Blimey.
Having one of those moments when you’re happily scanning your way through some old negatives of your parents', and it slowly dawns on you that this set was shot…
…on a nudist beach.
Started reading: A Countryman’s Spring Notebook by Adrian Bell 📚
These little hardback editions from Simply Foxed are just gorgeous.
https://micro.blog/books/9781910898765 https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/adrian-bell-a-countrymans-spring-notebook/
Do electric vehicles use more water than petrol cars? https://open.substack.com/pub/hannahritchie/p/electric-vehicles-water?r=2hwy&utm_medium=ios.
As ever, it’s not just about switching to EVs - it’s about the source of the electricity you use.
Started reading: Wild Service by Nick Hayes 📚
This is where my eldest is camping with the Guides. I am very jealous.
Started reading: Light Rains Sometimes Fall by Lev Parikian 📚
Om Malik with the headline of the day there.
We need to collapse context collapse in our online communities.
Good fences and all that…
https://onemanandhisblog.com/2024/05/collapsing-context-collapse/
I don’t think I’ve ever looked forward to a general election quite as much as this one.
The Rail Riders Club was a marketing thing British Rail did back in the 1980s, before it was broken up and privatised. These images are from a meet they held in Edinburgh, back in the late 80s.
Once, a very long time ago, I turned 12.
Second update from the Ghost team building out ActivityPub support: Building ActivityPub: Day 1
Started reading: Finding Hildasay by Christian Lewis 📚
The web is not dying::
Let’s imagine we ban TikTok. And Facebook. And Instagram. And Threads. And all the other huge platforms. There would still be one global town square left. It’s called the web. The web itself IS the global town square.
Captured for posterity, before I recycle them: photo wallets and negative holders from 1980s photo labs.
The first update from the Ghost team building out ActivityPub support.
Wondering how many readers will get the joke that I called @ianbetteridge “lawfully chaotic” in my latest newsletter/post…
https://micro.blog/ianbetteridge https://onemanandhisblog.com/2024/05/how-publications-get-sloppy/?utm_source=microblog&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=joke
Don’t get sloppy with AI — make sure whatever you do is intentional, and audience-focused.
When a Guardian journalist asked climate experts what they expect to happen. The results are terrifying:
"“I expect a semi-dystopian future with substantial pain and suffering for the people of the global south,” said a South African scientist, who chose not to be named. “The world’s response to date is reprehensible – we live in an age of fools.”"