Woke up to the wonderful sight of @heyloura’s one-off amongst the falling emoji 😂

Frankly, Apple should have the balls to say okay, we’re moving to two-year macOS major version updates.

— Alan Ralph, macOS Meh

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YouTube and iMessage are the social networks very few Commenters seem to consider to be social networks at all.

I used “Writer” as the job title for a LinkedIn alert and it threw up an error saying “Please use a job title” 😂

Didn’t realise that Glass for Android is now a thing. So it’s now available on;

• the web;
• iOS;
• Android;
• and Windows.

That’s pretty cool tbh.

Now actively doing the Glass thing.

Figuring out where and when I want to publish photos has been in the hopper along with a lot of identity-related work I’ve been doing throughout 2022.

Looking forward to also using Flickr and getting back to my photoblog.

Listening to Kanagawa Waves 1831, by The Geek x VRV, Fakear & Balkan Bump 🎵

“I was able to be a Mum,” she added. “And my kids could be kids, not just carers.”

via Heating prescribed for patients in health trials

We are establishing Universal Income, piecemeal.

Zara McDermott has a rule book for her social media publishing

I’ve been thinking about doing exactly this. Wondering if it wouldn’t help a lot of people, to be honest.

Two things:

1. A hello page is such a good idea.
2. I miss seeing Colin’s posts. Hope all is well.

The fewer requirements we have, the less of a burden these requirements become. The more often we have the same thing every day, the more likely they are to become a requirement.

– Leo Babauta, lowering your life’s requirements

The scope of digital life is often underplayed or entirely misunderstood by a lot of people, whether hobbyists or those who publish.

Yes, a lot of what made Twitter is clearly going to disappear entirely. But make no mistake, a lot of people will never care about ownership.

Another day, another meal cooked for the first time in my life. 💪

Listening to Budapest by George Ezra 🎵

Listening to Oil and Water by Incubus 🎵

Listening to Maps by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs 🎵

The Qatar World Cup is not a festival of sport.

It is the endorsement of what Human Rights Watch has reported as “Discrimination, Ill-Treatment in Detention, Privacy Violations, Conversion Practices”: Qatar: Security Forces Arrest, Abuse LGBT People

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Since 2010, thousands of migrant workers have died suddenly and unexpectedly in Qatar, despite undergoing medical tests before travelling to the country.

Amnesty International can help us understand the cost of those football games we’re celebrating. ⚽

I was not involved in the wider web, the world of blogs, or the tech hobbyist communities of the pre-social media days. Yet, whenever I read Aaron Swartz’ site I continue to feel deep rage that he was murdered.

His words should be published in print, and preserved in general.

Perhaps Procter & Gamble doesn’t care of their making us into a nation of fat slobs, but there’s no reason why programmers and the rest of the startup world need to be so amoral.

— Aaron Swartz, Everything Good is Bad For You

TIL that Mastodon posts bypass the Micro.blog timeline character limit.

I love this story about Jerome Gence.

Our sweet precious angel is at the salon for the first time and he immediately got excited, behaving perfectly. We’re so lucky. 😊

I’ve made more meals in the past 2 months than the entirety of my life before then.

Also, I’ve already done a lot of my christmas present shopping.

I think moving down south has done things to me. 🤔

You think you’ve seen gross poop, and then a dog joins your family.