"freak" is such a powerful insult, because anyone who's ever dyed their hair with manic panic or owned an account on tumblr dot com is so inoculated from it that it's practically a term of endearment, and yet it seems to earnestly rattle the sorts of people who think war crimes are cool and good
I'm old enough to have a Buffy-themed tattoo and today's @theflytrapmedia.com reprint of a classic Bitch article is a reminder of exactly how old I am because how has it been 25 years since the iconic Willow/Tara kiss??
does anyone know of any good and up to date guides to building progressive web apps? 👀
thanks in advance!
A doodle titled “yeah I love the writing process” and showing four different scenes. A figure hunched over a piece of paper, another hunched ferally over a laptop, a third making a “werk queen” face at a keyboard, and a fourth dissociating in their chair.
Back at it again in the mines
indie web people, video essayists who either don't make money OR make it mostly not on YouTube, other interested parties:
do you post your videos somewhere that isn't YouTube or tiktok or Instagram? do you feel like you get the reach you want doing it or you've just taken the L there?
TIA
indie web people, video essayists who either don't make money OR make it mostly not on YouTube, other interested parties:
do you post your videos somewhere that isn't YouTube or tiktok or Instagram? do you feel like you get the reach you want doing it or you've just taken the L there?
TIA
yeah cos he has a disability?!?!?! that makes him yell?!?!? stuff he doesn't want to yell?!?!
what is happening today
everyone loved the tech industry's free music and friendship machines of 20-30 years ago. it's unclear what could be causing people to feel the opposite about the industry's new racism and insanity machine
The biggest existential risk of AI is not AGI but the undermining of labor’s power as a counterweight to capital.
Artists & Freelancers Drop-in
Wed 11 Feb 7-8pm
Peer support for artists, freelancers, researchers, small community groups and other creatives who want to:
• Develop artist/freelance websites with open tools
• Use non-corporate social media
• Advice on branding, operations and project management
I've been on a bit of a social media hiatus, but I've written a new post about something that's been on my mind a lot lately localghost.dev/blog/stop-ge...
A group shot of the Pixel Pioneers 2025 attendees
A couple of female Pixel Pioneers attendees chatting in one of the breaks
Geri Reid and a few other Pixel Pioneers attendees during a talk
Diversity scholarships are once again available for @pixelpioneers.co (back in Bristol on 19 June).
Anyone in an underrepresented or marginalised group in tech is eligible (for a free ticket to the event). Applications close on 19 May, details here: pixelpioneers.co/diversity-sc...
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In communism there will be a dialectical materialism bowl
This summer I’m gonna be one of those lesbians that wears a backwards cap
This thread was stolen word for word from @africanarchives.bsky.social
How about you cut that shit out, Denise? How about crediting the authors you're ripping off, apologizing, and not doing that anymore? Come on.
We have a Front End Study Hall online meetup every couple of weeks where we share issues and work through them, and a lot of it is CSS, and using newer features to replace older complex ways events.indieweb.org/2026/02/fron...
pluribus I fucking love however, even if I don't understand or like the main character much at all, I'm indulging my love of hive minds lol
I don't watch much TV (I know, hold your applause) and:
heated rivalry has too much sport for me. I don't get why, it's like normal TV show levels of background activity & every scene that's not about relationships I'm like "Ew! No!" so I gave up after one ep
oh I see! I use readwise's (somewhat janky and questionable whether they are updating it ever lol) review system to look at highlights as it's the best I've found for that kind of thing for text. this sounds really cool!
do you bookmark where you got to mid batch or is it a long session thing?
what kind of workflow are you trying to capture?
i find it so interesting the different paradigms people use for PKM/notetaking/personal archiving
I get it. You know, I really don't mind if homeless people beg in the streets, as long as it's not in front of me
Forty years ago, 21 people gathered for the first meeting of what became the IETF. Today, nearly 8000 IETF participants from around the world collaborate in more than 100 working groups and every day billions of people use technologies developed in the IETF. https://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-40/
New Fight for the Human: about belief systems, changing our minds, extremophiles, and why I will always feel a strong love for Jurassic Park no matter how extraordinarily bad those movies get
www.fightforthehuman.com/science-at-t...
Screenshot showing the thumbnails of 27 slides, all numbered and containing 1 sentence; dozens of emoji are stuck to many of them; the headline in the top-left corner reads: Martin’s hopes – in no proper order
It’s good to hope for something.
Following @olu.online’s example, I wrote down my hopes (for the work context) for the first time in early 2025.
This week, I shared my 26 hopes for 2026 with our design & user research team.
They added plenty of emojis.
👇
verwaltungsgestaltung.de/notizen/2026...
