I’ve noticed this as both a dev and a reader and like…I think there’s just nobody left. Newsrooms gutted, senior writers move on to do other things, acquisitions mean that all the websites are the same website now. It’s really sad! These days I get my news from here or various newsletters mostly

Just did my first 10K in over a decade (a few months after doing my first 5K in about the same time). Wasn’t fast but I didn’t stop! Feeling very proud of myself

Watched the first episode of Frieren and I’m fuckin bawling man

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Not been a member of a political party for about five years but I think I’ve seen enough to feel good about changing that today

It’s the spooky season again, so we’ve put the Halloween skins back in the Feud piece store! Get em while they’re, uh, spooky

This is grim & dangerous over reach.

This is a government that have lost the moral argument & are still selling arms to Israel. Now further cracking down on dissent.

Absolutely the opposite of what they should be doing - so of course this is what the Labour Government choose.

I think Bluesky could still be saved. Won't be, but could. They should hire me as Head of Comms. I could fix her (Jay)

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The Deep Blue Okay by Self Esteem is a song my brain simply refuses to get bored of. Whole album tbh

Good lord I’m getting married in two weeks

RSS is king still

Lord let me never crash out as publicly as the Bluesky leadership

So there are a lot of Fediverse servers, right. One for basically any topic or community you could think of. Unfortunately today while researching something unrelated I stumbled across a “feminist” (TERF) instance. I’m not going to say the name […] ://www.joelotter.com/notes/2025/10/02-172924/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.joelotter.com/notes/2025/10/02-172924/

This is really good and has also given me the delight of another RSS feed to subscribe to

Anyway Mastodon is still around and is cool and my instance is open for signups and I won’t ban you: otter.garden

But more importantly as Bruno points out here websites are good and fun and you should make one!

This is really good. I wrote something similar last year which now reads as far too optimistic imo www.joelotter.com/posts/2024/0...

I was able to speak to this sailor from New Quay, Hannah Schafer, 24 hours before she was seized by Israeli forces. Read her last messages before she was taken here -

TERFs are trying to bully a beloved London public swimming space into throwing out their longstanding traditions/policies in order to force trans people out of using the space.

Please consider voicing your support for inclusivity here hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is/en-GB/propos...

Great one of these in Signalis

Went to my first Algorhythms event last night and it was fantastic

It's National Poetry Day today so for once I'm gonna post one of my own.

I did this little series of more visual pieces a few years ago, they're all here: www.joelotter.com/clunks/

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will live in my brain forever

@lucygjwhite.bsky.social easy one right

I’ve sat next to Roper cursing his code on many an occasion

there's a big problem with the culture here on bluesky, and it's that not nearly enough people are posting about the 10 year anniversary of Carly Rae Jepsen's groundbreaking and timeless album EMOTION being this year and how awesome that is