Second update from the Ghost team building out ActivityPub support: Building ActivityPub: Day 1


Started reading: Finding Hildasay by Christian Lewis 📚


The web is not dying::

Let’s imagine we ban TikTok. And Facebook. And Instagram. And Threads. And all the other huge platforms. There would still be one global town square left. It’s called the web. The web itself IS the global town square.

Captured for posterity, before I recycle them: photo wallets and negative holders from 1980s photo labs.

1980s negative strip holdersThe reordering side of 1980s negative strip holders1980s photo wallets1980s photo lab wallets The promotional inside of 1980s photo wallets.


The first update from the Ghost team building out ActivityPub support.


Wondering how many readers will get the joke that I called @ianbetteridge “lawfully chaotic” in my latest newsletter/post


Don’t get sloppy with AI — make sure whatever you do is intentional, and audience-focused.


When a Guardian journalist asked climate experts what they expect to happen. The results are terrifying:

“I expect a semi-dystopian future with substantial pain and suffering for the people of the global south,” said a South African scientist, who chose not to be named. “The world’s response to date is reprehensible – we live in an age of fools.”


Why are so many journalists still wary — or even ashamed — of the word “blog” after 25 years?


Lovely tribute to CJ Sansom and his quiet faith in the ability of humans who can walk the middle path to improve the world.