In the couple of days since I wrote this post, the chances of TikTok getting banned in the US have only increased.

This feel genuinely unprecedented.

The girls are eating fish fingers and custard.

Yes, they’ve just watched The Eleventh Hour.

A young girl with blonde hair is smiling and holding a piece of food close to her mouth while sitting at a table.A young girl wearing a red sweater is looking at a fork with a piece of food on it with a curious expression.

Interesting legal analysis of the arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin.

News about our beaches like this makes me ashamed to be British.

I sometimes think the local birds eat better than we do…

A green-topped metal cage containing suet blocks is hanging from a tree branch against a brick wall background.A green bird feeder filled with seeds is hanging from a tree branch in front of a brick wall.A bird feeder filled with seeds is hanging from a thin branch against a brick wall background.

Interesting to see that Automattic have acquired the ActivityPub plugin for WordPress.

The Fediverse momentum is growing.

William Davies on The Reaction Economy:

The individual is not conceived in the same way as in the liberal philosophical tradition – as an autonomous agent, possessed of reason and interests – or in the psychoanalytic tradition, as shaped perhaps unconsciously by past conflicts and injuries. Instead, each of us (celebrities included) becomes a junction box in a vast, complex network, receiving, processing and emitting information in a semi-automatic fashion, and in real time.

Quite.

Currently reading: Adventure Revolution by Belinda Kirk 📚

I’m still stupidly excited that I’ll be teaching on City’s new MA in Podcasting next year — on the audience development side.

A general US TikTok ban edges closer…