February 2024 Fifty-two posts

• 14-Feb-2024

  
  Sunny Valentine’s

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• 13-Feb-2024

  
  People need context and guidelines to behave properly online: a tumble of words from me based on Dan Hon’s “Stickers to Manage Replies By” Dan Hon made some stickers. Via his newsletter: s17e10: Alt Text; Reply Management Stickers Look. I made these because I think people need better ways of managing replies in social software. They are also kind of a joke? I mean, a joke and also serious? They’re a joke in the sense that “ha ha we...

  etiquettesocial-software
• 13-Feb-2024

  
  Lunchtime

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• 13-Feb-2024
  Items You May or May Not Wish To Read and Look At How Latin America Revolutionized Baseball: Some Latinos were able to bend the rules because of their skin color, but they were never considered “superstars” by the general public or media before 1947—except for one. His name was Adolfo Lugue from Havana Cuba, and he was considered a “white-Cuban.” In 1923, Adolfo won 27 games for...

  miscwilliam-gibson
• 13-Feb-2024
  Email of the morning I’m thinking about adding metadata from the many Instagram posts I’ve backfilled into this website. In some cases the photo quality is not the best, I know there are a few duplicates. And I would like location metadata for those times I actually added location data to posts. I’ve used instaloooter for this in the...

  instagram
• 12-Feb-2024

  
  Afternoon at OB

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• 12-Feb-2024
  QOTD: Tim Synder Putin makes a mistake about the Ukrainian language, over and over, that is typical of imperial deafness. It is true that Ukrainians today can speak Russian (although many also, for understandable reasons, refuse to do so) as well as Ukrainian. When they encountered Russians, until very recently, Ukrainians would switch to Russian. This courtesy gave...

  politicsukraine
• 12-Feb-2024
  Moonday This morning starting slowish. The weather has rightfully and fully cleared though. But first, I’ve updated the blog such that my comments can now allow a level of threading. So it’s possible to reply to a comment on here. But I’ve built up a pile of comment types, including quite a few trackbacks and pingbacks,...
• 11-Feb-2024

  
  My first memory of the ocean was 20 yards to the south of this pier. I was small. On an inflatable mat. Father by my side. The memory is foggy. It was overcast. Make memories daily. #stoke

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• 10-Feb-2024

  
  turn around bright eyes

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