Friday, June 26, 2026
Bubbles Briefing
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A scene keeps playing in my head. Over and over again.A man is riding his bicycle. He crosses the street and starts weaving right to left. He hits a pole and falls down. Head first on the street. He isn't moving. I get off my bike and run towards him. Blood is gushing from his…
Fresh Bubbles
First time in a Briefing. Two or more votes in the last 24 hours.
Culture
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How a kickboxer built an empire on male insecurity and called it freedom. Steve the Hypothetical Gerbil says: This one’s about Andrew Tate. There’s organised…
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It's yours... until it isn't.
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W Social's tagline is "Trust Your Feed" but the company's landing page displays inflated engagement metrics - a misrepresentation that contradicts its own…
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[For those afflicted, even “too much” isn’t enough.] I’ve often referenced and promoted the idea that billionaires should probably not exist. I’m damned sure…
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Brace yourself. I'm writing this to people who care about the world's suffering and love animals, but haven't yet extended that same compassion to the animals…
Life
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Last night I deleted my Threads account. I have beenmostly avoiding Threads/BlueSky/Facebook for a while now but occasionally dip in to check… nothing of real…
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It's day 2 of the UK heatwave and I have a few issues on my mind that I need to discuss. In the run up to this I was monitoring the discourse online about it…
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How an enameled cast iron skillet just might make me a better man.
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This was never the plan. In fact, if you’d asked me at almost any point in my adult life where I saw myself ending up, I’d have confidently told you it…
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Some tips on how to deal with hot weather.
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It's been very hot in the UK* for the last week, so much so that the weather agency issued a warning, suggesting people should not travel unless they really…
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One unexpected cultural shock.
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Scotland are floundering at the World Cup and right now everybody knows this is close to nowhere. I'm not in Boston but my t-shirt came from there a few days…
Tech
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If your blog doesn’t have an RSS feed, then it’s not a blog.
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Developers and nerds have seemed satisfied with Markdown as a plain text format for a long time.
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Hartley Charlton, reporting for MacRumors: After temporarily taking it down earlier today, Apple’s online store is back up with a series of product price…
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Communication is an important skill, stop delegating it to a machine
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I've been using Reeder… for a long time. Maybe the longest running app on my phone… records say 2009. I admire Silvio so much, and Mela is now one of my most…
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I’ve been using it for a while now, so I guess it’s a good time to announce the revamp / relaunch / whatever of trailmaps.app.…
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I really like this blog by Barry Prendergast. I’m getting quite into the AT protocol stuff and their writing is really helping with my broader understanding of…
Writing
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Nolan Royalty (@eieio.games), writing without the assistance of generative AI, in a post entitled "Legibility of Effort": What software (and writing, to an…
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I've been sitting with a single word change. 'Will' versus 'must' in the Latin phrase Memento Mori, and it's shifted everything for me. A meditation on…
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