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@manton Thanks, will do.
@manton I installed the latest version on my Mac and now I can’t run it. I also can’t post a photo in an @-reply, so here’s the generated alt-text of the screen grab:
> A notification indicates that the Micro.blog.app cannot be used with macOS 13.7.8 and requires macOS 14.0 or later to run.
I’m on an old Mac, so I can’t go up to 14. No biggie, but it probably shouldn’t have let me install it.
@alexwolfe What fun! I look forward to Ada’s further adventures.
@JohnPhilpin LiveJournal had that distinction two decades ago. Other sites too, probably. Slashdot? Maybe. It’s a good one.
PS: You’re welcome. You are.
@manton Ah, yes, I should have thought of that:
> Bluesky: Error refreshing token.
I’ll try removing and re-adding. Thanks.
@manton I’ve just noticed my posts having been crossposting to BlueSky since the middle of April.
@manton Looks like I had the same problem. There’s no ‘Send now’ button, just a ‘Sent’ notice.
@JohnPhilpin Thanks. Feel free.
@JohnPhilpin Seemed to work.
@johnnydecimal How do you tell if a website is vibe-coded?
@acct:imyke@myke.social I’m looking forward to listening to this one. But I’ve also realised: I’m kind of missing CGP Grey.
@JohnPhilpin My memory! And searching. It was used in a TV ad in the UK maybe ten, fifteen years back, focusing on the shapely rear end of the car. ‘I see you baby, shaking that ass’!
YouTube link. Also people complained, according to The Guardian.
Which can’t possibly be right, because it says it was 23 years ago. I remember my daughter singing along with it, and she wasn’t doing that when she was 2!
I guess maybe they revived it? Anyway, that’s what I was talking about, so I’m playing <cite>Vertigo</cite> now.
@JohnPhilpin I meant the ass-shaking one that was advertised with the Groove Armada track. Which turns out to be the Renault Megane.
@manton I hate to say this, but I found a typo! The ‘Penn Station’ chapter starts with a quote that refers to the ‘Qual d’Orsay’ in Paris. It should of course be the Quai d’Orsay.
@JohnPhilpin I see what you did there (shaking that ass). Couldn’t tell you what car it was advertising, though.
@andrewhickey.500songs.com Just trying to understand this. So the hyphenated form with the capital ‘S’ is the dog whistle version? Two questions, then: why? And who is being whistled at or to?
@manton I hope you’re able to fix the paragraph breaks in descriptions. That’s always been slightly annoying.
@mmetcalfe Mostly Lea Bridge, where we live. That’s a good analysis.
@mmetcalfe I’m not sure I do. From what my partner was hearing on the doorstep, the main reason for the swing to the Greens was, ‘Gaza’. Which, well… what the fuck has it got to do with the Mayor of Hackney? Or Hackney council?
@JohnPhilpin Right. I saw a banner on one of your recent posts saying ‘Created by a human in Scotland.’ But maybe that was a screengrab of something you were quoting? Hard to tell sometimes.
@JohnPhilpin Are you in Scotland now? Whereabouts? Weren’t you in New Zealand?
@JohnPhilpin Here’s a tweet with the basics. The X-man has broken Twitter so you can’t see the thread without the app, it seems, but the whole context is on this page, I believe. It’s from Tribunal Tweets, citizen journalists who live-tweet employment tribunals.
@ass.golf Hell, yes, it sure does.
@JohnPhilpin Absolutely! I’m not a speaker, but I know enough to know that, and have also heard it was once asked and answered in a court. That may be apocryphal, though.
Anyway, you could make an argument that it depends on the sex of the person, rather than their gender.
@mmetcalfe Oh no, that sounds very bad. Hope you’re getting the help you need.