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I just miss doing art. Don’t you? Naomi Kritzer, Better Living Through Algorithms i bought myself some presents. i like them. they're nice.

Juliette wrote last week about Deadpan photography. I was intrigued because it’s a term I had seen start appearing all over the place lately and I wasn’t sure…

There has been some talk, even from those unsympathetic to Nigel Farage, that the candidacy of Count Binface, the highest-profile opponent to the Reform leader…

We often forget how inexpensive it is (often free, in fact) it is to completely make someone’s day/week/year or, even, give them a memory they will cherish for…

Everything about this story is wonderful, from the activist group's name to the surgical vandalism to the not-so-subtle nod to the classic ”They Live”, John…

For over two centuries, enslaved people across North America risked everything to escape bondage, and slaveholders had a ready tool to try to stop them: the…

I try my best to do something creative every day. Some days I get to spend hours in front of the computer working on art, other times I only have a few minutes…

What happens when you mention to your D&D group, who mostly have ADHD, that your tumble dryer is broken? Free labour!

When I was a kid, my father bought a family home computer and placed it in the living room for all to see. When guests came to our house, they would stop by…

A quick one today, but it’s been on my mind and I wanted to get it down on paper, so to speak. We’ve been watching The Big Bang Theory for a while. I do enjoy…

I've been searching for a volunteer opportunity for the past year or so, trying to find something I can stick with long-term and that will help my community…

Sometimes our online friends are more real than our "IRL" friends.

I love taking notes, but one problem that I have is that that I start cherishing every notebook that I start. I can't seem to keep my notes messy. Eventually,…

I'm awake at a weird hour because of piloerection. I assure you piloerection is an actual term and a condition of the human body even though the Bear Blog…

After seeing Ian’s plea to Don’t Forget to Share the Posts You Love recently, I decided to get off my arse and do something I've been meaning to since I…

I'm not pretentious when it comes to coffee. I like it slightly weak and bitter with a ton of milk or cream in it, and that's it. Go to any cafe in America and…

My workplace is starting to drink the kool-aid and I went through one of those boring and cringe presentations, for the sake of y'all, hope you're happy!

A worthy check-in question to ask ourselves from time to time — would the me from ten or twenty years ago have wanted to be the me today? If we find ourselves…

It’s been a little over two months since I wrote about wanting to go a little more analogue with parts of my workflow. I bought pens. I bought a notebook. Now…

(timelapse photos of Photinus pyralis in flight. fly left, fly right from Wikimedia) 14 July 2026 Last night after sunset I sat on a park bench and watched…

16 July 2026 The wildfire smoke in Pittsburgh today is from wildfires in western Ontario and the Boundary Waters of Minnesota(*). As of Thursday 16 July at…

For the first time since 1946, the total debt of the United States ($39.5 trillion) is greater than our GDP ($32-ish trillion). The interest on this debt is…

"After losing their jobs at NOAA, Rebecca Lindsey, her sister and another colleague teamed up to rebuild a pivotal resource the Trump administration took…

"Historically, the Justice Department has sought to subpoena reporters only as a last resort after other reasonable options have been exhausted." Now the FBI…

Karl Bode: One lie that companies have been telling local municipalities is that if they greenlight a massive local AI data center, it will immediately bring a…

I love reading. I caught the bug as a middle-schooler when I got caught skipping school, and as punishment, I had to read The Chronicles of Amber and do a book…

Just saw this over on Bubbles and had to reply because I so understand how this blogger feels! Gavin writes about his Photoshop frustrations in An Infuriating…

Hack the text output of Claude Code to make life a little bit sillier.

The latest anti-feature from Automattic—now infecting Gravatar. Photo by: Unattributed, License: Copyright Unattributed. Licensed under Creative Commons…

Wolf looking directly into a camera at close proximity. There is a bit of an issue I have noticed lately: websites actively blocking Reading Mode in Firefox,…

If you've tried installing Windows 11 recently, you'll know Microsoft really wants you to sign in with a Microsoft account. Unfortunately, the old method to…

Here are my practical notes and pros/cons, after using the tiny Xteink X4 e-reader. Open firmware, but no DRM!

If you read this site regularly, then you’ll know in the past year there’s been a marked increase in “AI” spam and scams designed to try to con writers…

Two boats docked behind a berm. Introduction Many years ago (over a decade) I wrote an article about RSS Feed reader alternatives after Google announced they…

To summarize my answer to Antonio's post: good! I don't read posts in my feed reader to look at styles, I do it to consume content - to read their thoughts.…

As somebody who writes a lot, I've always been interested in personal knowledge management systems and note-taking apps. But what do these frameworks and…

The internet didn’t become broken overnight, it drifted from being a network of communities into a marketplace dominated by platforms whose purpose is…

Ever since I’ve had a website, I’ve been curious to know who is visiting it and what they do while they’re there. Am I posting into an empty space, or is…

Markdown - 2 lines # Contact forms Is any channel worse for communication than a contact form? Maybe a postcard when you don't know the address. Minimal HTML -…

We're paying A.I.'s hardware tax on everything we buy, and most people don't even know it's happening.

In my 2nd ever post on this blog - 2 years ago! - I wrote about tending to my music collection, so on the anniversary of that post I figure now is a good time…

“Why am I paying a consultant for something AI can do in 15 minutes?” I’ve heard variations of that question several times over the past few months. On the…

Yes. Next question! Oh, you’re still here? In that case let’s apply Rigorous Science (TM) to support our claim and to satisfy the never-ending hunger of…

The recent fiasco involving Linus Torvalds running Linux like the privileged man that he is and entirely missing the central points of the arguments made by…

i ironically read this article by antonio on my rss readerand im pretty conflicted on this one!on one hand, i agree that blog customization is fun and i like…

I came across this article by Panayotis, for whom “AI-generated blog post images are not cool any more”. It’s not the first article on that topic I have read,…

I like Angela Collier’s videos about physics and I was delighted to discover this 18-minute one… …because it’s a great continuation to the thread about the…

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