2023
“Solastalgia is a neologism that is becoming commonplace. It describes a feeling of homesickness while still being at home. It is a sense of loss, but also a feeling of confusion: the planet that we think we live on no longer exists. In a warming world, words become unmoored from their meanings.”
— The Treeline by Ben Rawlence 📚
I just read an attempt at a scathing take-down of Caitlin Moran’s new book on men.
Guess the gender of all the writers whose scathing reviews were approvingly quoted. Go on.
I bet you can.
Here’s my epic attempt to categorise and explain the microblogging landscape in Twitter’s twilight: the new microblogging ecosystem.
😮💨
Currently reading: Corduroy by Adrian Bell 📚
In the process of consolidating my personal blogging (going back to 2001) here on micro.blog. It’s going to take a bit of work to tidy it up - but I think it’ll be worth it.
Has anyone found Apple Mail, and iCloud accounts in particular, to have really shot up in the number of false spam positives recently?
There’s a takeaway near us that looks like it went out of business years ago. But no, it’s still open and trading.
I wouldn’t eat there.
Is LinkedIn about to be enshittified?
(Some would argue that it’s already there…)
I just looked at my Facebook feed for the first time in a wee while. How many posts from the first 20 shown were from my friends do you think?
(Rather than groups, pages and ads)