Ugh. New inner needed at the very least.

A screw embedded deep in my tyre.

Breakfast with the scrap, now the schools are on holiday.

A girl eating poached eggs on toast. A breakfast bagel at Laughing Dog, Worthing.

This morning I shall mainly be monitoring streaming bandwidth.

Restream.io analytics on an iPad Pro in church.

First day of the school summer holiday, obviously.

A rainy Sussex afternoon.

A happy transatlantic delivery.

Micro.blog and micro camp stickers

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?

Oh, my.

This is the man who created Clippy.

(Ask your parents who Clippy was, kids.)

On women who write while lying on their stomachs.

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.

The rundown front of a Chinese takeaway. A dishevelled front door of a takeaway.

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)

Today I learned that Ethernet is only 18 months younger than me.

🤯

Finally got to spend some time writing in my favourite coffee shop this afternoon.

Working on an iPad Pro in Tom Foolery Coffee Company.

Hard to disagree with this: Threads not launching in Europe is pure gold.

Oh, dear. So sad. Too bad.

Anyway…

The Broke Ape Yacht Crash

Twitter is burning, Bluesky is smug. Where is the best place to do your pathetic doomscrolling?

[Guardian cartoon.]