Next Thursday, FEMA will do its first test of a system that allows the president to send a message to most U.S. cellphones.
News To Let You Know You Are Already Living In A Dictatorship No Really It Is Happening Right Now Why Are You Reading This
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TIL Windows 10 now has a shortcut for an emoji picker.🤯
Loving my tl with Nintendo hype all over it right now. 🎮🎉
Micro.blog has grown unevenly, likely against expectations from different quarters, and is now in a somewhat odd position within the context of the wider web. Inevitably, its early members are conflicted as the plastic wrapper is peeled away.
If you’ve tried to send me a message at contact@simonwoods.online it probably didn’t go through, which you probably saw but I’m just saying this in case you did not. I’ve tested and it works now.
(I’m super good at email, honestly. 😑)
It’s unsurprising but still disheartening to see so many people leap from “Fall detection in the Apple Watch” to “This will be good For The Old People.” As if younger people aren’t capable of falling over. 🙄 Also, impaired mobility is a thing across all ages JSYK.
The big update to Omnibear is really good. I look forward to better support of non-Note types from Micro.blog.
Time for Apple to introduce the Pro moniker for top-end iPhones. They’re no longer what most people need and have become about more than just what people want, whilst the lower end devices are great. I think this would help reduce people’s perception that it costs too much.
A thing from the past few weeks of chaotic things happeing “in the Real World”. Turns out just dumping Facebook and Whatsapp is in fact not the simple decision a lot of people like to say it is, especially here on Micro.blog. I kinda knew that anyway, just had it confirmed.
All of Apple Event Twitter can be swapped out in favour of this excellent post from Walt Mossberg. It is all of the (second hand) information, none of the tiresome snark, and saves you from using Twitter.
I am so much happier on Micro.blog than I ever was on the mass market social networks.
They’re saving Hair Force One for October.
1st person Elder Scrolls on a phone is unreal. Also, the camera improvements for iPhone X are ridiculous.
You: “Google is evil!”
Me: “OK. Offer alternatives.”
You: “Here, make a bunch of accounts, try these things that may or may not work, and spend a bunch of money.”
We have to do better than this. Stop thinking your moral indignation and niche knowledge is enough.
🎙 The latest epsiode of Under The Radar was really good.
Welp.
(Image: An iPad in its box, yet to be opened.)
Testing Pico since my phone decided it was OK to download it after an update.
cc @belle
Having recently got a healthy reply about private/semi-private online conversations I’ve been thinking about having some sort of group/s for Micro.blog users in a different space but for some reason it feels weird, maybe… presumptious? 🤔
One thing I have yet to talk about on here (at all, I think) is the NHS. I’m used to avoiding the subject on Twitter because, well, a lot of people seem to be keen on misunderstanding a good thing. But, in a nutshell: I fucking love it.
The new Spider-Man game looks fucking hot.
It feels cold in the evening; all is right with the world. 😊
I’m going to play with some Micro.blog toys over the next few days:
Beware people who like to dress as “serious thinkers” or “academics”, when their real desire is to hurt other people. There’s something particularly nasty about a person who reacts to disagreement with insults, the facade of their appearance disappearing in a moment of ill temper.