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@manton‘s take on the #WordPress drama, is as expected very wise.
Category Archives: posse
Listened to: Better Diets for all
And yet, the vast majority of people do not eat within dietary guidelines. If anything, diets — and with them health — are getting worse in many places. What’s the problem? Maybe, it is that the people who devise the policies are too far away from the lives of the people they’re trying to help.
This explanation for why people allow their children to eat poorly resonated. It could also apply to other parenting behaviour, eg. mobile phone use. I’ve sometimes wondered at the food & sweets parents provide. The podcast nails why it is not so simple.
Flickr 2024
As usual I’ve stitched up all the photos I’ve posted to flickr this year into a video.
I’ve uploaded to Vimeo this year as YouTube has been giving me random messages about having to login on embedded videos. This even when I’ve logged in on youtube.
I also had a bit of bother with the script as I got a few forbidden noticed. I fixed it by adding a user agent to the curl part and then by changing the url to the downloaded one.
Music: Morning Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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Chat GPT’s geography is a bit off.
Listened: Meeting Point by Louis MacNeice – A Friend to Imtiaz Dharker.
I was sitting at a table with a boy I just met and he casually said: ‘Time was away and somewhere else. The waiter did not come, the clock forgot them.’ And it just stopped me dead because I wasn’t especially interested in this boy, but for a few seconds I fell in love with him because he said those lines.
Poems as Friends is a lovely idea.
Read The Bellwether Revivals by Benjamin Wood ★★★☆☆ 📚
My theory is that hope is a form of madness. A benevolent one, sure, but madness all the same. Like an irrational superstition—broken mirrors and so forth—hope’s not based on any kind of logic, it’s just unfettered optimism, grounded in nothing but faith in things beyond our control.’
Sometimes uncomfortably gripping. A touch of The Secret History.
That is the way the Google Cookie Crumbles. A good example for my class to look past the first results.
Read: The Western Wind by Samantha Harvey ★★★★☆ 📚
Set in the 15th century, a priest tries to solve a “murder”. More about the priest than the murder. Told in reverse it revels his character & the story in an interesting way. Hypocrisy, superstition & morality.
Warm dull with a bit of drizzle this morning. Brightened by a charm of goldfinch feeding on burdock. A couple of minutes later excitement when a crow chased a sparrow hawk overhead.
I’ve noticed a big uptick in followers on BlueSky in the days since the USA election. I do wonder if we are thinking this through. Moving from one silo to another might not be the best lesson learnt from X.
Why is joining Bluesky like buying an EV? | Memex 1.1 – John Naughton