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More people have tumblelogs/microblogs than you think – it’s just not called that. Take Instagram stories. People “reblog” others stories, share the music they’re listening to, post what they’re eating, poetry and often their own writing. They’re sharing themselves online. And thats all blogging is.

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🍿 Film review: Roofman (2025) \"\" : clowes.blog

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Lowering my AWS bill by ~95% (spoiler: you don’t HAVE to use Route 53): clowes.blog

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A short piece by Jeffrey Zeldman on writing with brevity.

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Anyone can generate words now. A prompt and a few seconds and you have paragraphs, pages, a manifesto.

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[…] Brevity was always a discipline. Now it’s a statement. When everything around you is excessive by default, choosing fewer words takes courage.

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Chess > phone: clowes.blog

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@ChrisHannah I forgot to say Chris, I mentioned your cutting down of phone usage in a blog post of mine: elliot.my/how-to-st…

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How to stop checking your phone all day: elliot.my

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Marginalia #1: elliot.my

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Nothing kills a blog like a viral post: elliot.my

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I'm 34. Here's 34 things I wish I knew at 21: elliot.my

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The Real Reason Claude Code Users Prefer the Terminal: elliot.my

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\"How to Rewire Your Brain to Pay Attention Again\": elliot.my

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A happy side effect of trying to read 25 pages a day: elliot.my

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ADHD is building increasingly elaborate productivity systems until you hit a complexity tipping point and want to abandon everything for a cabin in the woods.

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Change or the end: elliot.my

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@ec This is a test reply comment.

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Please ignore it :)

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> “A quote could go here”

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Archiving URLs · Gwern.net: gwern.net

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Scripting News: scripting.com

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Weeknotes (1743/4175) blot.blog/2025/03/0…

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These cleaning gloves at IKEA look like they want to check my prostate.

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Oscars (no spoilers): elliot.my

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20 years of playing Age of Empires II: elliot.my

","summary":"","url":"https://elliot.my/353","date_published":"2025-02-28T13:03:47+00:00","author":{"name":"Elliot Clowes","url":"https://elliotclowes.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F7611b5d0bfae63a2230b66e9ff2a70be%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"ec"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-02-28 13:03","date_timestamp":1740747827,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"58661766","content_html":"

15 years of blogging: elliot.my

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Museum Cafes: elliot.my

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Comments on blot.blog: elliot.my

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I’ve written about how we all think we’d take a bullet for our loved ones, but can’t handle putting away clean socks. The mundane is where real battles are won. blot.blog/2025/02/2…

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I’ve written about that peculiar melancholy that settles in during your 30s - when time accelerates, nostalgia becomes both comfort and pain, and adulthood looks different than imagined. blot.blog/2025/02/2…

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@rubenerd I feel your pain. elliot.my/262

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@ec This is a test.

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@rainbowofcrazy.bsky.social It’s a wonderful and underrated movie.

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@aeryn It’s wonderful indeed.

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As funny as it is sad.

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I must rewatch it again actually.

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@grubz You should :)

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If you’re looking for a place to bookmarks links (outside of your web browser) it’s great.

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I’ve been using it since 2010. And whilst it’s a bit neglected by its owner these days, it’s still my bookmarking service of choice. Simple and does the job.

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And as I said, the ‘popular bookmarks’ page is good place for cool things!

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@mattypenny Ah, nice!

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​I actually ended up changing it to 100 favourite songs. 500 was just too many, I found.

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With 100 it forces me to make some tougher decisions and narrow it down to my true favourites more.

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I’m also ranking them most to least favourite. I found that too difficult with 500.​

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@grubz Reminds me of this bit from Qi: “The best place in the world to discover an entirely new species is your own garden. In 1971, biologist Jennifer Owen carried out a very long term study in her own garden in a suburban house in Leicester. She found 533 different types of ichneumon wasp, 15 of which had never been recorded in Britain, and 4 where completely new to science. Naturalist Gilbert White said nature is so full and varied that if you want to find the place with the most variety, it is the place you most study. Just take in small piece of land and examine it hard enough.”

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@aeryn I love it. Sounds like bliss.

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@ben I love the way Ridgeway! I was there today in fact :)

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I’ve long been meaning to walk the full length of it. One day, one day.

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@chrishannah Congrats!!!

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@flugglewump.bsky.social I’m loving the autumnal weather myself :)

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@DaveyCraney Same here. It’s been Tory where I am ever since I moved here 25 years ago. Glad they’re gone.

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And yep, Labour are not going to be perfect. I hope they get better, not worse.

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@clowes.bsky.social It really is great.

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@bryan You might like this Mac app. It allows you to do exactly that :)

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@JohnPhilpin It’s certainly worth a watch if you liked the film. The way it’s shot is a bit… bright. So it doesn’t have the highest production value. Feels like an old school sitcom like that. But it is funny. JustWatch can tell you where it’s streaming: www.justwatch.com/us/tv-ser…

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@joshuapsteele How long have you had it? Go into the battery section of Settings and see your batteries health.

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Either way though don’t switch. Not worth the aggravation. And whilst the iPhone isn’t fault fee every Android phone I’ve come across has far more faults. Not worth going down that road.

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@humdrum What did you think?

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@ovr Love the cover artwork on the press kit.

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I’m really excited this year too. Haven’t watched the last couple years, so am looking forward to enjoying it this year :)

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@Gabz I like this list! A lot of the stuff on there isn’t my cup of tea at all. But that’s why I like it :) I was expecting the usual assortment of TV and film when I clicked the link, but was pleasantly surprised.

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@manton Yes please! Threads username: elliotontoast

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@fozstark Welcome! :) And: same. I’m fairly new to Micro.blog and really liking it thus far. And at first I found it weird that there was no ‘likes’. But I quickly learned to love it.

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@danielpunkass It appears that the reports of his death have been greatly exaggerated :) www.commondreams.org/news/noam…

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@manton Thanks Manton. I was literally thinking an hour ago that I really should look into stopping AI bots on my blog. 👍

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