These are real buildings, but they look like architects’ CAD renderings photoshopped in, don’t they?


Up on the Downs as the rain hits.


Good piece on what Mastodon needs to embrace to have a significant role in the post-Twitter world.

[via @baldur]


micro.blog is ending Twitter cross-posting in July. Here’s @manton from the announcement post:

“It’s all another reminder that centralized platforms with closed APIs can’t last. While it’s easy to blame Elon Musk, the writing has been on the wall for a decade.”


This is a useful round-up of Bluesky, Mastodon et al: Six Months In: Thoughts On The Current Post-Twitter Diaspora Options



I needed this.

The pond at Woods Mill, Henfield, Sussex

Turns out that a bardcore cover of the Mando theme is basically just… The Mandalorian theme.

This is the (medieval) way.


Started reading: In The Shadow of the Mountain by Silvia Vasquez-Lavado 📚


“But if there is no risk in my writing, no fear, there is no pleasure. I have to make myself fed uncomfortable, take chances in the way a mountaineer does calculating and recalculating, pitching their frail body against the wind. In risk, we feel most alive.”

— from A Line Above the Sky by Helen Mort 📚