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Finally deleted my Facebook (and Instagram and Messenger) accounts. It hurts to feel like I’m cutting off one of the few ways to find and be found by long-time family and friends, but I just cannot be part of these so-called social networks anymore.

Y’all can follow me on my website and places I can still syndicate like Mastodon and Bluesky. You can also converse with me via email, Signal, or IRL.

I’m on a quest to watch all Jim Jarmusch movies. This, once more, was right up my alley. The calmness, the humour, the characters. It again featured hilarious dialogues where people don’t understand each other. And towards the end I noticed that the comics the characters are watching seem to give away what will happen next. So I need to watch this again to see what I can discover.

Weird to feel seen by Bruce Sterling!

Some Public Limits of Everyday Weirdness (2025)

hat-tip: https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/06/how-the-sausage-gets-made/#linkdump

I managed to wrap up my photos from 2023 on the last day of 2024. Hooray!

Your typical December photos.

Alan Watts wrote in the “The World As Emptiness”:“So in the same way, the coming and going of things in the world is marvelous. They go. Where do they go? Don’t answer, because that would spoil the mystery.”I have to disagree with Watts here.Do ask and DO answer. Again and again. Embrace curiosity, explanation, understanding.Any mystery you can explain will reveal another mystery underneath.There is no spoiling the mystery, there is only the journey of one mystery after another.#meditationThoughts #Kula #meditation #liveMeditation #groupMeditation #AlanWatts #mystery

The team @micro.blog have done it again.They soft-launched https://micro.one yesterday¹.This may be the most accessible onramp to the open social web ever.Cost: $1 a month. Yes you read correctly.This is the simplest and cheapest (where you are the customer, not the product) ...

Yesterday https://last.fm/ (@lastfm) emailed their year in review reports, which they called #Playback24 and Last.Year.Kudos to them for waiting until the new year to do so, and breaking with the pattern of services prematurely posting year in review summaries.¹They’re also a...

The #indieweb is more than #independence. It’s also a web, of both personal sites and “third place” sites like aggregators, bridges, proxies, directories, indexes, and other community sites.Broadly speaking, such “third place” sites include places we collectively contribute t...

A new Wonderella??!!! 💖

http://nonadventures.com/2025/01/01/unpack-to-the-future/

When we say #ownYourData we mean whatever data is important to you, like the data services aggregate about you and present back to you. Owning that data means extracting it into a form you can hang onto regardless of what the service does in the future (or disappears), and pu...

The first of a new year seems like a good day to assemble, aggregate, summarize and publish various year in review posts for the prior year.When various online services create a year in review for you many weeks before the end of the year (whether #Spotify #Wrapped or #Strava...

Welcome to 2025!15 years ago today I began posting notes on my own #indieweb site first, and only later on #socialMedia: https://tantek.com/2010/001/t1/declaring-independence-building-itYou can too.I am once again encouraging you start the year with:1. Getting a personal doma...

Last 2024 #donation request: please #donate to any/all tonight!I donated to these, pick ones that resonate with you:@ACLU@NAACP@InternetArchive@Wikipedia@PPact@Mozilla**@EFF@CalAcademy@deYoungMuseum@Exploratorium@MontereyAq@SFMOMA@SFParksAlliance**Disclosure: I work for @Mozilla, on & with open web standards & communities @indiewebcamp @microformats @W3C @WHATWG supported by @Firefox to provide a more human-centric, private, and secure web for all users.Previously: https://tantek.com/2019/365/t1/today-donate-renew-arts-science

Last day of the year and last chance to #donate to worthy causes for 2024!I post a lot about the #indieweb but I’m not asking you to donate to that.Starting this series of non-profit #donation posts with asking you to consider donating to the #independentArts.Choose an #arts organization local to you or one that friends or family are directly involved in.For example: @theatermitu.org (@theatermitu @instagram.com/theatermitu)Theater Mitu is an independent theater arts organization, space, and community that supports numerous artists, shows, and incubates and produces new work!Donation link: https://secure.givelively.org/donate/theater-mitu/the-decade-ahead-10-more-years-of-mitu-in-brooklyn#TheaterMitu #NewYork #NYC #Brooklyn

Your typical December photos. (27 photos)

Inspired by Austin Kleon's lists of things that made his year (here's his entry for 2023.) Making my first zines in years (and having the courage to share them w...

Herein you'll find my goals for 2025: what I'd like to achieve. Recorded here to remain accountable to myself! Inspired by Joanna Penn and her yearly reviews and goals. Table Of Conten...

📗 Want to read Necropolitics by Achille Mbembe ISBN: 9781478006510

Nearing the end with my photos from 2023.

Photos from the Alpeninferno plus some random shots.

Photos from the Alpeninferno plus some random shots. (32 photos)