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: writingslowly.com@apoorplayer that’s an interesting thought. I’ll be continuing to use micro.blog, which for me hits the sweet spot between simplicity and range of features. And static sites are just different from the php-and-database approach of Wordpress. Im also keen to see how Dave Winer’s new work turns out.
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/writingslowly/95693728","date_published":"2026-08-13T10:35:00+00:00","author":{"name":"Writing Slowly","url":"http://www.writingslowly.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F4028.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"writingslowly"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-13 10:35","date_timestamp":1786617300,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"95609332","content_html":"@hjalm at times like these we dance around and sing Kara Jackson’s song, Dickhead Blues. Remember: “I am pretty top-notch!”
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/writingslowly/95609332","date_published":"2026-08-12T00:22:47+00:00","author":{"name":"Writing Slowly","url":"http://www.writingslowly.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F4028.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"writingslowly"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-12 00:22","date_timestamp":1786494167,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"95605353","content_html":"You can finish what matters without changing who you are : writingslowly.com
@writingslowly.bsky.social Thanks! Looks like editing a bluesky post is beyond my capabilities
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/writingslowly/95544364","date_published":"2026-08-10T22:55:03+00:00","author":{"name":"Writing Slowly","url":"http://www.writingslowly.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F4028.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"writingslowly"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-10 22:55","date_timestamp":1786402503,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"95543321","content_html":"\n\nThe North Head of Sydney Harbour is always spectacular.\n\nDo you ever feel there’s too many ready-made answers that don’t fit your needs? Me too. That’s why I’m exploring an alternative: ’living questions’. Not quite Rilke, but also not not Rilke.\nwritingslowly.com
\n#NoteTaking #LifelongLearning #Zettelkasten
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","summary":"","url":"https://writingslowly.com/2026/08/11/living-questions.html","date_published":"2026-08-10T14:25:42+00:00","author":{"name":"Writing Slowly","url":"http://www.writingslowly.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F4028.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"writingslowly"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-10 14:25","date_timestamp":1786371942,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://Aus.social/@writingslowly/117071674671117018","https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jypc3v5xm7pr74gwex5cm74b/post/3msqclz27av2g"]}},{"id":"95164129","content_html":"@hyde absolutely - it’s as though Luhmann was independently practising the ‘choose your favourite problems’ approach. But (slightly beside the point) I think it was described by Richard Hamming , not Richard Feynman - a claim I need to write more about.
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/writingslowly/95147397","date_published":"2026-08-03T23:13:25+00:00","author":{"name":"Writing Slowly","url":"http://www.writingslowly.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F4028.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"writingslowly"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-03 23:13","date_timestamp":1785798805,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"95146947","content_html":"Eleven urgent note-making questions are now finding answers: writingslowly.com
","summary":"","url":"https://writingslowly.com/2026/08/04/eleven-urgent-notemaking-questions-are.html","date_published":"2026-08-03T22:56:19+00:00","author":{"name":"Writing Slowly","url":"http://www.writingslowly.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F4028.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"writingslowly"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-03 22:56","date_timestamp":1785797779,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://Aus.social/@writingslowly/117034047608303899","https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jypc3v5xm7pr74gwex5cm74b/post/3ms7lv75hks2b"]}},{"id":"95119603","content_html":"The strange return of the continuous need to make sense of things: writingslowly.com
","summary":"","url":"https://writingslowly.com/2026/08/03/the-strange-return-of-the.html","date_published":"2026-08-03T12:50:24+00:00","author":{"name":"Writing Slowly","url":"http://www.writingslowly.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F4028.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"writingslowly"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-03 12:50","date_timestamp":1785761424,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://Aus.social/@writingslowly/117031661702609291","https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jypc3v5xm7pr74gwex5cm74b/post/3ms6jyaf5eb2b"]}},{"id":"95117333","content_html":"@hyde ah, thanks – that’s an issue with POSSE. I keep forgetting that Mastodon only notices the first link of a post and ignores all others. Edited now, but here’s the original post, which had links to both editions, 76 and 77.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/writingslowly/95117333","date_published":"2026-08-03T12:04:44+00:00","author":{"name":"Writing Slowly","url":"http://www.writingslowly.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F4028.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"writingslowly"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-03 12:04","date_timestamp":1785758684,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"95113124","content_html":"A question I asked on Hyde’s under/over:
\n\n\nBefore we find our own voice, we usually copy our mentors or heroes. Who was the teacher or model that inspired you when you started blogging, and how did following their example eventually help you find your own style?
\n
And here’s software engineer Alex Hyett’s excellent answer.
