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Jul 7, 2025: I opened a Pandora’s box of domain names and now I’m juggling three different concepts. I want to build the WallChicken.net gaming blog, like I’m in …
Jul 5, 2025: I’m getting this PikaPods/Ghost setup figured out after all. It took me a minute to grasp needing something like Mailgun to do automated emails for …
Jul 4, 2025: The more I explore self hosting, the more I appreciate how easy it is to use Micro.blog 🫣
Jul 4, 2025: AI-Generated Music Is Starting to Crowd Out the Real Stuff on Streaming Platforms: [The Velvet Sundown] which now boasts over 750,000 monthly …
Jul 4, 2025: What is Wall Chicken? Wall Chicken or Wall Meat refers to a trope in the Castlevania series of video games where a piece of chicken can be found hidden in breakable walls …
Jul 2, 2025: You’ll all be doing it tomorrow I used to watch a lot of Rick and Morty. One of my all-time favorite episodes is the one where a bunch of parasitic aliens get loose from Rick’s lab …
Jul 1, 2025: Tonight, we’re drinking Writers' Tears 🍻
Jul 1, 2025: UFO whistleblowers at the congressional hearing when asked what evidence they have, who’s piloting the crafts and where they were spotted:
Jun 30, 2025: Want a job? Just put ‘AI skills’ on your resume This is the new version of grandma thinking you’re a computer whiz because you can type without …
Jun 30, 2025: There’s nothing like the calm after you finally address the thing you’ve been stressing over all day.
Jun 28, 2025: Musk, Gates, and Zuckerberg announce the end of the smartphone Elon Musk is betting everything on Neuralink, a brain-machine interface that allows …
Jun 28, 2025: People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into “ChatGPT Psychosis”: At the core of the issue seems to be that ChatGPT, which …
Jun 26, 2025: The oral history of the Hampsterdance: The twisted true story of one of the world’s first memes That Boomtang Boys track, “The Hampsterdance Song,” …
Jun 26, 2025: Some notes on piracy I liked this video. He talks about how Gen Z grew up in a world where no one actually owns anything. From a Kindle library to music, movies/TV shows …
Jun 24, 2025: ROM hacks I'm playing this week Remember when the internet was still new, and you could spend hours digging through random websites, stumbling on weird little corners full of …
Jun 22, 2025: 29 Years Ago, FPS Gaming Changed Forever Perhaps most importantly, Quake has not been surpassed by any modern shooter when it comes to what it set …
Jun 22, 2025: After 10 years of development, the emulator that lets you play NES games in full 3D has been fully released 3dSen, the amazing emulator that lets you …
Jun 21, 2025: Got my copy of Carrier Pigeon Quarterly! @kalikambo is the authority on zines around here imo so when I saw her post about this a while back I thought …
Jun 20, 2025: Seeing Through It Over time, transparency in technology became a bit of a trend in itself—resulting in see-through music players, pagers, and even …
Jun 18, 2025: Really good interview with Kevin Rose on the Digg revamp and making the web more human. Honestly I feel some social web vibes here… Like it’s not …
Jun 17, 2025: Trump’s EPA to “reconsider” ban on asbestos On Monday, the EPA, now under the Trump administration, filed court documents saying that it "now intends …
Jun 15, 2025: pico-mac-nano : a diminutive macintosh facsimile - 1bitrainbow pico-mac-nano is a miniature, functional, scale replica of the original 1984 Apple …
Jun 14, 2025: Yooo Digg.com TestFlight just launched! I didn’t think it would be here so soon! 🤩 It feels like Christmas in June. I never thought I’d be using …
Jun 13, 2025: I’ve been test driving Overcast for the last few days. Apple Podcasts is too cluttered for my taste but going full RSS feels too stripped down. I …
Jun 13, 2025: GameStop CEO Says The Company’s Future Isn’t In Games GameStop is leaning heavily to trading cards as part of its future strategy, according to CEO …
Jun 13, 2025: I love thebackgroundnpc’s take on this. Nintendo is the Disney of gaming—they feel so cozy at the surface but then you realize their business model …
Jun 11, 2025: From their new album NEVER ENOUGH: Turnstile - SOLE I fucking love this band! I never really gave them a chance until we saw Blink-182 in Cleveland a …
Jun 10, 2025: Skip some of the upgrades If you read this blog, you know I’m going through an obsession with retro gaming right now. If you’re on the indie web, you’re probably a fan of old …
Jun 10, 2025: Pico 8 demakes you can play in your browser I’m still on my Pico 8 kick. It kills me how many hilarious demakes there are for this little fantasy console. You can play all of these right in your …
Jun 9, 2025: Apple will end support for Intel Macs next year, macOS 27 will require Apple Silicon During the Platforms State of the Union at WWDC, Apple just …
Jun 9, 2025: Arachnophobia warning: pink toe tarantula smacks a couple of crickets This is a video of my pink toe tarantula, Alucard, going after two crickets. At first I thought he came in too hot and just missed both of them, gave …
Jun 7, 2025: The secret to actually enjoying Castlevania III Once I finished Blasphemous 2 on the Switch, it was clear that I was smack in the middle of a brand new addiction. An addiction with no real side …
Jun 6, 2025: Scientists at Loughborough University create ‘world’s smallest violin’ The violin measures 35 microns long and 13 microns wide, with a micron being …
Jun 6, 2025: I’ve been toying with the idea of starting a separate blog for retro gaming stuff but I think that would take away from my personal blog here. I like …
Jun 6, 2025: New handheld console, why I love emulators Ever since I picked up my R36S handheld a few months ago, I’ve been obsessed with these Chinese emulator consoles. They’re tiny Linux computers that …
Jun 5, 2025: Democrats eye a villain-to-ally arc for Elon Musk “I’m a believer in redemption, and he is telling the truth about the legislation,” said Rep. …
May 30, 2025: Bought a couple giant Madagascar hissing cockroaches for my tarantula. He didn’t really like them and one was way too big to feed him anyway, so I’m …
May 28, 2025: Nazi punks fuck off 👊 Source: r/Fauxmoi - Crowd kicks guy wearing Nazi shirt out of Punk Rock Bowling concert in Vegas
May 24, 2025: From Digg Groundbreakers: ICYMI: christianselig, creator of Apollo, the beloved (and now dearly departed) 3rd party Reddit app, has officially joined …
May 22, 2025: Anthropic’s new AI model turns to blackmail when engineers try to take it offline During pre-release testing, Anthropic asked Claude Opus 4 to act as …
May 20, 2025: Senate Dems Hand Trump a Win by Backing Stablecoin Bill “Many senators, myself included, have very real concerns about the Trump family’s use of …
May 20, 2025: Unknown Species of Bacteria Discovered in China’s Space Station Swabs from China’s Tiangong space station reveal traces of a bacterium unseen on …
May 19, 2025: PICO-8 - The tiny fantasy console that runs on .PNGs Retro games are my jam. Anything with at least 8 bits, a sword, and a dungeon to escape can usually keep me occupied for hours days. Lately, I’ve been …
May 16, 2025: Blogging for the future I was surfing different streaming apps last night when I realized Peacock has the entire backlog of Saturday Night Live available to watch. My …
May 16, 2025: This news from the Digg.com Groundbreaker group is a week or two old at this point, but the mobile app looks like it’s coming along pretty nicely! …
May 15, 2025: I know I’m getting old because I’m starting to actually look forward to riding around the yard on a little red mower every week like Hank Hill.
May 13, 2025: I'm a n00b As someone who is obsessed with super punishing Metroidvanias, I have an embarrassing confession to make. I 99% almost all of them. The fun part for …
May 13, 2025: Jeff Bezos sparks firestorm after troubling image surfaces from airfield: ‘But they won’t be giving raises this year’ Bezos' private jet usage seems …
May 12, 2025: VPN firm says it didn’t know customers had lifetime subscriptions, cancels them [VPNSecure] owners told customers that they didn’t know about the …
May 8, 2025: I keep seeing ads on TikTok for these barefoot shoes. I’m sure they’re probably really comfy and good for your feet but I can’t get over how perfect …
May 6, 2025: I used to think Canadian geese were a nuisance but then I realized they’re just the raccoons of the sky. Drinking dirty parking lot water out of pot …
May 3, 2025: EVIL - by D. Earl Stephens Look, I am not a religious man, and in fact have some serious issues with the Catholic Church…I will defend Catholics who …
May 2, 2025: Whistleblower Luis Elizondo Shows Fake UFO Photo Again The question now looms large: can Luis Elizondo be considered a credible voice in the ongoing …
May 2, 2025: WATCH: Driver stops in middle of interstate, causes pile up Just a regular day on I-71 in Columbus, Ohio 🫤
Apr 29, 2025: Any time we get a severe thunderstorm warning in central Ohio it rains for like 10 minutes and then it’s done. I want a good storm dammit 🥱
Apr 27, 2025: I live 400 yards from Mark Zuckerberg’s massive data center Companies like Meta are a plague on society.
