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@manton Manton, I’ve realised that I have nothing to say, so I’m going to say goodbye.

\n

Love what you’re doing. Richard

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Mmmmmm… breakfast.

\n\"\"\n","summary":"","url":"https://squishband.micro.blog/2024/12/22/mmmmmm-breakfast.html","date_published":"2024-12-22T01:53:49+00:00","author":{"name":"Richard White","url":"https://squishband.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fcf4cd7dddfd5569ddeb810464575b465%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"Squishband"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-12-22 01:53","date_timestamp":1734832429,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"52732646","content_html":"

Oh god; how do I kill all men?

\n

There are times, listeningvtiv’lads’ on the train, that I really want to get out the flamethrower

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@gruber That’s very precise, thank you for the clarification.

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@delric No way of legally avoiding accountability in the UK - don’t know about anywhere else (should have specified).

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Fish

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Vespers

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@daringfireball
\nThere is an argument that the whole problem we have with social media is that from the get go the use of usernames implied and then inculcated the concept of hiding behind an unaccountable ‘avatar’ and people could say what they liked anonymously.

\n

From Elizabethan times onwards this hadn’t been the case in print media, where here is no way of avoiding accountability.

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We had a very enjoyable Psychoanalytic Film Club this evening.

\n\"\"\n","summary":"","url":"https://squishband.micro.blog/2024/12/15/we-had-a.html","date_published":"2024-12-15T02:45:15+00:00","author":{"name":"Richard White","url":"https://squishband.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fcf4cd7dddfd5569ddeb810464575b465%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"Squishband"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-12-15 02:45","date_timestamp":1734230715,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"52000485","content_html":"

Lines

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An obvious thing to do having gotten rid of the stands but a surprisingly audible effect

\n\"\"\n","summary":"","url":"https://squishband.micro.blog/2024/12/09/an-obvious-thing.html","date_published":"2024-12-09T23:55:11+00:00","author":{"name":"Richard White","url":"https://squishband.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fcf4cd7dddfd5569ddeb810464575b465%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"Squishband"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-12-09 23:55","date_timestamp":1733788511,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"51550188","content_html":"

So, I finished the bar

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Let’s all keep warm.

\n\"\"\n","summary":"","url":"https://squishband.micro.blog/2024/12/06/lets-all-keep.html","date_published":"2024-12-06T23:13:27+00:00","author":{"name":"Richard White","url":"https://squishband.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fcf4cd7dddfd5569ddeb810464575b465%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"Squishband"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-12-06 23:13","date_timestamp":1733526807,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"51179274","content_html":"

The whiskey shelf

\n\"\"\n","summary":"","url":"https://squishband.micro.blog/2024/12/04/the-whiskey-shelf.html","date_published":"2024-12-04T10:52:20+00:00","author":{"name":"Richard White","url":"https://squishband.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fcf4cd7dddfd5569ddeb810464575b465%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"Squishband"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-12-04 10:52","date_timestamp":1733309540,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"50475586","content_html":"

Winter is in the air

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@kottke
\nYou’re not alone in needing to hear this - I’ve said something similar to many patients over the years. It’s as though society believes that post adolescence (which we now recon lasts till the mid 20s), as you say; we’re made. But we keep going through periods of change that require psychic development to fully appreciate. Perhaps it might help if we recognised and celebrated them; as we do christenings or marriages.

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The search for Grace

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Time

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AI created photo. I asked for Sigmund Freud sitting on a psychedelic toadstool 🤷🏼‍♂️

\n\"\"\n","summary":"","url":"https://squishband.micro.blog/2024/11/21/ai-created-photo.html","date_published":"2024-11-21T22:46:15+00:00","author":{"name":"Richard White","url":"https://squishband.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fcf4cd7dddfd5569ddeb810464575b465%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"Squishband"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-11-21 22:46","date_timestamp":1732229175,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"50006696","content_html":"

Nice memory of the summer.

\n\"\"\n","summary":"","url":"https://squishband.micro.blog/2024/11/19/nice-memory-of.html","date_published":"2024-11-19T22:30:23+00:00","author":{"name":"Richard White","url":"https://squishband.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fcf4cd7dddfd5569ddeb810464575b465%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"Squishband"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-11-19 22:30","date_timestamp":1732055423,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"49922931","content_html":"

Funny what gets thrown up by the light.

