A folder of ghosts,
held against the tide of forgetting.
Signals from past everyones,
waiting,
for the perfect moment to return.
Meme Stash as a Folk Archive
While cleaning up my laptop’s desktop today, dragging images into my GOOD MEME’s folder, I had a thought: Saving memes down to your computer is a way of holding onto cultural memory. The Meme Stash as Folk Archive
Memes are little artefacts of online thought—symbols, fragments of language, snapshots of the collective mind. Downloading them is a way of taking control of the wider media environment, keeping something from disappearing off and away into the endless scroll.
So what is a meme stash really?
- A personal archive? – A collection of images, jokes, and references saved according to your own system, not dictated by an algorithm.
- A way to stop things from disappearing? – What’s everywhere today might vanish tomorrow. Without saving, it’s left to the mercy of the internet’s short memory.
- A form of curation? – Not all memes are worth keeping, just like not all books are worth owning. Saving is a choice.
- A tool for asynchronous cultural participation: A meme might sit untouched for months or even years before being brought back at the perfect moment.
To collect memes is to exercise discernment.
It’s not that different from Pinterest or any other way people collect and arrange things they find meaningful. Pinterest is about curating an aesthetic, picking and organising images to express a personal style or mood. A meme stash does the same, but with humour, commentary, and internet culture. I think if Pinterest represents an aspirational self, the meme stash is the ironic self.
I don’t think a meme stash is JUST a random folder of saved images—it’s a living folk archive, a personal repository of cultural moments that mattered enough to preserve. Unlike institutional archives, which collect with authority and intent, a meme stash grows organically, shaped by individual taste, humour, and memory. And like all folk archives, it tells a story—not just of internet culture, but of the person curating it.
On The Blog:
Oh lord! I finally finished copy and pasting all my podcasts on to the blog! The Permanently Moved Online Archive is now fully complete! It was fun revisiting some of the episodes I made back in 2018. The first 10 .. were not very good at all. LOL. Very happy to have finished this. Means I get 30-40mins back every morning.
I’ve started organising / rebuilding my Blog Categories page but ran out of steam. Quite a bit more to do!
Permanently Moved
Email is a Destination
In primary school, we had a lesson in the new computer lab which involved sending an email to each other at adjacent desks.
Full Show Notes: https://thejaymo.net/2025/02/15/2502-email-is-a-destination/
- Experience.Computer: https://experience.computer/
- Worldrunning.guide: https://worldrunning.guide/
- Subscriber Zine! https://startselectreset.com/
Permanently moved is a personal podcast 301 seconds in length, written and recorded by @thejaymo
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Photo 365
The Ministry Of My Own Labour
- 90min book sprint with RIVAL
- Full day on/with PROJECT ENTRY team
- Much spreadsheeting 👀
- Lots more editing on SLOP MACHINES
- Played with ChatGPT pro and … have book on my kindle I didn’t write…
- Sent some invites to potential Experience.Computer Guests
- Took a look at some data for Novara, need to come back to that as it’s another epic spreadsheet.
Terminal Access
Spend my evenings catching up on friends and acquaintances public output this week. Really enjoyed this XCamp keynote from Dre about using AI in his creative practice.
I also highly recommend this conversation between Dougald and Nate Hagens from The Great Simplification.
Dipping the Stacks
What if we treated men like adults?
I actually agree that masculinity is under attack—from men like Vance. The problem is that for all their posturing, these guys don’t actually feel like men.
CD-ROMS in 1994: Bowie, Prince, Gabriel, and Cybermania ’94 | Cybercultural
Even if Bowie and Eno had continued their efforts to create a truly innovative musical CD-ROM for the Outside project — one that garnered multiple Cybermania awards and maybe even matched contemporary games in technical wizardry — it’s doubtful that many in the MTV generation would’ve cared.
Someone once said that Regean and Gorbachev had more in common with each other than with the citizens of their country. I think that idea maps nicely onto the relationship between influencers and non-influencers.
what OnlyFans’ billions reveal about the market value of male desire
The platform has exposed the ultimate paradox of digital-age masculinity: men have become both the engine and the exhaust of a system that systematically strips them of what they believed was their intrinsic sexual power. Their gaze, once a weapon of social control, has been commodified into just another metric on a dashboard, alongside click-through rates and conversion percentages.
On Humans as a Keystone Species.
I wish you could experience what that’s like. It starts with knowing that such a thing is possible, and understanding that we are the keystone species, with the potential to manage land and water to maximize life and expand earth’s carrying capacity, while caring for ourselves.
Reading
Still re-reading Autobiography of a Yogi. Still reading How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens. I had to put Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism by Anna Kornbluh down. It’s like reading molasses, all the words just start spinning around
I started reading Fangirls: Scenes From Modern Music Culture by Hannah Ewens. Its fantastic! I’m about 1/4 of the way though Bill Gates’ The Road Ahead too. Just got to the bit where he predicts the iPhone or ‘wallet computer’!!
Music
Summer Portraits – Ludovico Einaudi
I think if you had told anyone 20 years ago that the Italian composer Ludovico Einaudi would be getting Nine billion streams a year they wouldn’t be able to reconcile it. But here we are.
Summer portraits is a concept album loosely based around Einaudi summers as a schoolboy in the 1960’s. The whole album from start to finish is dripping in nostalgia and passions. It sounds like warm summer wind, hot summer evenings and an optimistic passion.
Remember Kids:
I wasn’t trying so hard to read the words. I sort of let them come to me.
How You Stand, How You Move, How You Live by Missy Vineyard
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