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There are hundreds and hundreds of blog posts on this site. In the early days of the web I wrote with more variety and much more regularly. Nowadays many of my posts are about client projects and current “professional” endeavors. My newsletter is a good place for the rest of my writing.

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  [FBT] on Cosplaying and Change
  Hihi, it’s time for your periodic disclaimer: This newsletter mailing list is running on a piece of software that seems to bork when certain conditions are in place. I don’t know what exactly those conditions are. When it borks, it affects those of you trying to unsubscribe or those of… Read more: [FBT] on Cosplaying and Change
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  [FBT] on Envy and Entropy
  Maybe I’m envious Right, well. After last week’s admission that I’ve been banging my head on the proverbial wall and waiting for the demons to subside, I should use this second FBT of the year to proclaim positivity and lust for life. It’s utter bullshit, but who cares, fake it… Read more: [FBT] on Envy and Entropy
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  [FBT] on Crawling and Chainsaws
  Content warning: death, mental health Happy new year. Or whatever. My bones hurt. My eyelids are too heavy for my face and even the sunshine of my (no longer) recent trip to Barcelona or regular walks in the winter light haven’t scrubbed away the sharp black hum I’ve been feeling.… Read more: [FBT] on Crawling and Chainsaws
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  Obligatory Mozfest post
  I’m just flying back from Barcelona and I’ve got another 20 minutes to practice my thumb gymnastics, so here’s a brief post about the 15th Mozilla Festival. Actually, it’s not about Mozfest at all. Because this years Mozfest didn’t really feel like a Mozfest to me. Maybe in other parts… Read more: Obligatory Mozfest post
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  My website is a junk drawer
  We all have a drawer somewhere in our house or our flat, behind the counter in the office or, not as a drawer but a shoebox, a container, let’s just call it a drawer – we all have the junk drawer. It’s the place you put stray rubber bands and… Read more: My website is a junk drawer
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  [FBT] on Slipping and Suffering
  Maybe I’m struggling Joy. Hope. Friendship. Silliness. The largest miniature model in the world and roadside oddities. Modern feminist punk bands and marketers who use the word “Originals” when there are no copycats, children or otherwise downstream products. Oh yes my friends, the world outside can be grand and I… Read more: [FBT] on Slipping and Suffering
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  Building a Community Platform
  originally posted on the Amnesty International UK blog Activists and educator communities need to talk to each other. To do this, they require robust, secure, and accessible platforms to facilitate meaningful discussion, decision-making, and collaboration. Activists and educators have different needs to those provided by mainstream social media or chat… Read more: Building a Community Platform
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  The algorithms are not working for us
  originally posted on the WAO blog We’re makers and while we’ve managed to share much of what we make, we spend less time promoting ourselves than we probably should. We aren’t natural marketers, and platforms such as LinkedIn have soul-sucking algorithms that prioritise shinyness over depth. If you’ve been following… Read more: The algorithms are not working for us
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  [FBT] on Pondering and Peddling
  Maybe I’m pondering Nothing much has changed in the past couple of weeks, has it? The world keeps turning and common sense is still wandering around the Coney Island Pier with a bottle of tequila and an Adderall prescription. The sycophants are in the house, spinning some tales of how… Read more: [FBT] on Pondering and Peddling
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  [FBT] on Ownership and Opaqueness
  Maybe I’m owned Ownership is a weird concept. How can we own something when we’re all just floating in space? I guess we can own our emotions or own our behaviours. That use of the word is sort of colloquial. Capitalism allows for inanimate object ownership and so we buy… Read more: [FBT] on Ownership and Opaqueness
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  No Two Community Calls Are Alike
  originally posted on the Amnesty International UK blog TL;DR – Your friendly Community Platform Team started running open community calls, and the first one was excellent! These calls are open to everyone, and every call is different. Register here! Our first community call was more than just another meeting –… Read more: No Two Community Calls Are Alike
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  [FBT] on Artiness and Addle
  Maybe I’m Arty Anything that requires even the tiniest bit of creativity is an ill-suited task for AI. Generative AI doesn’t have the capacity for creativity. Being able to create is not the same thing as being able to generate. Generative AI can’t have new ideas, so it steals my new ideas… Read more: [FBT] on Artiness and Addle
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  Just talk to people: Why we love community calls
  Community calls have been a cornerstone of my engagement and community building practice for well over a decade. I started a couple community calls at Greenpeace International, one of which continues a good 8 or 9 years later. Regular readers have probably heard of the Open Recognition is for Everybody… Read more: Just talk to people: Why we love community calls
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  Join Us in Co-creating the AIUK Community!
  Originally posted on the Amnesty International UK blog Over the past months, we’ve been reaching out in the community to talk about the Community Platform Project. We’ve sent surveys, interviewed community members, run some focus groups and chatted with folks at Amplify to help us figure out what a Community… Read more: Join Us in Co-creating the AIUK Community!
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  [FBT] on Awkwardness and Anti-conformity
  Maybe I’m awkward When he was 37 years old, Walt Whitman wrote “Song of Myself” a 50 page magnum opus in his magnum opus, Leaves of Grass. This poem, which I read for the first time this week, is a long and sprawling awareness. An ode to life and to… Read more: [FBT] on Awkwardness and Anti-conformity

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