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Paul Clark

@sandtreader

Cornish software & creative geek, Nominations & Comms Officer @CornwallGreens, shantyman, sailor, light artist, amateur actor & stage-manager. He/him/they/them.

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Don't blink.

31.08.2024 21:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Welcome pard!

14.08.2024 22:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

To me do run rye, faddle diddle dye, whack faddle diddle to me do run rye...

(Best done as a 4 part round, as we do in Falmouth Shout πŸ˜ƒ)

14.08.2024 19:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

There's the giant's heart set into the pathway, which we tell kids you can feel if you put your foot on it and your hand on your chest. Maybe it's real...

That and the fact that your escape is cut off for 6 hours out of every 12...

14.08.2024 18:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

In my mind, forever "Twitter (RIP)". Like Marathons.

14.08.2024 11:39 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Wind is Southerly, it's them bleddy Frenchies sending it to both of us!

13.08.2024 16:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ah, of course, these numbers are percentage of Website traffic generated by social media, so sum to 100%.

I guess in lockdown people were more active on instant-response sites like Twitter and Instagram, clicking through to news / government sites?, and that ate FB's lunch for a while.

13.08.2024 13:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ah, that site measures traffic to websites from Twitter, not accounts:

gs.statcounter.com/faq#social-m...

So as it is mostly now rats in a bag fighting each other, maybe it doesn't generate that much external traffic any more.

Zooming out is interesting, particularly around lockdown!

13.08.2024 12:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Interesting discrepancy between that 24m and Tom's 10% - I wonder if there are a lot of dead / duplicate / bot accounts?

7 of those accounts were various business and hobby accounts of mine. All except my primary account (which is in protest mode) have been deactivated this week.

13.08.2024 11:41 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Elements of it, yes, but I was getting more Suffolk!

12.08.2024 11:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I've been mulling this over too, and I take @georgemonbiot.bsky.social's point that we shouldn't let the far right drive us out of any space.

But X is not a neutral space. Staying on there, either as eyeballs or contributor, directly generates income for Musk. That was the decider for me.

12.08.2024 09:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

She snared him.

10.08.2024 22:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Hollie McNish on Instagram: "All my life I’ve been told to be disgusted by so many things but really I think the world is ridiculous and incredible and I think your face is incredible too, so this is ... 40K likes, 1,963 comments - holliepoetry on July 11, 2024: "All my life I’ve been told to be disgusted by so many things but really I think the world is ridiculous and incredible and I think your face...

Never lose your sense of wonder at your own biology, let alone πŸ¦‹!

www.instagram.com/reel/C9RyMMe...

10.08.2024 09:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Beautiful crow against a black background

Beautiful crow against a black background

It seems to me that the time is ripe for a Bluesky thread about howβ€”and maybe even whyβ€”to befriend crows.

(1/n)

20.08.2023 01:55 πŸ‘ 7945 πŸ” 2583 πŸ’¬ 472 πŸ“Œ 750

Please tell me there was actually a gran carrying that sign πŸ˜‚

08.08.2024 07:50 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Exactly, same here. Followed and looking forward to it.

07.08.2024 22:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Civil war latest in Blackpool. These men have occupied a roundabout.

07.08.2024 21:07 πŸ‘ 1034 πŸ” 171 πŸ’¬ 103 πŸ“Œ 81

Oh, the site itself is superb, can't fault it (*) - it's the network effect that's needed to make it successful. That is in our hands, so me too!

(* well, a time-limited edit button would be nice 😜)

07.08.2024 17:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I feel like Bluesky is the team of normal people taking to the streets the morning after the looting and bin shoving to just sweep up and make eye contact with each other

06.08.2024 21:27 πŸ‘ 491 πŸ” 73 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 7
Painting of a man standing on a mountain looking out over foggy valleys.

Wanderer above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich

Painting of a man standing on a mountain looking out over foggy valleys. Wanderer above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich

On joining a new social site, escaping the rats-in-a-bag 24th-letter hellhole. A sense of space and purpose, tempered by an initial worry that it might be a little bit *too* empty, and those mountains look quite steep...

#BlueSky #exX #TwitterFlight

07.08.2024 12:34 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0