Social media is a river. Your post there might get a lot of eyeballs but it’s very quickly lost in the ceaseless flow. In contrast, a blog post like this one is smaller and slower, but more enduring.
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bog thawPaul Chambers
the slow lift
of frogspawn
...
heather slope
a skylark vanishes
into its note
#silentSunday
Read: Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout ★★★★☆ 📚
Back reading Elizabeth Strout after a couple of years break. She brings together lots of characters from different books. Olive is still my favourite. The first half of this was a bit too diffuse & simple, but somehow pulled it together so that the second half felt very much in the Olive vein.
@manton is offering free blog hosting for teachers & nurses on micro.blog. Micro blog is fully featured, should be especially interesting to teachers who want to own the content they share on social media. Micro.blogs cross posting is peerless. Of course for Scot’s teachers I’d recommend Glow.
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Readers no longer see news articles from the journalists they chose to follow on Twitter as the site downranks any posts that link offsite. When they search on Google, they’re bombarded with error-ridden AI facsimiles before reaching the higher-quality underlying work.
I enjoyed listening to the podcast version, feeling smug as a long time RSS reader. Spells out lots of new reasons for using RSS. Watching Ewan Macintosh use NetNewsWire on a train, before Wifi on trains, before smart phones, changed my digital life. I though then it might change everyone’s, maybe still will?
Collection Box Presents…(Glasgow) Music night for Beatroute Arts with M. John Henry, Man of Moon & First Wives. Sunday, August 3 · 7:30 – 10:30pm The Double Bar. Tickets £6.13 & up all proceeds going to Beatroute Arts:
a community-led charity based in North Glasgow that offers free programmes of arts based activity to alleviate lack of free learning provision, mental and physical ill health brought about by poor living standards and social isolation.
Organised by My daughter & partner, should be relaxed and intimate evening.
We had a walk up to Greenside today and spotted quite a few species of butterfly.
From TR: Red Admiral; Comma; Small Tortoiseshell ; Small Heath; Map; Meadow Brown; Peacock; Another Meadow Brown; Green-veined White.