\n#indieweb #blogging
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/writingslowly/95055509","date_published":"2026-08-02T02:43:53+00:00","author":{"name":"Writing Slowly","url":"http://www.writingslowly.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F4028.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"writingslowly"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-02 02:43","date_timestamp":1785638633,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"95055453","content_html":"@Marty thanks – you have reminded me of the prehistory of the ‘pile of index cards’ and the mid-century Japanese obsession with note-making. I’m inspired to write something about this.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/writingslowly/95055453","date_published":"2026-08-02T02:40:20+00:00","author":{"name":"Writing Slowly","url":"http://www.writingslowly.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F4028.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"writingslowly"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-02 02:40","date_timestamp":1785638420,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"95055348","content_html":"📷 🍳Sunday morning is time for shakshuka.
\n![\"A](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/97469/2026/2f720ffa82-m.jpg\")
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\nCurrently reading: Wise Finding Purpose, Meaning and Wisdom Beyond the Midpoint of Life by Frank Tallis 📚
\n","summary":"","url":"https://writingslowly.com/2026/08/02/currently-reading-wise-finding-purpose.html","date_published":"2026-08-02T02:33:53+00:00","author":{"name":"Writing Slowly","url":"http://www.writingslowly.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F4028.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"writingslowly"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-02 02:33","date_timestamp":1785638033,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://Aus.social/@writingslowly/117023575491873771","https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jypc3v5xm7pr74gwex5cm74b/post/3ms2x2zlcwa25"]}},{"id":"94889081","content_html":"@gcvsa Yearbooks! Yes, they’re irreplaceable, unlike most books. Sadly, we never had them in the first place, but they’re such a great idea.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/writingslowly/94889081","date_published":"2026-07-30T03:15:55+00:00","author":{"name":"Writing Slowly","url":"http://www.writingslowly.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F4028.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"writingslowly"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-30 03:15","date_timestamp":1785381355,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"94889047","content_html":"@gcvsa I wonder if Filofax-style organizers will be making a come-back as younger generations approciate retro stuff that’s not digital.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/writingslowly/94889047","date_published":"2026-07-30T03:14:48+00:00","author":{"name":"Writing Slowly","url":"http://www.writingslowly.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F4028.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"writingslowly"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-30 03:14","date_timestamp":1785381288,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"94822102","content_html":"@Marty “deep in my own myth” is a great way of putting it. I’m writing a memoir and this resonates.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/writingslowly/94822102","date_published":"2026-07-29T00:49:31+00:00","author":{"name":"Writing Slowly","url":"http://www.writingslowly.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F4028.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"writingslowly"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-29 00:49","date_timestamp":1785286171,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"94817468","content_html":"I’m delighted to be featured in Hyde’s intriguing series Under/Over, where bloggers are asked for their thoughts on what they find under-rated and over-rated. I have opinions on Zettelkasten, POSSE, solitude, journalling, pavlova(!) and more. Read on at lazybea.rs.
\n#indieweb
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\nOne reason I write:
\n\n\n","summary":"","url":"https://writingslowly.com/2026/07/27/currently-reading-wise-finding-purpose.html","date_published":"2026-07-27T13:17:59+00:00","author":{"name":"Writing Slowly","url":"http://www.writingslowly.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F4028.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"writingslowly"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-27 13:17","date_timestamp":1785158279,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://Aus.social/@writingslowly/116992134154405923","https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jypc3v5xm7pr74gwex5cm74b/post/3mrmyb6jeoo2i"]}},{"id":"94728858","content_html":"“We remember only a tiny fraction of existence. We have forgotten most of what it is like to be alive, long before we die. Oblivion starts seeping into our heads as soon as we are self-aware.” (p.44)
\n
\n\nI made the twenty photographs that accompany the text of Shu Ha Ri as part of a personal learning process, inspired by David Ulrich’s Zen Camera. I was influenced by Empire of Signs by Roland Bathes. As the author said of that work, “The text does not ‘gloss’ the images, which do not ‘illustrate’ the text.”\nDuring the COVID pandemic it was impossible to travel far, but several Japanese-style gardens were within reach. The images included here are of three in particular: Himeji Garden in Adelaide, Edogawa Commemorative Garden in East Gosford, and Auburn Botanic Garden in Sydney.
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/writingslowly/94674197","date_published":"2026-07-26T07:21:07+00:00","author":{"name":"Writing Slowly","url":"http://www.writingslowly.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F4028.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"writingslowly"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-26 07:21","date_timestamp":1785050467,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"94363640","content_html":"📷 A pair of cockatoos, feeding each other while scavenging.
