Oh, no. David Lynch is dead.
From now on, sadly, the owls will be exactly what they seem.
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These are some lovely images of winter. https://petapixel.com/2024/12/25/photographer-captures-frozen-prairie-lands-in-minus-30-degrees-angela-boehm/
Rule #1: Never trust Facebook.
It’s been over 20 years. You’d think people would have learned this by now. https://onemanandhisblog.com/2025/01/rule-1-never-trust-facebook/?utm_source=fediverse&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=first-share
People who are trying to escape Meta’s platforms in light of the changes in recent weeks, and Zuckerberg’s latest moves, here’s an unwelcome reminder for you:
WhatsApp is a Meta product, too.
For those playing with Pixelfed, an open standards-based Instagram competitor, it’ ther under the usual username. https://pixelfed.social/adders
Sussex Downs, 8.30am, Sunday 12th January 2025 
Duolingo rather over-estimates how much time I spend interacting with owls, bears and elephants, day-to-day.
Just anotherr Friday night in Falmer… 
Telling people they’re doing it wrong is fun. In a webinar for Smartocto yesterday, as part of a panel of trend watchers, I suggested that the industry was thinking about #newsletters in the wrong way.
That prompted more questions than we could answer in the session — so I did so on my blog. https://onemanandhisblog.com/2025/01/the-newsletter-inquisition/?utm_source=fediverse&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=first-share
What were the five most read posts of 2024 on One Man & His Blog? They were all about the need for real, genuine audience work, the messy drama around WordPress, and a long-gone lads' mag.
Oh, and you can find out why a gender-critical philosopher irritated me, too.
Enquire within… https://onemanandhisblog.com/2025/01/the-top-10-posts-of-2024-the-top-5/?utm_source=fediverse&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=first-share
Back to some work blogging, with a look back on the posts that caught people’s attention in 2024. The fall of Twitter, Facebook and the big digital news sites, and the rise of AI slop.
And… Shrimp Jesus? https://onemanandhisblog.com/2025/01/my-top-10-posts-of-2024-the-bottom-half/?utm_source=fediverse&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=first-share
Second-Hand Bookshops in Britain: 2024 Report — not great news, but not as bad as it could be. The secondhand bookshop world is changing. https://wormwoodiana.blogspot.com/2024/12/second-hand-bookshops-in-britain-2024.html
I spend quite a bit of my life feeling like imposter syndrome on legs.
Too many of us are trapped in a social media-generated bubble of synthetic citizenship, with activism and attention in the digital world substituting for actual civic engagement.
The work I do for NEXT Conference is relentlessly future-looking. But, once a year, we allow ourselves to look backwards. Lots of interest in where AI might go in 10 or 15 years. But also lots of interest in rehumanising tech, and escaping dark patterns.
Lots to explore here. https://nextconf.eu/2025/01/the-most-important-next-insights-of-2024/?utm_source=fediverse&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=adam-share
“Wits’ end” not “wit’s end”. http://johnemcintyre.blogspot.com/2025/01/where-your-wits-end.html
Winter sun on the beach. 
The beach is doing drama today… 
Guess who just took his youngest daughter to school - on an inset day…
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Misty walk. 