There are times when showing people alternative platforms like Micro.blog and Glass, that it feels as if you’re offering people a way out of the Matrix.

I’ve yet to figure out how to get myself into the healthier sleeping routine that I already know works well but I am working on it.

It’s Micro Monday! My pick for this week is our beloved community manager, @jean, who amongst about a million other things is currently leading the charge of this year’s edition of the Microblogvember challenge.

You can play along with this and other challenges via @challenges.

A piece of wisdom I have come across in different forms, which holds greater truth the older I get:

The loudest people tend to be a disproportionate representation of any given opinion or experience.

I have had difficulty working on @TIL. The majority of that stems from my life, and that of my family, being in an extended phase of that which I can only sum up as Everything All At Once.

What does not stop me is worrying about how many Followers or Likes I have. It’s nice.

We now have Homepods in the house. The primary reason is to help the animals with the impending Bonfire Night celebrations, although now I want to get like… five more for the rest of the house.

Damn you, Apple.

Ever since Claire started her new job last month we have been able to regain the rhythm that comes with the Monday-to-Friday, 9-to-5 working week.

As such, the weekend now arrives with its own feeling, and it feels so good to have that back in our lives.

To the Twitter evacuees:

Welcome to a timeline in which our most shallow, instant, and entirely useless impulses are not sated; there are no Likes, no readily available inhumane statistics, and no quick way to stalk other people.

Take a deep breath. Take your time.

Hello 👋

TIL that if you click on a GIF in the Micro.blog Mac app, to open it in a separate window as you would with a still image, the GIF will play through its loop in the new window. That’s quite clever.

I’m “Wondering just how viable an amateur radio set-up would be at the moment 🤔” levels of paranoid about and/or disinterested with the internet-based world.

Listening to To My Soul, by Jerry Folk 🎵

Trying out the free version of Bike, with an eye on replacing Workflowy.

I’ve found that outlining has been much more useful for me to work through ideas as opposed to discreet note-taking, at least digitally.

huh… I posted using Sunlit and two things happened:

• the text had to be above the photo but in the Sunlit timeline looks really nice underneath;
• and the Description I added in the app was either not really added despite saying so, or was somehow lost on its way to the blog.

Double dog day is best day. Hogan is on the right, with his new friend Arlo on the left.

Watching Steve Jobs describe the screen of the original iPhone as “really big” and feeling sad that the awesome handheld computer got replaced by the compromised phablet.

I don’t want an “all-in-one” device or any of that crap. If I want a bigger screen then I’ll get an iPad.

lol @ Eddie Howe talking about “the right way” of anything. What an absolute moron.

One of the reasons I dislike when people say, with great alarm, “I miss the old days of blogging” and sadness that, “Nobody blogs anymore” is that they’re just sad for no reason.

They’re lamenting the fact that people’s behaviour has changed over time. It’s pointless nostalgia.

The current emergency in Shetland is exactly why I’ve come to draw a cynical eye towards not just digital but specifically web-dependent technology.

Our societal infrastructure should not be so dependent on this technology and we should not remove analogue resources.

I wonder if Gruber will ask Federighi about the absolute shit-show that is Apple’s current software release cycle.

Listening to some cryptex like it’s 2016. 🎵

Most excellent news: the return of Annie Mueller to Micro.blog 🎉

I’ve seen people on the web get offended when others are merely asking for help.

It’s all in the interpretation, and disheartening to see people decide to be aggressive and cynical.

When this urge to battle arises, consider instead a measured and optimistic approach.

I must be old. I’m confused by the fact that I when I search for the soundtrack to a video game I am met with the conclusion that it is not available.

“Not available to buy” is one of the most ridiculous things to happen on the internet, especially when it comes to video games.

Planning out my new analogue-based system for different kinds of notes in full and it feels good.

A rule I just developed: No personal notes begin digitally.

My thought: “wow I love the variety of blogging here on Micro.blog”

My action: yet more rambling about which consumer electronics purchase I may or may not make