Apr 24, 2025: You know, sometimes I don’t even believe my backwards seasonal depression is real. Then suddenly it’s 80 degrees outside and I can’t even begin to …
Apr 16, 2025: Your New Lunch Habit Is Hurting the Economy A society where you’re a broke piece of shit for Starbucks and Avocado Toast®️ but you’re killing the …
Apr 16, 2025: Blue Origin Space Flight Backlash “I think that this space mission is confusing to people because seeing women and people of color in spaces like …
Apr 10, 2025: Digg.com Groundbreakers! Finally just got invited to the new Digg.com “Groundbreakers” group! I was so stoked when Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht did the reunion show for …
Apr 6, 2025: This little song is insanely motivational and I’m not easily motivated! It just sticks in your head and comes out whenever you don’t want to do …
Apr 5, 2025: Have you tried Quiche? I haven’t had a whole lot of luck finding browsers I like on iPhone. It feels like every single third party browser is just a custom built version of …
Apr 3, 2025: That stripper thinks you're a real catch... The thing that kills me about middle and lower middle class MAGA people is that it’s literally no different than thinking they’re the one guy who the …
Apr 3, 2025: Our 90 year old neighbor who feeds our outside cat stopped by and invited us to hang out some time. I’ve been listening to so much true crime I’m …
Apr 1, 2025: My latest Metroidvania obsession I really need to start paying attention to the devs behind the games I play. I started Sea of Stars, from Sabotage Studio, a while back and it’s one …
Mar 31, 2025: From r/MarchAgainstNazis
Mar 29, 2025: Elon Musk: ‘Tim Walz who is a huge jerk was running around on stage with the Tesla stock cut in half. He was overjoyed. What an evil thing to do. What …
Mar 28, 2025: Target foot traffic falls for seventh consecutive week For the latest week, Costco’s foot traffic gain was the near-inverse of Target’s loss: It was …
Mar 27, 2025: Nintendo unveils Virtual Game Cards for the Switch for family sharing …when you buy a digital system of a game, it is loaded as a Virtual Game Card …
Mar 26, 2025: NASA Drops Promise to Land “First Woman, Person of Color” on the Moon “A giant step back for womankind?”
Mar 25, 2025: I know I was being a little facetious when I said Elon is president, but damn Claude lol
Mar 24, 2025: A post about nicotine I started smoking cigarettes when I was about 16 years old. My dad started when he was eight. His dad probably came out of the womb with an unfiltered …
Mar 23, 2025: Picked up a R36S handheld emu Picked up a R36S emulator console at a local video game place while my Switch was getting serviced last week. I thought it would be a short lived …
Mar 15, 2025: Had to splurge a little with St. Patrick’s day coming up ☘️🍻
Mar 15, 2025: I’ll see a completely unhinged headline and almost start freaking out and then I’m like oh; that was all the way from yesterday, we’re already onto …
Mar 13, 2025: Swedish and Danish news not holding back [via Reddit]
Mar 6, 2025: The Return of Digg, a Star of Web 2.0 It was 2009. Ish. I had a modded original Xbox plugged into a 29" CRT TV sitting on top of a dresser in my …
Mar 3, 2025: Well I guess the silver lining with Trump and Putin’s new romance is that it’s only a matter of time before he does something to piss Putin off and …
Feb 28, 2025: 🔗 Kagi, search tips Just 16 companies are responsible for the majority of the SEO enshittified websites that fill your search results with crap. You can use the …
Feb 26, 2025: Ohio Senate passes bill to change marijuana law The weed here is already overpriced garbage compared to Michigan. I guess they just wanna see all of …
Feb 26, 2025: I’ve been disconnecting and playing a lot of retro indie games lately. Faves so far have been: Sea of Stars Aggelos Dusk Warhammer 40k: Boltgun …
Feb 24, 2025: Found on Reddit
Feb 24, 2025: Is Intel in trouble? How struggling chipmaker’s financial issues may impact Ohio factories Everyone hyped this up so much and now Intel is falling way …
Feb 14, 2025: Just paid off the last of my credit card debt. I’ve been so stressed about it for so long I don’t think my nervous system has caught up to reality yet …
Feb 10, 2025: Stellantis Introduces Pop-Up Ads in Vehicles, Sparking Outrage Among Owners Here’s some stupid news that isn’t related to politics: pop up ads are …
Feb 5, 2025: Spider update I haven’t posted a whole heck of a lot about my pinktoe tarantula since I got it. I’ve been working six days a week for what feels like an eternity, …
Feb 2, 2025: Generic post about wanderlust I regret that I haven’t traveled much so far. I’ve never been outside the United States. Hell, I’ve never even been to a blue state before. That …
Feb 1, 2025: Faith in karma I’m not religious, but I have to believe some kind of karma exists out there. Even if it’s just the consequences of a few billionaires' shitty …
Jan 31, 2025: Tech Execs Plead for Great Firewall of America to Protect Them Against Scary Chinese AI Idk man, the more ‘merica tries to ban stuff from China the …
Jan 31, 2025: Russia is building an electronic registry of LGBTQ+ citizens …the Orwellian plan has been in discussion since last year after Russia’s Supreme Court …
Jan 30, 2025: I used to like reading the news... I’m a huge fan of RSS. It gives you complete control over how you get the news. It’s a perpetually updated stream of information hand-curated by you. …
Jan 29, 2025: OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Us Every few days I see something that makes me think we are living in the …
Jan 29, 2025: Ohio AG Dave Yost to Costco: Drop your diversity programs or else Such blatant racism and homophobia. Shit like this is going on across the entire …
Jan 29, 2025: Ohio Republicans want to make major changes to marijuana law approved by voters Conservatives are full of great ideas lol I have no problem going back …
Jan 28, 2025: Alibaba’s Qwen2.5-Max challenges U.S. tech giants, reshapes enterprise AI Ope
Jan 28, 2025: Facebook flags Linux topics as ‘cybersecurity threats’ — posts and users being blocked | Tom’s Hardware I don’t even know what to say lol
Jan 28, 2025: Denmark to pump $2bn into Arctic security as Trump eyes Greenland Copenhagen announced on Monday that it will pump an additional 14.6 billion Danish …
Jan 27, 2025: What is DeepSeek and why is it disrupting the AI sector? New AI from China is cheaper and more efficient than ChatGPT and actually open source. The …
Jan 25, 2025: Every year or two I always get this urge to subscribe to our local newspaper. They do this promotion where you get six months for $0.99 and even that …
Jan 15, 2025: The great (American?) firewall I love that people are migrating from TikTok to Red Note in droves. Our oligarchy is banning TikTok under the guise of national security; never mind …
Jan 14, 2025: Elon Musk is being sued by the feds over the way he bought Twitter - The Verge It’s hilarious that this is even a news story. Like as if it will have …
Jan 11, 2025: 2024 Word of the Year Is “Rawdog” - American Dialect Society The verb rawdog is defined as “to undertake without usual protection, preparation, or …
Jan 11, 2025: Prepare For A Whole Bunch Of Pointless, Harmful Mergers In Streaming By Media Executives All Out Of Original Ideas | Techdirt Crazy to think the …
Jan 8, 2025: Crypto Platforms Like Polymarket Now Taking Bets on Los Angeles Fire Devastation Wow crypto bros have hit a new low o.O
Jan 6, 2025: I’m not going to get any sleep tonight. I’m sitting here checking the weather like a giddy school kid hoping for a level three snow emergency so I get …
Jan 4, 2025: My new favorite drink 🤯 so tart and sour! I like the original Bubbles a lot too, it’s a Rosé cider but this is the most unique tasting cider I’ve ever …
Jan 3, 2025: A dumb week for Apple We’re living in a surveillance state run by oligarchs, but the surveillance is mostly to serve you the finest targeted ads. We are in the dumbest …
Jan 2, 2025: Feels like the anthem for 2025 - Time Hard by The Selecter
Jan 2, 2025: Thoughts on Kagi, The Assistant I resubscribed to Kagi recently, only this time on the Ultimate plan with The Assistant. I swore off of them for a while after the little bit of drama …
Jan 1, 2025: I’ve been fighting this respiratory bug for the last month. It almost completely cleared up for about a week, then it came back full force. I decided …
Dec 29, 2024: Clay Aiken says it was crucial to come out when he did even though he lost half his fans “It was the first decision I made as a father,” he said at …
Dec 29, 2024: Retro vibes, pop culture and a little nostalgia I was jamming to The Selecter this morning and it got me thinking… Bands from the 80’s and earlier are a different breed than the pop stars of today. …
Dec 27, 2024: Every time I walk in the room and make a little noise, this little tarantula runs and hides as far as he can under a piece of bark in back of the …
Dec 27, 2024: Bugs: a new year resolution This might sound kinda silly but I think 2025 is the year of arthropods for me. I’ve always been squeamish around creepy crawly things but now I have …
Dec 27, 2024: MAGA civil war pits Ramaswamy and Musk vs Cernovich and Loomer in immigration fight Elon Musk’s X is the town square for the MAGA movement, and by …
Dec 26, 2024: Raw honey and concrete geese This morning we went out to a local garden center in search of a concrete goose for the porch. But then we got there and they were closed for the …
Dec 26, 2024: Holiday reflections I’m writing this around 11pm on Christmas. I’m sick as a dog with a respiratory thing so I wasn’t able to go out with my partner to her parents house …
Dec 25, 2024: So my daughter got me a pinktoe tarantula for Christmas! I’ve been watching this thing all day. Fed it a cricket last night and then transferred to …
Dec 25, 2024: Headlights seem a lot brighter these days — because they are Although the human eye can adapt to a wide range of light from sunlight to darkness, it …
Dec 23, 2024: I’ve had this cold so long I could start a whole blog reviewing different cough drops 😵💫
Dec 22, 2024: Then you really might know what it's like... Working in the city you see a lot of homeless people begging for change at busy intersections. Some people avoid eye contact at all costs and …
Dec 19, 2024: I'm STILL obsessed with Warp Terminal I posted about this a few weeks ago but man Warp Terminal is a godsend. I know there’s plenty of debate around using AI for writing or generating …
Dec 17, 2024: I’m still skeptical about the drone sightings around the country but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t intrigued 👀 I like Neil deGrasse Tyson’s tongue …
Dec 16, 2024: Thoughts on Meta and the TikTok ban I get in at least a few hours of TikTok brainrot every week. It reminds me of Vine for the obvious reasons, only with a bunch of ads, sponsored posts …
Dec 15, 2024: ‘Malcolm in the Middle’ cast to reunite for new episodes Frankie Muniz, Bryan Cranston and Jane Kaczmarek are reuniting for a new four-episode run of …
Dec 14, 2024: Going back to Skyrim I’ve never been a big gamer aside from cute Nintendo stuff. When Skyrim came out (what, like 12 or 13 years ago?) the most powerful hardware in my …
Dec 13, 2024: One day I’ll own a flannel that isn’t made out of polyester.
