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If you want to leave some of the more toxic online spaces, I’d recommend a look at micro.one. You can gain ownership, and control over your content. All without the overhead of setting up your own site1.

Blogging is at the heart of Micro.one. Short microblog posts or long-form posts. Photo blogs or podcasts. Inspired by IndieWeb principles. Your own domain name where you can own your content, then feed your posts into the Micro.one social timeline or the larger fediverse.

All for $1 a month2.

Micro.one is part of the fediverse. When you post to your blog, your posts and photos are also sent to followers on Mastodon and elsewhere.

Micro.one is a ‘subset’ of micro.blog, which is also a relaxed and charming community.

  1. Of course some of us like setting up or own sites;-) ↩︎
  2. If you are Scottish educator I’d recommend Glow Blogs £0 ↩︎
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Listened to Timetable – Episode 135: It is 2025 from @manton.

Love this, 1 minutes 42 seconds. I’ve listened twice, read the transcript. If you are

ready to bring back a little bit of the old web as a shield against a web that feels increasingly like an ad engagement machine instead of a publishing platform and community for people.

micro.one looks like a great way to control your content and

a quieter space that still feels connected to other platforms.

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Shorebirds, including sanderlings, turnstones, and a redshank, forage among seaweed on a shoreline.

Along Troon shore, stared rainy and cold, got a little warmer and changed to dull. Lots of dog walkers. But I saw quite a few birds. Greenfinch, stonechats & linnets on the dune side. Turnstone, sanderling and redshank at the edge of the sea. Took blurry photos of them all. Good enough for id & iNaturalist. Also a small dead porpoise washed up on the sand.

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Witch's Butter Fungi growing on a gorse branch

I continued to try and note one ‘natural” thing every day. Fell short, especially towards the end of the year. Leaving for work and getting home in the dark does not help. Here is the 2024 list. I don’t keep the online list up to date, just every month or two.

I also tried to record/podcast each month, but stopped after August. I do enjoy the process. But I suspect I had an audience of none.

I am going to continue in 2025, perhaps making each note a little longer, 2 or 3 sentences. So far:

2025-01-01 Rainy morning. Dumping the rubbish. A very black and shiny crow was making a lot of noise on a neighbour’s washing line. Round the front the traffic is sparse. Across the street, in a pollard, a blue tit is calling.

2025-01-02 Clear blue skies and frost. High tide, at the end of a small rocky outcrop a heron hunches away from the sea and cold. A starling perched high by drain hole under the eaves making experimental sounds.

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Our Endless Numbered Days by Claire Fuller★★★☆☆ 📚
Increasingly crazy survivalist father takes his 8 year old daughter to live in the German woods. Tells her it is the end of the world. Told from the girls POV with compulsive foreboding leading to a guessable horror on the last page.

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According to my Books page I’ve read 49 books so far this year.

There are the ones that I gave ★★★★★, in my rather careless system.