like everyone who has every written a blog post or weeknote, I convinced myself that the platform was the issue, not the...not writing. it didn’t take very long to write a script to export Tumblr posts to Markdown, or to create an Eleventy site. file under ‘things that would not have happened before LLMs’.
nonetheless my position on ‘owned’ digital services has only become more extreme in recent years, I continue to resent how Medium tries to hijack my mouse when I engage in my habit of selecting text as I read, Substack is full of Nazis, Instagram shadow bans Gaza content. in 2006 I attempted to negotiate for GoodBooks to own their own mailing list, not Sony (it did not work). here’s my tiny Markdown-files-held-locally protest, 19 years later!
did nursery drop off this morning. his face crumpled as he realised I was leaving. ouch.
things keep costing money: vet bills (she’s fine), parking fines (I ran for a train and forgot), Italian lessons (gotta get that citizenship B1 exam passed or I’ll be the only non-European out of the three of us, even the dog has a European passport). I keep imagining that Things will stop happening, but they never do.
work is quiet, keeping up momentum on what there is while acknowledging and perhaps even enjoying the quiet is something I find challenging. I’m reading Not Working by Josh Cohen to help me come to terms with my inner slacker and-or slob.
haven’t yet read this by James Plunkett but everyone else I’ve seemingly ever met has, so if you haven’t maybe you’d enjoy it too.