Dec 13, 2024: What makes a blog personal? What are the rules? Do you have to choose between a travel log or daily journal entries? Or should you focus more on essays explaining your personal …
Dec 13, 2024: Will Luigi Mangione’s tipster get the $60K reward? It’s complicated …it’s not guaranteed that any one individual will get the full $60,000, …
Dec 13, 2024: Drones over Jersey There’s been a lot of buzz about swarms of drones over New Jersey. The government’s initial response was that they pose no threat and they don’t …
Dec 11, 2024: This Is How Political Violence Goes Mainstream Experts have different theories as to what’s driving this, but many agree that we’re due for more acts …
Dec 11, 2024: NBC News Does Entire Piece Trying To Link CEO Shooting To ‘Violent Video Game’ In the game, called “Among Us,” Only context you need 😂
Dec 11, 2024: The Onion’s Infowars Bid Gets Blocked In a statement, an attorney for the families told The New York Times that they “remain resilient and determined …
Dec 11, 2024: Some days are just bad, and that's ok I have this delusion where I feel like everyone should be happy all the time. That’s what I was chasing the better part of a decade ago when I was …
Dec 9, 2024: ‘Polarization’ is Merriam-Webster’s word of the year: ‘Something everyone agrees on’ Oxford University chose brain rot and the Macquarie Dictionary …
Dec 7, 2024: More on echo chambers It dawned on me today that the kind of people who criticize others for “living in an echo chamber” online are the kind of people who think everything …
Dec 7, 2024: US Food and Drug Administration moves to ban red food dye Red 3 is used in nearly 3,000 different food products, according to a database by one …
Dec 7, 2024: Mariah Carey Denies That Her Holiday Video Is AI Slop, But We’re Not Convinced, for Obvious Reasons The video…immediately felt off: the diva’s lips …
Dec 6, 2024: New obsession: I got this box of natural gum the other day. It’s made with organic xylitol, chicle gum, spruce gum and a bunch of other organic …
Dec 6, 2024: ‘Hawk Tuah’ Creator Haliey Welch Criticized For Memecoin Launch After Price Crashes I wondered why “hawk tuah” was trending across social media again. …
Dec 4, 2024: You know, Micro.blog’s comment system has its quirks, but it’s by far my favorite. It’s so true to the social web with how you can comment on …
Dec 4, 2024: Want to Try Tab Groups in Firefox? Here’s How if you have upgraded to Firefox 133 you can manually enable tab groups to try it out. Just keep in mind …
Dec 3, 2024: No, Trump Didn’t Nominate El Chapo as US Ambassador to Mexico The fact that Snopes.com even felt the need to post this says a lot about the state of …
Dec 3, 2024: Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp is much better without microtransactions The original Pocket Camp has technically shut down, replaced by Pocket Camp …
Dec 3, 2024: I just sent a huge paragraph to Google’s feedback form at the bottom of the search results. I asked it very specifically to pull up an article on …
Dec 3, 2024: Meta says it’s mistakenly removing too many posts He said the company regrets aggressively removing posts about the COVID-19 pandemic. CEO Mark …
Dec 2, 2024: Here’s a fun link: everyone Donald Trump pardoned between 2017 and 2021. But yeah; the Hunter Biden thing is a TRAVESTY 🙄
Dec 2, 2024: This New Microsoft 365 Attack Can Break Through Your 2FA The Rockstar 2FA phishing kit is a unique set of malicious tools that cybercriminals can …
Dec 1, 2024: Biden’s Unpardonable Hypocrisy The president vowed not to pardon his son Hunter—and then did so anyway. What a stupid article from The Atlantic. A …
Dec 1, 2024: What is Brain rot, the Oxford University 2024 word of the year? Are you spending hours scrolling mindlessly on Instagram reels and TikTok? If so, you …
Dec 1, 2024: About those UFOs over DC... The UFOs over the the US Capitol definitely contain artifacts, just not alien artifacts. The New York Post and Daily Mail both posted stories about …
Dec 1, 2024: Our house tried to kill us We’ve had this water leak coming from our furnace for probably a month or two. It was just a slow drip at first, so we didn’t notice it right away. I …
Nov 30, 2024: I love when some random person follows me on social media and they have a blog linked in their bio. There’s so much out there you’d never find …
Nov 30, 2024: The indie web is crucial for me right now When I started blogging earlier this year I wrote a lot about the indie web. The social web, small web, or even the IndieWeb, if you’d like. It’s the …
Nov 29, 2024: What Breaking Up Google’s Search Monopoly Could Do to AI Making it harder for Google to give its own products preferential treatment might not …
Nov 29, 2024: Being a skeptic is boring Last night my partner and I got into a silly little debate about ghosts. Earlier that day, we watched the Demon House documentary and then followed up …
Nov 28, 2024: Small scale is the best scale – Manu I can’t help myself thinking that I’m getting to the point where the bigger you are the more unappealing you …
Nov 28, 2024: I hate holiday get togethers. When I was younger I was more rebellious and just skipped them. I don’t know exactly when or why I started going back. …
Nov 28, 2024: Walmart made a whole Christmas movie just to sell you stuff Walmart is linking up with Roku to release a full-length Christmas movie that will let …
Nov 28, 2024: I’ve been on Bluesky a lot lately because I’m a sucker for riding hype trains but Micro.blog still blows my mind daily. It’s kind of brutalist isn’t …
Nov 28, 2024: Elusive deer spotted wearing high-vis jacket in Canada: ‘Who is responsible?’ I, for one, think it’s great the deer are taking traffic safety more …
Nov 27, 2024: Mark Zuckerberg meets Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago “Mark was grateful for the invitation to join President Trump for dinner and the opportunity to meet …
Nov 27, 2024: Orcas start wearing dead salmon hats again after ditching the trend for 37 years Orcas off the coast of Washington State are balancing dead fish on …
Nov 27, 2024: Ohio governor signs bill limiting bathroom use by transgender students I fucking hate this. We’re making leaps and bounds in the wrong direction. Fuck …
Nov 27, 2024: I recently switched from namecheap to name.com for my domains. Transferred out of Micro.blog just because, and it was INSTANT since that’s what MB …
Nov 27, 2024: Cranberry Bogs Use Spiders Instead Of Pesticides You see, cranberry farms have been moving towards more organic farming methods which preclude the …
Nov 27, 2024: Someone Made a Dataset of One Million Bluesky Posts for ‘Machine Learning Research’ The data isn’t anonymous. In the dataset, each post is listed …
Nov 26, 2024: ‘Enshittification’ Is Officially the Biggest Word of the Year 2024 will go down in history as the year humanity managed to enshittify the entire …
Nov 26, 2024: Elon Musk wants to block the transfer of InfoWars' X accounts to The Onion Musk’s lawyers now claim that users don’t actually own their profiles on …
Nov 26, 2024: UK and Irish retailers pull products associated with Conor McGregor Lucky for him the US loves rapists. His bottom shelf hooch will continue to do …
Nov 26, 2024: USSR: The United States of Sudden Regression I was in the middle of writing this post about how, pretty much until the middle of the 20th century, people took the law into their own hands if they …
Nov 26, 2024: I subscribed to the print editions of a couple websites I like recently. Magazines are such a cool nostalgic experience. The original adhd …
Nov 24, 2024: Elon Musk Muses About Buying MSNBC: “How Much Does It Cost?” The billionaire and buddy to the president-elect jokes about buying the liberal network. …
Nov 23, 2024: Would you live on a cruise ship for four years to escape the Trump presidency? If only I had a cool $160,000 to secure a spot
Nov 23, 2024: Microsoft is testing a new in-game browser Doing what they can to get people to switch to Internet Explorer Edge 😏
Nov 22, 2024: You deserve a better browser than Google Chrome If you’ve been using Chrome because it came as the default browser on your phone, you might want to …
Nov 21, 2024: I like that Feedbin uses the same key commands as Nethack
