This week I tried to keep up with things happening on Mastodon while being kept busy with other activities.
This week I tried to keep up with things happening on Mastodon while being kept busy with other activities.
Celestine has been excitedly looking through Dungeons & Dragons: Dungeonology for a few days. Her exuberance means she needs to be reminded to take care when interacting with the books, maps, pages and other elements of the pop-up book, but it’s great to see her enjoy a book so much.
The latest episode of Cory Doctorow’s podcast is a clear look at a process he calls enshittification that invariably ruins for-profit platforms like Tiktok, Amazon, Facebook, or Twitter.
Tiny dinosaur footprints found in Parrsboro here in Nova Scotia were a fascination for me when I was a kid. I’ve kept this disc from one of my family’s many visits to Parrsboro for many years.
I’ve read quite widely from American, Canadian and Japanese comics, but there are many countries for which I feel I have basically no understanding of comics culture. Before my next visit to the Philippines I want to get familiar with Pinoy komiks, so I’ll be reading from the wide selection on Penlab for the next year.
I self-host a FreshRSS instance for subscribing to RSS feeds and lately I feel like I have room for adding in some surprises. Anyone have any favourite sites they’d recommend subscribing to? Especially unusual ephemera would be appealing.
The latest episode of the Uncanny Magazine (@UncannyMagazine) podcast has a reading of the fantastic “Bad Doors” by John Wiswell. It includes Covid as part of the story in a matter of fact way alongside the fantastical horror and it fits so well.
I visited one of my oldest friends tonight to play games and tried Blokus for the first time. I enjoyed getting an early sense of strategy in this first game.
