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@timbray@cosocial.ca
2025-11-19 19:20:55

Here’s my 35th “Long Links” outing, curation of long-form offerings, which assume that nobody has time to read all this stuff but one or two of the pieces might brighten your day. This one is mostly political but some of the politics are from France and China. Plus a way-cool analytical history of blogging and a section labeled “wonderful things”.

Stop pretending that things are not seriously messed up. See the STN for what it is. Stop pretending that CS holds answers it does not. Don’t try to instill improved characteristics into rotten enterprises. The first question to ask: should you build the thing at all? 7. Attend to the primary reason for the thing; follow the money. Move slow and fix things. Foreground your employer’s social impact. Stop the Orwellian double-speak. Don’t sleep with the enemy. Don’t work for or accep…
Alignment Calendars 1584–1811, from Jonathan Hoefler’s Inventions.
Pivots, Trolls, & Blog Rolls: Talking Points Memo's 25th-anniversary collection of blogging-related posts
@boris@cosocial.ca
2025-11-20 17:30:49

Kicking off EuroSky Live #EuroSkyLive

Sebastian from Flashes does a tech check before starting. NorthSky, Gander, Bluesky, Blacksky and Mastodon logos on screen.
@timbray@cosocial.ca
2025-11-20 00:32:23

Deep in the primeval forest of, um, Burnaby, BC.
#Photography

A path through a young forest is covered with fallen autumn leaves.
@timbray@cosocial.ca
2025-10-20 02:37:18
Content warning: Baseball

Let Hofmann finish it.
#BlueJays

@timbray@cosocial.ca
2025-12-18 17:51:23

Green light.
#photography

It's dark. On the other side of an intersection, several cars are lined up at the traffic lights; their headlights are brilliant but diffuse, and reflect on the dark pavement, which has distinct ripples in the near field. Behind the cars, miscellaneous white signs. The traffic light is visible, and is green; also there is a white "walk" glyph. In the top right, a street light, also diffuse. In the top center, a curtained window glows. To the left, a H&Z market, a convenience store, glows white …
@timbray@cosocial.ca
2025-10-20 02:21:43
Content warning: Baseball

Varland OK, Hoffman OK, please please don't send in Little.
#BlueJays

@timbray@cosocial.ca
2025-12-20 01:33:41

I'm old enough to remember the unraveling of the Watergate cover-up, and the Epstein story has a very familiar stench. #USpol

@timbray@cosocial.ca
2025-11-18 03:11:47

5%.
#Bitcoin
cosocial.ca/@timbray/115567154

@timbray@cosocial.ca
2025-10-16 20:56:19

News flash: There’s lots of really good new music out there! Here’s some of it: tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/20
Featuring: Kwashibu Area Band (Ghana), New Eves (UK), The Good Ones (Rwanda), Alfa Mist (UK), Sona Jobarteh (UK/Gambia)…

Vanessa SWagner plays Phil Glass's Piano Etudes
The New Eves play “Mother”
The Good Ones, “Rwanda Sings with Strings”
Sora Jaborteh
@timbray@cosocial.ca
2025-10-20 16:47:45

Best wishes and sympathy to any former colleagues dealing with us-east-1 going pear-shaped. Looking at the signals, this outage is an extra-weird one, which is unsurprising because with decades of experience, all the non-extra-weird outage scenarios have been discovered and dealt with.
#aws