Pared down the apps on my phone… creating an environment that is much less reliant on the small computer starts this way; gradually establish non-computer tools as the primary option, then move onto experimenting with less capable phone alternatives.

Listening to MMHHMM, by LiamLRY 🎵

Listening to Boom Bap, by Todd Siesel 🎵

Per my last post, what a fantastic reminder that @kocienda is on Micro.blog.

Does that mean that any future famous business-owning government official will have a row of badges? This seems like a recipe for confusion—or perhaps clutter—rather than clarity.

— Ken Kocienda, Thoughts on Twitter Verification

Message boards have this feature. For hobbyists.

The Pick-Me-Apps bundle from the folks at Unclutter is pretty damned good.

Listening to Friendly Neighbourhood Spider-Man (Lo-Fi), by Lunar Beats 🎵

More Robin Sloan: settling on definitions for “influencer” and “creator”. // @JohnPhilpin

Robin Sloan’s The lost thread is magical. Brilliant, up and down.

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