Notes
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Slow discovery, fast discovery
People have been moving from Twitter to Mastodon over the last few days, and lots of people are finding the new experience discordant. Mastodon isn’t pushing the same buttons, isn’t providing the same value. Similar, but different.
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Vitamancy
Off the back of that post about cyberghosts and cyberdemons, I’ve been thinking about how to bring apparitions into my house when someone visits my website. My basic plan so far:
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Work is gambling, gambling is zen
On Thursday I bought a black hoodie. With all their garments, the producers write an essay on the inspiration behind the piece. The essay that accompanies the hoodie is called (Tele)pathy and covers Walter Benjamin’s writing on gambling.
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Cyberghosts and cyberdemons
Matt wrote about hosting your website on a server in your bedroom, about music playing or lights flashing when people visit your site, which is something I’ve been meaning to do for a while. It’s a super fun prospect.
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Perspective is not permanent
The other day, on Mental Health Awareness Day coincidentally, I had a wobble. Low mood clashed with bad news which lurched into a Sisyphean task at work. For a day and a bit I felt shit.
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First light
The thing with training for a long distance race is trying to find enough hours in the day for a run, amongst everything else demanding your time.
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Miserable reality
Isn’t a miserable reality better than the most interesting illusion?
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Sound of the suburbs
From Space and Sound: English Suburbia and The Streets:
Paradoxically, Mike Skinner’s work reflects the realities of his suburban English experiences while serving as an escape.
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Notes, notes, notes
I’ve been meaning to add short notes to this blog for a while. Everything else I write here is a longer post, but it’d be nice to post short little thoughts. It might stop me tweeting so much.