\n#BirdsOfAustralia #WildlifePhotography #FeatheredFriends
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","summary":"","url":"https://writingslowly.com/2026/07/21/a-pair-of-cockatoos-feeding.html","date_published":"2026-07-20T22:57:07+00:00","author":{"name":"Writing Slowly","url":"http://www.writingslowly.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F4028.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"writingslowly"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-20 22:57","date_timestamp":1784588227,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://Aus.social/@writingslowly/116954782493335672","https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jypc3v5xm7pr74gwex5cm74b/post/3mr4fhmi37h2q"]}},{"id":"94306708","content_html":"@amerpie the world’s largest bedding manufacturer bought Mattress Firm - a forward vertical integration/vertical foreclosure that squeezed out rival mattress brands from the biggest showroom floor. “Free-market competition” often relies on weak antitrust to kill off the competition.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/writingslowly/94306708","date_published":"2026-07-20T02:34:39+00:00","author":{"name":"Writing Slowly","url":"http://www.writingslowly.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F4028.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"writingslowly"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-20 02:34","date_timestamp":1784514879,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"94029296","content_html":"@Skarjune Little Free Library is great! We have a very similar thing called Street Library. There are hundreds of them all over.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/writingslowly/94029296","date_published":"2026-07-15T07:37:23+00:00","author":{"name":"Writing Slowly","url":"http://www.writingslowly.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F4028.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"writingslowly"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-15 07:37","date_timestamp":1784101043,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"94028321","content_html":"@calebgreene funnily enough five books is roughly what I manage to part with every time I try to cull my bookshelves. My partner is the same, despite some preliminary tough talk. Maybe it’s some hidden law in operation!
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/writingslowly/94028321","date_published":"2026-07-15T07:10:21+00:00","author":{"name":"Writing Slowly","url":"http://www.writingslowly.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F4028.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"writingslowly"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-15 07:10","date_timestamp":1784099421,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"93980176","content_html":"The Atlantic suggests that the end of reading is here. It used to be easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. But now its easier to imagine the end of literacy than the end of YouTube.
\n![](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/97469/2026/end-of-the-world.png\")
\nAt the End of the World (1921) with Betty Compson and Milton Sills. Public domain.
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\n
\nOnly in dark the light,
\nOnly in dying life:
\nBright the hawk’s flight
\nOn the empty sky.\n– Ursula K. LeGuin
You might care to check out the shortlist for the 2026 Ursula K. LeGuin Prize for Fiction.
\n![\"A](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/97469/2026/1441a8549e-m.jpg\")
\n","summary":"","url":"https://writingslowly.com/2026/07/14/only-in-silence-the-word.html","date_published":"2026-07-13T17:00:00+00:00","author":{"name":"Writing Slowly","url":"http://www.writingslowly.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F4028.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"writingslowly"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-13 17:00","date_timestamp":1783962000,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://Aus.social/@writingslowly/116913735315540539","https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jypc3v5xm7pr74gwex5cm74b/post/3mqk65iloev2b"]}},{"id":"93894517","content_html":"@isaacgreene I’m a little jealous! Sounds like the best solution
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/writingslowly/93894517","date_published":"2026-07-12T21:36:18+00:00","author":{"name":"Writing Slowly","url":"http://www.writingslowly.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F4028.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"writingslowly"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-12 21:36","date_timestamp":1783892178,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"93884312","content_html":"Cockatoos? Five sulphur-crested cockatoos, foraging beneath the Norfolk Island pines of Botany Bay? Well, all right, if you insist.
\n![\"Five](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/97469/2026/sulphur-crested-cockatoos-m.jpg\")
\n#BirdsOfAustralia #WildlifePhotography #FeatheredFriends
","summary":"","url":"https://writingslowly.com/2026/07/13/cockatoos-five-sulphurcrested-cockatoos-foraging.html","date_published":"2026-07-12T17:00:00+00:00","author":{"name":"Writing Slowly","url":"http://www.writingslowly.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F4028.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"writingslowly"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-12 17:00","date_timestamp":1783875600,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://Aus.social/@writingslowly/116908073507798557","https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jypc3v5xm7pr74gwex5cm74b/post/3mqhnot3ngf2t"]}},{"id":"93871281","content_html":"@cogdog never unsurged indeed!
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/writingslowly/93871281","date_published":"2026-07-12T11:11:40+00:00","author":{"name":"Writing Slowly","url":"http://www.writingslowly.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F4028.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"writingslowly"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-12 11:11","date_timestamp":1783854700,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"93855523","content_html":"Learning to tell a bright cow from a dull one ![\"Two](\"https://micro.blog/photos/50/https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/97469/2026/highland-cattle.jpg\")
: writingslowly.com
News just in from 2009:
\n\n\n“It’s time to get completely off RSS and switch to Twitter.” – Techcrunch.
