Traditional Social Media as a Prison
Social media apps have become a vehicle for community building, world news, and political campaigns. As app owners have enmeshed themselves more with the state, the carceral logics that haunt marginalized communities offline, became a part of their digital realities online.
Blogging: It's more social than ever !
We want blogging to feel less like posting to the void, and more like sharing with a community. From pckt notes to better discovery, everything we've built over the last few weeks is designed to help bloggers connect.
7 Reasons Why Standard Reader Is My Choice
Looking for the best way to read ATmosphere blogs? Here are 7 personal reasons why Standard Reader has become my go-to choice for long-form content.
some photos I took with a SEVENTY year old camera
Whilst on holiday with my parents in Bridgnorth, I found a really nice looking Kodak Box Brownie in an Antiques Centre. There's alot of them out there in varying conditions, but this one looked really nice, wasn't too expensive, and I hadn't used one before so I picked it up! I dated to somewhere after 1953 making it a seventy year old camera! And it took 620 film which, at the time was specially produced for the Box Brownies but thanks to the folks at Film Photography Project you can now get fr...
E.F. Benson
Edward Frederic Benson was born to a family of writers–-both his parents and three of his surviving siblings were all authors. And, according to some accounts, most of his immediate family was queer. Benson himself was gay, and included gay and lesbian characters in some of his works. His mother, after his father’s death, moved her long-time female companion into their house, and his sister Margaret, an Egyptologist as well as an author, also enjoyed a long-term same-sex relationship.
Comminication hygine
combating notification fatigue with compartmentalization
Einsam
Zum heutigen #Fotovorschlag mal wieder ein Bild von unserem Azoren-Urlaub 2022 (https://fischr.org/azorenhoch/), von einem einsamen Lieferwagen an einem einsamen Strand.
Jim Parsons Opens Up About Being “Miserable” Through Much Of ‘The Big Bang Theory’
“I felt that there was so many plates I was supposed to be keeping in the air and that the success and the good things of life that were happening were only due to this overworking, discipline and whatever,” he says. “Maybe to a degree that was true. I don’t know. I can’t say because that’s how I was.”