Nov 21, 2024: I really like Reeder 5 on iOS but I use Linux on my desktop so I’ve been constantly syncing OPML files between that and different web based RSS …
Nov 21, 2024: Gaetz withdraws from consideration for Trump’s attorney general role “There is no time to waste on a needlessly protracted Washington scuffle, thus …
Nov 20, 2024: ‘Black mold-like substance’ and water contamination uncovered by FDA at Tom’s of Maine toothpaste factory The FDA’s inspection took place in May, and …
Nov 20, 2024: T-Mobile actually stopped some hackers from stealing customer data T-Mobile detected suspicious activity in a recent attempt to access customer data …
Nov 20, 2024: The fight for Alex Jones' Infowars company heats up as Jones sues to hold on I knew he wouldn’t go down without a fight. He’s just prolonging the …
Nov 19, 2024: Magnetic North Pole moves closer to Russia in a way scientists have never seen before What a headline 😆 From 1600 to 1990, it is estimated to have …
Nov 19, 2024: RFK Jr. Told a Bunch of People the Government May Have “Planned” COVID “Many people argue that this pandemic was a ‘plandemic,’ that it was planned …
Nov 19, 2024: So about those MrBeast allegations... A few months ago I wrote about the drama surrounding MrBeast and his former co-star Ava Tyson. A YouTuber and former employee of MrBeast who goes by …
Nov 18, 2024: I'm obsessed with this terminal emulator Never thought I’d feel so strongly about a terminal app but I’ve been obsessed with Warp Terminal for the last week. It has built in AI so you can use …
Nov 18, 2024: The majority of news influencers are conservative men, study finds This morning, The Pew Research Center…published a deep 122 page report that found …
Nov 18, 2024: “The older I get the more conservative I get” aka switched from a rapid release distro to Debian with Firefox ESR. It’s all so stable 🥲
Nov 17, 2024: Scientists Discover ‘Immortal’ Marine Creature That Can ‘Time Travel’ I’ve been a broken record on the sea aliens lately but this is pretty cool, and …
Nov 17, 2024: I like my cozy little echo chamber I try to live in an echo chamber. I’m not into debates. I’m not a fan of confrontation at all, really. Some people thrive on it, I shut down and …
Nov 16, 2024: The US is a silly place. People will happily vote into office a guy who’s a convicted felon, rapist and white nationalist but all of that’s just fake …
Nov 15, 2024: The Onion, InfoWars shenanigans One [bid] was from the Jones-affiliated First United American Companies, which offered $3.5 million, the trustee revealed in court Thursday. The …
Nov 15, 2024: Unreal Gold and Unreal Tournament are now free on the Internet Archive An Epic spokesperson subsequently confirmed that it has given the green light …
Nov 15, 2024: Mountain lions in Los Angeles become night owls to avoid humans Not a bad idea, honestly…
Nov 15, 2024: Re: Massive New Information on Aliens Just Came Out (penguinz0, YouTube) I like Charlie’s take on this. Yes; I believe all of the people at the congressional hearing on UAPs were telling the truth, I just don’t think it …
Nov 14, 2024: Bluesky feels more like old Twitter than X does I’ll go as far as saying it feels more like original Twitter than Mastodon, too. I don’t know what it …
Nov 14, 2024: Here’s Why I Decided To Buy ‘InfoWars’ - The Onion This is perfect. InfoWars makes much more sense as satire.
Nov 13, 2024: Mark ‘Z-Pain’ Zuckerberg did a cover of ‘Get Low.’ I may be scarred for life after hearing Zuckerberg’s autotuned voice serenade me with “‘Til the …
Nov 13, 2024: I only watched like 20 minutes of that UAP congressional hearing but I think I can summarize most of it: whistleblower: we have reason to believe that …
Nov 13, 2024: Perplexity brings ads to its platform Enshittification ensues
Nov 12, 2024: AI Chatbot Added to Mushroom Foraging Facebook Group Immediately Gives Tips for Cooking Dangerous Mushroom This is what natural selection looks like …
Nov 12, 2024: Daring Fireball: 1Password: The Infinite Loop of Security The 2024 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) found that “the human element” …
Nov 12, 2024: Election Conspiracy Theories Are for Everyone In the days following Donald Trump’s clear win, conspiracy theories about how votes were tampered with …
Nov 11, 2024: iPhone text prediction is so bad I think our only option at this point is to rewrite the entire English language to better align with how autocorrect …
Nov 11, 2024: Beatles' ‘Now and Then’ Makes History As First AI-Assisted Song To Earn Grammy Nomination many fans assumed that the remaining Fab Four members…must …
Nov 10, 2024: Your Standing Desk Might Actually Be as Bad as Sitting All Day …a new study from researchers in Australia and the Netherlands has found standing for …
Nov 9, 2024: How to work at McDonald’s and still become a millionaire “Every dollar I get, I’m taking some of that money and I’m going to put it over here so that …
Nov 9, 2024: I just bought the domain name worksucks.me. I think I’m going to start working on a silly little thing like Fesshole only instead of random …
Nov 9, 2024: This scientist treated her own cancer with viruses she grew in the lab She chose to target her tumour with two different viruses consecutively — a …
Nov 8, 2024: Taylor Swift Fans Are Leaving X for Bluesky After Trump’s Election “I think that’s the kind of rhetoric we want to get away from,” Kim says. She also …
Nov 8, 2024: It's like seeing a car crash from inside the car The driver's got his head craned back he's telling you a joke You see the bus on collision course …
Nov 7, 2024: Indie web escapism Back in 2016 I didn’t have this community. I had Twitter and I think Tumblr? And definitely Facebook. Facebook is already a shitshow. People fighting …
Nov 6, 2024: Trump plans to dismantle Biden AI safeguards after victory Biden’s order established wide-ranging oversight of AI development. Among its core …
Nov 6, 2024: I’m so fucking dazed I should probably try to wait at least 24 hours before posting anything. This shit is unreal.
Nov 5, 2024: I’m watching so many screens 😵💫 every election year I feel like I work for a 24 hour news network
Nov 5, 2024: Just got back from the polling station. Judging by the turnout of the early voters here I thought it would be packed but there was almost no one …
Nov 4, 2024: ‘The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet’ Has Finally Been Identified It’s been an incredible year for solving long-running internet mysteries. In …
Nov 4, 2024: Perplexity CEO offers AI company’s services to replace striking NYT staff “Hundreds of millions of people are depending on The Times’s journalism on …
Nov 4, 2024: Thousands of People Are Cloning Their Dead Pets. This Is the Woman They Call First It had taken seven months and cost $50,000, but that cat was one …
Nov 3, 2024: Inspiration from Dr. Hoby Wedler - your non-visual sensory guide to the best things in life I’ve been watching this TikTok page for a couple months and it’s been such an inspiration. Super sweet down to earth guy who laughed in the face of …
Nov 1, 2024: USPol: Election woes I’ve been pretty quiet across social media and my blog the last few days. This close to the election, nothing else seems very significant. A week from …
Oct 30, 2024: Nintendo made a music streaming app for Switch Online subscribers It’s like Apple Music Classical but for Nintendo games App Store | Google Play
Oct 30, 2024: I love me some Irish whiskey 🍻
Oct 30, 2024: Some (Slightly Biased) Thoughts On The State Of Decentralized Social Media | Techdirt I’m enthusiastic about Bluesky’s approach. I think the …
Oct 29, 2024: These hornets break down alcohol so fast that they can’t get drunk “To the best of our knowledge, Oriental hornets are the only animal in nature …
Oct 28, 2024: Power-sucking GenAI set to create mountain of e-waste The study…indicates potential for rapid growth of e-waste from 2.6 kilotons each year in 2023 …
Oct 28, 2024: I Don’t Know Why Women Keep Laughing at Me When I’m Out Driving my Tesla Cybertruck I was taking a right turn out of a convenience store driveway the …
Oct 25, 2024: We can Terraform the American West – Casey Handmer’s blog I like this. Terraform Earth before we terraform Mars.
