🔗 Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai Are Cowards – Pixel Envy

Hard to disagree as to how rules are not being applied consistently …. Quelle surprise❗️


🔗 Thought Shrapnel

I have no idea if I’m neurodivergent. I don’t think I’ve got ADHD, and all men are probably on the spectrum somewhere. Who’d want to be neuro_typical_ anyway?

My bold - but would surely explain a lot in this household 😂


Just pulling some history to day after reading 🔗 Room temperature from Seth.

Stable systems regress to the mean. Things level out on their way to average, which maintains the stability of the system. The same pressures are put on any individual in our culture. Sooner or later, unless you push back, you’ll end up at room temperature.

🖇️ Me - July 2024 - We Are Being Forced To Conform

[🖇️ Me - March 2025 - A post responding to @manton / @devilgate](https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/05/the-butterfly-effect-is-real.html)

🖇️ Manton’s Original Post


Just thinking about Masto again - which took me to Tapestry - and I see a familiar icon and so I think … closer look? Again ?


Just thinking about Masto again - which took me to Tapestry - and I see a familiar icon and so I think … closer look? Again ?


Spring Cleaning

Still To Do

On the Blog

  • Categories: Remove category ‘LongForm’ from Film Review Posts

  • CSS: Simple Recent Posts - finish styling

  • CSS: On a phone close up ‘spaces’ on home page

  • CSS: Sort all home page blog styling

  • CSS: Get the bullets back

  • Functionality - Add the ‘Replies’ page back ❓

  • Functionality - Second Archive Page to pull entire Archive

    • going to need JSON/Micro.Blog Help
  • Import My Instagram. It is time.

  • Import The ‘Quotespace’ Blog. (Troubleshooting)

  • Search - resolve PageFind, @sod search, categories, archive et al - way too confusin

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🔗 My morning’s peruse of my RSS feeds was ‘chokka’ with great gruber words … and then ‘other people’ writing about ‘great @gruber

This is the latter from 🔗 Anil Dash

Not about Gruber per se - all about Markdown - but in so many ways written as a dedication to JG and a really great primer/history on it. Well worth a read.

Final paragraph

The trillion-dollar AI industry’s system for controlling their most advanced platforms is a plain text format one guy made up for his blog and then bounced off of a 17-year-old kid before sharing it with the world for free.


Regifting the Nobel Peace Prize


🔗 The Genius Whose Simple Invention Saved Us From Shame at the Gas Station - WSJ Paywall … but am sure it is on Apple News … if you have that access.

Sharing because I was driving with my friend Cliff a few months ago - stopping for gas - and couldn’t recall what side my filler cap was.

What does the arrow say

.. asked Cliff … 🤯

In all my years of driving I had never known this.



Regifting the Nobel Peace Prize


🔗📼 365 Daily Words

Via 🔗 Flowing Data

Not yet decided if this is meaningful or just ‘lightly meta’.


Small Hit | Matt Mullenweg

Goodness! I would love to have a hit someday as the small as the ones Apple has had under Cook. Apple Watch sells more than the entire Swiss watch industry. Airpods are the most popular headphones in the world. Their market cap is bigger than the GDP of all but four countries in the world




Here we are ten years later .. what would you made of it all David❓I know you wouldn’t have been quiet.


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He acted according to his training," Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, told the Minnesota Star Tribune in an email, noting that this specific agent was selected for ICE’s Special Response Team, is an expert marksman.

He acted according to his training … is an expert marksman.

[🔗 The Star Tribune)(https://www.startribune.com/ice-agent-who-fatally-shot-woman-in-minneapolis-is-identified/601560214)