💬 A Future Crucial❓


Use LLM models in the same way as you buy consulting

There are a few parralels …


Redefining categories on Micro.Blog as part of my revamp and where I can - extending my rules to automate category allocation.

What I really need now is an automatic ‘un-categorisation’.

Going forward posts marked 🖋️Longform will really be Longform - not just posts with a title - but to go back and manually check all the history? One by One? That is not going to happen.


Thinking blogrolls on Micro.Blog. Could they work in the same way as Inkwell?

i.e. don’t import an OPML - point to an OPML.

I can see a collection of topic driven OPMLs that I can then expose in different places - but to only have one place that I need to update?

Good idea - or am I nuts?


👁️ One Month of Crucial Tracks completed? ✅


🎥 On The Waterfront ★★★★

In a nutshell - if you havent seen it - watch it. If you have seen it - watch it again.


📺 Dark Matter ★★★

To save you the click through … yep … good watch.


I just discovered 🔗 Kelly Boesch.

An example of her work …

🔗📼 Not Made For The Cage | Kelly Boesch

If you are reading this post on my site, the inline video gives an error. Click on the link above. The 'error' is only because the creator wants you to got to YouTube to watch it.

Crucial Track 🎵 May 31, 2026

"Five O'clock World (Remastered)" by The Vogues

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The song came into my world through a great cover, but the Vogues original is still most excellent.

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👁️ You forget all the funny little things you do to get all this stuff going. Eight days later - and we are finally back. I think.


👁️ Is that really right? Wonder what war he’s talking about? And how he thinks it will be fought?


👁️ Only ever passed by Arcadia - might have paid more attention had I known it was an outpost of a Chinese spy ring.


Crucial Track 🎵 May 30, 2026

"Kayleigh" by Marillion

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Always enjoyed the song. Never a massive fan of the band - but definitely a fan - all the way back to the days when some were heralding him as the 'new' Peter Gabriel ... I got it - but really he was just plain old Derek William Dick doing his thing - and his thing was rather good.

Oh - and that's Kayleigh - not Cèilidh.

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Sign on to Leaflet with Blusky - write and publish a post - follow that feed in NetNewsWire and then share to MicroBlog …

🪁: Isn’t a ‘Blue Sky’ in the ATmosphere - not ‘on'❓

Still an experiment - I mean how many of these things do we need? And it seems to need a lot of clicks to get where I wanted to be .. Jury very much out - but I will try adding it to my sources.


🪁 Isn’t a ‘Blue Sky’ in the ATmosphere - not ‘on‘❓


🪁 A Title To Start ...

... when you don't know

  • where you are going

  • how it will end

  • what it's about

  • how long it will be

    I don't know -
    seems all arse about face to me.

But sure - lets see where this cart is heading.


📺 Resident Alien ★★★

It’s quirky and different. Wont be everyone’s cup of tea - but definitely worth a try out. I loved it.


🎬 Not sure if this one has been hiding or if it just arrived on Netflix. But - added to queue and on the cards for tonight.


🔗 The Fediverse is not a product. It’s time to get real about marketing.

Ben’s not wrong - but for whatever reason - ‘same as it ever was’. It’s called Marketing. And Marketing is generally not - or maybe ‘mis’ - understood by the community - sometimes even rejected because it is … And of course ‘budget’.

Is this worth a conversation?


Matt Mullenweg writes: RIP🔗 Sonny Rollins including this image - which I am sure you have seen a version of.

For me, what made this different is the naming of everyone in it. 🔗 That is one hell of a band!


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