The Reed and Pickup

I was recently having a brief discussion with someone on Mastodon about photography and it got me thinking.

In my last post I tried to express my disillusionment with sharing photos online in the Enslopocene (the period in history where soulless tech bros have taught their fancy autocomplete to create slop).

I’ve never been too far from a camera.

Recently I watched a video talking about the literacy crisis.

I don’t know why, but when I start a new blog, there’s a tendency for posts to get longer and more complicated over time.

As big tech continues its march towards owning nothing and being miserable, I keep hearing that the Gen-Z youngsters who will eventually take our place are rebelling against this.

It feels like such a long time ago that we could count on exponential improvements in computing power.

Inspired by a video by Sarah Davis Baker talking about how the internet used to be a place I had an idea.

Whilst I’ve written about my fondness for physical media already, the recent announcement by Sony that it was ending the production of physical PlayStation games from 2028 lit a fire up the internet’s metaphorical rear-end and I think I need to talk about…

One thing that often gets missed in debates around the internet, particularly now that governments are locking everything away behind an age-verification wall is how our relationship to the internet has changed.

In an attempt to address the harms caused by algorithmic social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, governments around the world are scrambling to put barriers up to stop youngsters from being led astray, instead of, you know, regulating the compan…

Back in 2006 there was a movie starring Adam Sandler, Kate Beckinsale and Christopher Walken called Click.

After a flurry of activity on this blog, there has been a couple of things in my world that have sent my words packing.

As I’ve got older, I’ve become acutely aware of how quickly the sands of time are running out.

Ever on the lookout for what is good in the small web, I wanted to bring your attention to something that has been quite popular on Mastodon of late.

I have referenced it in passing a couple of times now, but a few years ago when the Minimalism documentary blew up on Netflix, the whole thing made a lot of sense to me.

My Mastodon chum Chris recently laid down a challenge to list some bands that we love based on where we live.

In my previous post I challenged you to come up with ten albums that you think would see you out.

Back in the early 90s I bought Pearl Jam’s ‘Vs’ on CD.

I first started tinkering with linux back when Ubuntu 6.04 was released.

Just a quick post to share a couple of recent small-web discoveries you may be interested in.

In an attempt to address the harms caused by algorithmic social media platforms like Facebook, governments around the world are scrambling to put barriers up to stop youngsters from being led astray, instead of, you know, regulating the companies peddling…

Whilst I was browsing the Kagi Small Web, which has become a bit of an escape of late, I came across a blog post which got me thinking.

I’m a little ashamed to admit I’ve thoroughly slept on The Pineapple Thief.

It is far too easy to contribute to the noise and the anger in the world.