Oct 25, 2024: I’ve had AppleCare on this iPhone for almost a year and haven’t had to use it. I think it’s time to get my money’s worth and stop using a case
Oct 25, 2024: The fediverse is getting its own TikTok competitor called Loops Loops…was developed by Daniel Supernault, who also created the federated Instagram …
Oct 25, 2024: Haven’t seen a customer all day. I just ordered some lunch so I’m sure I’ll get busy as soon as I sit down to eat. I think this is what they mean by …
Oct 25, 2024: Disposable vapes to be banned in England and Wales from June Single-use vapes are difficult to recycle and typically end up in landfill, where their …
Oct 25, 2024: Any time I see bright but subtle gradients in web design it gives me flashbacks of sticking a magnet to an old CRT monitor
Oct 25, 2024: A Quarter of Smartphone Owners Are Unimpressed by AI The biggest motivation for US adult smartphone owners to upgrade their devices is longer battery …
Oct 25, 2024: Take two: giving Kagi another shot A while back I tried out Kagi Search for a few months. It was a nice change of pace from Google, which is almost completely useless these days, and …
Oct 25, 2024: You ever publish something in the middle of the night when it’s nowhere close to ready? Yeah, haha me neither 🥴
Oct 23, 2024: The amount of claims labeled satire that snopes.com even has to publish really puts the state of big social media into perspective
Oct 23, 2024: iOS 18.2 will let everyone set new default phone and messaging apps …a note on Apple’s developer website states that all users worldwide can set new …
Oct 23, 2024: We need each other People, I mean. I’ve always considered myself a bit of a loner. Definitely an introvert; I love hanging out with friends but I love coming home and …
Oct 22, 2024: Recurring Strangers So far, I’ve lived most of my life in a small town. My graduating class was about 120 people; it’s definitely one of those communities where everyone …
Oct 22, 2024: The Micro.blog browser extension is super handy for bookmarking articles. I’ve been using it like a read later service for a while now and I noticed …
Oct 21, 2024: Starting out on Micro.blog after using regular social media for years is like going through digital detox. At first it’s quiet and feels pointless …
Oct 21, 2024: I know LLMs hallucinate but Google’s AI is straight up Hallucination as a Service 😆
Oct 21, 2024: Mini rant about Meta, staying in touch It’s annoying that Facebook is the only way for anyone to get in touch with extended family or old friends. Idk of any other platform where literally …
Oct 21, 2024: ‘Jersey Shore’ Airs as ‘Macaroni Rascals’ in Japan? | Snopes.com The Japanese translation of “Jersey Shore” is more nuanced than the meme suggests, …
Oct 20, 2024: Conservatives tried to start a boycott of LGBTQ+ friendly businesses. Their efforts backfired. Several small business owners in Lancaster, Ohio, say …
Oct 19, 2024: Warm take on federated social media The stuff you’ve already heard a million times Mastodon is a decentralized social network, meaning anyone can download it and run their own instance. …
Oct 19, 2024: The Legend of Zelda: Parallel Worlds I was reading a post by Toxicka Shock about this disturbing homebrew Gameboy ROM this morning: One of the great …
Oct 18, 2024: Autopsy of 78-year-old man reveals he had three penises Interestingly, it appears the urethra first grew within the secondary penis but failed to …
Oct 18, 2024: I’m not a programmer but I think our diy monolithic point of sales/literally everything to do with the company software that stores everything in …
Oct 18, 2024: Putting yourself out there: on self doubt, persistence Being any kind of creator is mentally taxing at times. Publicly posting a story, a song, or a video you recorded is a double edged sword. It can be …
Oct 17, 2024: I’ve been using the new Reeder for a while now. Started back when it was TestFlight only and then bought the one year subscription when it was out of …
Oct 17, 2024: Man blames bellyache on street food — but no, it’s a live cockroach Cockroaches are known as hearty insects that can survive just about anything: …
Oct 17, 2024: BlueSky knocked offline after mass exodus from Elon Musk’s site Elon Musk, X’s owner, announced that the site would be changing how its “block” …
Oct 17, 2024: My favorite things about omg.lol so far have definitely been the community itself and the little statuslog thing you can embed. I scrapped the idea of …
Oct 16, 2024: Jerry Seinfeld No Longer Believes the “Extreme Left” Is Ruining Comedy “I did an interview with The New Yorker, and I said that the extreme left has …
Oct 16, 2024: Micro.blog and the Tiny Theme are a powerful combination
Oct 16, 2024: 7/11’s seltzer water is much cuter than Liquid Death
Oct 15, 2024: Maybe It Should Be Illegal To Instantly Delete A Website’s Archives - Aftermath A few months ago GameStop wiped Game Informer off the face of the …
Oct 15, 2024: How Digg helped invent the social internet So many of Digg’s features, from its voting mechanism to its commenting system to its occasional teeming …
Oct 14, 2024: One personal website is enough for me – disassociated.com Not everyone wants to post content on social media though. In that case then, I can see the …
Oct 14, 2024: What makes WP Engine different from Bluehost? This might sound dumb but I don’t get the difference between something like WP Engine and other hosts that specialize in Wordpress, like Bluehost …
Oct 14, 2024: I’m pretty good at starting a post, going off on a tangent and then forgetting what I was even writing about in the first place
Oct 14, 2024: I was originally planning on making my root domain a static landing page/hub kinda thing but I changed it back to my Micro.blog site since I’m most …
Oct 14, 2024: I really liked this video essay. The author draws parallels between simulation theory and our always connected, perpetually online world.
Oct 13, 2024: I still think about that time Jack Dorsey called everyone on Bluesky “Very, very common” Bluesky saw this exodus of people from Twitter show up, and …
Oct 13, 2024: DOODAD.dev - a sick pattern generator for web design Tools for making websites fast, accessible, expressive, and green. These tools are mostly for …
Oct 13, 2024: What's valuable to you? I was just reading this Reddit thread about a blogging platform that launched a few years ago. It's grown into a successful space with a thriving …
Oct 13, 2024: WordPress.org’s latest move involves taking control of a WP Engine plugin WordPress.org has taken over a popular WP Engine plugin in order “to remove …
Oct 12, 2024: Rumors on X Are Becoming the Right’s New Reality A curious set of claims has recently emerged from…X: FEMA is systematically abandoning …
Oct 11, 2024: SSRI Withdrawal, Brain Zaps [psychiatrist.com] In SSRI Withdrawal, Brain Zaps Go from Overlooked Symptom to Center Stage A sensation unofficially known as “brain zaps” has caused concern in …
Oct 11, 2024: Why even come out if you're bi or pan? I've heard that a lot. Why would I even come out of the closet when I can pass for a straight guy? Just date girls and spank it to gay porn or …
Oct 11, 2024: WordPress Alternatives Due to…everything going on right now with WordPress, I thought I’d put together a list of alternative CMSs that better fit the …
Oct 10, 2024: A deposit of marine fossils found under San Pedro High School - Los Angeles Times Researchers uncovered two distinct sites on campus where new …
Oct 9, 2024: I like the brutalist feel of omg.lol 😌
Oct 9, 2024: Internet Archive hacked, data breach impacts 31 million users “Have you ever felt like the Internet Archive runs on sticks and is constantly on the …
Oct 9, 2024: Elon Musk’s ‘Free’ Starlink for Hurricane Helene Victims Will Cost at Least $400 Musk made headlines with a promise that SpaceX Starlink would be …
Oct 8, 2024: Seasonal euphoria I'm wired backwards--or at least my seasonal depression is. I'm at my best when it's 20°F and everything's covered with a fluffy blanket of glimmering …
Oct 8, 2024: CTV industry’s unprecedented “surveillance” - Ars Technica Not only does CTV operate in ways that are unfair to consumers, it is also putting them …
Oct 7, 2024: Progress in the middle of nowhere, Ohio I just re-watched this old video of someone driving around filming my hometown with a camcorder in the 80's. It's unbelievable how much it's changed …
Oct 7, 2024: I’m always a little overwhelmed switching DNS records around and changing the design of stuff but it’s exciting too. Gives me a little project to work …
Oct 7, 2024: Started restructuring my site and messing around with DNS settings again. Stuff might be a little wonky until I get that all sorted out o.O
Oct 7, 2024: The saddest advice I've ever gotten When we were in our teen years my cousin and I started writing a bunch of music. He'd been playing guitar since he was like five years old so he was …
Oct 7, 2024: You can never have too many markdown editors
Oct 7, 2024: You know what I hate about YouTube’s algorithm? Any time you hit the Back button or end up on the home page after watching something, it populates …
Oct 5, 2024: Kyle Rittenhouse Metal Fest Booking Causes Bands to Drop Out Shell Shock founder and CEO, Tyler Hoover: The lynch mob here to take down Shell Shock …
Oct 5, 2024: I thought I would dive into omg.lol a lot quicker but I think it’s going to be one of those weekend project kinda things. I’m not sure what vision I …
