Hello

Whether connecting with new people or catching up with old friends, these are some of the ways I prefer to keep in touch.

• 📧 The best way to contact me is over email. After two decades on Gmail, I’ve recently switched the bulk of my personal communications to Proton Mail.

• 🌐 I have a profile on Assemblag.es, a Mastodon fork administered by off-duty science and technology studies researchers.¹ Decentralised by design, the platform’s granular privacy settings and self-deleting archive have been instrumental in weaning me off Twitter, while presenting fresh opportunities to post into the void.

• 📷 I share photos of strange objects, sights, and situations with friends and trusted others on Instagram. Having somehow dazzle-camouflaged Meta’s ad-targeting systems, I also treat the platform as a window into the collective unconscious; a way of monitoring the ebb and flow of dropshippers and get-rich-quick schemes.

• ⌨️ To streamline my website management, I’ve recently moved from Wordpress to a static site using Jekyll. I’m hoping this new setup will short-circuit some of the friction of posting, helping me push more regular updates.

• 👔 I’m on LinkedIn, though I don’t pretend to understand it.

• 🗂️ I’m an enthusiastic user of research and collaboration platform Are.na, which keeps me attuned to the weird art kids 15 years my junior.² I’ve been using the site since March 2020, and over the years, it’s become a kind of (searchable) prosthetic memory, and a key part of how I use the internet.

• ☕ In-person conversation has its own magic, and I’m always game for a coffee or a walk. So if you’re passing through York, Leeds, or elsewhere in the north of England, let me know, and we’ll line something up.