And I'm not complaining about having a busy WhatsApp social life. I love most groups I'm in and keep them all muted (and some of them archived too), but sometimes it feels like the time I spend administering to it was the time I used to spend reading
Turns out, it doesn't matter what methods you use to mitigate your social media use, WhatsApp is now such a monster that you still have to spend a chunk of your day staring at your phone to say, yes your child will be at footie training, no you can't make the walking trip, 🤣 to the funny meme.
![March is all about bold steps. I’m convinced that March is special for the simple reason I get so cheesed off over winter that I am no longer afraid to make sweeping changes. This year, for example, I am thinking about another business idea and growing increasingly convinced it’s time to go for it[...] It’s not just big decisions, March is also the month for thoughts and ideas. With the magical spring light comes clarity over all the things that have festered and swelled in the damp darkness of winter. I’m a firm believer that January is a terrible time for making resolutions...](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:247cyiwhlzrupxkkuqyjnbxg/bafkreieqfdkeays4w2yrnqr2yktmxwnuez2373l7oehgixxhybtalm6ypq)
March is all about bold steps. I’m convinced that March is special for the simple reason I get so cheesed off over winter that I am no longer afraid to make sweeping changes. This year, for example, I am thinking about another business idea and growing increasingly convinced it’s time to go for it[...] It’s not just big decisions, March is also the month for thoughts and ideas. With the magical spring light comes clarity over all the things that have festered and swelled in the damp darkness of winter. I’m a firm believer that January is a terrible time for making resolutions...
I've written about how important March is for making changes. Everyone should be hibernating in January. You should be in goblin mode, not attempting goblin squats. substack.com/home/post/p-...
2FA systems that insist on emailing you a code (like Bluesky) are the devil's work. OK thanks. Just wanted to complain about that to no one in particular.
If you want to read the full piece, it’s here: open.substack.com/pub/shinykat...
At the end of 1995, my friend Glen told me he was going to introduce me to the “nicest man in Shrewsbury”, and then he did. By March 1996, I realised I quite fancied the nicest man in Shrewsbury. It was snowing, and we kissed for the first time under a street lamp by the English Bridge in Shrewsbury. He came round to visit me the next day and we stayed together for the next 30 years (and counting). Happy anniversary, Alex Milway. Love you.
I’ve been with the same man for thirty years. How is that possible?! Well, it helps if you start when you’re a teenager...
An OpenAI spokesperson says Sam Altman misspoke in saying OpenAI was looking to deploy on NATO classified networks, and that it was for "unclassified networks" (Hyunsu Yim/Reuters)
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Every time I see either of these men:
One thing I've learned from this by-election is that everywhere is like Manchester and Labour should remember that.
Omg just catching up with socials and THIS 👇
Thank you! It really is the dream!
If I say gym I’ll sound like a prick. But it’s what would have been a scullery with a tiled floor and… gym equipment
Omg. New goal unlocked
Writing books, living by the sea, all good (apart from dog’s terminal cancer diagnosis 👎)
It also means that room no longer feels like a thoroughfare. We can sit in a chair in front of it and feel enclosed in a comfortable nook. When it had the door there it would have felt weird to sit there. So it makes more space for books but also for us. Magic!
Ben! Hello!! How are you?!
There’s also space between it and the door behind to hide, so we have had fun doing shit vanishing lady magic tricks with the kids.
As requested, here’s the secret door in action! It’s hard to film one handed, but I did my best. It leads through to another room and we kept the door for warmth. Really the back should be painted green too, but it took @alexmilway.bsky.social long enough to do the rest of it! Maybe one day…
Here you go! bsky.app/profile/shin...
Sorry for the delay! Your wish is my command!
It’s absolutely magic! If you’re ever in Hastings come over and see it!
As requested, here’s the secret door in action! It’s hard to film one handed, but I did my best. It leads through to another room and we kept the door for warmth. Really the back should be painted green too, but it took @alexmilway.bsky.social long enough to do the rest of it! Maybe one day…
I don’t have a recent picture of it in action. But you pull on ”Tales of Mystery” by Poe to open it.
(psst. It’s got a secret door)
green library dining room
It’s not only depressing and gloomy, it makes most people‘s skin look ashen too. So you’re picking a colour that will make you look wan and sad any time you catch sight of yourself. I can’t imagine choosing to live in a space like this. Then again, I am writing this in this room:
John Davidson is in the audience and he’s got Tourette’s
This is a great piece
Hate-filled fake videos about London are everywhere. We've obtained a recording of a TikToker confessing to secretly filming Londoners in their homes for clicks.
He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger.
Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...
This is like watching my youngest as a preschooler denying she wrote her own name on the skirting board
