Subscribe to this blog via … ActivityPub
: “I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about how I can make it easier for people to follow this blog. …”
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Blogposts tagged as “Social Media”
Bluesky, eXit, & vague thoughts about self-hosting
The “Folk Horror and folklore” starter pack
: “The mass exodus from Twitter/X to Bluesky over the past weekend — #eXit as some have tagged it — has dramatically increased the number of followers I have there from about four hundred to over a…”
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Famous painting attacked by protestors
: “A world-famous painting, worth millions of pounds, has been savagely attacked by activists earlier today. The activists have been arrested by police, who arrived swiftly on the scene to assess the…”
Think global, act localhost
View towards the Hope Valley, Derbyshire - photograph by the author
: “Links from one page to another are so fundamental to the web that without them it simply would not exist. HyperText — the H and the T in HTML — is defined by the W3C as text which contains links…”
Standalone but interconnected, independent but not isolated
Vauxhall Bridge over the river Thames, with Aquarius House, St George Wharf, London. Photograph by the author.
: “This is a bit of a ramble, but bear with me. …”
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September life-drawing: not safe for whose work?
Three life-drawings from last weekend. Model’s pronouns: they/them.
: “I managed to fit in a life-drawing session this past weekend, three drawings from it are displayed above. …”
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Individualism over Community
Detail from the 2021 drawing Lamentation, by the author
: “Much has already been said about the championing of individualism over community by the likes of Thatcher and others from the 1980s onwards. It is — and continues to be — a weapon used to divide…”
Decentralised Networks
: “The recent change of ownership of Twitter is making a small but growing number of people think about their future on social media, and on the internet in general. …”
Mailing list renaissance
: “I’ve run a mailing list/newsletter for this website since … possibly as far back as the late 1990s. Sometimes I’ve been good at sending out stuff, but more recently I’ve been very bad. I sent…”