I've always thought it was tacky to ask for boosts to get visibility, and yet here I am. If this post doesn’t apply to you, please boost so it can get in front of the right people.
Writers of Mastodon (who use a Mac), I am looking for a handful of people who can join the closed beta for my new creative writing app, WordFlow next week.
Details about the app in the thread.
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Analoge creativiteit op PKM Summit 2026: https://blog.frankmeeuwsen.com/2026/03/20/analoge-creativiteit-op-pkm-summit.html
Vandaag start de 3e PKM Summit in Utrecht, onder de bezielende organisatie van Kim van den Berg, Lykle de Vries, Martijn Aslander en vele vrijwilligers. Twee dagen lang zijn er sprekers en sessies over notetaking, persoonlijke kennismanagement, AI, Obsidian, Notion, Visual Thinking en Idea Management. Met sprekers als Clive Thompson (Wired), Jorge Arrango, Marieke van Vl...
Story of loveliness for you all because you've been so well behaved recently.
I dated an Italian guy for about 3 months six years ago, and my mum decided it was time to start learning Italian.
The relationship didn't last but my mum never stopped learning Italian by herself in retirement. She's never had a teacher or been to a class; she's taught herself from apps and lots of books I've thrown at her.
She speaks Italian with the strongest English accent you've ever heard. There's no doubt to anyone that she is not a native speaker.
So last week she went to Turin for a couple of days, and she came back *buzzing*. She's been to Italy before and spoken Italian but this time was different.
She was having conversations in Italian with everyone about everything. Basic conversations but she was doing it and loving it.
In one restaurant the waiter couldn't possibly believe that she was an English person speaking this language. English?! English people only speak English! What the actual?! He was so overjoyed at her efforts that he kept bringing her all sorts of free food and limoncello until she asked him to stop.
When I spoke to her a couple of days ago she said it's so weird that you sit at home and learn this language but it doesn't mean anything. It's all nonsense. But then you go to a different country and say the nonsense words and people actually understand you!
I've always loved learning languages and this just warmed my cold, dead heart a wee bit.
#LanguageLearning #Italian #languages