Populism
You are hard done by,
the Past is a better country,
just make this mark
and there will be Change.
The Change is never explicitly described,
only its certainty and benefit.
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Everything Will Swallow You, a Review
It is about friendship, not just the friendship of the two main characters, Eric and Carl, and their nearest friends but the friendship of strangers and others. Even cheery and motherly sweet shop managers, vinyl vendors and bookshop proprietors and yet more.
If You Are Over 16
Restricting Social Media There is a possible advantage to a restriction on delivering services to those under 16 and that is teaching them to minimise their personal data or masking it completely from data corporations. That can be used when they're adult as well. Nurturing children is the
Writing and Managing Text or How I came to love source control.
Previously published* The story of the lost script, the lost manuscript, the proof eaten by the dog are all both stereotypical and common for writers whichever tool they've used to record their words, whether cuneiform, paint, ink, print or electromagnetic bits. For most writers that's been
The Tyranny of Categories
We are perpetually, perhaps even cyclically, possessed by our perception of social discourse now primarily in social media. We compare it unfavourably with how it used to be, before Trump, before Brexit before whatever time; before the Interweb, before Facebook, before Twitter and Reddit. The relative heat, the name calling,