Wednesday, July 8, 2026
Bubbles Briefing
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For 94 minutes at least, all the countries in the world (except the US) were rooting for Belgium. And did they deliver. 4-1 to Belgium and US was knocked-out of the Round of 16. Even if Belgium were to lose to Spain in the quarter-finals, they are heroes for showing that even…
Fresh Bubbles
First time in a Briefing. Two or more votes in the last 24 hours.
Culture
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Sunscreen use is increasing, but skin cancer rates are also rising. Does that mean sunscreen doesn’t work, or – even worse – sunscreen might cause skin cancer?…
Life
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I saw Becky (Online Goddess) posting about her creation of the #BearCats tag, as a Bear alternative to things like #Caturday. I thought this was a great idea…
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open for a surprise, etc
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A rare dispatch from the Metablogosphere.
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Why willn't thine bubble pop sooner (Photo unrelated)
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Sharing someone's positive experience and point of view regarding their epilepsy diagnosis.
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Every year I dread coming back from vacation not because of the work, but because I have no idea where I left off. A failing test, a well-written TODO, and a…
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Is this metablogging? Perhaps. I’m not going to dwell on that though, there has been plenty written about that avenue / type of post, instead I’m gonna be…
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It's been difficult to think of much else today besides the massive Microsoft layoffs. They've been very obviously on the way, looming over us all since Asha…
Politics
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Some newsrooms are making money from deals with prediction markets. It will only serve to further destroy the public's trust in news.
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"This is 4D chess!!" shouted Matthew Goodwin into the howling void that is Twitter. With such an endorsement, you just know he was heaping praise on stupidity.…
Tech
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Katie Paul and Courtney Rozen, Reuters: Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged shortcomings in the company’s sweeping restructuring at an internal…
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Last week I went full speed into setting up webmentions on my site. My implementation works around using webmention.io in my site's <head> and Bridgy for…
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This post is part of Robert Birming’s JulyReply, a blog connecting event. I recently came across this post by Michael Harley: “Bloggers, can we make better…
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Finally being forced to build moderation capabilities into my Webmentions server
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I spent years wishing for a better way to indicate when one of my posts is part of an ongoing series. You know the kind: Annual birthday posts for Frankie…
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I made some updates to my notes blog, including a change to how my “Shuffle” feature worked. Figured I’d blog about it. Shuffle? On a Blog? At the time of this…
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