I am going to try to blog more. I haven’t had much in the way of free time of late for reasons which may become apparent. However, I have a lot of ideas floating around in my head, and I would rather write them down and put them out there.
Going forward, I have decided that I will abandon my self-imposed rule of no swearing. If somebody is being a fucking idiot, I will describe them as being a fucking idiot. There’s no point beating about the bush, and there are many fucking idiots out there. Trump. Farage. Pretty much all the professional Brexiteers. And so on.
Also, for context, I no longer read or watch the news in any great depth, thus my understanding of what is going is informed almost entirely by the following:
- Things I glean from discussions with friends and relations
- Whatever appears in my Instagram feed
- Whatever I can learn from the Washington Post front page (I don’t bother looking at the Guardian or BBC news which were my previous sources of information)
- Paul Krugman’s op-eds in the New York Times
I gave up Twitter (my personal account) a year or so ago, I don’t bother with Facebook. I am still on Instagram but that jumped the shark quite a while ago; I miss the simplicity of “people posting photos that they’ve taken and that’s it”.
I disable “like” and “sharing” buttons as a matter of course. If you want to share something, copy and paste the URL like nature intended.
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