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.]

Just did the emergency security update on my Mastodon instance (to v4.1.3), and still have most of this cup of coffee left.

That was much easier than I was expecting.

Twitter is becoming a feature rather than a product:

  • Substack has it, via Notes
  • Instagram has it, via Threads
  • The Fediverse has it, via Mastodon
  • The Web has it, via Micro.Blog

That’s why I don’t think there will be One True Twitter Killer.

Chances of Threads ever getting an API for general use?

I’d imagine they’ll be about 0%.

My initial take on Threads: suprisingly good, but with a lot of missing features - and a huge data grab.

I think Bluesky is the first social network I’ve not been able to get onto. Not been able to wangle an invite anywhere, and still stuck in the invite queue.

The real danger for them, is that I increasingly don’t care - and it’s literally part of my job to be paying attention to these things.

What to know about Threads, by the founder of Mastodon.

And it’s live. I’m on Threads. No choice, really, given my work…