\n\"\"\n","summary":"","url":"https://squishband.micro.blog/2024/11/18/funny-what-gets.html","date_published":"2024-11-18T19:41:52+00:00","author":{"name":"Richard White","url":"https://squishband.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fcf4cd7dddfd5569ddeb810464575b465%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"Squishband"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-11-18 19:41","date_timestamp":1731958912,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"49836342","content_html":"

@kottke
\nWhat a great find those pictures are (and the violin) the AI colourising of the image is pretty good too. I just tried out the AI tools in Photos and erased something I didn’t want from a picture. The results were surprising. Now to get rid of all my exes from nice pictures of me from my past. I wonder where else this might lead…

\n","url":"https://micro.blog/Squishband/49836342","date_published":"2024-11-17T11:27:26+00:00","author":{"name":"Richard White","url":"https://squishband.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fcf4cd7dddfd5569ddeb810464575b465%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"Squishband"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-11-17 11:27","date_timestamp":1731842846,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"49834208","content_html":"

Sometimes I can’t see as far as I’d like to.

\n\"\"\n","summary":"","url":"https://squishband.micro.blog/2024/11/17/sometimes-i-cant.html","date_published":"2024-11-17T10:27:38+00:00","author":{"name":"Richard White","url":"https://squishband.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fcf4cd7dddfd5569ddeb810464575b465%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"Squishband"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-11-17 10:27","date_timestamp":1731839258,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"49773442","content_html":"

@kottke
\nAs with all new administrations, turning the sabre rattling of the campaign into achievable policies is luckily often beyond the scope of four years.

\n

I don’t know enough about legislation in the United States to know how quickly he could really go dictator but it’s still all very worrying.

\n","url":"https://micro.blog/Squishband/49773442","date_published":"2024-11-16T10:07:53+00:00","author":{"name":"Richard White","url":"https://squishband.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fcf4cd7dddfd5569ddeb810464575b465%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"Squishband"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-11-16 10:07","date_timestamp":1731751673,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"49773340","content_html":"

@daringfireball
\nThat’s very good 😊

\n","url":"https://micro.blog/Squishband/49773340","date_published":"2024-11-16T10:04:18+00:00","author":{"name":"Richard White","url":"https://squishband.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fcf4cd7dddfd5569ddeb810464575b465%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"Squishband"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-11-16 10:04","date_timestamp":1731751458,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"49716704","content_html":"

My great grandmother’s.

\n

I wonder what she used it for?

\n\"\"\n","summary":"","url":"https://squishband.micro.blog/2024/11/15/my-great-grandmothers.html","date_published":"2024-11-15T15:18:56+00:00","author":{"name":"Richard White","url":"https://squishband.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fcf4cd7dddfd5569ddeb810464575b465%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"Squishband"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-11-15 15:18","date_timestamp":1731683936,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"49651534","content_html":"

Tile after tile.

\n

@manton Used the mac version of the app for the first time. Seemed a bit complicated signing in - lots of window opening and competing requests - but now I’ve gotten here the view is lovely :-)

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Now I’ve looked at the Bowie mural I’ve started to look at where it’s located.

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I’ve been walking past this mural eight times a week for the past few years without really looking at it.

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Going through stuff in the attic I came across two of these cups. We had a whole set of this ‘Haddon Hall’ pattern crockery at home. Nice to have this old friend in my hand again - for the umpteenth time.

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There are days when a little company is all you want.

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@daringfireball

\n

I read it again; this lovely piece and then read it to my wife and found myself crying. Here’s a more considered response.

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It used to be that I’d think about my dad and he was a man from another age. Where he was, was so far away from where I was. Now I feel as if I’m standing alongside him and young people are so far away.

\n

I still feel 14, 15, 16, maybe 17 when I wake up – but it’s a different kind of feeling. There’s a kernel of me that remains as optimistic and generous and full of mischief as I was then; but it recedes quickly, just as I’m sure it did with my dad every morning.

\n

I’ve crossed over. It’s not only that just that last month I reached retirement age, it’s that I can feel it in my bones. I have reached that plateau and when I get to the end of it, it will be a downhill slope. Somewhere in the background, I’m aware that I must be ready for it when it comes.

\n

I think our dad would’ve recognised each other, you describe a man with very familiar values – and mine was a keen golfer too.

\n

There’s a diamond in my wedding ring. One day I noticed it wasn’t there any more. I thought ‘I guess one day I’ll replace it’. Then a couple of weeks later I saw something sparkle on the steps outside my house - I guess it had been waiting for me.

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@daringfireball
\nWhat a very beautiful piece of writing. Thank you.

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@daringfireball
\nKeep the faith indeed 🙏🏻

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@manton I’m listening to The Count of Monte Cristo. Perhaps we’ll get out of this about the same time he does. 🤷🏼‍♂️

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It’s 48 outside and the air is damp, so; the first fire of the season.

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@daringfireball
\n‘Decisive’ ?

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Starting to think about the shift into winter. I love this moment in autumn - the slow preparatory glide into stasis.

\n

Just to have the delightful opportunity to do nothing but cogitate for a few months. To plan, to muse, to scheme.

\n

I intend to hunker down.

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@manton been reading you for awhile on netNewsWire and although I’m not sure that I have anything worth saying I thought I’d join up and give you some money :-)

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