Well, it took less than a week of lockdown before I saw someone in a local Facebook group calling for martial law to stop people drinking takeaway coffees on their daily exercise walk.
People can be very scary.
Shout out to fellow working parents who are trying to navigate both earning a living and home-schooling our children.
The extra time with the little ones is a real treat, but that doesn’t make it easy or stress-free.
This is an interesting call for focus on libraries and archives in the digital age, in the face of assaults on facts.
I did not expect email newsletters to be a life raft for digital expression, but, at least right now, they are.
Some particularly interesting links in Martin Belam’s Friday reading from last week.
Anyone who thinks Bill Gates can create a vaccine-delivered microchip that controls people has clearly never seen a class full of parents try to use Microsoft Teams to do remote learning for their children.
Saturday night internet culture nostalgia: In 2006 they were taking the hobbits to Isengard (gard,gard,gard)
My daughters’ rendition of “We wish you a Merry Lockdown and a Happy New Tier” is simultaneously very cute and mildly creepy.
I just learnt that Jackie Cassada, an acquaintance from my old White Wolf/RPG writing days, has passed from COVID.
A lovely person and a great talent, lost. Heartbreaking.
How I’m embracing a life in Tier 4 lockdown.
Maybe just regretting a little that I offered to handle the live-streaming of midnight mass tonight.
