It’s that time of the year for the #interhacktives.
This year’s crew rating very highly on competitiveness. t.co/QifsMEzk8… 
Heh. @EstherKeziaT is spot on with her intro here. If you ever relied on the platforms, you were doing it wrong from the start. Use them, but always, always, always have an exit plan. getrevue.co/profile/MediaV…
@Cyberwest Wow. Her Substack is deep, deep down the rabbit hole.
One unintentionally positive outcome of the cost of living crisis is that we have less food routinely in the house, which means there’s less to graze on. That should help keep the ol’ waistline down.
@Cyberwest They are! But, to be fair, the immigrants in question are the Napoleonic-era French…
“Ice has a memory, and the colour of this memory is blue.”
— Robert Macfarlane, Underland 📚 micro.blog/books/97801410…
Sunset approaches.
Shoreham Fort, around 4.15pm. t.co/tY1zg4xRZ… 
I have earned this today. t.co/jCL1a48aC… 
@timfox But we all have the memories of goldfish and forget that once the leaves turn.
(Yourself excepted, obvs.)
This tweet will give many journalism publishers unpleasant flashbacks… twitter.com/DKThomp/status…
I just misread “light rain forecast” as “light rain forever”, which pretty much sums up life in the UK.
Perfection. twitter.com/wsebag/status/…
@chrismsutcliffe I sometimes wonder if the number of failed social networks I’ve set up accounts on over the past 20 years is in the double to triple figures…
I’ve updated my list of journalism-focused Mastodon servers with Journodon. Thanks to @richardwcollins for the heads-up.
Another would-be Twitter replacement. It’s got a waitlist at the moment, but always worth joining and having a poke around. The next hit is hard to
Well, @charlesarthur is on 🔥 in his newsletter this morning:
“Self-obsessed Twitter is the very, very worst Twitter: it’s like a bandpass filter that stops useful data getting through.”
@Twiverpool Well, I’m there already for my daughter’s 7.30am swim lesson so…
@mikebutcher I haven’t seen a specific one for tech journalists, but I pulled together a list of the ones targeted at journos here:
How culture changes:
”Lechery was regarded as such a feminine vice that oversexed males, too, could be called Sirens, in no complimentary sense.”
From: Mermaids by Sophia Kingshill 📚 micro.blog/books/97819082…
Words of wisdom from the swimming board. 🏊♂️ t.co/WpEtTSK7V… 
Repeat a difficult thing often enough and it becomes a habit and then a pleasure. And so it is with my early morning Sunday trips to the pool. An hour by the poolside with a book and a coffee. 👌🏻 t.co/5ck5mQcfi… 
I’ve just realised how appropriate it was that I was reading Mermaids by Sophia Kingshill in Starbucks last week. It’s been a long time since I consciously thought about their logo… 📚 micro.blog/books/97819082…
After revelling in non-fiction for the last few years, I have really rediscovered the novel this year, and am enjoying losing myself in other lives.
It turn out that one can tire of London without tiring of life. It’s nice to be home in Sussex.
@giagia Guilty!