Watching: Black Mirror: Crocodile (S4.E3) 📺
A woman interviews various people using a device that allows her to access their memories.
Watching: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) with @travispacker
An ancient prophecy seems to be coming true when a mysterious presence begins stalking the corridors of a school of magic and leaving its victims paralyzed.
I finally kicked @travispacker’s butt at a game!
Just beat him 5-0 at Super Smash Bros Ultimate using Kirby, Donkey Kong, Zelda, Link, and Samus.
I won’t elaborate on how often he destroys me at FIFA and Fortnite, or about that time when he destroyed my Minecraft world…
🔗 How to Display Twitch Stream Status in WordPress
Thinking about streaming some games this year…
Teaching my kid about timezones as another load of fireworks go off on Fortnite. 💥
The “great escape" is almost complete!
Already deleted my WhatsApp and Facebook accounts, and am now deleting around 700 photos from Instagram before I delete that account!
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Happy New Year Everyone! 🍻 Hope you have a fantastic 2019! 🎉
Watching: The Handmaid’s Tale: Offred (S1.E1) 📺
Offred, one of the few fertile women known as Handmaids in the oppressive Republic of Gilead, struggles to survive as a reproductive surrogate for a powerful Commander and his resentful wife.
Having a wild New Year’s
I’m done with Summer, it’s too damn hot!
🔗 A New Mailing List, Goodbye Instagram?, Future Book Hello Again — Roden Explorers Archive
Sign up for Craig Mod’s new mailing list.
🔗 Drivers demand reminders for car rego as NSW rakes in $240m in fines
Fines for driving unregistered vehicles have accelerated in NSW since the removal of car registration stickers in 2013, with hapless motorists blaming the state government for not sending reminders to renew registration.
How about putting a reminder in your calendar, and stop blaming everyone else. 🤦♂️
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (2001) 📺
An orphaned boy enrolls in a school of wizardry, where he learns the truth about himself, his family and the terrible evil that haunts the magical world.
Finally, convinced @travispacker to watch Harry Potter ✨
I had been putting off starting Zelda: Breath of the Wild…but I guess I have no excuse now
🔗 We Should Replace Facebook With Personal Websites - Motherboard
But for people who came of age in the early 2000s, sharing our lives online is second nature, and largely came without consequences. There was no indication that something we’d been conditioned to do would be quickly weaponized against us.
🔗 The 21 (and Counting) Biggest Facebook Scandals of 2018 - WIRED
In 2018, the social giant juggled so many crises, you probably forgot half of them. Here's a refresher.
Facebook’s had quite the year… 🤯
🔗 Sydney bakes as heatwave sets in, with no end in sight beyond New Year’s Eve
Roads are melting, beaches are full to bursting and air conditioners are getting a serious end-of-year workout as residents in Sydney and across the state swelter through heatwave conditions, with no end in sight until 2019.
Are we still debating whether Global Warming is an actual thing or not? 🤦♂️
🔗 Chinese schools are using ‘smart uniforms’ to track their students’ locations - The Verge
while the uniforms are meant to encourage attendance, it seems that there’s nothing stopping administrators from using them to track students out of school, at least technologically speaking, which is certainly concerning
That is one super slippery slope!
I’ll preface this with saying I am decidedly against likes on Micro. - Josh Sullivan
that brings up the question, if you don’t want to write about it and cannot find a single sentence worth quoting or directly bring others attention to, is it worth sharing?
Personally, I think “simple” liking is the scourge of the social Internet and adds little to no value to anyone, unless you’re using “liking” as a bookmark type thing, which is what my wife does instead of using an actual bookmarking service.
That said, I often “like” other peoples posts using Indigenous, however, when they Micropub to my blog they do so “Privately” and I can then choose to add a comment or pull-quote later, and then publish it publicly.
I’m thinking about making my New Year Resolution all about education, both getting and giving as of it as I can. 👨🏫
Damnit, I can’t get past Zapdos in Pokemon Let’s Go. 5 failed attempts so far…
I’m desperately trying to level up some Rock and Electric types before my next attempt.
Watching: WarGames (1983) 📺
A young man finds a back door into a military central computer in which reality is confused with game-playing, possibly starting World War III.
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