Read: The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld ★★★★☆ Fragmented stories of misogyny across time. Quite unsettling in both content and style. 📚
Category Archives: Micro
My ability to concentrate on any task is limited, no matter how much I enjoy that task. Eventually I reach a point where my performance is severely hampered, things take longer than usual, and I make mistakes, become inefficient, less creative, and easily distracted. Sound familiar? Tangle of bare b...
Fascinating post on fascination. It proposes that Soft Fascination will restore out concentration and that this is facilitated by being in nature. I certainly feel it can be easy to become absorbed in the natural world. I was also pleased to read
On the contrary, smartphones may help us get out more, adding to a sense of safety, GPS means you can explore more, there are countless information sources and apps about the outdoors, and there’s the full set of UK Ordnance Survey maps available for download on a GPS enabled app. Photography provides a means of exercising soft fascination and probing the world. There’s a sense in which the great outdoors and what we get out of it is already mediated by decades worth of technology, not to mention presentations via art and the mass media.
I’ve found my phone a useful tool for navigating the natural world, not only as a method of finding where I am but of recording that and identifying my surroundings and neighbours. Trails, PlantNet and PeakFinder Are some of my favourites along with the camera and an audio recorder.
hat tip @livedtime
A world where public service can be the viable alternative to the surveillance capitalism and government surveillance. We need different models to keep each one honest, accountable and transparent.
Glorious morning on the Kilpatrick Braes. Blue skies, a touch of frost, not much breeze. Icicles, primrose, larks. walkmap
Lucifer’s Loch. Strange name, named on Google maps, not OS or open street. Had a walk this morning around the back of Jaw & Cochno: map & pics.
Scots Pine From Below
Read: The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey 📚
Read: The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey ★★★★☆ a lot of fun with an unusual take on mermaids. 📚
Life in Links 42
The Spring Holidays, like others will increase my blogging. It has been a busy term both home learning and back in school. Looking forward to a holiday of wee walks (still stuck in Glasgow) and some random browsing.
- Johnny•Decimal a system for organising. Been a bit of discussion on micro.blog. Sounds good, I made a start with the mess that ins my OneDrive folder, but need to re-read the instructions and start again I think.
- Himalayan Balsam | Scottish Invasive Species Initiative
The Scottish Invasive Species Initiative (SISI) is a 4-year partnership project which aims to work with local organisations and volunteers to control invasive non-native species along riversides in Northern Scotland, for the benefit of our native wildlife and communities.
I see quite a bit of Himalayan Balsam around, quite pretty but a nasty smell.
- Contemplation. Dramatically Improving Your Photography With Reading via #tds2104 Contemplative Image Reading | The Daily Stillness This looks like an interesting practise.
via @wonderofscience- OpenSeadragon An open-source, web-based viewer for high-resolution zoomable images, implemented in pure JavaScript, for desktop and mobile.
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"At startup, an Android device sends Google about 1MB of data, compared with iOS sending Apple around 42KB. When idle, Android sends roughly 1MB of data to Google every 12 hours, compared with iOS sending Apple about 52KB over the same period." https://t.co/nPXiM8Tqi6
— Martin Hawksey (@mhawksey) March 31, 2021
- George Oates Returns to Revitalize the Flickr Commons | Flickr Blog
- Cuba is a vaccine powerhouse and Capitalism and greed gave Britain its vaccine success, PM Johnson says | Reuters via Micro.blog – @rom
The Featured image is Maxwell dynamic machine, 1961 | Science Museum Group Collection © The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence found via the Never Been Seen | Science Museum Group Collection page, which I learnt about from Ian Guest
Watched this wee guy going back and forth with nesting material this morning.
Find an artefact in the UK Science Museum digital archive which has 'never been viewed'. https://thesciencemuseum.github.io/never-been-seen/index.html
Much amusement, interest and pleasure.
Never Been Seen | Science Museum Group Collection is a lovely rabbit hole! A marvellous idea.