AI is speedrunning the financial boom and bust cycle says John Naughton, in The Observer.


📷 #mbApr Day 15: small, suggested by James, aka @jmanes.

A makeshift bird figurine with stick legs and a rock body, resting on a wooden surface.


Micro adventures at one of our local nature reserves: an afternoon at RSPB Pulborough Brooks.

Birds and trees and bluebells.

A dunnock at RSPB Pulborough Brooks.

A sobering find in my Mum’s negatives. This is the original Old Bridge in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, taken in 1989. The bridge was destroyed in the Croat-Bosniak war four years later. The bridge there now is a recreation.

The original Old Bridge in Mostar, taken in 1989.

Just found and followed @duncanhart and @ton, thanks to this conversation about micro.blog over at Euan Semple’s blog.


Started reading: The Best British Travel Writing of the 21st Century by Jessica Vincent 📚


OK, why did nobody warn me that Inside Out is such a harrowing watch for a parent?


Cetacean Corner. Videos of our watery mammal friends. Not for the easily offended.


Starbucks quietly pretends it never fell for the NFT hype.

I think that bubble is well and truly burst now.


It’s really hard to find a theme for most of the big blogging platforms that supports the old-style “all of the last few posts on the homepage” approach to blogging.

They all seem to assume that every post will have a title, a lead image, and that people will click through to read everything.

I’m glad micro.blog still supports that approach.