Scratch Pad: LARP, BBS, PR

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. ▰ Was expecting a nice quiet day now that the holiday weekend’s strafe LARPing has concluded, but instead a massive utility vehicle has been parked out front for two-plus hours, and the resulting heavy-equipment drone is so dense you can almost see it in the air ▰ There’s wisdom in those boards. I’m on too many BBSs to count, and I love the ones that have a little phrase at the top of some threads, which Slack is good at. These…