Silicon Valley and crypto culture’s embrace of Trump has changed his cultural meaning more than Democrats have recognized. In 2016, Trump felt like an emissary of the past; in 2025, he’s being greeted as a harbinger of the future.
Great analysis of why the current New Yorker cover is so powerful: 1000 words.
Today is Blue Monday, which is a myth, invented by the marketing team for a travel company.
Have a great, productive day! 😉
Watching the kids do HADO.
Started reading: The Year in the Countryside by Frances Pitt 📚
Just finished watching Skeleton Crew with the family.
Just the best Star Wars in years. Family-friendly but with enough of an edge of darkness to give it depth for the adults.
More please.
These are some lovely images of winter.
Rule #1: Never trust Facebook.
It’s been over 20 years. You’d think people would have learned this by now.
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, I’m there under the usual username.
Duolingo rather over-estimates how much time I spend interacting with owls, bears and elephants, day-to-day.
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.
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.
I think that today I have comprehensively proven that a man my age should not attempt to understand Skibidi Toilet.
That is all.
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?