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  • If you’re thinking of revisiting Kanto, this ROM hack made by some friends of mine gives you a very, very good reason to play like it’s 1996.
  • What do you get when you take a crack team of tinkerers, a couple of existing open-source projects, and get ’em to jam like they’re Zappa on stage? A ROM hack oozing with soul.
  • SPOILER WARNING: Some Story changes and postgame content.
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  • Something’s gone wrong with time – I don’t want to say ‘late stage capitalism strikes again,’ but pre-industrial societies in Europe had something good going.
  • Is the agony of procrastination a trace of how we would prefer to go about our tasks?
  • The rules of the pomodoro technique – a clever coincidence
IT’S ̶p̶i̶z̶z̶a̶ POMODORO TIME!

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A bottle of mild bobby sauce, hue shifted so that Spongebob's trademark yellow look appears green.
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  • It’s finally time to talk about the one book that’s constantly been at the back of my mind since making this blog.
  • No summary this time – anyone with a pulse should read this book for themselves.
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A stack of journals on my desk.
  • My (re?)discovery of journalling – and how I reclaimed it from instrumentation.
  • Good intentions – or, when other people think they know your condition better than you, but they mean well.
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A sponge being put through a wringer.
  • I bought Nick Brawl 2 on sale. It’s about time I got back in the saddle…
  • I am asking you once again to read my opinions on network effects
  • Playing to win is for losers.
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  • CONTENT WARNING: Sex, BDSM, questioning authority.
  • Part I – Dave Gorman: or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Look Closer;
  • Part II – David Graeber: A quick(ish) rundown of the moral injury of working in a bullshit job on someone else’s clock;
  • Part III – The Amstrads: Use your foe’s advertising against them;
  • Part IV – The T-shirt: What to do when the custom T-shirt website won’t let you mention the boss…
YOU CAN’T SAY “ORANGE” TO YOUR BOSS.

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  • The most violent book I’ve read this year. Jenny Odell argues the unthinkable – why don’t we harness doing nothing as a form of political activism?
  • Lessons from the scrivener – you can’t say “no” to your boss, but to refuse, you don’t have to.
  • Published in 2019, it’s a product of its time – might the Fediverse make collective action and co-operation easier?
I would prefer not to.