“Fake turf is the manifestation of a deep cultural weakness, expressed in short-termism and a distaste and disrespect for the wonder, variety, and temporality of the natural world. Artificial lawns are the “Live, Laugh, Lobotomy” of gardening.”
Ban it.
Started reading: Edge of Cymru by Julie Brominicks 📚
My beloved Canon M50 is back from the camera doctor and working once more:

And here’s one of my test shots, just to prove it’s working again.

Happy days.
Another wave of angst over Musk fiddling with the blue tick systems, I see. And all because Old Twitter created a system that was a confusing mix of “verification” and “notability”.
One is about a need for trust, one about a need for status. Confusing them is not wise.
Holy crap, this Rackspace email outage looks very bad indeed.
MarsEdit 5 is here. Still no Ghost support, but looking good for my other blogging. And yes, this is my first post using it.
Turns out there’s no market for VC-funded upbeat tech “journalism”: Future is dead.
Ah, the good old days, when people aspired to blogger style not influencer style…
In Brighton on business for the first time in years. When I started out in business for myself nearly 11 years ago, I hoped to do more in Brighton, but it never panned out that way, alas.
