Wednesday, June 24, 2026
Bubbles Briefing
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10 years ago I woke up in a tent in Glastonbury and realised that the utterly unthinkable had happened. We spent the morning, we festival goers, wandering around in a daze. It can be true?! Can’t it? It was. The magical otherworldliness of Glastonbury faded quickly that day as…
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First time in a Briefing. Two or more votes in the last 24 hours.
Culture
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The unusually long sentences criminalize being an anti-fascist activist, reading the wrong zines, and using the wrong communication apps. They're incredibly…
Gaming
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Limiting myself to 9 because that's what the format was, but I could prolly go WAY harder
Life
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She may well be correct, but let's have some context. I live on the outskirts of a small village, which has one road in. There's no out unless you want to…
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For some reason my family has phenomenally crappy luck with Macbooks. Our second one in three years just died, right as my wife was needing to put together…
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Townsquare made it to the Hacker News front page, chaos followed, and the best part was seeing how much people genuinely enjoyed being together there.
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Early morning musings about a huge part of my identity
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Here is my daily must-do list. It is additional to my to-do list. Frankly, I think I have over committed and need to cut back. Study French through Duolingo…
Nature
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Biked in Hollandse Duinen National Park with a distance of 37.40 kilometres. Hollandse Duinen National Park runs along the South Holland coast from Hook of…
Tech
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While I ran websites and newsletters before, I've only been blogging for almost 2 years. By coincidence I found Bear, and I immediately got drawn to it. Not…
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I’ve had the Xteink X4 for a couple of months now, a £40 e-ink reader small enough to stick to the back of a phone. I’d seen a few posts about it (Khairul…
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Today I have been trying to set up webmentions on my website. Brennan Kenneth Brown has a great article that goes through his process for setting up…
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“AI” turns every conversation into a fight, because fighting is what they are good at.
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A social engineering attack disguised as a freelance NFT staking project. The zip file contained a typosquatted npm package (pretie_x1) that drops a…
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Just something I experience more and more these days. When it comes to reviewing code, the descriptions, commits and such can be massive blast of information:…
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Midjourney is apparently building a full-body ultrasonic scanner spa. It sounds ridiculous, inspiring, and a little too Gattaca for comfort.
Writing
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One of my sporadic book reviews
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I’m hosting July’s IWBC and the timing is perfect since I split my reading year into to halves, which means I’m starting with an empty shelf in July. The book…
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