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Ironically, via Twitter/X: This is what billionaire ownership of the media means: Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta shut down the No Kings account for hours during the height of their protests. Meta suppressed accounts supporting Brazil President Lula da Silva in the recent election. Larry Ellison’s TikTok blocked advertising for a documentary criticizing Elon Musk. Fight back....

This month, I’ve put out major bugfix updates to my Post Kinds and Simple Location plugin. This was possible due massive tests written automatically, that uncovered a lot of things I never would have noticed, and some assistance. I’m going through all my code to ensure that all discovered bugs are fixed so I can focus on improvements in future.

Many of my pieces of writing, especially my creative non-fiction and Nature pieces, describe a single moment or the events that happened over the course of a day. With that in mind, one of the skills I want to develop in my writing is to consider longer periods of time in my...

Subject line: Using AI? Here’s how to protect your information AI tools can be helpful, but it’s important to protect your personal and financial information when using them. Avoid entering sensitive information into AI tools. Anything you share may be stored or retained outside of [Financial Company]’s secure environment. Here are a few ways to...

Yesterday I asked three friends a variation of the following question: Is there a website that makes you pause like a piece of architecture? One person provided an answer to the question that was a hypothetical design: a website where, when you scrolled down, you would be ...

The night-given crystalline coating on the red leaf shimmers with the burgeoning light of day. As I take a step forward, the light hits the ice crystals in a different way. We had our first frost last night. I looked up to see an expansive winter-blue sky, with faint lavend...

I’ve been invited to quxnet.net, a private network that looks and works like the forums and message boards of the early web. Its sysop on the about page: “The old internet was for farmers. The new internet is for cattle.”

No feed deciding what I see, just boards, threads and people who chose to be there. It’s thoughtfully made and developed surprisingly far, and I share its values: real people, real connection.

What makes me hesitate is the same thing I keep writing about. I tell people to own their corner of the web instead of renting space on someone else’s platform. quxnet is a much kinder landlord than most, but it’s still a landlord. If it closes, so does everything I’ve written there.

So I’ll give it a fair try. Anything I write there that’s worth keeping, I’ll publish here as well.

quxnet.net

I’ve been invited to https://quxnet.net, a private network that looks and works like the forums and message boards of the early web. Its sysop on the about page: “The old internet was for farmers. The new internet is for cattle.”

No feed deciding what I see, just boards, threads and people who chose to be there. It’s thoughtfully made and developed surprisingly far, and I share its values: real people, real connection.

What makes me hesitate is the…

https://knot.tilman.me/post/quxnetnet/

Pink flowers, flame red trees. Yellows and greens. Layers of colour, worthy of being a Fresco (or is Nature so beautiful that a Fresco would limit its expression?). Autumn is especially pretty today. Colour around every corner. A faint cold chill caresses my hands. The colours of the trees warm me up.

I am enjoying the music and the birdsong and the colours. What makes Nature beautiful is not an individual leaf or tree but the collective of all, and the forces that bind all together. We are in constant dialogue with Nature — we weave past and through and with its forces. It’s nice to hear the voices of people — the joy of talking while waiting; of the presence of others.

Writing stories. Sharing things that make me smile. Reading knowledge people have shared openly. Communities that organise knowledge. Project Gutenberg. New music by my favourite artists. Acoustic songs. The spark of “I should learn this on the piano!”. All the people who make events happen. (related) Attending events where I learn something new. Seeing people’s curiosity shine through. Learning about art. Having my mind opened by art. Discovering a new personal website that someone has lovingly crafted. Bookshops. Talking with friends. Dreaming. Sitting with a new idea.

There is maybe a fun blogging challenge in writing about our favourite snacks from where we live... After a discussion with Joel and Zachary, I started writing a few questions about food to which I’d love to hear others’ answers. This is in the same vein as the “Bear Blog Q...

What made you happy today? asks Catch a Bird. I love this question, and the website. For the last five minutes or so, I have been both answering the aforementioned question, and trying my best to make some people smile. Here are a selection of my answers to the question:
Trying 100% dark chocolate for the first time. Playing the guitar. Singing my heart out. The joy of autumn. Have a wonderful day :) Taylor Swift! Seeing two cats while wandering the neighbourhood. You’re an amazing human :)
I love technology that can highlight the best of us; technology that brings us together.

To you, dear reader, I hope you have a wonderful day.

See also: Frances’ Sharing good things online.

Rain may exist, but so too do clear skies, and the possibility for something to start serendipitously, like a raindrop falling from a sky once dry or a wave from a friend you never expected to see. (In Romantics, VI) I wave with words. I weave and paint with words -- with p...

What does the concrete path mean to me? In the mirrored ground I see many meanings. Here is a place I have stopped to think. Here is a place over which I have idly walked on my way to somewhere familiar or somewhere new. Here is a vein of the city, made by all those who wal...

Weeknotes are back after a 10w break! Site updates, modding Quartz, trying Bunny.net's new S3 protocol, first blog carnival, music playlists & F1 Fantasy.