Category — Microblog Mondays

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Rebecca Solnit had a piece in the Guardian on climate change, but I think the dek applies to all news right now: “So much is happening, both wonderful and terrible – and it matters how we tell it. We can’t erase the bad news, but to ignore the good is the route to indifference or despair.”

The problem is outlined in the first paragraph: “We are hemmed in by stories that prevent us from seeing, or believing in, or acting on the possibilities for change.”

I went from not reading opinion pieces to sticking to heds and deks for news coverage to taking nights skipping the news entirely, beyond email alerts, because it felt like all bad news. And while Solnit is correct, we cannot erase the bad news, she is also correct that we cannot leave people in a perpetual state of hopelessness. Celebrating the small wins, highlighting the work that can be done, spotlighting people making a difference helps balance out the reality of those other stories. Because I think Harvey Milk had it right when we think about the power of hope to drive change.

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Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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I really like this game. It has had staying power, like Bracket City and 368 Chickens. Every day, you get a picture turned into a 7 x 7 square of dots. Click the dot, and it breaks into smaller dots. Click those dots, and they break into even smaller dots. If you could click every dot, you would see the pixelated image. But the trick is that you only have 60 clicks.

I don’t stress about the clicks (for instance, I don’t try to keep it to only 10 clicks) and find that I can usually guess the image correctly in 30 – 40 clicks.

Have a go at it.

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This game annoys me for two reasons. First, it often resets, especially if you are playing on your phone and walk away from it. It is annoying to need to go through a board again.

The second reason is that I cannot pass level 3. LEVEL 3! I keep coming close, but then I forget how I got that far and mess up the pattern. I would keep at it, but I fear that if I’m having this much trouble with level 3, I will only be annoyed with level 4 and/or the game resetting and needing to win level 3 a second time.

But maybe it’s your cup of tea.

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This fun game comes with a warning. The game resets every day at 5 pm ET (or maybe it’s 5 pm in your time zone), which means if you play it one day in the evening and then open the game the next morning, you won’t find a new board. I wish all games reset at midnight in your time zone.

Anyway.

If you were looking for something akin to Wordle but with colours, play Colorfle. It’s really hard because you have to mix the colours in the correct order to get the colour on the right side of the circle.

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I adore this story about how Penn and Teller did a magic trick, and it’s a really good reminder that most things you’re impressed with require an extraordinary amount of time to accomplish.

It’s two-fold: The hours put in learning sleight of hand to get the correct card chosen and the months put in having the grass regrow.

But mostly, I love Teller’s quote: “Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.” It’s something to keep in mind whenever making a comparison.

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