View4 … thinking … anyone tried it?


The recent update to Cleanshot (part of the SetApp world) is terrific.


The Age of Ignorance … it’ll be the death of us.


🔗 Just revisiting the Google Rant

.. all this time later, does it still hold?


Reference - if you are using Blue Yeti

Side note - using keeps getting spell checked to suing - something they know?


🚧 Seen two separate references in the wilds of the blogosphere to this graphic in the last three days - no original source. Posting for posterity to revisit at some point.


“Trump doesn’t wear a mask because his spray tan would come off on it when he’d take it off to speak, and that’d be embarrassing. Sadly, we think it’s simple as that.”

The Chaos Report

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🎵 I am often accused of using dated musical references in my writings. (You know who that is ‘R’)

Now we can begin to understand why.

But, my results are a little better in ‘modern music’ than the younger generations seem to manage on ‘older' music 😊.

Go straight to the test.



Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds name baby son Wilfred.

‘Willie Johnson’ … what were they thinking?


The Great Realisation

Not much else to say is there?


And so farewell 🔗 Automatic.


A Lesson For Our Time


Bit by bit I have been ‘unfavoriting’ old posts. They aren’t useful since they don’t tie to a conversation so really are just bookmarks with no context.

This was a link that @brentsimmons dropped in January 2018.

🔗 Why We’re Underestimating American Collapse

Worth a revisit.



Trudie Styler: ‘We have to get used to feeling uncomfortable’

I’m not sure Trudie would ever understand uncomfortable. Ever!


Ooh ooh ooh

“How do they explain to the American people why the Republican White House and the Republican Senate can be in Washington to carry out their work on behalf of their constituents, but House Democrats cannot?”

I know. I know.




“Sympathy is often difficult and soon becomes hollow if one feels no pain oneself.”

Sophie Scholl

via the inimitable Maria Popova