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First time in a Briefing. Two or more votes in the last 24 hours.

Art

  1. Daily Dex - Yanma, Clefairy, Smoochum, Monferno and Gholdengo (quailblog)
    3

    In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop

  2. Photographers Are Tired of Big Cameras (FUJI X WEEKLY)
    6

    On June 11th, PetaPixel published a post entitled Photographers Are Tired of Big Cameras by Jaron Schneider, which had an intriguing premise but fell a bit…

Culture

  1. New social media restrictions (diamond geezer)
    6

    🚫 Regrettably you have been locked out of diamond geezer pending age verification protocols. You may be UNDER 16 YEARS OF AGE and therefore you must not read…

  2. One big grift (John Quiggin)
    3

    The SpaceX IPO, valuing a motley collection of dubious business at over a trillion dollars, marks the abandonment of the Efficient (financial) Markets…

Life

  1. Bloggers, can we make better titles for our posts? (Michael Harley)
    27

    I've been scrolling the Bubbles new feed for a few weeks now. I think of it like trolling[1] for good feeds. This is a pretty high-volume feed so I can't click…

  2. Someone bought me a coffee! (Happily Imperfect)
    7

    At last, I am rich!! The Coffee Saga has paid off. Thanks Manuel for the donation who, in his own words, “Donated because your post about donation was nice and…

  3. Paths to Self-care (The Hive)
    4

    Caring for yourself and actually doing the work of taking care of yourself are not easy feats. It’s something I’ve always struggled with, and still do to this…

Politics

  1. UK announced Social media ban (What's up with James?)
    8

    Today the UK Government announced an "under-16 social media ban". Whilst I have previously complained about the Online Safety Act, largely due to its poor…

Tech

  1. Nobody clicks your share buttons (Ankur Sethi)
    54

    Link: https://derekhanson.blog/nobody-clicks-your-share-buttons/(Via rendezvous with cassidoo.)I've always wondered if anyone actually used the social sharing…

  2. NetNewsWire Status (inessential.com)
    9

    It’s been a year since I retired — my last working day was June 6, 2025 — and I like being able to say that I’ve spent the year adding nothing, not one penny,…

  3. 🔗 abadidea: “just got insulted by a particu…” (@gurupanguji)
    4

    abadidea @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange just got insulted by a particularly offensive dark pattern: I went to the first online character counter I could find to…

  4. Paul Krugman has the perfect metaphor for the career of Elon Musk (West Coast Stat Views (on Observational …)
    2

    This pretty much nails it.Yesterday I took a short trip. I began with a ride on the local Hyperloop, which ran through a tunnel dug by Boring Company. Then I…

  5. Now you can upvote my posts (@mandarvaze’s microblog)
    3

    As I mentioned in my earlier post, I listed my site on bubbles town. What that meant was my posts could be discovered from bubbles town. Bubbles Town has the…

Writing

  1. heres your better post title!!!!! (candyether.space)
    14

    i mostly wanted to reply to this one to make the title joke :Panyways, there was a post here that discusses blog post titles and boy do i have thoughtsfirst…

Still Bubbling

Already featured in a Briefing before. Two or more votes in the last 24 hours.

  1. Two days of Town Square (Cauê Napier)
    34
  2. Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other (Cauê Napier)
    37
  3. Call me Sarah! (Forking Mad+)
    28
  4. Fascinating Photos of the Soviet Union Taken by American Professor Thomas T. Hammond, 1950s–1970s (Rare Historical Photos)
    10
  5. Every Frame Perfect (tonsky.me)
    23
  6. The Diary of a Young Girl (Forking Mad+)
    7
  7. PSA: Bubbles.town has a widget (splitbrain.org)
    43
  8. Armin Ronacher on the Mythos/Fable 5 shutdown (Nicola Iarocci)
    3
  9. Buying Coffee Has Become Controversial? OK, You Can Now Buy Me Coffee (blog.spu.io)
    10
  10. Please meet our cat Linus (Michael Harley)
    19
  11. I Fired Google (The Art of Doing Stuff)
    18
  12. Yes, Buy Them a Coffee: Support and Mutual Aid on the IndieWeb (brennan.day)
    40
  13. “Don’t You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?” (Correr Es Mi Destino)
    25
  14. Smallweb is Becoming an Archipelago (ege's weblog)
    36

Tiny Bubbles

Fresh posts with exactly one vote in the last 24 hours.