Category: Radio Free Blogistan

  • Migration

    Migration

    After reactivating the Mastodon account I provisioned in 2019 over at mstdn.social, I started noticing that that instance, well managed and moderated as it is, is a larger one, getting bigger all the time, and it was starting to throw errors. They say to build the fediverse out and not up, so I started exploring…

  • My birdsite visits are getting shorter

    My birdsite visits are getting shorter

    As I move my online conversational focus to the more open federated spaces (rumors are Tumblr will be plugging in next), I am spending more of my time checking (and debating the cultural norms of) Mastodon, and connecting to folks there, and while I still feel compelled to check Twitter via its website (I removed…

  • This thing on?

    If I did this right, then my blog is now on the Fediverse at @xian@mediajunkie.com — do the double at signs bother any else? @@

  • Music will continue until morale improves

    Music will continue until morale improves

    More music coming soon!

  • Digestif

    Digestif

    I lay awake a while back having returned recently from Paris by way of Dublin pondering why we sleep, a question I thought long ago routed by the much deeper why do we wake at all, when it came to me from that other brain: we sleep to digest. This website apparatus also benefits from…

  • …and we’re back again

    …and we’re back again

    As I brushed off the old ‘bblog a month or so back, I decided to go ahead and update to latest version of WordSquisher, the software I use to run this site these days. I conveniently forgot that some of my plugins were obsolete and are starting to misbehave or had big labels on them…