Voting against the full faith and credit of the United States is what you’d expect from the party of political sabotage

“The GOP’s war-like hostility drives the news. If you do not understand that, you do not understand American politics.”

John Stoehr


”Last September in Europe it cost €119 ($139) to buy enough gas to heat the average home for a year and the continent’s gas-storage facilities were brimming. Today it costs €738 and stocks are scarce.”

💬 The Economist

… via John Naughton


I wish people would stop pronouncing counties that end with ‘shire’ as if they are extensions of a Hobbit ‘shire’.

Those same people go out of their way to pronounce place names in non English speaking countries correctly,


First post from the Micro Blog club over at literal.club


Still no Keynote export to ePub though. Why?



📚 Thinking out loud here. had a couple of back and forth with the literal people and we now have a club there specifically for micro blog people.

join us here

Most of their clubs seem to be around genres ours is around who we are.


🎥 Rumor Has It..., 2005 - ★★★

Watched on Monday September 27, 2021.


🎥 Big Fish, 2003 - ★★★★★

Watched on Friday July 22, 2005.


🎥 The Good Liar, 2019 - ★★★★★

Watched on Tuesday September 21, 2021.


🎥 Boss Level, 2021 - ★★★

SciFi Groundhog Day.
Very unsatisying ending.


🎥 Anon, 2018 - ★★★★

Watched on Monday September 27, 2021.


“No true compassion without will, no true will without compassion.”

💬 John Fowles


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🎶🎼 Halcyon Days

Do you know who they are?

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New Obsidian discovery ‘Page Aliases’ … then again I was really looking for a list of variables I can embed in the templates.


I love things that connect one family to different generations of creativity.

(Philip Jenkinson’ wiki entry, who before his main film gig, did video editing on ‘The Old Grey Whistle Test’.)

Talking of which great interview with ‘Whispering Bob’ on ‘Rockenteurs’.


Readwise Reading App

David Sparks seems to be a fan. I have read others on Micro Blog that rate it, BUT it seems expensive for a simple ‘read it later’ app?

Or am I missing something?


New Zealand is no ‘off-grid’ safe haven from the apocalypse

… maybe but that isn’t stopping the US billionaires, I mean if you have 5 houses - why not have one in New Zealand?


That moment when the literal alert arrives “are you STILL reading this?” (Block caps mine to emphasis how it made me feel)