Oct 4, 2024: 159 employees are leaving Automattic as CEO’s fight with WP Engine escalates | TechCrunch Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg said on Thursday that 159 …
Oct 4, 2024: Mark Zuckerberg’s rebrand is a master class in distraction Zuckerberg has started working out, changed his hairstyle, and is wearing gold chains, but …
Oct 4, 2024: Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom Zelda 3, or The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past has been my favorite installment in the Zelda series for as long as I can remember. It’s perfect. …
Oct 4, 2024: I like being able to put my icons wherever I want on iOS 18 but it’s a nightmare trying to reorganize them sometimes 😵💫
Oct 3, 2024: Started watching Uzumaki: Spiral Into Horror on Max A town of people slowly go insane over increasing obsessions with spiral shapes: patterns in the …
Oct 2, 2024: Nintendo Targets YouTube Accounts Showing Emulated Games Recent laws in Japan have criminalized console and game modding, as well as save file …
Oct 2, 2024: Gun-toting Nazis tried to ruin a Pride festival. They failed miserably. The organizers of a Pride festival in Grove City, Ohio refused to let hate …
Oct 2, 2024: Currently reading: The Trouble with Being Born by E. M. Cioran 📚
Oct 1, 2024: The Bravery of Being Out of Range Reading about the invasion of Lebanon today immediately made me hear Roger Waters' The Bravery of Being Out of Range in the back of my mind: Hey …
Sep 29, 2024: Sending Children Through the US Postal Service in the 1910s The children had to meet specific criteria: they had to weigh less than 50 pounds, which …
Sep 28, 2024: Jeremy Clarkson Says All Modern Cars ‘Are Sh*t’ Jeremy Clarkson has been known for his often controversial takes on cars. Well, he’s got another one: …
Sep 28, 2024: We’ve been on this Irish whiskey kick for a while. Out of everything we’ve tried, this stuff is the cheapest by far and also the smoothest. It’s my …
Sep 28, 2024: I started using the Bear notes app on iPhone but I run Linux everywhere else so I still needed a good markdown editor for my laptop. Enter Apostrophe. …
Sep 28, 2024: I broke up with my weed dealer When the first dispensaries opened up shop for recreational sales in Ohio, I felt like a kid in a candy shop. Then I looked at the prices. Stupidly …
Sep 27, 2024: OpenAI might raise the price of ChatGPT to $44 by 2029 OpenAI could face a blowback if it increases prices too quickly. While ChatGPT has roughly 10 …
Sep 26, 2024: I’m obsessed with Rick and Morty: The Anime. I’m not big on anime, maybe it’s the complete disconnect from the original creators or just the fact that …
Sep 26, 2024: From Lemmy It’s coming 😬
Sep 26, 2024: Birthday Weather Enter your birth date and place to discover what the weather was like when you were born! This is neat. It was rainy with a high of …
Sep 26, 2024: U.S. Court Orders LibGen to Pay $30m to Publishers …LibGen is one of the longest-running shadow libraries online. In recent years, rightsholders …
Sep 26, 2024: Okay I'm finally using Bear Not Bear Blog, but the markdown app. I used Obsidian for a while and I really liked it, but it felt like overkill so I switched to Drafts. I kinda …
Sep 25, 2024: A rant about Facebook You know what I hate about Facebook? It’s the only social network where literally everyone you know has an account. It’s one of those things that’s …
Sep 24, 2024: Google’s AI Mushrooms Could Have ‘Devastating Consequences’ Google is serving AI-generated images of mushrooms when users search for some species, a …
Sep 24, 2024: I was always more of a Courtney Love fan. She gets blamed for Kurt’s death with no tangible evidence but Dave Grohl and the AIDS denialist garbage he …
Sep 23, 2024: WP Engine sends cease and desist to Automattic The plot thickens 👀
Sep 23, 2024: I’ve always been one of those people who use ‘lol’ too much but I’m also one of those people who laugh too much in real life. My awkward and excessive …
Sep 23, 2024: This is the only website I’ve ever found where people are as excited about fonts as I am lol
Sep 23, 2024: Start auditing and controlling the AI models accessing your content I don’t use Cloudflare anymore but I think this is pretty cool. They have a new …
Sep 22, 2024: Caffeinated ramen in a squeeze tube… Boost Noodle is a new kind of ramen for players who “want to eat easily with one hand while playing games,““not …
Sep 22, 2024: A Bay Area boy was kidnapped from a park in 1951. He’s just been found alive. Whoa. You always hear about cold cases like this but never ones where …
Sep 20, 2024: Researcher reveals ‘catastrophic’ security flaw in the Arc browser Arc has a feature called Boosts that allows you to customize any website with …
Sep 20, 2024: Squid Game Season 2’s First Clip Brings Bullets, Fire, and Fresh Meat Netflix has shared a tantalizingly brief look at what to expect when the smash …
Sep 18, 2024: A Crack in the Mountain Documentary about the largest cave system in the world, Son Doong in Vietnam. I’ve gotta find a way to watch this! There’s …
Sep 18, 2024: Watching Star Trek: The Original Series for the first time ever. Will update in a couple weeks lol 🖖
Sep 18, 2024: YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads YouTube claims that the pause ads are actually designed to let the company offer you a …
Sep 17, 2024: The “Third State” That Lies Beyond The Boundaries Of Life And Death “Life and death are traditionally viewed as opposites,” Noble told IFLScience. …
Sep 17, 2024: Void Text Editor: Open-Source Alternative to Cursor VS Code is to modern text editors what Chromium is to browsers: a fork magnet. A slew of niche …
Sep 17, 2024: Mozilla is shutting down its Mastodon instance We’ve made the hard decision to end our experiment with Mozilla.social and will shut down the Mastodon …
Sep 17, 2024: Ohio sheriff instructs residents to list homes with Harris-Walz campaign signs “When people ask me … What’s gonna happen if the Flip – Flopping, …
Sep 17, 2024: Jobs should have surprise paid days off every once in a while. Especially on Tuesdays. (I wanna go home)
Sep 17, 2024: Inclusive advertising boosts sales & increases brand loyalty, new study finds The research, based on an analysis of 392 brands across 58 countries, …
Sep 17, 2024: My experience on Vanilla OS so far A lot of people assume Linux users are all hackers or at least have some background in programming. I do not. I’m part of the other demographic - the …
Sep 17, 2024: The blockchain is like digital COVID. We couldn’t stop it because people kept exposing themselves to it and it grew out of control, so now we just …
Sep 17, 2024: Lately I’ve had an obsession with Brutalist design. Stuff like The Brutalist Report and back when I used Mastodon, Brutaldon. I discovered …
Sep 16, 2024: WAIT A MINUTE Diggnation really is back?! I watched the reunion episode a while back and they joked about it, but now they’re already on episode …
Sep 16, 2024: Biden moves to crack down on Shein and Temu, slow shipments into US “over the last 10 years, the number of shipments entering the United States …
Sep 15, 2024: I try to share cool links every day but sometimes I have to remind myself that some days are uneventful. The news has been so consistently crazy for …
Sep 15, 2024: Achieving optical transparency in live animals with absorbing molecules …an aqueous solution of a common food color approved by the US Food and Drug …
Sep 14, 2024: Woke up to a dead mouse on the floor next to my side of the bed. One of the perks of having a cat door to the back yard 🥴
Sep 13, 2024: Why do I blog? Lately I’ve put a lot of thought into why I blog. A few months ago, it was because I had so many ideas to get out of my head I just had to do it. I …
Sep 13, 2024: Boar’s Head Shuts Down Virginia Meat Plant After 9 Deaths Linked to Listeria I’m sure they’ll do all they can to ensure the other facilities are up to …
Sep 13, 2024: Flappy Bird announces its return, but with a… twist So, who is the Flappy Bird Foundation? Well, get ready for a big ol' bummer. When you dig deeper, …
Sep 13, 2024: Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying You cannot trust any medium, so you copy important things over and over, into fresh …
Sep 13, 2024: One of my favorite things about Linux is feeling like I got a whole new computer every few months when I get bored and try a new distro
Sep 13, 2024: Switched over to Vanilla OS after running KDE Neon for the last ~3 years. I missed GNOME! It took a minute to figure out fractional scaling from dconf …
Sep 13, 2024: OpenAI releases o1, its first model with ‘reasoning’ abilities The training behind o1 is fundamentally different from its predecessors, OpenAI’s …
Sep 12, 2024: Swingin' Back to Shellac Most 78s were 10-inches and held about three-and-a-half minutes of music. They were primarily made of shellac, which, …
Sep 12, 2024: Ohio’s oldest continuously operating inn appears to be for sale At 212 years old, the Buxton Inn is billed as “Ohio’s oldest continuously operating …
Sep 11, 2024: It’s physically impossible to watch this and not smile. Major Holley - Laughing in Rhythm
Sep 10, 2024: Ford Seeks Patent for Software That Records Your Conversations to Serve You Ads If this kind of thing catches on I’m trading in my car for a Huffy. My …
