Do I really need all these platforms reminding me what a crap year 2025 was?

FabRiders’ first in-person event this decade! 🎉

On 20 Jan in London, The Strategy Design Festival will help organisations make strategy participatory, adaptive and alive in day-to-day work.

Please boost and share with London-based organisers, NGOs, funders and networks who might benefit: https://www.fabriders.net/strategy-design-festival/

@Cloud68 @FabRider I translated "Rise Against Big Tech" into Japanese;
https://www.alt-movements.org/no_more_capitalism/hankanshi-info/knowledge-base/internet-exchange_rise-against-big-tech-a-movement-for-collective-digital-freedom/

This is really useful for us tackling against Big Tech.
JCA-NET in Japan has monthly online webinar about against Big Tech surevides using Jitsi-meet.
https://www.jca.apc.org/

@lzg Same here. My British husband is constantly having to say to me “could you please try to look like you’ve made an effort?”

My response: “but I’ve made an effort to look like I haven't made an effort”

I’m starting 2026 by running my first live event in this decade. My own, not someone else’s. This has left me giddy beyond belief.

The Strategy Design Festival

Are you embarking on a strategic planning process for your organisation or programme in 2026? The Strategy Design Festival is an opportunity to discover how participatory, adaptive approaches can make strategy a living, breathing practice that your organisation returns to often, updates as conditions change, and uses to guide real decisions rather than sitting on a shelf. Participants can expect to leave the festival with inspiration,…

https://www.fabriders.net/the-strategy-design-festival/

I’ve just bought an hour of airplane wifi to watch the second episode of Alien Earth because it failed to download before take-off and I just get an error message saying the content is “not available in your region”

What region? This airplane?

Why is airplane wifi consistently mean to me?

Even if they fall out of fashion, I will continue to be their champion.

I will live the rest of my days as an espresso tonic connoisseur

I will also judge all cafes by whether or not they serve espresso tonic. And if they do, then by its quality.

I have reached a new epiphany. I’ve drunk an espresso tonic. This is the drink by which I will judge all others.

I was expecting some form of micro-dosing of ingredients but thankfully the cookie contained maximalised chocolate. So I’m happy.

Ofcourse a self-described micro-bakery is going to be so much better than just a common run of the mill small bakery.

Who knew I needed to go to a city to see wildlife. This was taken the other night at the top of Bernal Heights.

Middle class fly tipping is alive and well and living in San Francisco.

Just wondering if anyone grapples with journalling AND social media? How does one manage doing both?

On last nights flight, heading west we were treated to several hours of chasing #sunset.

To think I used to be a New Yorker that would never tolerate a queue

Embracing my Britishness by finding contentment in the queue to board a plane, I’m oddly serene. There’s comfort in our quiet anticipation, the ritual of waiting, the serenity of facing the back in front of me. Only moving when they move.

Yeah, aging sucks though having hope and optimism combined with the wisdom of maturity is kind of cool.