Wednesday, 13th December 2023

On. Those. Trays.

Oh Basil!

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The Chamberlain Memorial and Birmingham Town Hall, from a car park between Chamberlain Square and Gt Charles St, showing the partly demolished buildings believed to be the Mason Science College (later to be the site of the 1970s Central Library)

Tony Davis, 1964, I think. #

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Birmingham City Centre, 1964-ish

I spent a little time in Flickr today, and it reminded me of so many good intentions. I could easily (not easily) spend all my time tagging and annotating photographs and putting them somewhere with some commentary on my life and what was going on. Obviously the one above wasn’t taken by me, but I know a few things about the man who did take it. #


I’m irritated by Threads. The only reason I go there is because Instagram and FB have little clickbaity embeds and I sometimes can’t resist the bait. I don’t want to write there. I don’t like the way it’s becoming, for some, the Twitter replacement – I don’t think FB/Meta can be trusted with that any more than any other platform-owners. I don’t like the way they’ve implemented tags. It might have to be the first instance of me proactively deleting a social media account. #


That’s the second time I’ve seen Dave point to Indieblocks – it does look like the sort of thing I ought to at least have an opinion on. #