Scratch Pad: Transcription, Glass, Plant

At the end of each week, I usually collate a lightly edited collection of recent comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. I tag on what books I may have finished reading. Knowing I’ll revisit my social media posts serves, I’ve found, as a positive and mellowing influence on my online activity. Some items show up on disquiet.com before this post, in which case I don’t repeat them. I mostly hang out on Mastodon (at post.lurk.org/@disquiet), and I’m also trying out a few others. And I generally take weekends off social media. ▰ When you’re auto-transcribing a rough draft of an interview and “Very strange indeed” comes out as “Quest spring and jundee,” which is very strange indeed ▰ Robert Plant is playing Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, a late announcement. He was incredible the last time he played the festival. ▰ It’s fun to make a good joke on Instagram (where I am @dsqt). Philip Glass posted this photo of a work-in-progress, and if you look closely…

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