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Fuck Brexit (Happily Imperfect)
25

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…

Fresh Bubbles

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

Culture

  1. Signs you're a dangerous terrorist: using Signal, moving zines (Ben Werdmuller)
    18

    The unusually long sentences criminalize being an anti-fascist activist, reading the wrong zines, and using the wrong communication apps. They're incredibly…

Gaming

  1. Participating in the "9 Steam Games I Want to Spread" Thing (quailblog)
    7

    Limiting myself to 9 because that's what the format was, but I could prolly go WAY harder

Life

  1. My Neighbour tells me I am Crazy! (Forking Mad+)
    28

    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…

  2. Everything Is a Computer. Nothing Is a Computer. (moddedbear.com)
    9

    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…

  3. Mom, I made it to HN front page (Cauê Napier)
    10

    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.

  4. I love learning! (foosel.net)
    11

    Early morning musings about a huge part of my identity

  5. My Daily Must Do List (Living Kindfully)
    3

    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

  1. Biking in Hollandse Duinen National Park (Peter's Path)
    2

    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

  1. 📦 Don't put yourself in a box (Bits by Bino)
    17

    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…

  2. The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader (Max Glenister)
    28

    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…

  3. Setting up webmentions (Alex Hyett)
    8

    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…

  4. The Problem With Coffee Links (sebastian.graphics)
    6
  5. Adversarial Communication (Deciphering Glyph)
    3

    “AI” turns every conversation into a fight, because fighting is what they are good at.

  6. I received a fake job offer. The npm package in the project was a full info-stealer. (Yunus Aydın Blog)
    9

    A social engineering attack disguised as a freelance NFT staking project. The zip file contained a typosquatted npm package (pretie_x1) that drops a…

  7. Please keep code descriptions simple (AksDev)
    6

    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:…

  8. Wait, Midjourney Is Building a What Now? (The Aspiring Nerd)
    3

    Midjourney is apparently building a full-body ultrasonic scanner spa. It sounds ridiculous, inspiring, and a little too Gattaca for comfort.

Writing

  1. Book Review — The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (Thomas Rigby)
    14

    One of my sporadic book reviews

  2. IndieWeb Book Club: July 2026 (Manuel Moreale)
    3

    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…

Still Bubbling

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

  1. Why Drawing Tablet Brands Won't Collaborate on Linux FLOSS Drivers (David Revoy)
    27
  2. My Steam Machine is a 50ft HDMI Cable (Matthew Brunelle)
    17
  3. Small E-Ink Reader That Changed My Reading Habit (Matthew Bogart)
    72
  4. What Was Matt Thinking? (Tedium)
    10
  5. Apparently I'm not a woman because I use Linux (Danielle's Diary)
    67
  6. Nobody clicks your share buttons (Ankur Sethi)
    62
  7. Indie games are worth your time (Chris Kirk-Nielsen)
    18
  8. “Outlaw Billionaires” (Multiline Comment)
    39
  9. the girly wellness aesthetic as a white supremacist dog whistle (ava's blog)
    83
  10. Consistency, But in Excellence Not Appearance (Jim Nielsen)
    8
  11. Too much Friction on the Internet (Forking Mad+)
    26
  12. I wanted Bear Blog, but for my photos (Peter Gombos)
    90
  13. Valve Reveals The Steam Machine Pricing, And Oh Boy Is It A Kick To The Gut (blast-o-rama.)
    5
  14. Blog posts as starting points (James' Coffee Blog)
    13
  15. Appreciation for the small web (jola.dev)
    59

Tiny Bubbles

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

Culture

  1. The Age of Faith (Suhas Guruprasad)
    1
  2. Touring the DMZ (thega.me.uk)
    1
  3. Wonders of Web Weaving, Episode 7 (James' Coffee Blog)
    1