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@jakelazaroff.com I’m tech illiterate. Micro.blog already does it for me. Announced at www.manton.org/2026/05/30/s…
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@kroyxt.bsky.social Tio estas sufiĉe justa. Vi ankaŭ povas uzi viajn notlibrojn kiel fontomaterialon por Zettelkasten, same kiel vi citus iun ajn alian fonton.
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@joshuapsteele Change is difficult but staying the same has proved impossible.
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@Miraz how much mystery can one potting shed possibly hold? Looks like plenty! When I was ten a friend and I ran a ‘detective agency’ out of a potting shed, from where we advertised for mysteries to solve. I had completely forgotten until your post reminded me.
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@lightlogged a belated welcome to micro.blog !
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@austingmackell.bsky.social Wait. So now there’s a link between capitalism and fascism? 🤯
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@microadrian true! I’m also inspipred by Dan Harmon’s advice:
> ‘Switch from team “I will one day write something good” to team “I have no choice but to write a piece of shit.”’
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@isaacgreene It’s hard not to envy those yet to read certain great novels - the sheer wonder that awaits them. One Hunded Years of Solitude is near the top of that list. And I remember feeling similarly about Mark Helprin’s A Soldier of the Great War, which is less well-known by far.
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@tracydurnell thanks - he’s spending his last few days being pampered by our family
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@Miraz Thak you and yes, it is very real
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@cogdog it is a really interesting article isn’t it? Makes me imagine there’s probably a journal for absolutely everything!
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@cogdog it’s interesting how our memories of books sometimes connect to the places we read them. My main memory of ZAMM is constantly wondering “what kind of bike was he riding?” because he never said. The book felt different when I found out. Chrome and black and dusty
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@davoh Glad to see you’re still posting shelfies. I imagine Abie Warburg might approve. It was said of his library: ‘Warburg had chosen and arranged the books like stones from a mosaic of which he had the pattern in his mind.’
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@Mattiverse Welcome to micro.blog - looking forward to what you share.
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@joeywingster.bsky.social that’s wonderful. Motion sickness would prevent me from writing like that unfortunately
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@ausrtho Yes, but I’d probably find your location quite exotic, trains or no trains
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@joeywingster.bsky.social you’re not writing while driving are you? I suppose dictation might work. But travel generally seems good for writing
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@lmika Should be easy to arrange!
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@lmika to settle all disputes, let’s just agree to call it libra pondo again
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@jarrod @manton “You kind of get a sense when the platform vendor is going to compete with you instead of work with you.” — Dave Winer’s observation on the WordPress ‘social’ theme. I hope that’s not so.
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@joshuapsteele most recently? <brennan.day/>. Kind of epitomises the indie web for me: hand crafted, opinionated, eccentric, principled, and above all, worth reading.
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@JigmeDatse to paraphrase Upton Sinclair,
It is difficult to get people to understand something, when their likes and subscribes depend upon them not understanding it.
I’ve had a few thankless conversations like that.
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@drwalt worse than ignored:
> “Every journalist who is not too stupid or full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible” – Janet Malcolm.
Louis Theroux quoted this in an interview with Patrick Raddon Keefe. But then not all writers are journalists
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@drjlwells I see what you mean - the top level areas are defined, but they’re what you make them. Johnny Decimal seems a bit like PARA - they’re both ways of organising all your digital/written stuff, and your notes (Zettelkasten or whatever) can sit within that framework (or not).
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@billseitz everything about your site has been inspirational for my TiddlyWiki notebook. To cite just one inspiring post of many: Notice patterns and garden your own private wiki notebook. Thanks!