I like Disney+, but with this price increase it moves into the subscribe for a month or two when there’s something to binge category for me.
🤔 It’s so much easier to stay in motion and go for the walk right after dropping my kid off at school, rather than sitting down for a coffee and hoping I’ll want to go for a walk later.
#Selfie a day for a year, day 57, Oct 15, 2025 edition.
Thinking About Microblog's Antisocial Stance
I dig Micro.blog for the way it helps me fight against dopamine driven social media norms by not showing me likes, follower counts, retweet numbers, views, etc. I post something and it gets published and that’s it. No checking later to see how many people liked it or reposted it. That’s a good thing for my vanity.
But I do find it misses out on some of the benefits of social media like knowing someone is actually a mutual friend—in the social media sense at least—because they follow you back and aren’t just replying randomly to posts of yours they come across. And the way that the Mac app doesn’t—as far as I can tell—have any way to get notified of replies or badge the app when you have a reply. I forget to check the Mentions tab for days or weeks and suddenly realize there’s been replies to my posts on Micro.blog. (I think the Micro.blog iOS version allows for notifications and badges?)
For me, all of this has nothing to do with “business” branding, marketing, or networking with potential clients, and everything to do with making connections with interesting people in different parts of the world. Learning their stories and how their experiences have shaped them in ways that might help me learn more about the world and myself.
I already have a proper blog to post longer thoughts on where I don’t have any clue who might be reading it, I kind of want a bit more social on a service like Micro.blog. But I get why for others who use it as their blog first, social connections second, that might not be as much of a priority.
Having used Mastodon and Bluesky for a few years now, I’ve come to appreciate their balance of a feed that’s not based on any algorithm other than who I choose to follow, while still letting me peek at who is actually following me that I might want to follow back (and vice versa).
Ultimately I do like having the ability to post from Micro.blog’s Mac app to social media, and while they’re are other options out there now, Microblog serves that purpose for me just fine so I don’t really need to switch services for that purpose.
Plus there are starting to be more people replying to my posts on Micro.blog as well as me replying to their posts, and I’d hate to lose whatever connections might be there that I’m not aware of.
I dig Justin’s 10m tutorial on how easy it is to start a podcast in 2025. The tools have made it as easy as starting a blog was back in the day.
Read my face for my review of Miss Vickie’s Cacio e Pepe flavoured kettle chips. Miss Vickie’s knows how to do black pepper really well, I’m not sure “sharp, creamy cheese” is a good mix with it.
#Selfie a day for a year, day 56, Oct 14, 2025 edition.
I listened to another great episode of Heavyweight, “The Messenger”, and it’s almost frustrating how effortless Jonathan Goldstein and crew make storytelling seem.
“Couch! Couch! Couch!” theme after driving 9hrs back home today.
#Selfie a day for a year, day ?, Oct 13, 2025 edition.
Finished reading: Peace Shall Destroy Many by Rudy Wiebe 📚 ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
What if I was the dad from Inside Out?
(I’m going to say filter based selfies count as long as most are not filtered.)
#Selfie a day for a year, day ?, Oct 12, 2025 edition.
A rare double #selfie showing before / after a minimal beard trim cleanup.
Selfie a day for a year, day 52, Oct 9, 2025 edition.
WWJD? Definitely sit on Facebook slapping that “share now” button on regurgitated AI slop conspiracy memes all day. It’s somewhere in 2nd John or 4th Carolina: “Thou shalt barf AI slop at your 5 followers all day on social media lest your children inherit a world without Jesus riding on an eagle.”