\n
Well that didn’t exactly age well. And now there’s an RSS resurgence in the air – from Dave Winer, of course, who made RSS immortal by giving it an audio payload and thereby inventing podcasting.
","summary":"","url":"https://writingslowly.com/2026/07/12/news-just-in-from-its.html","date_published":"2026-07-12T01:55:20+00:00","author":{"name":"Writing Slowly","url":"http://www.writingslowly.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F4028.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"writingslowly"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-12 01:55","date_timestamp":1783821320,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://Aus.social/@writingslowly/116904515029616943","https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jypc3v5xm7pr74gwex5cm74b/post/3mqg34mfoq22b"]}},{"id":"93854918","content_html":"We’ve been having our regular family disagreement about thinning our bookshelves, which made this article timely: How and why to cull your book collection [via Kottke.org].
\nOn reflection, our bookshelves are very much a working library, more about flow than about stock. Most books pass through.
","summary":"","url":"https://writingslowly.com/2026/07/12/weve-been-having-our-regular.html","date_published":"2026-07-12T01:43:50+00:00","author":{"name":"Writing Slowly","url":"http://www.writingslowly.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F4028.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"writingslowly"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-12 01:43","date_timestamp":1783820630,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://Aus.social/@writingslowly/116904472052103154","https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jypc3v5xm7pr74gwex5cm74b/post/3mqg2j2ldzu2m"]}},{"id":"93740331","content_html":"@marick that’s truly inspiring
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/writingslowly/93740331","date_published":"2026-07-09T23:54:29+00:00","author":{"name":"Writing Slowly","url":"http://www.writingslowly.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F4028.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"writingslowly"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-09 23:54","date_timestamp":1783641269,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"93527983","content_html":"Odysseus: A name that spells trouble ![\"Pinturicchio](\"https://micro.blog/photos/50/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Pinturicchio_-_The_Return_of_Odysseus_-_WGA17830.jpg/330px-Pinturicchio_-_The_Return_of_Odysseus_-_WGA17830.jpg\")
: writingslowly.com
![](\"https://micro.blog/photos/100x/https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Fw154%2FxSj6EbdwHs3MFT2tRj9L3I7TE5j.jpg\")
Watched: The Return 🍿
\nOdysseus brings the war home with him. As Simone Weil said of The Iliad, the true hero is force itself.
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\n","summary":"","url":"https://writingslowly.com/2026/07/05/happy-th-birthday-usa-the.html","date_published":"2026-07-05T02:36:48+00:00","author":{"name":"Writing Slowly","url":"http://www.writingslowly.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F4028.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"writingslowly"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-05 02:36","date_timestamp":1783219008,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://Aus.social/@writingslowly/116865044169677186","https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jypc3v5xm7pr74gwex5cm74b/post/3mpuk7li2cw2r"]}},{"id":"93346282","content_html":"@amerpie the heirs of Keith Richards are not thanking you though
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/writingslowly/93346282","date_published":"2026-07-03T03:03:52+00:00","author":{"name":"Writing Slowly","url":"http://www.writingslowly.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F4028.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"writingslowly"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-03 03:03","date_timestamp":1783047832,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"93182813","content_html":"The ascended Christ of this mural at St. Vitus’s Cathedral in Prague seems so happy I couldn’t help but think of the song by The Postal Service:
\n\n\nThey will see us waving from such great heights
\n
\nCome down now, they’ll say
\nBut everything looks perfect from far away
\nCome down now, but we’ll stay.
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","summary":"","url":"https://writingslowly.com/2026/06/30/the-heart-of-the-craft.html","date_published":"2026-06-29T22:57:51+00:00","author":{"name":"Writing Slowly","url":"http://www.writingslowly.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F4028.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"writingslowly"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-29 22:57","date_timestamp":1782773871,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://Aus.social/@writingslowly/116835871222876094","https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jypc3v5xm7pr74gwex5cm74b/post/3mphlmzlidy2p"]}},{"id":"93007893","content_html":"@tracydurnell so sorry to hear it. This happened to our cat recently and the grief is heavier than we could have ever prepared for. A deep heartbreak is the measure of a great love.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/writingslowly/93007893","date_published":"2026-06-27T08:11:25+00:00","author":{"name":"Writing Slowly","url":"http://www.writingslowly.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F4028.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"writingslowly"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-27 08:11","date_timestamp":1782547885,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"92269780","content_html":"@isaacgreene > students tell me it’s the first time they have heard either topic discussed in a course.
\nVery interesting – have you encountered a view that ‘how to learn’ should only be taught implicitly? I feel there are plenty of people who could benefit from explicit teaching on this.
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