Sunday, June 28, 2026
Bubbles Briefing
The most voted posts on Bubbles, updated once a day.
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In the UK, the hottest June day on record has been broken three days in a row. And it's not just the UK experiencing unprecedented levels of heat. France, Switzerland, Spain, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands have also recorded their highest-ever June temperatures in the past…
Fresh Bubbles
First time in a Briefing. Two or more votes in the last 24 hours.
Culture
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This is my great-grandfather, born Dominusz Andor in Szeged, Hungary in 1886. In the picture he is in Brooklyn, New York, probably sometime in the early…
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A mind-shattering concept from a first-year university class that upended how I think about humanity. Daniel Quinn's Ishmael trilogy argues that totalitarian…
Life
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Joining part of the indieweb that feels like the best part of the old internet.
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We stayed for 3 more days. It was already clear for everyone that they won't allow us to fly from this position, but the command still won't let us out. We…
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This post will be short. I’m drafting it by hand — pen & paper! The ink is “Energel” by Pentel (made in Japan). And of course it’s orange. I’ve tried different…
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People sometimes say that autistic children "seem older" than they are. When I was a kid, I supposedly seemed older than I was. But, the more I think about it,…
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The magic number: 1908. The year my great uncle was born (his birthday was only 3 digits, 6-6-8, which is so Mr Burns), and my current rating on Lichess. My…
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Thoughts on staying cool and collective or structural changes.
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Resurfacing some posts to celebrate number three hundred
Tech
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How to remap a broken or missing key on Linux using Keyd. This post walks through installing Keyd from source on Pop_OS and configuring it to reassign any key
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Table of Contents 1. Infrastructure 1.1. Server 1.2. Network 2. Software 3. The Outcome It's true. I don't maintain my homelab… it maintains itself.…
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I'm unsure if everyone is really talking about webmentions or if I'm just noticing them more because I'm working on mine, but it certainly feels like the…
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I like restarting my Mac on Saturday mornings. It’s a silly thing really. You don’t really need to restart computers anymore unless some update takes place or…
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Hello fellow haters of marketing emails that you get signed up for on the way to creating accounts, sometimes as an explicit checkbox (this is not about you…
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Now that AI codes for cents, contributors are paid for the delivery, not the code—so no mercy for sloppy pull requests anymore.
Writing
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Books Probably an odd choice of reading given, hands gesticulating, everything. But between catching up with the Eighth Doctor audios, spending a hundred odd…
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