Spiked beauty.

A thistle at Woods Mill in Sussex

The only surprise here is that it took this long: The ‘Men Go Their Own Way’ Subreddit Has Been Banned


It is slightly terrifying to realise that, as of this autumn, I will be in a position to do “what I was blogging about 20/10/5 years ago…” posts.


Ulysses (a writing app) gets the ability to update Ghost posts — support for updating micro.blog posts coming next.


By the river’s edge.


Thoughtful piece on the tenor of social media interactions by Roxane Gay.


Receipts:


Twitter Social Distancing — why I’m stepping back from Twitter for a month.


The inverted man.


“I do not demand a gin palace at every corner, merely that it is written into the constitution of the nation that every village must, as a public service and a monument to more sensible civilisations, maintain a pub.”

— From In the Country by Kenneth Allsop 📚


So, about the Doctor Who news…


Merely a meerkat.

A meerkat at Drusilla's Zoo in Sussex.

Should your bookshelves reflect the person you are now, or should they encapsulate all the versions of you from earlier in your life?


Is it even social media if you don’t occasionally post photos of your lunch?


Not something you see every day in Shoreham…

The Sussex Spider-Man on a telephone box

I much prefer the feel of matt dust jackets when reading a hardback book to glossy ones.


John Naughton’s review of An Ugly Truth, a new book about Facebook, makes it sound like essential reading. Next on my list after I’ve finished Charles Arthur’s Social Warming.


How can you not?


The absence of iPadOS 14.7 from last night’s round of updates is curious…


Evening on the Adur.