The new Micro @monday podcast should hit your feeds very shortly. I had a great chat with @vishae in Melbourne. She’s more time zones away from me than @rosemaryorchard in Vienna, but @herself in Wellington is still the furthest out.
@macgenie I sometimes affectionately call the pod people (er, pen people ;-) ) the “pen-and-ink mafia” :-) My junior year roommate was well on his way to being one then; I’m certain he is a card-carrying (ink-carrying?) member now.
Also, re: the part about your old Instagram images, I know a few people here (@colinwalker, @cleverdevil, maybe @EddieHinkle, too) have written “on this day” things for their blogs. Maybe at one point Manton will do something similar for Micro.blog-hosted blogs to surface neat old posts automatically—but as you say, for now you at least have them and can explore the past manually.