For those who may have been too often married: punchdrink.com/recipes/r…

Sunny day with excellent coffee from freshly-ground beans. I will not disturb the moment by taking up Maurizio Lazzarato’s “Capital Hates Everyone”.

Preferred pronunciation: 🎶 Save the scones for Henry Jones
Alternate pronunciation: 🎵 Save the scones for Henry Johns

Ruth Mottram (@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org) has a good piece about climate scientists fleeing to greener pastures. Check there for lots of links
sternaparadisaea.net/2023/02/0…
#climate #scientists

H/T to @benwerd for pointing us to the Mother Jones piece on Kissinger.

Oats in my coffee

For this morning’s coffee I’m trying out a non-dairy ‘milk’ called Oatley Barista Edition. It’s an oat milk with a bit of rapeseed oil added, presumably for mouth feel. It may be a decent substitute for dairy milk if that’s what you are used to. But for half and half? No.

NYTimes is effing with Wordle again. I am not amused.

It’s always a good thing to take in useless information. Like this:

“If the ratio of legislators to residents nationally matched New Hampshire, there would be nearly 96,000 people in the U.S. House.”

Happy Wednesday!

We’re going to Vancouver (BC) for five days next week. Which should I take: * the 2020 M1 MacBook Pro with its 13.3” screen? * the 9th gen iPad with “Logi” keyboard/case? * a field notes notebook & pen?

Over on the birdsite, @matthew_d_green writes: “Chrome is replacing the ‘lock’ icon with… something. I don’t know what it is. Might be two people sharing a sleeping bag.”

Apropos of Bluesky and the others, Techdirt has an excellent piece on the current “post-twitter diaspora” options:

www.techdirt.com/2023/04/2…

For anyone considering Bluesky, there is a side-by-side-by side presentation of terms of service for Twitter, Bluesky and Mastodon here:

mastodon.online/@mastodon…

“When you post on Twitter(1) or Bluesky(2) you grant them a broad perpetual license to use, modify, and sublicense your content. You effectively make them co-owners of your content. They can mine it and monetize it. They can even sell it.”

So in this regard, Bluesky is no better than Twitter.

My calendar suggests Easter isn’t over until the last colored egg has been found. #holiday

O gawd, I just looked at the #birdsite for the first time in a couple of weeks. Those promoted “tweets” are ridiculous.

I’m currently reading two different things. The first is a collection of essays by Italo Calvino, titled here in the US as “The Written World and the Unwritten World.” The second is one of a series of ‘teen’ books by one Eldritch Black, called “Weirdby Island”.

It’s good to have a foot in both worlds — carefully analytical, and baldly entertaining.

#reading

What a time to be alive! #currentevents

www.king5.com/article/n…

I suspect ‘Twitter’ has begun blocking third-party apps: I can log via web browser to two family member accounts, but to neither via Tweetbot.

When I attempt to connect via Tweetbot, Twitter tells me: Re-authorization Failed Failed to request token from Twitter.com:: service unavailable

My desktop Mac mini has take to forgetting it has a bluetooth keyboard attached. This is not something I take kindly to.

The long national nightmare continues. I say to the people of the USA: Welcome to the 1850s.

MarsEdit for micro.blog posts

scrafford.com/2022/11/1…

Thanks to @spgreenhalgh @technocrat @warner @mariovillalobos @Pilchuck @maique — great gear names! I’d include them here, but I would want your permission first.

Now I need to get busy with my own stuff. I have a RaspberryPi, an old iMac running Linux, an old MacBook Air running Linux, a MacBook Pro M1 and, finally, a superannuated Intel MacBook Pro.

I have some ideas for names: Eusebius, Betty, Carl, Garth, Enzo …

I’m working up an ActivityPub connection between micro.blog and the mastodon world. But I don’t have it quite right.

Until then, my micro.blog posts can be found here.

Trying to get my digital house in order. Two steps forward today and only one step back.

I’ve been spending a bit of time on counter.social (@blimey), but micro.blog is my home!