LeftFooted's Antics

LeftFooted's Antics

Here... I just write about the most random stuff


Your daily reminder that we're all at the mercy of centralisation

31 May 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted $0.03

I have a few YouTube channels, including one which is growing quite nicely at a very steady - albeit slow - pace. I sometimes invest some cash in it with promotions, and that was going well. Until it didn't. A few days ago I uploaded a video which...

Things that used to work but kinda don't anymore

25 May 2025 3 minute read 7 comments LeftFooted $0.08

When you work in the media, you may work for your boss, but you report to algorithms. If you're a writer, you have many bosses on top of your CEO or director or whatever: Google, Facebook, and so on. It's the name of the game. I started writing a...

Life is the sort of thing where stuff you don't want to happen... happens

22 May 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted $0.05

This is going to be a personal but fcuk it. A few months ago, shortly after my break-up with my former partner, we shall call this person UX Designer, I met someone else, we shall call this person Recently Divorced. I met Recently Divorced in Octob...

It can only get worse

7 May 2025 1 minute read 5 comments LeftFooted $0.12

I got a push notification from Curve, a debit card provider and payment card aggregator, with a message from one of their customer service operators. Long story short, they need to verify some data. To be fair, they did send a couple of emails, whi...

Hail Mary

5 May 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted $0.09

English is a great language for a variety of reasons, one of which is the fact it has so many quirky expressions you can use. As I'm writing, I'm about to send a Hail Mary text - not gonna say what it's for, but it's a Hail Mary, it either works or...

Things I've learned

4 May 2025 1 minute read 3 comments LeftFooted $0.06

With exceptions, no one owes you anything Luck, chance and coincidences exist, but they also depend on your actions No relationship (any kind, not just sentimental) is never really over If you like doing something, do it Say thank you and please mor...

The things we do for crypto

29 Apr 2025 1 minute read 1 comment LeftFooted $0.07

I made it to Dubai for Sui Basecamp and some other crypto stuff. Here's my night so far. I landed late in the evening and waited for a shuttle bus which was supposedly supposed (sorry) to take me to my hotel. Except, it didn't. It wasn't there. I...

The absurd anomaly Instagram created (the one no one's talking about)

16 Mar 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted $0.08

Instagram is a great tool. But also a s***y one. But it is what it is. It's here, and it's not going away. It can be useful, and it can be harmful, and it exposes us to a lot of things that wouldn't have happened 20 years ago. For better or worse....

The government reserve 'they don't tell you about'

8 Mar 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted $0.10

Everyone's talking about a crypto government reserve, but the US government has reserves of a lot of things, from gold... to cheese. Commonly referred to as 'government cheese', the US government 'hodls' 1.4 billion pounds of cheese, stored in a cav...

Stop throwing good money after bad

4 Mar 2025 1 minute read 1 comment LeftFooted $0.05

There's an expression I like that goes, "stop throwing good money after bad". Like so many other expressions, it's grammatically weird, and you wouldn't say out of the context of the expression, but I love it. To 'stop throwing/not throw good money...