Sep 10, 2024: Re: RSS Feeds Are Great Instead of mindlessly scrolling “for you” feeds, I now spend that time reading posts from other bloggers I follow via RSS. …
Sep 10, 2024: I waited for the public beta of iOS 18 before I installed it on my daily driver last night. An official Apple ROM is obviously a lot more stable and …
Sep 9, 2024: Right side of the bed Some of my best days start out absolutely horrible. Some of my worst days start out feeling like everything is going perfect. I drank too much last …
Sep 8, 2024: The old man down the road I woke up to the doorbell ringing this morning. Who in the hell could be here this early? So I got up and opened the front door. There was this little …
Sep 7, 2024: I don’t even know how this collab happened but it’s a good seltzer 😆🍻
Sep 7, 2024: Drafts + Micro.blog I’ve been using Obsidian for all of my blog notes and drafts since I started blogging. It’s a powerhouse for writing pretty much anything from code to …
Sep 7, 2024: disposable vapes are getting out of control via twitter
Sep 7, 2024: Woman started wildfires so she could flirt with sexy firefighters A 44-year-old woman from Tripoli, Greece, was sentenced to three years imprisonment …
Sep 7, 2024: You don’t realize how fast time flies until 1Password tells you it’s been two weeks already and you need to manually type in your password again 😵💫
Sep 6, 2024: This robot is being controlled by a King oyster mushroom When the researchers shined a UV light on the fungus, it triggered an electrical impulse …
Sep 6, 2024: We may not be responsible for the world that created our minds, but we can take responsibility for the mind with which we create our world I like …
Sep 6, 2024: I love brutalist design. Especially when it’s something useful, like the Brutalist Report. I don’t remember who showed it to me, who runs it or how I …
Sep 6, 2024: Live for today I saw an ancient meme on Reddit the other day, something along the lines of “in 10 years you’ll want to go back to now because the good old days are …
Sep 6, 2024: I quit energy drinks I’ve been drinking at least one 12oz Redbull a day since somewhere around 2010. Right after high school, I was doing a lot of manual labor jobs so the …
Sep 5, 2024: Florida Surgeon Fatally Removed a Man’s Liver Instead of His Spleen, Family Says Only in Florida 😬
Sep 5, 2024: Little white lies about blue light The frequently cited 2013 study about blue light and its affect on sleep had just 5 participants and questionable …
Sep 4, 2024: The Internet Archive just lost its appeal over ebook lending The Internet Archive has lost its appeal in a fight to lend out scanned ebooks without …
Sep 4, 2024: Labor Day is the dumbest holiday. Let’s honor the working class by making all of their checks a day late this week 😫
Sep 4, 2024: Thoughts on AI to help with little bits of code I know AI in coding is a touchy subject, but I’ve been learning a lot using Claude to help do things I otherwise had no idea how to do. I still have …
Sep 3, 2024: In honor of bleptember 🫡
Sep 3, 2024: It's ok to disagree I was talking to a coworker about his experience buying a car recently. Every time the salesman would suggest something, he’d push back like “eh I …
Sep 3, 2024: I thought I had this profound thought about picking the people in your life, etc then I realized it’s already a thing: If you can’t change the people …
Sep 3, 2024: New VWs will answer some of your questions with ChatGPT I was just reading about how people don’t want fancy tech packages in their car if it raises …
Sep 3, 2024: Revisiting why I quit social media So a couple weeks ago I decided to get rid of social media. I deleted my Mastodon account permanently but only deactivated Bluesky. I couldn’t help …
Sep 3, 2024: From The Onion
Sep 3, 2024: I like Obsidian but I’m realizing I don’t use any of its unique features really. I only use it for post drafts and simple notes. I cancelled my sync …
Sep 2, 2024: Found an old promo copy of The Final Cut at a used record store the other day and I can’t stop listening to it 🫨🎵
Sep 2, 2024: NaNoWriMo Says Condemning AI Is ‘Classist and Ableist’ Daniel José Older, a lead story architect for Star Wars: The High Republic and author of …
Sep 1, 2024: It’s finally (almost) fall! 🍁🍺
Sep 1, 2024: CD Projekt Says Cyberpunk 2077 Will Return to Animation I’m not big on anime and I never played the Cyberpunk games but I was OBSESSED with the anime! …
Sep 1, 2024: A hate hate relationship I’m lucky in the relationship department. We rarely ever fight and when we do, we might avoid each other for the rest of the day or maybe a couple …
Aug 31, 2024: Former Riot Games employees leverage generative AI to power NPCs Retail Mage is a roleplaying game that allows players to take on the role of a …
Aug 30, 2024: AnandTech shuts down after 27 years For the past several years it seems as if there has been a trend away from ultimate understanding in content …
Aug 30, 2024: When I had covid I never lost my sense of smell or taste completely but now that I’m over it everything tastes… different. Never experienced anything …
Aug 29, 2024: I am obsessed with these lately 🍺
Aug 29, 2024: Walked up to the screen door and this little guy landed right in front of me! I hear that’s good luck 😏
Aug 29, 2024: Black mold, flies and roaches, rancid smells: No wonder Boar’s Head caused a listeria outbreak! Boar’s Head deli meat was recalled last month after …
Aug 29, 2024: This Is Doom Running on a Diffusion Model the diffusion model is trained gameplay footage of Doom to produce the next frame based on the frames that …
Aug 28, 2024: Corn sweat: crop moisture amplifies humidity and heat in US midwest One acre of corn, which is a little smaller than the size of an American football …
Aug 28, 2024: Slow down Anxiety is literally going too fast. Thinking too far ahead, trying to compute all the possible outcomes of a situation as if that’s remotely …
Aug 27, 2024: Digital clutter A messy home can really bring my mood down. I always feel a lot better when the floors are vacuumed and mopped and there isn’t a bunch of junk all …
Aug 27, 2024: The original Pineapple Cider 🍍🍺
Aug 24, 2024: Former Alaska Airlines pilot who tried to shut down engines in-flight shares his story On Friday night, the group took psychedelic mushrooms – a drug …
Aug 23, 2024: COVID made me rethink my career I’m just getting over a bad case of COVID, so that means back to work. It’s pretty sad to admit, but even with how shitty I’ve felt for the last 10 …
Aug 22, 2024: Man Spills Blue Cheese in Car, Interior Becomes Covered in Mold Overnight …the closed car doors and lack of ventilation effectively created a …
Aug 22, 2024: Neil Young Personally Approved ‘Rockin’ in the Free World,’ the Song He Sued Trump Over in 2020, for Tim Walz at the DNC No caption needed but the …
Aug 22, 2024: In ‘Fictional Nature,’ Fabian Knecht Encloses Live Trees and Craggy Stones in a White Cube Gallery Walk into one of Fabian Knecht’s installations, …
Aug 22, 2024: Spent most of the morning digging through Robert Birming’s Blog Inspiration page. So many good posts and resources! birming.com/blog-insp…
Aug 22, 2024: What We Learned In Our First Year of 404 Media A year ago today, we published a blog post called “Welcome to 404 Media.” In that post, we explained …
Aug 22, 2024: I’m finally starting to get over this covid stuff. Still not back to 100% and I can’t really taste much but I’m feeling a lot better. In a couple days …
Aug 20, 2024: No sick days I’m on day four of COVID. Started feeling a little weird at work Friday and I woke up Saturday feeling like I got thrown down a flight of stairs. I …
Aug 20, 2024: Authors sue Anthropic for copyright infringement over AI training The complaint, filed on Monday, opens new tab by writers and journalists Andrea …
Aug 20, 2024: CSS is like Tetris through text commands
Aug 20, 2024: One of my favorite pics from that Blink 182 show. Idk why really, I’ve just never been that close to the cameraman lol
Aug 19, 2024: You can't say that on Youtube! George Carlin had that list of dirty words you couldn’t say on TV back in the 70’s. Record labels release edited versions of hit songs to clean them …
Aug 19, 2024: Those weren't the best years of your life My generation is pretty bad about not wanting to grow up. We talk about how we “just can’t adult today,” or how our parents seemed so grown up when …
Aug 19, 2024: Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse. Representatives for LG and Samsung declined to comment to Ars Technica about …
Aug 18, 2024: Late night hangs I can’t think of anything I love more than the dead of night. I don’t know what it is, specifically. I used to think it was because that’s when all …
Aug 18, 2024: Mozilla’s New Logo Brings Back the Dinosaur Mascot (Kinda) It could be viewed as a flag on a pole. Sort of like Mozilla planting its values in the …
Aug 18, 2024: Trump Once Compared Avoiding STDs to His ‘Personal Vietnam’ “You know, if you’re young, and in this era, and if you have any guilt about not having …
Aug 17, 2024: I don't really like Fridays I’m sick at home with covid and, coincidentally, this is the first weekend I’ve had off in as long as I can remember. Usually Fridays are my Monday …
Aug 17, 2024: Imported all my posts from Bear Blog 👀 I’m all in on Micro.blog now. It was too much having an entirely separate website just for longer posts.
