Notices by 🪦 Ghoulian Grave 🪦 (juliancday@writing.exchange)

Old man, autumn leaves

Still blocking threads.net.✌🏻

I'm hopeful for a strong and durable #Fediverse, and I don't see how a Meta-controlled instance has any long term place in such. Corporations never, ever care about a wider community, only market share, engagement, control. The people I've met here have been wonderful; the lack of brands or corporate interests anywhere near my feed has been essential. Essential.

First homegrown strawberry and wow was it good. #plantstodon

#SilentSunday #Nature #Photography

@aral I was in Bray the last time I was in Ireland! Spent a couple days in Dublin, then a day in Dalkey, then in Bray. Have a Wicklow Wolf for me?

@FrostPoem

"Wake"

After the procession, the rest of us scatter
for pints at the pub, or to dark, curtained houses
for tea-cakes, stale sandwiches,
and reheated banter.

I'd like to be snarky about this, but it's sad to watch #Twitter's slow death. That stupid, beautiful site has been vital to me in my development as a poet. And as someone who can probably be described as Very Online, I used to find the site good in a bunch of other ways as well. But at some point, you have to go. He's deleting old tweets to save a bit of money on storage space. And meanwhile, all the tweets on the Arab Spring, the Mumbai attacks, etc, are gone. They're just...gone.