A toast to Twitter! To mark the occasion of my 10th Twitterversary on Thursday 17 January 2019, here are five things I love about Twitter.
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MJCarty.com – my brand-new home for #Blogulence and #Sketchulence!
Welcome to MJCarty.com! This here website is the new home for my blogulent musings. I’ll be publishing all my new blog posts here henceforth. It also works as the new home for all my previous blog posts.
#SaturdaySix (May 2018 Sunday edition!): JK Rowling’s stratosphere, heartbroken hostas, Sussex giraffes
Warmest welcomes to my #SaturdaySix for May 2018 – a monthly sextet of things that are inspiring me right now. And yes, I know this one is going out on a Sunday! Now: what is floating your own boat? I’d love to know – please drop me a line with your own current raves! 1: […]
#SaturdaySix March 2018: #Sketchulence, Jaws, Shandling’s Zen & more!
Beware the #SaturdaySix of March! This is my latest monthly round-up of six things that are inspiring me right now. And I’d love to know – what are you finding inspirational, right this minute? 1: Sketchulence Introducing #Sketchulence, a home for sketches, scribblings, scrawlings, art, photography and musings, created or curated by – in a […]
Something will be found
Do you have a core, motivating belief? Is it something that you can put into words? How open are you to the next moment? I’ve always been a great believer in randomness and serendipity. If you put your trust in the next moment, if you can open yourself to chance, precisely the right thing will […]
Moment
Every day of your life (no matter how unexceptional) contains perfect moments (no matter how fleeting). My friend Nicholas Creswell tweeted something wonderful to me the other week: “I do find my most treasured and vivid memories […]
Monty Python’s Da Vinci Code (avec rabbits)?
Gentle reader, a word of warning: This post concerns rabbits. It covers John Cleese’s views on rabbits (a conspiracy that goes deep?) and the magic of Twitter, concluding with some uplifting news for rabbitkind. Money, it has long been alleged, is the root of all evil. But could it be that the root of all […]
Twitter’s perfect compromise?
If you tweet, what do you think of this week’s radical new change to Twitter’s very @-ness? Gifting us more characters to play with, or a disturbance in the Force of what Twitter is all about? “A good compromise is when both parties are dissatisfied." These words are widely attributed to the great Larry David […]
My Twitterversary: The grateful 8!
Twitterverse: Thank you for eight fantastic years of the wonderful and the quite wonderfully unexpected! Today (17 January 2017) marks eight years since I joined the world of Twitter (as @mjcarty). My eighth Twitterversary, if you will. I love Twitter. It has truly changed my life for the better. It serves the new and unexpected […]
Why do you “do” social media?
What does social media mean to you? What does your use of social media say about you? If a tweet falls in a forest and no-one hears it, does it make a sound? Summertime and the tweeting is easy. For many of us in 2016, high summer brings not just thoughts of getting away from […]
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