🔗 Ranked: The Animals That Kill the Most Humans
Turns out that visiting Australia (arguably host of some of the most dangerous critters in the world) is safer than just being a human.
👁️ Thinking that we need a different collective noun. From here on in they will known as Feral Agencies.
Crucial Track 🎵 May 13, 2026
"Perfect Day" by Lou Reed
Whenever it doesn’t seem right … Lou sets me straight.
Forgive or not to forgive. That is the question.
🖇️ Kind of related to this … Galloway and Swisher recently debating Tucker.
🏢 Interesting to read this today, because I have been writing similar things myself - albeit from a different angle. The words will be published soon and I will return and link later.
Your website is no longer just a destination. It’s a source. It’s the canonical, structured, well-maintained origin point from which your message gets picked up, interpreted, summarized, and carried elsewhere. The better that source material is, the better it travels.
Think of it this way: Your website used to be the store. Now, it’s also the warehouse. And the warehouse needs to be organized well enough that anyone (human or machine) can find what they need, understand what it means, and carry it somewhere else without losing the plot.
💬 Tim Chambers
🔗 Websites As Canonical Sources, Not Just Destinations.
The problem of course is that to be both a warehouse and a store is a very tall order - not impossible, but certainly not easy - because you need clarity on what you’re doing and why.
The website exposes whether you have it - and if you don’t - I’ll bet a pound to a penny that your web site designer/developer won’t.
That’s why we start at the opposite end - where
🔗 The shared tragedy of Red Queen hiring | Seth’s Blog
Successful fishermen understand that casting an ever-wider net is not always the best way to catch the fish you need.
Hiring is Hard - like everything else. F-O-C-U-S
🔗📚 ‘Small is Beautiful’ - and a big win IMHO.
this takes a turn at the end.
💬 Mitch Wagner
Certainly does - because it fits so nicely into the emerging narrative about ‘craft’ and ‘artisans’ - and of course the Japanese would be where it would all start.
🔗 Truth, Consequences, Climate, and Demand
the only thing history loves more than a surprise party is irony.
💬 Mitch Wagner - I think.
The source was 🔗 here
🔗 How Not to Respond to Political Violence
I dunno Peggy.
- Three assassination attempts that nobody really talks about?
- Politicians living on military compounds because they are being threatened? (If I wanted to demonstrate to ‘the masses’ that the country is unsafe - I would choose to keep a few loyalists on military bases for their ‘protection’.)
👁️ Doesn’t really stack up for this bear.
🔗 Hey you, start communicating!
OK! Definitely taking on board Kev’s closing instruction …
So yeah, start communicating! 🙃
💬 Kev Quirk
And of course - because ‘everything is a remix’ - Kev’s post 🔗 was inspired by this one.
Meanwhile, also this morning 🔗 swissmiss shared this short poem.
point out the good
when you see it.in life,
in others,
in yourself.because the world
needs to remember
what kindness and
love look like.
💬 Topher Kearby
Which all goes to explain why random people out there are on the internet are going to start receiving email from me. The first one is going out in a minute. It won’t be daily. There will be a reason.
🔗 Features via Mission Alignment
When you use Micro.blog, you should never have to opt in or pay extra for something that is a core part of our mission.
💬 Manton Reece
Thank you @manton - very nice.
Crucial Track 🎵 May 12, 2026
"The New Math (What He Said)" by OSI
I was sat on a plane reading an interview with Bowie who talked about this band he'd just heard. Made a note of it, and ordered it online. Their first album arrived and this was the first track and I was IN. How could you not be?
Crucial Track 🎵 May 11, 2026
"Thank You for the Music" by ABBA
Today’s post is a sister post to this one.
My memory … sitting alone tin a large Odeon(?) cinema - South London - Streatham. I really can’t recall the movie - except the closing credits - as Wiki says:
The song also plays over the closing titles as the camera pans out from the band performing in a hut on an island in the Stockholm archipelago to views of the archipelago itself.
That is my only memory and on that day, for whatever reason found it so uplifting. Where are we now? What 47 years later - and that memory is locked. That song. Locked. Loved it then. Love it now.
Abba? Sure I have great respect for what they did. The songs they wrote and recorded - but in all honesty - never really my bag.
Except this one.
🎥 ABBA: The Movie, 1977 - ★★
Abba was never my bag, so why I went to see this in the Odeon (I think) cinema in Streatham, South London - I have no idea. It was fine - until it exploded into the closing credits. All this time later - I still remember the image and the music - a movie all by itself. Only two stars - but try to find the closing credits - sound up - on a big screen - dark room. Still 🤯
We do need a refresh, and I’ve been working with our friends at WordPress on that. The main constraint is that we need to base the site on a WordPress theme of some kind. I invite suggestions.
💬 Doc Searls
Do we though? Or are we attempting to ‘keep things simple’?
The stuff that @dave has been highlighting in his threads points to ideas that can still live in Wordpress. Personally I liked the design that 🔗 Devon came up with - why not go with that?
🔗 Routing around the algorithms
And what’s funny about that is that they assume that my ambition is positional. They assume that my ambition is a title or a seat. But my ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to
change this country .
💬 AOC