All this fuss over an impractical new hat.

Reminds me of my late Mum, actually.

Bunting is occurring.

Don’t let Bluesky become a 💩 like Twitter

Wow. @dave is not impressed with Bluesky:

I definitely want Blue Sky to just go away. I don’t like it because if it gains traction it has potential of replacing Twitter as the festering turd in the middle of what should have been a vibrant growing market that keeps anything else from rising in competition with it.

Peter Bihr on the death of the search and social web:

“That means two major driving forces of the contemporary internet are… basically useless now? Or at least unenjoyable? They feel dead, or maybe undead. At the very least, these areas need to be reinvented.”

Google has given up on subtlety in reminding us that Universal Analytics is less than two months away from its demise…

May the Fourth be with you.

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.”