Stirred to action by unnerving changes to Facebook acceptable speech policy, something I have been meaning to do for a while is to take up blogging again. This is something that happens from time to time, and something which I miss from the old Livejournal days – I don’t kid myself I can generate the kind of community we had in those days, nor am I going to kick myself if it doesn’t last long this time around either.
This will be a two-pronged approach, firstly to start writing here again, secondly to link to posts made here from platforms where ‘my people’ are found, be that Facebook or Bluesky or other places as and when they are invented. For what it is worth I am @neilhopcroft.com on Bluesky, and @neilhopcroft on mastodon.social, follow me, or not.
The content I aim to post here will cover a few topics, not least of which is some attempt at recovery of my mental health from its current ragged state. I will also touch on technology, politics, economics, rhetoric, diesel traction, book reviews and various other themes, as I see fit.
My old blog from our travels to Stockholm will also see a refresh and repost here, remastering, if it were a record, presented in all its original naïve glory but with bigger brighter pictures, improved grammar and a search button that works.