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The most important thing to do is (disconnect) write.

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The celebrations have begun.

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Seasoning a new wok. I discovered the order of tasks: scrub, burn, oil, smoke. Might apply to other areas of my life.

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I’m not hard to find, it’s just a long way to get here.

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Writing in my notebook, thinking about pros and cons of publishing mediums — Substack and Patreon, micro blogging and tweets, RSS readers — things could be opening up and my technical brain senses an opportunity. My new job is influencing my thoughts. But what do I want to make?

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Leaving Twitter means letting go of likes, of retweets, of follower counts, of dopamine hits for interactions, of analytics to measure success, but you know, conversations can happen anywhere.

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Posts with a title and an image do what? michaelwalters.micro.blog

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Knowing you can leave helps you stay.

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Posts with a title will link back to the micro blog: michaelwalters.micro.blog

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If you post with a well-formed link to a website it should appear at the end, and with luck the Twitter cards should kick in too.

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Another post, this time with an image. Signal, published by Nightjar Press - go buy it!

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A short post with an image.

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Posting this on my micro.blog account to see if cross-posting to Twitter works first time. This is a short text-only test.

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Curious cows.

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Currently reading: Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams 📚

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@michaelwalters test reply

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Kicking the tyres (again) : michaelwalters.micro.blog

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Tapping the microphone. Hello, microblog world. Testing, testing.

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I forgot I played with this back in 2018. There I am.

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@abouthalf I know what you mean. It didn’t drag but apart from two moments I didn’t feel any care for the characters. I read they had to CGI Superman’s face to get rid of Carvill’s beard?! Because they had to do lots of reshoots. Anyway.

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@hjertnes Cool. I’d like to do the same but we’ll see how it plays out.

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@hjertnes hey :) how long have you been here before you decided to do that?

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