I do not have time to experiment with setting up a Mastodon server. I do not have time to experiment with setting up a Mastodon server. I do not have time to experiment with setting up a Mastodon server.
Auntie Beeb says it’s true, and I believe Auntie:
Twitter board agrees to $44bn takeover by Elon Musk
It’s time to stop embedding Tweets in news stories….
(And it’s nothing to do with Musk…)
The odds of anyone with a blue tick and a very substantial following actually, truly deleting their Twitter account should Twitter be Musked must be astronomically small. A habit like that is terribly hard to kick.
“Because here’s the thing about comfort, ease, security - it can topple into insipid inertia in a nanosecond. And when that happens we are trapped.”
— Windswept: Walking the Paths of Trailblazing Women by Annabel Abbs 📚
Being a persistent shit-poster on Twitter and rather thin-skinned about criticism strikes me as an extremely poor life choice.
Richard Durrant playing during the sunrise this morning.

A tiny escape on Good Friday.
My feelings were ambivalent - social media and the internet have introduced me to many wonderful people - but I couldn’t help thinking that all this obsessive togetherness made solitude both more intimidating and more necessary.
— Windswept: Walking the Paths of Trailblazing Women by Annabel Abbs 📚
New research shows that leg exercise - in particular weight-bearing leg exercise like walking - instructs the brain to produce the neurons needed to cope with stress and change. The foot-to-ground impact of walking sends pressure waves surging through the arteries, dramatically increasing blood to the brain.
— Windswept: Walking the Paths of Trailblazing Women by Annabel Abbs 📚
One way where I match the stereotype of the middle-aged Dad is my obsession with correct dishwasher loading.
Why yes, we do have a visitor. Why do you ask?
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