{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1","title":"Micro.blog - Mike Andrews","home_page_url":"https://micro.blog","feed_url":"https://micro.blog/posts/mndrws","_microblog":{"about":"https://micro.blog/about/api","id":"1753132","username":"mndrws","bio":"https://inprogress.studio\nhttps://creativebreakdown.blog\nhttps://seriouspeople.co\n","pronouns":"","is_following":false,"is_you":false,"following_count":12,"discover_count":0},"author":{"name":"Mike Andrews","url":"https://mandrews.co.uk","avatar":"https://avatars.micro.blog/avatars/2025/14/1753132.jpg"},"items":[{"id":"87711422","content_html":"<p>good light in liverpool today</p>\n<div class=\"microblog_collection\">\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/218175/2026/5cc24cbaa2-m.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/218175/2026/f0be3eef3c-m.jpg\" width=\"449\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><img 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18:17","date_timestamp":1771352223,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:l5yjqvncws74yjyvlmkk5gsu/post/3mf36il3u4t2t","https://www.threads.com/@mkndrws/post/DU3m2Stluwl"]}},{"id":"84454656","content_html":"<p>some more #sketchbook stuff</p>\n<div class=\"microblog_collection\">\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/218175/2026/bfdb80d7-0182-477d-b5b6-68e75bd59e27-1-105-c-m.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/218175/2026/5fa060d7-fb5e-4c3b-b6a7-caeb1402ad39-1-105-c-m.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/218175/2026/2ba63ebb-239e-4f7c-bd72-bb2d9e7b83fb-1-105-c-m.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" alt=\"\" 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It’s a comfort blanket for a managerial class that still can’t fathom that all their tech and wealth couldn’t protect them from the pandemic.”</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.garbageday.email/p/a-comfort-blanket-for-the-managerial-class\">www.garbageday.email/p/a-comfo…</a></p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://mandrews.co.uk/2026/02/12/its-not-a-revolution-its.html","date_published":"2026-02-12T09:52:20+00:00","author":{"name":"Mike Andrews","url":"https://mandrews.co.uk","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F14%2F1753132.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"mndrws"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-02-12 09:52","date_timestamp":1770889940,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:l5yjqvncws74yjyvlmkk5gsu/post/3menptep4i22p","https://www.threads.com/@mkndrws/post/DUp0xjSkTDP"]}},{"id":"83844468","content_html":"<p>I got a second hand OP-1 the other day. Here’s my first go making something on it — a song I think I wrote about 13 years ago during a very long January that still comes into my head every year round the same time…</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://soundcloud.com/mikelandrews/january-op-1-demo\">soundcloud.com/mikelandr…</a></p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://mandrews.co.uk/2026/02/08/i-got-a-second-hand.html","date_published":"2026-02-08T16:06:49+00:00","author":{"name":"Mike Andrews","url":"https://mandrews.co.uk","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F14%2F1753132.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"mndrws"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-02-08 16:06","date_timestamp":1770566809,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:l5yjqvncws74yjyvlmkk5gsu/post/3meecxwvim725","https://www.threads.com/@mkndrws/post/DUgMnoakQc4"]}},{"id":"83639027","content_html":"<p>From the Trossach’s National Park website about the mountain Ben A’an</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/218175/2026/screenshot-2026-02-05-at-14.49.03.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"325\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\">\n","summary":"","url":"https://mandrews.co.uk/2026/02/05/from-the-trossachs-national-park.html","date_published":"2026-02-05T14:49:57+00:00","author":{"name":"Mike Andrews","url":"https://mandrews.co.uk","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F14%2F1753132.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"mndrws"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-02-05 14:49","date_timestamp":1770302997,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:l5yjqvncws74yjyvlmkk5gsu/post/3me4n6x66fv2b","https://www.threads.com/@mkndrws/post/DUYVQzpDc3Q"]}},{"id":"83552702","content_html":"<p><a href=\"http://mndrws.bsky.social\">@mndrws.bsky.social</a> this should have a link to the actual article open.substack.com/pub/mentalhe…</p>\n","url":"https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:l5yjqvncws74yjyvlmkk5gsu/post/3mdzq3weq5k26","date_published":"2026-02-04T11:04:06+00:00","author":{"name":"Mike Andrews","url":"https://mandrews.co.uk","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F14%2F1753132.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"mndrws"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-02-04 11:04","date_timestamp":1770203046,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"83546699","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://open.substack.com/pub/mentalhellth/p/societal-doordash-death-spiral?r=2qf7x9&amp;utm_medium=ios&amp;shareImageVariant=overlay\">Societal DoorDash Death Spiral</a></p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>our increasing reliance on phone-mediated realities, and our society’s increasing sexlessness are one and the same. We have become a culture that values protecting our own sense of safety, on maintaining our psychic armor, over the fraught but beautiful possibilities of interaction and spontaneity</p>\n</blockquote>\n","summary":"","url":"https://mandrews.co.uk/2026/02/04/societal-doordash-death-spiral-our.html","date_published":"2026-02-04T08:51:30+00:00","author":{"name":"Mike Andrews","url":"https://mandrews.co.uk","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F14%2F1753132.