Roadside sculpture near Hollywood & Highland. #bronze20
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View from my brunch seat in El Segundo. #bronze20
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A better picture of my little @everyday__magic crystal haul.
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Bought these crystals at @everyday__magic but forgot to ask what they are. But they're pretty and @bakaraw said she's obsessed with my toddler (who picked out the lavender one on the far right).
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What I got W for Valentine's Day. Really leaning into our Giles/Jenny Calendar dynamic.
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Be your own toddler.
It begins... #thingsofbronze #buffy #btvs #podcast
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How Facebook Is Killing Comedy
I happened across this piece in Austin Kleon’s newsletter. It beautifully expresses a sentiment that I’ve heard from many of us who were around when the web was first becoming widely available: a desire to return to a time when individuals could publish things and you found them by searching or by word of mouth, not because an algorithm pushed them into a feed. This is not not about comedy, but it’s about a lot more than comedy. It seems more social media sites are adopting algorithms like Facebook’s all the time.
Here’s how I’m responding:
1. Publishing primarily here at KimberlyHirsh.com. Several months ago now I began to explore the IndieWeb movement. I’m still not really doing it fully - not using replies or events yet, for example. But I’ve gotten started and finally found my groove with long posts, status updates, and link-sharing, at least.
2. Using Facebook almost exclusively for its group functionality. Sadly nobody else is doing this with as widespread adoption as Facebook. This is where most of my communities are congregating. But I’ve unfollowed all of my friends and liked pages. If I want to know how a friend who internets mainly via Facebook is doing, I go directly to their timeline.
3. Subscribing directly to content providers in other ways. If I want to see everything, I go with RSS for a full blog feed. If I want more curated content, I go with a newsletter. I use Gmail labels to keep all my newsletters together and deliberately choose when to review them.
4. Observing my own response as I browse social media. If I’m scrolling Twitter or Instagram and I start to feel sad, angry, or bored, I step away. This is more about self-care than defeating algorithms, but it feels related, somehow.
There are scholars doing interesting and important work on this. Here are a few to check out:
Starting #lettermo with a bang. I'll reveal the contents of this package once I'm sure it's reached its destination. Not everyone will be getting something this fancy. Sorry!
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It feels like providence that this ran across my Instagram feed the morning after I decided to lean into the sea witchiness I've unconsciously been cultivating my whole life.
#Repost @entertheearth (@get_repost) γ»γ»γ» Thank you to everyone who has stopped by our tent at the Tucson gem show! Weβre still unpacking even more new material. We have a limited number of these expertly prepared fossil crabs. They are Macrophthalmus sp. from the former province of Majunga, Madagascar and date from the Pliocene Epoch (5-2.5 million years ago). (Because we can not ship at trade shows, they are currently only available in person. However we hope to carry some online and in our retail store soon.) The wholesale division of Enter the Earth is at the Kino Sports Complex gem show in Tucson, formerly known as Electric Park. Weβre tent #23. The show is open from January 26th, 2018 until February 11th, 2018. While the Kino show is open to both wholesale and retail customers, a physical copy of your tax identification is required for wholesale pricing, preferably a state resale license. We hope to see you there! #entertheearth #tucsongemshow #tucsongemshow2018 #kinosportscomplex #kinogemshow #gemshow #rockshop #crystalshop #rocks #minerals #fossils #fossilcrab #crab
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