UK Politics, Wild Isles, RSPB, BBC
@Wildheart_Baby Everything driving me mad atm. I can't bear to read any more news today. I've been driven to drink.
Things we didn't do:
- Start the fire
- Shoot the deputy
- Steal the cookies from the cookie jar
Things we did:
- Tried to fight it
- Shot the sheriff
- Put the sham in the shama-lama-ding-dong
Things we will do:
- Survive
- Rock you
- Walk 500 miles
- Walk 500 more
Things we won't do:
- Get fooled again
- Back down
- That
Things we will never do:
- Give you up
- Let you down
- Run around
- Desert you
(Oops:
- I did it again)
I occasionally still pop over to The Other Place.
On the whole it just reiterates why I moved - I have to focus on the few accounts I want to catch up on because the rest is *argh* - but sometimes there is something delightful.
I don't think Ben Cameron is over here, so I just want to point people at this amazing axolotl plushie.
It is SOOOO cute.
It's astonishing (i.e., not credible) that they only just noticed. Where have they have been? The man's been a clamorous, thundering bucket of clanging narcissism and incompetence for two decades at least. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/mar/04/hes-gone-full-trump-tories-turn-on-boris-johnson-over-partygate?CMP=share_btn_tw
#borisJohnson #Trump #partygate
New guide to "Finding Undocumented APIs" by @Leonyin at @themarkup – looks useful for internet studies researchers as well as digital reporters!
https://inspectelement.org/apis
Just added to this resource for our data journalism students at @kingsdh: https://github.com/jwyg/awesome-data-journalism/
You didn't ask for this, but let me tell you that Quake 1 runs at over 2000 fps these days.
#quake #retrogaming
A funded PhD to investigate the use of ARGs for archaeological storytelling!
(and yes, *alternate reality games*, not augmented reality)
https://www.york.ac.uk/archaeology/postgraduate-study/research-postgrads/pgr-fees-funding/big-smoke/
UK politics, Hieronymus Bosch, PartyGate
#PartyGate being back in the news has reminded me about when my mind wandered from the Downing Street garden party to the Garden of Earthly Delights, and insisted I made this.
I remember the olden days before social media, when most Internet communities were built around message boards.
Both lightly-moderated and heavily-moderated communities were fun for different reasons, but what I discovered over time was that if moderation falls below a certain point, the result is always pedophiles and Nazis.
As I predicted, #Twitter is basically a few pedophiles short of being the next 4chan.
It's #WorldBookDay in the UK! Obviously focused more on reading books, but here's a graphic on what you're picking up if you sniff them 📚https://www.compoundchem.com/2014/06/01/newoldbooksmell/
Steve:
frequent overthinker, compulsive fixer, digester-then-explainer, "why?" question relishing father, minor-irritant partner, excessive disassembler, original-form hacker, high-efficiency googler, borderline-competent car-fixer, expert-level car-breaker, faster-by-qwerty communicator, indiscriminate photo-taker, Leatherman owner.