🔗 WWW
We should all do the right thing by and for our children ...
Protecting children’s online safety should be a top priority for everyone, as they are vulnerable to harmful influences from companies prioritizing profit over safeguarding. Sharing the ‘Words of Jax’,
Me: “Thanks, man. That was awesome. My powers as a driver are pretty limited to dealing with unruly passengers, so that was great.”
Tank Man: “Meh. I work three years as Walmart cashier. This nothing.”
Trust Requires Trust. Who Do YOU Trust?
If ‘the future’ is trust. Who/what - do you trust? I mean really really trust? And why?
I’ve been doing this every year since 2019.
My 8th for 2026 will be out in a few days time and looking like another alliterative year when reviewing my draft.
🔗📅 2025 - Intentional | Inspired | Impactful
🔗📅 2024 - Transform | Transition | Transcend (sic)
🔗📅 2023 - Focus | Flexible | Fabulous
🔗📅 2022 - Clear | Closer | Choice
🔗📅 2021 - Transform | Transition | Transcend
🔗📅 2020 - Believe | Move | Ascend
🔗📅 2019 - Uncertain | Less | Different
It all started as a fun and different challenge.
🔗🔎We got there - although some days were pretty difficult - but only 🖇️ one turned out to be a real stretch.
🔗 Russell Brand charged with new rape and sexual-assault crimes. - this link is 🍎 News - just sharing because Brand is - and always has been a total douche.
🖇️🔎 Me in a series of posts in 2023
But most importantly 🔗 the BBC earlier this year
The BBC has apologised to staff who felt they could not speak up with concerns about Russell Brand’s behaviour because he was seen as “too influential” and they felt he “would always get his way and therefore they stayed silent”.
But Robin Ince? Fire🔗 the fucker.
All this comes to mind as I watch the emerging BBC/Trump case.
The point he makes is obvious and clear - the premise … 🤯
🔗 Comedian Robin Ince quits Radio 4 show, claiming BBC found his views ‘problematic’.
The silencing continues.
Email design is a special kind of hell. While the rest of the web has moved on to modern CSS, flexbox, and grid layouts, email clients are still stuck in the dark ages. You’re forced to use table-based layouts, inline CSS styles, and work around the limitations of Outlook (which still renders emails using the Word HTML engine from 2007). It’s enough to make you want to just send plain text and be done with it.
💬 Brett Tapsra
… tell me about it.
Definitely not true of all the docs - I just tried.
🔗 The 60 Minutes report on CECOT that Bari Weiss censored is now internet contraband | The Verge
Thanks to Weiss’ censorship, it may very well wind up being the most-talked-about CBS News story this year.
💬 Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge
.. via @gruber ….
🔗 Pulled 60 Minutes segment on CECOT : CBS : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
And of course - thanks to 🔗 PullTube I now have safely tucked away in my personal collection - you know - just in case.
Guess which country tops these four lists and which is ranked 7th, 8th, not even on the list and 3rd respectively.
🔗 Exports the Most Christmas Decorations
🔗 Dominating Critical Mineral Refining in 2030
🔗 Stockpiling Most Gold Reserves Since 2000
🔗 Battery Manufacturing Investment
Sorry, the winner in the other 3 categories were only a close 2nd on Gold Reserves. (Although ‘1’ and ‘2’ had totals that are each just about the same as the rest of the list added together.
In fact those two countries
account for more than half of all gold stockpiled by central banks in the period.
🔗📽️ Pluribus becomes Apple TV’s most watched show ever.
Me … 🤯
(Though to be honest - still have a few episodes to go - though that in itself is telling )
🔗🎶 Jon Lord - Unsquare Dance (Dave Brubeck)
One of ‘my’ guys playing the music of one of my mum’s (and so another one of ‘my’) guys.
🔗 On Paperbacks and TikTok - Cal Newport
In 1939, Simon & Schuster revolutionized the American publishing industry with the launch of Pocket Books, a line of diminutive volumes (measuring 4 by 6 inches) that cost only a quarter; a significant discount at a time when a typical hardcover book would set you back between $2.50 and $3.00.
Meanwhile in the UK, founded fully four years earlier, Penguin didn’t need the ‘qualifier’ preceding ‘the publishing industry’.
Penguin revolutionised publishing in the 1930s through its inexpensive paperbacks sold through Woolworths and other stores for sixpence bringing high-quality fiction and non-fiction to the mass market.
History.