The language is leaving me
I love this short open-access paper from danah boyd where she suggests shifting the term we use to describe social media.
All posts filed under: Reading lists, books, and imagination
2025’s best reads
Non-fiction, fiction, and my heart.
Banned Books Week 2025 / nothing new under the sun
Turn right at Utopia and you'll find yourself here.
Make Your Basket
"I kept thinking about the person who made the basket."
Art break: secession resurrection
More of my bad photos of beautiful culture.
Emptying my Pocket
Some of you might find my exported saves from my Pocket account interesting, so here they are.
Bona lavs
Everything old is new again.
The best blog I’ve seen in ages
In which a blog inspires me to a creative challenge, which I'm committing myself to here.
The troublemakers of Gutenberg
Archives make good trouble.
Don’t let anyone tell you that you didn’t see what you saw
“Don’t let anyone tell you that you didn’t see what you saw. They want to shake your confidence, to shame you into doubting reality, to get you to use euphemisms and political language that is ‘designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable and give the appearance of solidity to pure wind'”. bitter southerner, via the One Nation Indivisible podcast; the inline quote is from Orwell’s Politics and the English Language.
A story prompt
These are rich times for making.
Don’t forget your lighter
A brief memo from Ray, Octavia, Eric, and Margaret.