Half mushroom and half sausage 🍕
Time for another attempt to get Time Machine running again on the MacBook.
The randomly selected Mastodon instance was randomly offline early this morning. Down for maintenance?
Will Friday never arrive?
Karen Attiah makes a case for sticking with the bird app Washington Post
Social networks need to prioritize user safety over enabling harassment. Calling harassment “free speech” isn’t fooling anybody.
Fish gotta swim, bird apps gotta devolve into a right wing echo chamber. Washington Post
I am still watching the local COVID case trend, it seems to have leveled off instead of continuing to decline.
Running low on motivation and milk, time to go to the grocery store and stock up on both.
Just made a commitment to support my randomly selected Mastodon instance with an annual Patreon contribution.
I have been taking part in ritual dance for over forty years now, still going with Newtowne Morris.
For the moment I plan to retain (but not use) my bird app account. I’m slowly building up my Mastodon follows and adding more RSS feeds to my newsreader, using Feedly to search for interesting sources.
Turkey pepperoni and roasted fennel 🍕
Interesting update on what is happening back on the bird app: www.theatlantic.com/technolog…
Still seeing rabbits graze on the lawn, and yesterday a whole flock of wild turkeys hunting for bugs.
Boston Common Frog Pond opens for ice skating today!
Since challenge prompts are selected randomly, what are the odds that one will be a repeat?
Trying to quit the bird app cold turkey. Already suffering from withdrawal.
Is it too late to start working on my novel for NaNoWriMo?
Twitter is being “managed” like somebody trying to drive a car with a missing tire. Lots of sparks and not getting anywhere.
These days social media feels like trying to ride a barrel over Niagara Falls.
Harvard Square has lost almost all of its funky character, becoming a vast desert of franchise retail.
I have been using various models of the aluminum case (“unibody”) MacBook Pro as my sole work computer since they first came out over a decade ago.
Still waiting for the next big thing to arrive before I leave Twitter.
As colder weather arrives I need to adjust my exercise schedule.