Monthly Archives: January 2025

How to: Use Signal

Because the world is increasingly getting both weirder and more compromised, it makes sense to take care of how you present yourself online. Tightening up your communications is something to pay attention to. I used to use Signal but they gave up some features a few years ago to increase security. It might make sense to go back to them though, and ignore the missing bells and whistles.

Hello darkness, my old friend: the Ann Telnaes resignation and the late, formerly great Washington Post

Former Washington Post editorial cartoonist Ann Tenaes made a bit of a stir over the weekend after her cartoon (see above) got the axe from her editors and she decided she had had enough and quit.

Many have wrote about it, including Tenaes herself, and Rolling Stone did a story on the dangers of going up against billionaire owners with fragile egos.

We have a wealthy class bowing down to an incoming rapey despot and dare call ourselves a democracy.

Damn shame what they are doing – and are about to do – to this place.

Tubi: By Any Means (2008)

One of my favorite things to watch are the Ewan MacGregor/Charley Boorman motorcycle documentaries: Long Way Round, Long Way Down…still mean to watch Long Way Up.

This series follows Boorman with a lighter crew but a way more ambitious plan to get from Ireland to Australia. It is a lot of joy with a fair mix of chaos. Unfortunately it has lost a lot of its online supporting documentation. I am now reading the book as well just in case there is stuff I missed in the show, because it looked like some things should have been touched on more.

Sadly, thus far, maybe it just was. Pity. Still fun to watch though.