Now, this is what Sunday evenings are for: a hundred-odd Kathys dancing to Wuthering Heights.

Oh, yes.

Hey, random guy on Threads. I’ve only been managing large scale blog platform installs on and off for two decades now. I really need you to come and lecture me on how I should chose a platform.

I week ago I was just glad I didn’t use WordPress for any of my sites.

Now? I’m wondering if I need to plan to migrate the journalism department’s sites in the near future.

My rule for living.

A person holds a book with the yellow spine titled "COFFEE FIRST" in a room with a sofa and a glass-paned door in the background.

Early morning, South Downs.

Late summer rambles at the RSPB Pulborough Brooks nature reserve.

A delicate pink water lily blooms on the surface of a pond surrounded by green lily pads.

Nice image from Hamburg a few weeks back.

A corridor is formed by a curved brick wall with vertical white beams casting long shadows on the ground.

So London it hurts.

A black door with a decorative ivy arch is set in a brick wall, next to a parking sign and a traditional wall lamp.

Another commute begins.

A sunlit scene at Hassocks Station in Sussex, with the rising sun shining through lush greenery and trees, near parked vehicles.

I spent an interesting evening yesterday at the launch of City St George’s new Institute for Creativity and AI.

How refreshing to see academics pushing forward on this while the technology is still nascent, and before it gets deeply embedded into society.

Well, this is profoundly worrying:

Global wildlife populations have plunged by an average of 73% in 50 years, a new scientific assessment has found, as humans continue to push ecosystems to the brink of collapse.

Just made my micro.blog account’s newsletter subscribe page slightly more fancy.

Meta is actually going to try to win back young people to Facebook.

Good luck with that. I suspect they have more chance of annoying their current users than persuading teenagers and people in their 20s that Facebook is for them.

Why is Substack’s rival Ghost becoming more and more popular?

Interesting read.

Night beach.

A rocky shoreline stretches towards a dark, cloudy sky with waves visible in the distance.

The best way I’ve found of preventing photos from looking too digital is to make them with film.

— @jbaty@social.lol

I still have a film camera. One day I shall use it again. One day.

It’s probably fair to say that I love blogging so much that if everybody else gave it up, I’d still continue.

It’d be less fun, obviously. But still worthwhile.

Bloggers and journalists, 20 years on.

Inspired by John Naughton’s Observer column about @dave’s 30 years of blogging…

Today’s newsletter muses on Meta’s inability to recognise that people are messy, contradictory and contain multitudes. The more it tries to shove people into algorithmic boxes, the less compelling its products become.

A simple way to improve the internet.