Take a deep breath, bibliophiles. Marie Kondo of Netflix’s Tidying Up: she’s not coming for your books

It’s been a stressful week, but the view from my office window is incredibly calming today.

A desk lamp, two potted plants, and part of a computer screen are positioned near a window overlooking a waterfront view with boats and buildings.

My hard working film scanner doing its thing.

A Plustek OpticFilm scanner

One of the reasons I enjoy scanning my old negatives is that when a photo of my parents emerges, it almost feels new to me. I see it with a new clarity, and, for a moment, I can forget that there will never be a genuine new photo of them again.

Sadly, this is probably accurate: Facebook Doesn’t Need to Fool You

Study: Dark-roast coffee protects human DNA from damage:

This led the scientists to believe that regular consumption of a dark-roast coffee has “a beneficial protective effect on human DNA integrity in both men and women.”

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Sharing photos of yourself 10 years apart is a completely harmless social media meme. Right?

Uh, maybe.

I can also see a meaningful boat out of the window. There may be a meaningful oat on the floor, after my daughter dropped her porridge this morning.

A laptop keyboard, two open notebooks with handwritten notes, and a blue pen are arranged on a wooden surface.

So… the US president is serving people fast food burgers, the British political class are imploding, and men don’t like being told not to be unpleasant by a razor brand.

Could I pick a different alternative reality now? This one isn’t living up to expectations.

Strange old story about a social media fantasist making up an entire life of tech influencing from stolen images: Bonkers Post Making Up Stuff About Female Microsoft Developer Advocate Backfires Big Time