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"mndrws"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-02-04 08:51","date_timestamp":1770195090,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:l5yjqvncws74yjyvlmkk5gsu/post/3mdzirwumuf27","https://www.threads.com/@mkndrws/post/DUVHoLijoBC"]}},{"id":"83499030","content_html":"<p>Empire Sign in Trongate, Glasgow</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/218175/2026/6b40d449-7d7e-4745-89e9-5a35644533b8-1-105-c-m.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\">\n","summary":"","url":"https://mandrews.co.uk/2026/02/03/empire-sign-in-trongate-glasgow.html","date_published":"2026-02-03T16:49:21+00:00","author":{"name":"Mike Andrews","url":"https://mandrews.co.uk","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F14%2F1753132.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"mndrws"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-02-03 16:49","date_timestamp":1770137361,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:l5yjqvncws74yjyvlmkk5gsu/post/3mdxsx4zjwk2l","https://www.threads.com/@mkndrws/post/DUTZXxlETbl"]}},{"id":"83371648","content_html":"<p>#sketchbook #update</p>\n<div class=\"microblog_collection\">\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/218175/2026/2a0be5e5-9718-4a4b-bce6-4ccc5fe2fe28-1-105-c-m.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/218175/2026/80e90802-59a1-4b65-91fd-5e632696bbdf-1-105-c-m.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/218175/2026/74ceef8e-f9c7-4059-893c-47673dcddbc8-1-105-c-m.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/218175/2026/3bdc714b-6aeb-461f-aaa3-916ba9170f6a-1-201-a-m.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\">\n</div>\n","summary":"","url":"https://mandrews.co.uk/2026/02/01/sketchbook-update.html","date_published":"2026-02-01T21:45:13+00:00","author":{"name":"Mike Andrews","url":"https://mandrews.co.uk","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F14%2F1753132.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"mndrws"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-02-01 21:45","date_timestamp":1769982313,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:l5yjqvncws74yjyvlmkk5gsu/post/3mdtcmvljzt2b"]}},{"id":"83371433","content_html":"<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/218175/2026/a3e05852-ca60-4c55-a5f8-cb2ece0790f5-1-105-c-m.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\">\n","summary":"","url":"https://mandrews.co.uk/2026/02/01/213955.html","date_published":"2026-02-01T21:39:55+00:00","author":{"name":"Mike Andrews","url":"https://mandrews.co.uk","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F14%2F1753132.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"mndrws"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-02-01 21:39","date_timestamp":1769981995,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:l5yjqvncws74yjyvlmkk5gsu/post/3mdtcaut7te2l"]}},{"id":"83371057","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://maxread.substack.com/p/suicide-rightism-and-the-penguin\">Max Read</a>\n“Fascism is a literally suicidal ideology, one obsessed with purging the body politic to the point of total self-negation. What’s funny about Suicide Rightism is how direct it is about all this … It’s just pretty straightforwardly pro-suicide.”</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://mandrews.co.uk/2026/02/01/max-read-fascism-is-a.html","date_published":"2026-02-01T21:31:28+00:00","author":{"name":"Mike Andrews","url":"https://mandrews.co.uk","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F14%2F1753132.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"mndrws"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-02-01 21:31","date_timestamp":1769981488,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:l5yjqvncws74yjyvlmkk5gsu/post/3mdtbuaeavb2e"]}},{"id":"82443582","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://www.garbageday.email/p/am-i-too-stupid-to-vibe-code?utm_source=www.garbageday.email&amp;utm_medium=newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=am-i-too-stupid-to-vibe-code&amp;_bhlid=51572dcde1bf32e70dd1c5bff4daabe0700cdc05\">Am I too stupid to vibe code?</a>\nGarbage Day</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Vibe coding, like every new trend coming out of Silicon Valley, turns this process — the entire act of creativity, itself — into a slot machine. One more pull on the AI and maybe it will figure it out  for you. You won’t understand how any of it works, of course, or feel particularly proud of what you’ve done, but maybe you’ll have something. Just a few more dollars for some more tokens. C’mon, just pay a bit more.</p>\n</blockquote>\n","summary":"","url":"https://mandrews.co.uk/2026/01/20/am-i-too-stupid-to.html","date_published":"2026-01-20T08:53:28+00:00","author":{"name":"Mike Andrews","url":"https://mandrews.co.uk","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F14%2F1753132.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"mndrws"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-01-20 08:53","date_timestamp":1768899208,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:l5yjqvncws74yjyvlmkk5gsu/post/3mctrw44uqy2o"]}},{"id":"81772020","content_html":"<p>bendy tree</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/218175/2026/114e360ac0-m.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\" 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href=\"https://open.substack.com/pub/graceblakeley/p/why-did-capitalism-begin-in-the-west?r=2qf7x9&amp;utm_medium=ios&amp;shareImageVariant=overlay\">open.substack.com/pub/grace…</a></p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://mandrews.co.uk/2026/01/10/why-did-capitalism-begin-in.html","date_published":"2026-01-10T12:23:54+00:00","author":{"name":"Mike Andrews","url":"https://mandrews.co.uk","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F14%2F1753132.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"mndrws"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-01-10 12:23","date_timestamp":1768047834,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:l5yjqvncws74yjyvlmkk5gsu/post/3mc2yvuxh552y"]}},{"id":"81340272","content_html":"<p>Mushroom log</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/218175/2026/ed1c6c57b7-m.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" 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