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An eight-minute spiel of blue-sky thinking:

  • Do I join BlueSky (the real McCoy – no bridges)?
  • Network effects: They explain how people move, but as to why, we need to dig a little deeper;
  • Why not both?: If you’re already on BlueSky, join Mastodon – it’s not perfect, but you’ll find a place for you.
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An 18-minute Zen on:

  • Eye Dialect Reprise: Pratchett’s iconic character voices were made so through eye dialect;
  • But.: And this is a big but;
  • The Turtle Grows: “Cancelled” is just a euphemism for “I refuse accountability.”
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Rivals 2 character icons gathered around a circle. Each character is connected to every other character through a line; in the middle is the icon for the UK and Ireland's Rivals Discord guild.

A 9 minute read on:

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A seven-minute read about…

  • ‘Narrative echo effects,’ a concept explored by Charles Baxter in his essay, ‘Rhyming Action;’
  • ‘Secret strings,’ a literary analysis technique/game used by Michael Rosen when teaching students/children, which includes looking for what I believe to be narrative echoes;
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