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This sounds like the start of an alien invasion movie. Sowing doubt: people around world receive mystery seed parcels.

Culinary idea: deep dish toast.

I was just listening to the Apple Music New Music mix. A track came on and I thought “you guys are really pulling the Smashing Pumpkins vibe.” I checked my phone, and the band? Smashing Pumpkins.

I’m a good geologist. Unfortunately geology work is impossible for me as I’d have to be away from home for a majority of the time (I’ve had generous offers of work). I can program but no one would hire me because I’m over 25 without 10 years experience. What should I do?

Enthusiastic (more than my usual OCD) washing of hands, frequent use of hand sanitiser and winter means my hands look like slowly cooling magma rather than skin. Ouch.

Why Children of Men haunts the present moment

Children of Men does not take place at the end of the world, which has already happened, but within its chilling coda, where, as Fisher writes, “internment camps and franchise coffee bars co-exist”.

Children of Men haunts me.

Cost of preventing next pandemic ‘equal to just 2% of Covid-19 economic damage’

For All Mankind is good, but lost me in the last few episodes. Sci-fi is never about pew pew lasers. It’s alway about people. However, there’s a line between science fiction and science-themed drama, and For All Mankind feels like it’s the latter.

Another in the long line of potential “cures” that have been touted over the decades. Pay no attention until it’s been proven to work.

Israeli firm says micro-pancreas to ‘cure’ diabetes ready for UK trials

There’s something about this replacement screen on my XR. It’s weird, it feels… softer? Lighter? Uet super bright and vivid. Using a 4 for 72 hours can’t uave changed my perspective that much, since I’ve mostly been using my iPad Pro 🤷🏻‍♂️

Sweet glorious victory. I have my 2 year old phone back with a fixed screen, so I can re-retire my 10 year old phone. Turns out if your phone does very little, incredibly slowly, you hardly use it!

My phone for the next week (while my XR is sent off to have its screen repaired). It’s gloriously small. And woefully slow. It’s a 10 year old phone! And I’ll be doing nothing but messaging and listening to podcasts, because that’s all it can really do.

Taking a bit of a break from Twitter. And since I have compulsive muscle memory, it’s PiHole to the rescue.

The existence of marionettes implies the existence of warionettes.

Remember hacky sacks?

Sometimes I’m listening to a random playlist on Apple Music and I wonder “man, what playlist is this? These songs are all bangers! … oh it’s my favourites list.”

I ordered some grain for brewing three beers of different styles over the next few months. Instead of getting all grains in seperate bags by grain type (like normal), I got the whole lot in a single sack. So I guess I have to brew an extra pale white stout saison.

Not going to say what this is, but needless to say, I nailed it in the last 24 hours.

Delving into writing a plug-in for micro.blog, I’ve had a good look into Hugo theming. And it’s been a SMH moment, as my pure javascript solution to customise comments is somewhat redundant. Hugo themes and templates are super powerful. Oh well 🤷🏻‍♂️

I’m turning my customised comments code into a proper plugin. It’ll be easier to install and the code won’t change much. But before I do that, I need to get a little essential piece going that’s proving frustratingly elusive - comment counts per article on the home screen.

I started just before Star Trek: Picard started, and I just finished watching every episode of Star Trek: Voyager (most of which I’d never seen). What a ride. Next to take me through until the end of the year: Deep Space Nine.

Typical. I break my iPhone (cracked the screen), 3 months out from the new ones being announced. Happened with my 6 too (dropped that one in the bucket while I mopped the floor). Now, can I go 3 months or will I crack? (lol)

Me: Cool. My customised comments script and associated CSS is done and I can post the tutorial today after one more edit pass.

@manton: Introducing plug-ins for Micro.blog.

Me: ⌘-A delete.

I appreciate macOS reloading webpages when they’re using significant energy. That’s great news for laptops. But this iMac is plugged into the wall. Energy conservation at this scale isn’t that worthwhile.

Star Trek: Voyager is great, but it bothers me that almost all alien races are headed by males. Very few first contacts they make are fronted by the women of the alien race.