That’s quite a sunset. t.co/OdAsgBioe… 
Today I learnt that COVID has led to the permanent closure of London’s cereal cafés.. 🥣😢 google.co.uk/amp/s/www.stan…
@SarahPilchick The taint of Las Olas and the Intracoastal can never be escaped. 🤷🏼♂️
@corinne_podger The point of this was that’s our actual wall. No backdrop needed. (I have the Tardis and CJ’s office from Reggie Perrin if I want to go the virtual route, and my wife would murder me if I bought a real backdrop in the virtual age.)
@talkingnewmedia Misread that at CSI Lancing for a moment. Which… I would not watch.
@MollyBergen @grittyyas Abso-fucking-lutely.
But to go back to the original point:
What the actual fuck? What is happening over there?
@grittyyas @MollyBergen No, she missed the “actual”.
Plus, I miss correcting her now she’s no longer my student. 😇😉
@grittyyas @MollyBergen I think you mean:
“What. The. Actual. Fuck.”
🤯
Analogue Zoom backgrounds FTW. I only used it because my wife was lecturing in my study, but maybe I should deploy it more often… t.co/NRZ4f1PFU… 
Perhaps the most startling aspect of this is that Facebook didn’t actually use trademark protection provisions. It claimed that @FBoversight were phishing. Which is almost mythical in its inaccuracy and disingenuousness. vice.com/en/article/v7g…
@baekdal Clearly. 😉
@baekdal Comprehension failure does not equal impersonation.
@baekdal And…where exactly is the impersonation happening? t.co/bxzADfLeS…
@baekdal But there’s a completely false assumption building into that tweet. They are very clearly not impersonating anyone here. The entire point of the URL is criticism, not passing off.
@baekdal No…just no right back atcha. 😉 Shutting down a URL will do absolutely nothing to make the group go away, and has handed them a huge free PR win. Lots of people are writing about it (and inexplicable defending Facebook on Twitter…). All more publicity that they can use.
@baekdal That is a startlingly naive position to my way of thinking. Just because it’s easier most of the time for corps to clamp down on any potential trademark use because most people can’t afford to contest it doesn’t make it right. Nor does it make the clear messaging of this vanish.
@baekdal The most entertaining aspect of this is that it’s kicking off the Streisand Effect and making more people aware of the groups of critics. Which would have been one of Facebook’s best reasons for just ignoring it. 🤷🏼♂️
@baekdal Sure. But (a) that doesn’t put them in the right and (b) there’s a whole world of difference between the NYT shutting down a random guy in the internet doing that and one of the most problematic corporations in the world doing that to their most vocal critics.
@baekdal That’s why I used to get nastygrams from Optic when I used their brand instead of the generic “spirit measure”. They (a) didn’t have to do this and (b) clearly didn’t think through the optics (ho ho) of doing this.
@baekdal Surely a far better comparative URL would be “theRealNewYorkTimesPublicEditor.com”. The URL you chose is a poor comparator because it’s clearly deceptive, which this one wasn’t. Companies only have to defend against their trademark being abandoned or becoming generic.(cont)
@baekdal @rasmus_kleis It was very good. Well worth taking the time.
My wife has claimed the study today (she has six hours of online teaching against my two), so I’ve arranged myself an alternative streaming hub in the living room.
Pretty happy with how it looks… lnkd.in/dRiy_th