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mikegrindle updated Mike Grindle's Webpage

3 months ago

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ghostscape 3 months ago

think you've hit several nails on heads: for one thing, novelty is subjective and there's a huge amount of digital content out there to explore without the latest smart fridge or whatever

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nohappynonsense 3 months ago

Great stuff as usual, Grinds. Reminded me of a stretch of time in HS when I started replaying SNES games of my childhood. I'd put a CD on the stereo and jam out peacefully playing through all the classics I had never proper beaten. At the time, it was seen as anti-social or weird for me to do this, but I think if I could get back to that space of genuine contentment with a "simple" set up, I'd be radically happy.

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misterdizzy 3 months ago

A much better and more comprehensive version of the points I attempted to lay out in my article User Engagement is Code for Addiction

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murid 3 months ago

Between this essay and this one by Corey Doctorow, https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/20/ransom-note-force-field/ , I feel like a lot of new tech is not as counter-cultural and more corporate, hence less 'novel'.

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mikegrindle 3 months ago

Thanks for the feedback everyone. I wondered if this would come across as a "tech is bad and everything is bloat (except the stuff I use)" type of post. Glad it hasn't.

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mikegrindle 3 months ago

@ghostscape absolutely, the internet archive alone offers a near-endless stream of entertainment. @nohappy, I was a certified Sega-boy, but I have similar memories of simpler times. Radically happy times even.

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mikegrindle 3 months ago

@misterdizzy That was a good article. I remember reading it ages before we were following each other here. I don't know if mine is "more comprehensive" though. @murid, Doctorow is always an interesting read. Intriguing that he brings up Mark Fisher in that essay, because his writing has been on mind a lot as I think about this stuff.

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bevl 3 months ago

What a great gift! My Ps2 is still going after all these years, I love it immensely. I rarely play games anymore but its just such a fun little console

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ghostscape 3 months ago

@murid @misterdizzy both those articles absolutely fuck, thanks for the signposting!! all making me think about a thing I've been circling around on the idea of satiation and how to centre/recognise it instead of *gestures vaguely*

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emilynhoward 3 months ago

I really enjoyed this. I think there's a way aging can effect our craving for novelty, too. There's only but so many times you can be sold the "next great thing" before you anticipate the rush wearing off before it's even started. Best to just find the things you enjoy for their own sake, not because of novelty.

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nohappynonsense mikegrindle

3 months ago

Grinds are you still on Mastodon? If yes >> how is it? Do you find it valuable in any way? If no >> lol nice

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mikegrindle 3 months ago

Yes and sorta. At some point I'll prob write a post on this, but in short...

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mikegrindle 3 months ago

It's better than twitter but it's still SM. Lots of the same shitty behaviours (especially recently) only w/ better politics and no ads. Gets better with blocking/filtering & i've met cool people there. But also, I should prob just stay in contact with email.

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mikegrindle 3 months ago

I want to try finding (or making) a smaller instance to see if my experience improves. Otherwise, I feel indifferent to it.

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nohappynonsense 3 months ago

That's about what I figured. I need to get my work "out there" more but SM drains my soul

elilenti 3 months ago

pay some kid $10 to be your social media manager

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nohappynonsense 3 months ago

If only

kittymanya updated EVERYDAY I WAKE UP

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misterdizzy mikegrindle

3 months ago

Your OBTF post has really gotten me excited about reading and writing in a way that is elusive to me. Frictionless idea-dumping is where it's at.

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mikegrindle 3 months ago

All credit to the plain text nerds of yesteryear. Still, I'm happy to have inspired you by sharing the idea.

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mikegrindle 3 months ago

What I meant to say was, welcome to the cult of OBTF ;-)

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misterdizzy 3 months ago

All hail :)

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malice-in-wonderland updated MALICE HAS MOVED!

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MALICE HAS MOVED!

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mikegrindle

3 months ago

I think the sites that are just plaintext and html and look like they come from 1991 are pretty cool. I think the sites with gifs, buttons, autoplaying songs, funny animations and which look like they come from 1998 are pretty cool too.

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mikegrindle 3 months ago

I'm pretty easy to please.

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ghostscape 3 months ago

your "can your website fit on a floppy disk" post very nearly swayed me into doing a whole different thing because I'm also so into the 1991 look! but I have a Vision now. the tower has taken the wheel

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ghostscape 3 months ago

too much choice for fun website-doing

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mikegrindle 3 months ago

I'm glad you stuck with your vision, cause your site is dope.

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nohappynonsense 3 months ago

i will not stand for this erasure of sites that look like mid 00's blogger templates

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malice-in-wonderland theperfumery

3 months ago

thank you so much for your message in my guestbook! the blog pages are separate, i just put them in a folder in my directory called blog. your site looks so pretty keep it up!!

theperfumery 3 months ago

!! ofc ofc! thank u for the advice, it helped me put together my blog pages B) i super appreciate the compliment! i will keep workin hard (`･ω･´)ゞ

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kittymanya updated EVERYDAY I WAKE UP

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malice-in-wonderland updated MALICE HAS MOVED!

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MALICE HAS MOVED!

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cidoku updated The Cidoku Network

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bmh 3 months ago

I'm reminded of the Earth Hour/Day events; I took part in quite a few of these - of course these are optional and not inflicted upon us by the gods.

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dramamine updated atrophic

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3 months ago

I'm considering getting a P.O. box and making the address public so readers of my site can send me bombs, I mean, letters. How dumb would that be? I think it could be pretty romantic.

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