Aiming for Something Better
13th November 2023
I decided celebrate my fedi-versary by finishing a half written blog post from a while ago, about xitter v mastodon. I had got bored before finishing it, but the purpose of the blog is supposed to be to leave information about the past for my grandchildren and other descendants, even if I sound like a boring-old-fart. After all there's enough classic history about famous and/or interesting people, and isn't genealogy supposed to be about the history of the everyday.
...and the World Improves
26th December 2023
As we approach another arbitrary temporal boundary, or New Year as some would have it, I am prompted to consider my place in the world and my responsibilities to society. So because social media reflects so much of society these days, I reflect on social media.
Weird Good or Bad
21st September 2024
Growing up I always felt different to the people around me; a bit weird.
Escaping the Propaganda Media
27th January 2025
This article developed out of an email exchange with a friend who writes as a hobby; actually more of a compulsion. He wants to escape from fb but we can't seem to find a good alternative for the kind of thing he wants to publish on the internet. Mastodon is too focused on smaller items. In spite of the generous word limits on the fediverse most of his articles would be long threads rather than one or two posts
Introversion in the Time of Plague
13th February 2025
A Journal of the First Covid 19 Lockdown