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With some judicious editing, the beauty of UP, R.E.M.‘s first album after Bill Berry’s departure, becomes easier to spot.

Found poetry, courtesy of the Internet.

On picking up what I once put down.

Twitter under Elon Musk is fast turning into a MAGA subreddit, and the Fediverse is gaining users as a result.

I watched Last Year at Marienbad a few days ago, and then watched Speed Racer the following day. It was an interesting experience.

Once we had a country and we thought it fair, look in the atlas and you’ll find it there: We cannot go there now, my dear.

I fell in love with The Beatles when I was eight. I found my parents’ tape of The Beatles Ballads (cover art by the late, great Alan Aldridge), and that was pretty much it.

I’ve complained about people complaining about e-mail before, but I’ll happily complain some more, because I think there should be a common messaging protocol too.

It’s easy to take backwards compatibility for granted. I almost learned the hard way, but I was lucky.

The default tags that come with Textpatterns struck me as a bit too cute in the past, but I’ve come around.