Stanford neuroscientist demonstrates the quickest way to eliminate stress:

“The physiological sigh is the fastest hardwired way for us to eliminate a stressful response in our body quickly in real time,” says Andrew Huberman, an associate professor of neurobiology at Stanford University School of Medicine.

Gonna keep this in reserve for the autumn.

A wet but enjoyable bike ride with the offspring this afternoon.

Taking a break on a bike ride at the Pollinator Cafe in Shoreham by Sea.

The worst part of coming back from a good holiday.

My unread emails after a 10 day hoilday.

Back from holiday. What have I missed?

Aaaaaaar!

A life size model pirate in La Flotte, France.

“Solastalgia is a neologism that is becoming commonplace. It describes a feeling of homesickness while still being at home. It is a sense of loss, but also a feeling of confusion: the planet that we think we live on no longer exists. In a warming world, words become unmoored from their meanings.”

— The Treeline by Ben Rawlence 📚

Oh.

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.

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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.