Aug 16, 2024: The Scent Of UX: The Unrealized Potential Of Olfactory Design Odors may not replace textbooks and lectures, but their addition will make remembering …
Aug 16, 2024: Let this tiny bean bag chair for your lap hold your heavy handhelds Doomscrolling isn’t going away any time soon, but there’s no reason you can’t be …
Aug 16, 2024: Friday is my Monday 😩 but I don’t work until noon tomorrow so it’s also kind of my Friday
Aug 16, 2024: Speed is my enemy When I deliberately try to think and move more slowly, things happen faster. That sounds like a contradiction, but not having to …
Aug 15, 2024: Really liking the redesigned Reeder TestFlight. It doesnt pull the full article like Unread or Reeder 5 on feeds that only show summaries but the …
Aug 15, 2024: Don't meet your heroes: Mr. Beast edition I keep getting sucked into watching the Mr. Beast drama that’s been going on for the last few weeks. Ava Tyson was called out for sending …
Aug 15, 2024: Overthinking: a self-inflicted scam I’m bad about overthinking. Like obnoxiously bad. I can never leave well enough alone because I start thinking about what I should have done or how I …
Aug 14, 2024: A few pics I took at the Blink 182 show in Columbus tonight. Tom had a cold so Mark sang a lot of the songs. Travis even sang one. At one point they …
Aug 12, 2024: Replika CEO Eugenia Kuyda says it’s okay if we end up marrying AI chatbots For some people, it means marriage, it means romance, and that’s fine. …
Aug 12, 2024: Co-Founder of DDoSecrets Was Dark Web Drug Kingpin A co-founder of transparency activism organization Distributed of Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets) …
Aug 11, 2024: Can’t remember who showed this to me but it’s pretty cool. Enter a location and it shows you the indigenous territories, treaties and language. Native …
Aug 11, 2024: From r/chrissimpsonsartist
Aug 10, 2024: I’ve never liked watching literally any sporting event but I’ve been obsessing over the Olympics this year. A couple weeks every four years is the …
Aug 10, 2024: Elon Musk Slammed for Filling Orbit With Space Junk SpaceX has launched over 6,000 Starlink internet satellites into low-Earth orbit, and is planning …
Aug 9, 2024: Nova Launcher, savior of cruft-filled Android phones, is on life support …when mobile app metrics firm Branch acquired the popular and well-regarded …
Aug 9, 2024: playing around with CSS all day instead of working really makes the work day fly by
Aug 9, 2024: The company has its roots in the very dirtiest kinds of Bitcoin mining. Its top execs (including CEO Paul Prager) were involved with Beowulf Energy …
Aug 7, 2024: In other news I just legally bought weed for the first time a little bit ago 🕺
Aug 7, 2024: Reddit CEO Steve Huffman hinted at “new types of subreddits that can be built that may have exclusive content or private areas.” We’ve had versions …
Aug 6, 2024: Ohio dispensaries started selling recreational weed today 🥹 www.dispatch.com/story/new…
Aug 5, 2024: I don’t think OpenAI really cares about false positives with text watermarking lol they just don’t want to lose paying customers 99.9 percent …
Aug 5, 2024: “This landmark decision holds Google accountable,” DOJ antitrust chief Jonathan Kanter said in a statement. “It paves the path for innovation for …
Aug 5, 2024: This is what I always wanted tumblr to be back in the day. More of a micro blog for text instead of an endless stream of edgy gifs
Aug 5, 2024: Just realized you can follow literally any website on micro.blog by searching the url 🤯
Aug 5, 2024: How can we have a robot on mars but over the last 100 years there’s been no progress in keeping the drain from clogging when you shave 😐
Aug 4, 2024: What is the IndieWeb even? If you’ve been into running a blog or personal site very long, it’s safe to say you’ve heard the terms “IndieWeb” or “small web” thrown around. I’ve …
Aug 4, 2024: People who don't tip I don’t get the anti-tipping culture on Reddit. There’s a whole community of people who never leave tips, pretending to protest in favor of the tipped …
Aug 4, 2024: A secret feature of AI when you’re using it to help with coding is that it’s a great punching bag. You can get as mad as you want when something isn’t …
Aug 3, 2024: Don't be embarrassed I hate that lol you’re nervous about something and someone tells you aw don’t be nervous! Or you’re stressing over something and they scream at you to …
Aug 3, 2024: Man the church of Scientology really has a lot of foot soldiers handing out junk about Dianetics lol this is the second time someone’s stopped by here …
Aug 3, 2024: I’m running out of time to make a Blaugust post today. I can usually get a post knocked out while I’m at work but between how busy we were and making …
Aug 3, 2024: Finally reading documentation on what microhooks actually do. I can do pretty much whatever I want with some of these themes huh? Neat!
Aug 3, 2024: I think Safari’s reading list is the only Read Later service I’ve ever successfully used. It forces me to look at all the stuff I saved every time I …
Aug 2, 2024: I knew Intel had to be in bad shape when they announced they were building a factory in central Ohio lol we can never have anything nice here …
Aug 2, 2024: I love these 😆 web.badges.world
Aug 2, 2024: You people are so much more pleasant than the Facebook and Twitter people 🥲
Aug 2, 2024: I like minimalism. Sometimes that manifests as trying to condense things into the most simplified version of whatever it is. I feel like it’s kind of …
Aug 1, 2024: Oof this feels like one of those cheesy April fools jokes some websites post to be cute. Gravitar is getting into crypto 🤢 www.jwz.org/blog/2024…
Aug 1, 2024: This is my absolute favorite Macintosh wallpaper of all time 😻
Aug 1, 2024: US Politics: Can't get fooled again I’ve worked a few different sales positions over the years, but mostly in the furniture business. It’s probably the most notorious for gimmicks, …
Jul 29, 2024: I used AI to generate a robots.txt that blocks AI I’m so fucking lazy. I’ve never really messed with robots.txt. I’m kinda new to personal blogging; back in the 2000s I had a tech blog but I wanted …
Jul 29, 2024: I feel like anyone who doesn’t want AI scraping their website will eventually have to rely on constantly updated filters, uBlock Origin style but for …
Jul 28, 2024: On anxiety I’ve spent a lot of time trying to get on the right medications to bring my anxiety levels from a blood curdling scream to a dull whimper. I think …
Jul 27, 2024: Trading Material You for Apple's walled garden I was a loyal Android fanboy since my very first smartphone: the LG Optimus running Android 2.2 Froyo Before that, I was obsessed with everything …
Jul 25, 2024: Apocalypse Now(ish) Sometimes I wonder if anyone else shares the same views on “the end” as I do. I’m not trying to be edgy and I’m not a doomer or an accelerationist but …
Jul 15, 2024: Web 2.0 tricked us I’m a little too young to have really appreciated the pre-Web 2.0 internet. Me and my cousin had our own Tripod sites when we were kids but we really …
Jul 13, 2024: Hug your server admins I’ve never done much in the way of web hosting or development. I ran a more “professional” tech blog a long time ago, but that’s about as far into it …
Jul 3, 2024: The indie web is saving my sanity A lot of my posts have covered stuff I don’t ever have the time of day to talk about. I work too much and almost all of my coworkers are conservative …
Jul 1, 2024: My real blog is a massive unorganized text file that lives in Obsidian
Jun 30, 2024: Do something awesome. For free. I’ve spent the last month blogging and surfing the indie web. It’s still so new to me I can’t shut the fuck up about it. You’ll have to excuse me, …
Jun 30, 2024: I was originally going to completely switch to Bear Blog but now I’m thinking I’ll keep my more conversational, short form stuff here. Micro blogging …
Jun 30, 2024: I’ve heard so many sales managers use the analogy “They’re playing checkers but we’re playing chess,” when in reality everyone’s playing tic tac toe
Jun 29, 2024: From MP3 to LP As someone who grew up during the golden age of digital piracy, I’m 100% sure records really do sound better than MP3s. Sure there’s lossless audio …
Jun 28, 2024: This is the first sunburn I’ve had in five years. We didn’t get out much at the old apartment. It’s nice having a big yard but it would be nicer if …
Jun 27, 2024: Life goes five years at a time This could totally be a quote from some sappy movie or a self-help book maybe, I’m not sure. But I went to a funeral a few months ago and saw a lot of …
Jun 23, 2024: Finding my digital home I’m not one of the cool people who were on the Fediverse before the big Twitter exodus of 2022. When Elon took over, I was one of many who mourned the …
Jun 20, 2024: Happy Solstice! (I'm miserable) I’m a winter person. Snow is beautiful. Sun burns are not. Every year when the heat gets unbearable, I fantasize about moving to Alaska. My girlfriend …
Jun 18, 2024: How to micro blog: First, I start with a long rambling post full of redundant information. Usually at least 3000 characters, saying the same thing 20 …
Jun 10, 2024: We're just clothes When I stop at the gas station or the grocery store after work I’m in my full salesguy attire: a long sleeve oxford, usually black or grey slacks and …