Status:

Big day today. Spent the afternoon at the allotment with Fi and Lucy moving the compost hexagon and filling it up. We’ve been putting this off for a few weeks, never finding the right time when my fatigue wasn’t an issue, and today was the last opportunity before summer finally kicks in tomorrow. So I girded my loins, paced myself and we did it.

Did I make a mistake? Probably. I feel OK right now but post-exertion fatigue can kick in up to 36 hours later so tomorrow will be the tell. But was it worth it? Yeah, I reckon. I got outside, I did some fixes to the hexagon (which was only a prototype when I built it nearly three years ago), and I got to do composting stuff, which is my happy place. Also I bumped into chum Kerry and her kid who I hadn’t seen properly in ages, so that was a delight.

Reading:

• The Metaverse Fever Dream — Note that I haven’t actually read this all. I got about a third of the way before losing the will to live, but that’s not on Nick Heer who’s done a heroic job of compiling the timeline of Zuckerberg’s titanic folly and preserving it as a warning to future generations. It’s just the relentless bullshittery of it all is too much.
• “Just a little detail that wouldn’t sell anything” — Remember when Apple Mac’s would have a slowly pulsing light when they were sleeping? I do. It was a delightful thing.
• Single-sex toilets must exclude transgender people, says EHRC — Fuck this utterly unenforceable nonsense.

Watching:

• Arab Strap - You You You ‌(5:31) — It’s cool that they started out totally nailing what it was like to be in your twenties and now, thirty years on, they’re totally nailing what it’s like to be in your fifties.
• Unbelievable moments from nature narrated by David Attenborough ‌(2:59:55) — A three hour supercut of BBC nature docs. I was expecting to put this on in the background but wound up watching it. I do think it would work as nocturnal audio though…