One of three old geezers who pauses their chess game on the front porch of a decrepit boozer to narrow their eyes at Bad People rolling into town in their rusted Tesla

Let's see if @iainthomson.bsky.social will omelette you get away with it.

We could always dip back in next week.

Albumen large shell fund at that.

Now do Waitrose

Ooof. I remember a publisher explaining (in the shiny new multimedia studio big enough to house our entire company) that smaller tech web titles set up by ex-employees had resulted in ad sales drops, and that was why they were buying one of them. Lot of people then left to set up micro news sites.

Very similar to to controlled circulation trades like Computer Weekly and New Scientist. Recruitment web sites sites cut recruiting ads in half overnight, and then bled the other half dry. This, and the rise of small web-only news sites, hurt local and trade titles from the late 90s on.

I know it's not, but my first thought was the eerie, beautiful illustrations Tolkien drew in the Father Christmas Letters to his children.

A Buddhist Noble Truths approach to social media platforms?

All, not Aall. The curse of first posts...