In the last few years I’ve been switching away from the more corporate social networks, and trying to move to more open, less commercial ones that have less intrusive algorithms behind them.

I see pro-independence¹ rhetoric all the time at the moment in social media posts, which refers to “Westminster” as if it’s some sort of sinister cabal. Usually implied, if not explicit, is that Westminster is populated by “the English”, who are an army of clones that speak with one voice.

These posts often carry a good underlying message - that you should question the motives that lie behind what you read and view, and that there is ignorance and bias at work, even that there is a small elite who do not have the interests of the majority at heart - which is why good people tend to repost them.

However, I worry deeply about this sort of simplification.

I believe that everything worth celebrating about humanity is universal.

It’s not tied to a particular place, a particular language, or a particular set of people.

I’ve been pretty bad at blogging any personal / political stuff recently.

There are various reasons for this, but the fact that I’ve generally been taking a break from most of my (previously quite enthusiatic) social media interaction may have something to do with it.

I have however been doing some sporadic technical blogging.

These days, those posts live over at Elegant Chaos.

Here’s the latest blog post, with an update on what I’ve been tinkering with (in between watching World Cup games… and playing Witcher 3… and various other distractions…).

When I stopped work on Sketch, one of my resolutions was to blog a bit more.

I’m not doing very well on that front!