‘We care for things not because they produce value, but because they already have value.’
Month: September 2019
I wrote a blog post two years ago about trying to fix some digital kitchen scales, and now one random commenter is giving advice to another random commenter with a problem. Cool how that can happen.
https://doubleloop.net/2017/12/10/attempted-repair-salter-digital-scales/
I saw a chameleon up close today, never have before. They’re wild! Eyes that move independently of each other and all over the place. And it moved around like it was stop-motion animated, and had these funny little pincer hands with little fingers. It kept on sticking its tongue out almost as a way of wayfinding. Quite a character.
I felt sorry for it being cooped up like that though.
I learned about Jallianwala Bagh massacre today. Pretty fucking horrible, all told. The British Army in Punjab in 1919. Another shameful part of British colonial history. I’d never heard of it before. Not something we are told about in school.
Peterloo mural outside the People’s History Museum.
The first victim of the Peterloo massacre was a two year old. One point of the mural is to say, if the same protest was to happen again today, who would the people be and what would they be fighting for?
‘In such an extreme environment, art becomes an essential radical act. “Art is our weapon. Culture is a form of resistance.”‘
Graffiti, vandalism, and protest in Iran.
There was a protest against the Tories by the Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People.
I enjoyed the singing of:
You can stick your work assessment up your arse,
you can stick your work assessment up your arrrse,
you can stick your work assessment,
stick your work assessment,
stick your work assessment up your arse.
(to the tune of “she’ll be coming round the mountain”)
The Tories are in Manchester.
#GetOutOfMyTown
Started with a really simple version of Ton’s infostrat and liking it already.
I set up a couple of channels, one for people I tend to interact with a lot, one for people I loosely follow. Both a combo of IndieWeb, Mastodon, Twitter and RSS feeds, mostly of actual real people. The other stuff I haven’t moved yet and is mostly institutional feeds.
When I get a social media urge, I’ll check the first two groups. If empty, I’ll maybe check the rest, or read an article, or just do something else.
The best part is avoiding anything that has an endless stream of fairly random (but tantalisingly, possibly interesting) stuff. As Ton points out, anything *really* worthwhile will invariably end up in a feed in one of the first two groups sooner or later. I’m feeling more intentional, less flighty of attention.