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This is Not Normal (Maps Mania)
21

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

  1. I owe my life to a 1913 road rage incident (The Universe of Discourse)
    8

    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…

  2. Farming is Why Humanity is Fucked (brennan.day)
    19

    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

  1. This blog is now on bubbles.town 🫧 (Rachel Kaufman)
    13

    Joining part of the indieweb that feels like the best part of the old internet.

  2. Leaving the Hell (Uncertainty)
    8

    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…

  3. Going More Analog (Jason Journals)
    5

    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…

  4. Autistic Children do not "Seem Adult" (David McGee)
    4

    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,…

  5. Now I Can Quit Chess (Field Notes)
    3

    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…

  6. enduring the heat wave in germany (ava's blog)
    12

    Thoughts on staying cool and collective or structural changes.

  7. Looking back on posts (What the Fran)
    2

    Resurfacing some posts to celebrate number three hundred

Tech

  1. How to remap keyboard buttons in Linux (James Leighton)
    4

    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

  2. I Don't Maintain My Homelab (Christian Cleberg)
    4

    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.…

  3. Webmentions on my blog, Part 1: Incoming (Michael Harley)
    3

    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…

  4. Have You Restarted Your Computer This Week? (The Art Of Not Asking Why)
    2

    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…

  5. The Remarkably Human Samsung Unsubscribe Flow (Shank Space)
    4

    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…

  6. Couriers, Not Coders (Yegor Bugayenko)
    5

    Now that AI codes for cents, contributors are paid for the delivery, not the code—so no mercy for sloppy pull requests anymore.

Writing

  1. Doctor Who The TV Movie (The Target Novelisation) (feeling listless)
    2

    Books Probably an odd choice of reading given, hands gesticulating, everything. But between catching up with the Eighth Doctor audios, spending a hundred odd…

Still Bubbling

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

  1. This is what collapse looks like. (shojiwax.com)
    40
  2. I prefer writing into the void rather than shouting into an algorithm. (Kia.)
    29
  3. Why web browsers don't support Markdown (unstory)
    22
  4. Please don't use an LLM to communicate with other human beings. (florio.dev)
    34
  5. The simple joy of giving (Robert Birming)
    9
  6. 🚴‍♀ Wear a helmet! (Bits by Bino)
    54
  7. Your shit is unreadable (unstory)
    22
  8. How to stand against high temperatures (Whatever the Wind Brings)
    20
  9. Why blog? (Diel's daydreams)
    9
  10. Markdown is for humans (Benjamin Wil)
    20
  11. Andrew Tate and the Business of Male Misery (The Grumpy Welshman)
    16
  12. The Making of This Website (Abhinav Sarkar)
    7
  13. YouTube sucks! (Kia.)
    4
  14. A Good Product Is Hard to Outgrow (Cauê Napier)
    3
  15. Indie games are worth your time (Chris Kirk-Nielsen)
    18
  16. Apparently I'm not a woman because I use Linux (Danielle's Diary)
    67
  17. The social contract of writing (jola.dev)
    10

Tiny Bubbles

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