Interesting read about overtourism and what encourages it:
#travel #food #spain https://www.bengroundwater.com/have-i-helped-ruin-san-sebastian/
"What has happened in San Sebastian? And more to the point, have I played a part in this?
You have to examine this when you work in media, when you have a voice in a national mass market and you have modest influence on social media. What was my role in this? And is it necessarily wrong?"
Have […]
"When Emily Cullen picked up her son after his English exam, she assumed the smile on his face meant things had gone well.
Instead, the Galway poet was about to discover that a poem she had written seven years earlier, and which was inspired by him, had appeared on the paper." […]
Strange. Every other Ugandan that I don't know in real life and I see on mastodon is only posting about gardens, farming, and such. And they all appear to be young people in their 20s....
Just finished binging on Season 1 of Shrinking, and was pleasantly surprised to see Harrison Ford in it, hadn't seen him in anything in very many years, and it made me wonder where all those big names of yesterday are now. Tom Hanks, Denzel, Bruce Willis, Julia Roberts.... I can't even name or […]
It's #SolarPunkSunday so a reminder that my new book is available for pre-order in all stores.
It's the story of an old woman struggling to fit in because her village has a very tight sense of community, yet she likes to be alone, so she takes on a leadership role so as not to appear […]
Now that there is "follow by email" on Mastodon, I wonder if this can be an effective replacement for newsletter platforms, so instead of paying a monthly fee to say MailChimp you spin up your own server and have people follow by email? The costs might be the same, or less?
I hate writing synopses, especially for short stories, but these people want me to send them some. It's annoying. Very easy to write one for a novel since the story is longer and you can just describe the first part of it and get away with it, but the short story, that is more complicated. By […]
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Dilman Dila
Dilman Dila
This is a bit of a review of 2025 and an outlook to 2026 regarding #MakerTube. The platform matured a lot in the last year. We had a lot of growth, but also technical stability improved a lot. This is primarily thanks to the moderators while I could focus on […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
RE: https://mograph.social/@dilmandila/116770725556040742
“Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.”
- Audre Lorde
