“Polarised thinking may make people feel comfortable in their righteousness; but it’s not a way of solving a problem.”
“If you climb a mountain but don’t Instagram the view from the summit, have you even climbed it? I wanted the answer to be yes - knew it to be - but, somehow, incredibly, I didn’t always believe it. I let the impulse crash over me, hating it, and ignored the twitch for my phone.”
— The Farthest Shore by Alex Roddie 📚
Lovely profile of the people behind LumaFusion, my go-to video editor - and an iPad app.
Charlie Warzel, writing for The Atlantic:
“The acceptance and fellowship that online communities bring, be they subreddits and Facebook groups or anonymous message boards, allow grievance to harden into a full-fledged identity.”
Viewpoint + Community = Identity
A few candids shot around London’s West End in early summer 1994.
Sure, the fashions date them — but the sheer absence of phones is what really leaps out at me.
Here’s the posts that caught your attention on my site in 2021.
Happy New Year to you all!
Finding a stolen and burnt out motorcycle near their grandma’s house was an education for the girls…
“Organisers are people who have noticed what is happening and want to do something about it. We roll up our sleeves and get on with it. Organisers can be all of us.”
— Do Earth by Tamsin Omond 📚
“The way nature brings peace to my busy mind feels like one of the most abandoned parts of who I am. Slowly I am rekindling it. I walk in the woods and I feel at ease. It becomes easy to hear the world whisper, ‘This is everything that is happening right now.'“
— Do Earth by Tamsin Omond 📚
