Posts by Lilith __
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I had a walk on Sumner beach last night. I found lots of blue sky, and it wasn’t always above me…
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Cracker: It's urs!, in reply to Kyle Matthews,
My 14 year old makes short zombie movies in his spare time
Damian was saying he wanted our brains…
But seriously, what a fantastic concept this is!! My young self would have been over the moon. Creating, sharing, connecting…wow.
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Up Front: Oh, Grow Up, in reply to Hebe,
Oh Hebe, Filthy Friday, how hilarious!
I feel a lot more like a grownup now I realise everybody’s just doing the best they can, which is often not that great. And we’re all one mis-judgement away from epic fail.
As a teen I used to think adults must be all so competent and not just making it up as they went along. Now I know better, lol.
I remember a 50ish man telling me, when I was in my teens, that he still didn’t know what he wanted to be when he grew up. I thought he was kidding.
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Up Front: Oh, Grow Up, in reply to Russell Brown,
I have a good friend on the spectrum and he's been long and happily married with kids. He says he's hopeless at relationships, but I don't believe it. He always responds immediately if a friend is sad or needs help. In fact he is MORE attentive than many of my neurotypical friends.
I know he works hard to infer and deduce all he does. And he doesn't always get it right (who does?). But he thinks working hard to connect and be with other people is an important thing to do.
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Hard News: My Food Bag: is it any good?, in reply to Alastair Thompson,
As for leaving Twitter to sort out Twitter’s social niceities – isn’t that what we are in the process of doing?
What I meant and didn't express very well was that I think the Twitter community will sort it. And probably not by means of rigid rules, but by social censure and blocking of transgressors. Nobody likes spam dressed up as conversation, and I don't think Twitterers will put up with it.
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Hard News: My Food Bag: is it any good?, in reply to Alastair Thompson,
I think there's an important difference between advertising and marketing. Spreading some foody love to social-media people is a marketing strategy: no one is compelled to write anything, and there's no reward for positive comments, or indeed for mentioning it at all.
I'm all for letting Twitter sort out its own social niceties. We all hate spam, ESPECIALLY if we're not expecting it. I'd expect a sharp backlash against stealth advertising. But tweeps giving opinions on stuff they like and don't like? That's 90% of Twitter traffic. :-)
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Hard News: My Food Bag: is it any good?, in reply to Russell Brown,
Surely it’s naive to think journos don’t get free samples to review? Book reviewers don’t buy the books.
The irony there is that it’s not uncommon for editors to hand over review copies of books and tell their poor reviewers that is the payment.
Seriously?? No wonder book reviewers get so angry when they don't like a book....
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Surely it's naive to think journos don't get free samples to review? Book reviewers don't buy the books.
A free sample is not pay. And remember that anybody trying out MyFoodBag also had to spend the hours making the fancy meals. So they had to want to. -
I can't help thinking a modular approach would suit more people. Particularly one with vegetarian and gluten-free options available. And I can imagine if there were recipes you really liked, you might want to have them again.
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Sacha,
Sacha, it would be nice to think our democratic rights weren't limited to ticking a couple of boxes every 3 years. Our government is supposed to have due process to ensure we are consulted and considered at every stage. But the current government continues to abuse and ignore due process, and to act contrary to our interests as well as our wishes.
While the Opposition could be doing a much better job of holding the government to account, I think it's also down to all of us to make noise about the erosion of our democratic rights whenever and wherever it occurs.
