Saturday, June 27, 2026
Bubbles Briefing
The most voted posts on Bubbles, updated once a day.
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Top Bubble
I can open a feed aggregator, click 20 random links, and close them one by one without reading a whole title. My brain does a fast check on the shape and style, filters it out, and trashes it. Everything is sterile. Zero pulse, no risk. Nice grammar, nice syntax, dead words.…
Fresh Bubbles
First time in a Briefing. Two or more votes in the last 24 hours.
Crafts
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When a character has a weird obsession, it's not just background colour, it affects the way they live their lives.
Food
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Last month when we visited the Aoyama Coffee Roaster and noticed their signed autograph of Snoopy, one of the store's customers mentioned that Snoopy fans like…
Gaming
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Why the Steam Deck is the best handheld I've ever owned: PSP emulation with RetroDeck and streaming my Xbox through Greenlight, all because it's an open Linux…
Life
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Notes from a burning Paris. People are dying – 55 people died in Paris alone in the past 24 hours. Festivals, school, gym classes are cancelled. Hundreds of…
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would they tell you how happy they are the friends they've made the grass they ate moo moo moo would they sing the farmer's praise for relieving their breasts…
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I had an interesting interaction these days. While I was in class waiting for it to start, I opened Bearblog (the class happens in the “computer room”), and…
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Natalie writes about being grateful to have many Little Free Library book-exchange boxes in her neighborhood. I am happy to be surrounded by such literary…
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Sad news indeed. I traded emails with Om many years ago, it was no doubt on the topic of the nascent blogging boom that was happening at the time, and whilst I…
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A few months ago I was getting ready for a trip by doing what I normally do: fill my e-reader full of new books. The trip included a very long journey on a…
Nature
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Some fault systems in the world are well known for their destructive potential. Examples are Turkey’s North Anatolian fault and California’s San Andreas. In…
Politics
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Welcome to Gerrymandle! Draw electoral district lines to win more seats than your opponents and win the election! Win the election for purple. Draw 5 districts…
Tech
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Web browsers are not document viewers. They are customer acquisition channels for massive tech ecosystems. They don't serve users, but corporations. AI…
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Almost nine years ago, I decided to write my own website generator. Static-site generators (SSGs) were sort of new back then, and somewhat fascinating to me.…
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I’ve been off social media for a while. I do dip into one of the platforms now and again, but my blog is where I do my posting. My online...
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You stroll around a traditional market in town, stop at a stall and have a look at what’s on offer. You’re never alone, as others are doing the same. Unless…
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Yeah I know, I use it. But I use Brave to watch things… so no ads! But today Brave did an update (1.91.178) and it plastered ads all over the...
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Great tools stay approachable at the beginning, but reveal deeper capability as users grow into them.
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Heya! So, James recently made a blogpost opensourcing the python script he used to generate his various personality quizzes! (Blogger Archetype quiz, what…
Writing
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For All Mankind is an American science fiction drama on Apple TV. Ronald D. Moore created it with Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi. It imagines an alternate history…
Still Bubbling
Already featured in a Briefing before. Two or more votes in the last 24 hours.
Tiny Bubbles
Fresh posts with exactly one vote in the last 24 hours.