Archive.is link..

Personally, I always used to carry a paperback with me and would read in the odd moments that this writer seems to recall as being so dull and soul destroying. I still do carry e-books on my phone of course and use them in exactly the same way - but also with the option of doomscrolling, of course.

As for TV, I was never one for TV - or radio - as background noise. With fiends, I had a bit of reputation of going round and turning such things off when I entered the room, so that we could talk without distraction. I would ask them first, of course.

They can sleep for longer. There is the incident of a Egyptian snail that was collected for the British Museum in 1846 - seemingly dead - and which then woke up in 1850.

It is pretty clear that this is a joke sign/poster - akin to “you don’t have to be crazy to work here but it helps” and so on.

A) I have never touched tumblr.

B) I first heard it around 30 years back, so a little before tumblr.

Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.

You can’t get a lot cooler than that.

I have three "!subscribe pending"s in my list after a session of joining a few days back. For me, they are showing up in my sidebar and I can post to them as usual, it seems. It is just that they don’t change from ‘pending’.

Presumably this was not a single snow crystal, but an agglomeration. More details on large snowflakes here.

There is https://beehaw.org/c/creative which seems to be fairly active and certainly includes some knitters.

[email protected] looks interesting.

[email protected] might become a pleasant UK based one