I wonder what Bento would be doing today had it not disappeared?
On the 12th of May I realized that I had settled into a personal theme within the #MBMay challenge BUT 4 of my first 6 entries didn’t ‘fit’., so I have added a comment to each of the entries providing an alternative entry that is!
1 Switch
2 Photo
4 Thorny
🎶 Daft Punk wasn’t in my mind when I offered ‘random’ as a possible word for #MBMay - and yet here we are.
18th in the series of #MBMay
Photo; Cover of ‘Random Access Memories’
Caveat: NONE of the photos in this series are mine, but when I know who to credit, I do.
“The Putin threat to this nation is still alive. It can still win. That’s because Trump was never Putin’s most dangerous puppet.
Rupert Murdoch is.”
💬 Dana Blankenhorn
“We were promised bicycles for the mind, but we got aircraft carriers instead”
💬 Jonathan Edwards
Bike - a ‘tool for thought’ from Hog Bay Software.
I assume the name emerges from the quote, but for thirty bucks not sure what it adds to the existing note/outliner world.
Read Chris Hedges - you should anyway, but this one is about the execution of a journalist.
Just like 10 dead in a mall in America, lots of voices and lots of prayers and yet almost certainly mall shootings and assassinations will continue unabated because words are not enough.
I think ‘On Hold' Music is the only kind of 🎶 music I hate.
I guess that is another contributor to my dislike of Spotify.
17th in the series of #MBMay
Photo; Spotify
Caveat: NONE of the photos in this series are mine, but when I know who to credit, I do.
Apple Podcasts …
“will also automatically delete older episodes, preventing the app from taking up too much storage space on iOS devices.”
How long has there been a podcasts app on the phone again?
Awesome updates to the Reader beta from Readwise.
Currently getting a 90% fail on Bookshelves at the moment.
I enter the title. The choice of books come up - including the one I want.
I click through to the book.
There are all the details - BUT the cover image is missing.
Is anyone else (not) seeing this?
// @manton
📚Great Meeting Of 🖇️ 🔎The Readers Republic today - wonderful book recommendations that I am documenting. Notes to follow.
‘Time Flies’
🎶 a track on ‘The Innocent'
and
📚 the title of the bio of Porcupine Tree.
16th in the series of #MBMay
Photo; Book Cover. Illustration by Lasse Holle?
Caveat: NONE of the photos in this series are mine, but when I know who to credit, I do.
🎶 ‘Obscured By Clouds’ was released 50 years ago.
15th in the series of #MBMay
Photo; Album Cover by Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell of Hipgnosis.
Caveat: NONE of the photos in this series are mine, but when I know who to credit, I do.
Visualizing Everyone that has Ever Lived
Now THAT is a cool way of looking at the data.
“I thought it might have been known in the office that after 34 years and 20 books I knew certain things about writing and didn’t want a copy-editor’s help with punctuation or the thing called repetition …
💬 V. S. Naipaul
What I Learned From Unfollowing Everyone On Twitter, Then Rebuilding
In case you were wondering ‘how’ … buried in this article from Charlie Warzel is a link to a piece with scripts that allow you to bulk unfollow people on Twitter.
Just Sayin’
