vickers Cunningham, a former criminal district judge who is running for a seat on the Dallas County Commissioners Court

Narrator’s voice: No, he fucking does not.


I miss Black Sails…


We have to pay for being a woman in so many ways. All humans pay for toilet roll but only women have to pay for menstruation.

Claire Field


The thought of public money paying for this wedding when people are actually hungry in this country is just something we couldn’t bare.

Fuck The Royals: A bar in Liverpool is matching donations for local food banks

🙌


That was deliberate. They lured us away from the public view, down a little side street, and then they did what they did.

Michael Longsmith

The Royal wedding, supported by this nation’s police thugs. Shameful.


Kudos to @gruber for his latest posts re: the general situation in the US. Too many prominent tech voices seem keen to live in denial of the lives ruined by the President and the vile people who support him but not John Gruber, he’s putting it right there into his megaphone.


Full disclosure: you shouldn’t follow this blog or me on Micro.blog if you are “trying to get away from the news” or whatever. I am not here to pretend that ignoring the world means you are making things better; the news is not what made established social media bad.


Home Screen: May, 2018 (part 2)


Removed a third-party Twitter app from my phone for the last time. No more avoiding that which Twitter is, in their own cowardly way, making a reality. This is how Twitter is supposed to be and so that is how I will experience it, warts and all.


Today’s piece:

Heart-Shaped Box, by Ramin Djawadi

🎶



She personally wrote the order to destroy 92 tapes of CIA torture.

The new CIA Director is a terrorist

The momentum from potential leaders of the future into Stalin-esque monsters continues for the USA.