Neil's Digital Stream
*planted: 02/04/2026last tended: 18/06/2026
My stream, a companion to the garden.
1. Recent daily logs
My 7 most recent daily notes. (A list of all can be found at the Journal index).
1.1. 2026-06-30
- Wrote:
1.2. 2026-06-27
1.4. 2026-06-22
- Listened:
- Today in Focus: Starmer resigns as UK prime minister - The Latest
- Keir Starmer gone.
- Good riddance. What a waste of Labour power.
- Some absolute horseshit in his resignation speech.
- Today in Focus: Starmer resigns as UK prime minister - The Latest
1.5. 2026-06-21
- Today is summer solstice here in the northern hemisphere.
- The longest day of the year.
- Solstice = sun stands still.
- There's a sign in the churchyard from Cumbria Wildlife Trust saying that it's a flower-rich area.
- It looks very nice. Like a wildflower meadow.
- Bookmarked:
- Bookmarked:
- Bookmarked:
- Listened:
- How to Blow Up a Pipeline
- Scranton and Franzen - Climate fatalism
- Paul Kingsnorth.
- "Easier to imagine geoengineering than reengineering the economy."
- Learning to die rather than learning to fight.
- All emissions make a contribution to aggregate damage done. So all attempts to reverse emissions are worth it.
- Mentions earth first, monkey wrench ing. Describes problems with deep ecology.
- deep green resistance and its problems.
- Reverse of earlier issue - they think violence without a movement is enough.
- Ende Gelände black pump shutdown.
- Example of how far right comes to defence of capital.
- How to Blow Up a Pipeline
1.6. 2026-06-20
- Listened:
- How to Blow Up a Pipeline
- Climate camps.
- Pours a lot of scorn on Extinction Rebellion, but a little praise too.
- How to Blow Up a Pipeline
- Bookmarked:
- Bookmarked:
- Bookmarked:
1.7. 2026-06-19
- Zettled:
- Zettled:
- Terrorism is the deliberately indiscriminate killing of innocent civilians for the purpose of instilling terror.
- Via How to Blow Up a Pipeline.
- This is Malm's particular definition of terrorism.
- Terrorism is the deliberately indiscriminate killing of innocent civilians for the purpose of instilling terror.
- It strikes me that if one were to work on a collaborative zettelkasten, then hub notes would be quite key.
- As a means to discover main notes.
- It's very unlikely people would use the same titles for main notes, so hub notes become the, well, hub from which you find other's views on a topic.
- This reminds me of something Bill Seitz said once in relation to twin pages and sister sites…. I wonder if I can find that again.
- Something like this, but I think somewhere it's even more explicit http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/SmashedTogetherWords
- Bookmarked:
- UK: Terrorist sentence for Palestine Action activist marks 'dangerous' move against right to protest
- "The use of terrorism laws against direct action protesters must end."
- UK: Terrorist sentence for Palestine Action activist marks 'dangerous' move against right to protest
- Zettled:
- 2026 Makerfield by-election: phew.
1.8. 2026-06-30
- Wrote:
1.9. 2026-06-22
- Listened:
- Today in Focus: Starmer resigns as UK prime minister - The Latest
- Keir Starmer gone.
- Good riddance. What a waste of Labour power.
- Some absolute horseshit in his resignation speech.
- Today in Focus: Starmer resigns as UK prime minister - The Latest
1.10. 2026-06-27
1.12. 2026-06-21
- Today is summer solstice here in the northern hemisphere.
- The longest day of the year.
- Solstice = sun stands still.
- There's a sign in the churchyard from Cumbria Wildlife Trust saying that it's a flower-rich area.
- It looks very nice. Like a wildflower meadow.
- Bookmarked:
- Bookmarked:
- Bookmarked:
- Listened:
- How to Blow Up a Pipeline
- Scranton and Franzen - Climate fatalism
- Paul Kingsnorth.
- "Easier to imagine geoengineering than reengineering the economy."
- Learning to die rather than learning to fight.
- All emissions make a contribution to aggregate damage done. So all attempts to reverse emissions are worth it.
- Mentions earth first, monkey wrench ing. Describes problems with deep ecology.
- deep green resistance and its problems.
- Reverse of earlier issue - they think violence without a movement is enough.
- Ende Gelände black pump shutdown.
- Example of how far right comes to defence of capital.
- How to Blow Up a Pipeline
1.13. 2026-06-20
- Listened:
- How to Blow Up a Pipeline
- Climate camps.
- Pours a lot of scorn on Extinction Rebellion, but a little praise too.
- How to Blow Up a Pipeline
- Bookmarked:
- Bookmarked:
- Bookmarked:
1.14. 2026-06-19
- Zettled:
- Zettled:
- Terrorism is the deliberately indiscriminate killing of innocent civilians for the purpose of instilling terror.
- Via How to Blow Up a Pipeline.
- This is Malm's particular definition of terrorism.
- Terrorism is the deliberately indiscriminate killing of innocent civilians for the purpose of instilling terror.
- It strikes me that if one were to work on a collaborative zettelkasten, then hub notes would be quite key.
- As a means to discover main notes.
- It's very unlikely people would use the same titles for main notes, so hub notes become the, well, hub from which you find other's views on a topic.
- This reminds me of something Bill Seitz said once in relation to twin pages and sister sites…. I wonder if I can find that again.
- Something like this, but I think somewhere it's even more explicit http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/SmashedTogetherWords
- Bookmarked:
- UK: Terrorist sentence for Palestine Action activist marks 'dangerous' move against right to protest
- "The use of terrorism laws against direct action protesters must end."
- UK: Terrorist sentence for Palestine Action activist marks 'dangerous' move against right to protest
- Zettled:
- 2026 Makerfield by-election: phew.
2. Microblogs
Not a lot happening in these, but for reference:
- Fediverse: https://social.coop/@neil
- Org Social: Neil's Org Social stream
3. Elsewhere
3.1. In my garden
Notes that link to this note (AKA backlinks).
