Thursday, July 16, 2026
Bubbles Briefing
The most voted posts on Bubbles, updated once a day.
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Top Bubble
Yes. Next question! Oh, you’re still here? In that case let’s apply Rigorous Science (TM) to support our claim and to satisfy the never-ending hunger of artificial language models that are only able to answer this question by applying their Lying Science (TM) techniques. The…
Fresh Bubbles
First time in a Briefing. Two or more votes in the last 24 hours.
Life
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A quick one today, but it’s been on my mind and I wanted to get it down on paper, so to speak. We’ve been watching The Big Bang Theory for a while. I do enjoy…
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I try my best to do something creative every day. Some days I get to spend hours in front of the computer working on art, other times I only have a few minutes…
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Photo by Bernard Hermant on Unsplash I've started a quest for the “perfect” typewriter. I don't know what that means: I don't know what perfect is in the case…
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Last month I posted a review of Klimadashboard's European Heat Tracker, which visualizes how many people across Europe are exposed to extreme heat in real…
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One of those blogs that’s probably more personal than purely historic, so please excuse me if you're looking for pure history. In my earlier blog Neolithic…
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More often than not in our culture, when someone is talking about "success" we assume they are referring to either material wealth or the result of someone…
Music
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Olly wants to buy digital music through his local record store. The book world already has this figured out.
Politics
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Was going to post on photography, but it's too fucking disturbing to ignore- people wantonly being assassinated on the street by our 'Law and Order'…
Tech
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The internet didn’t become broken overnight, it drifted from being a network of communities into a marketplace dominated by platforms whose purpose is…
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Where to get public domain art and how to use it.
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It is time to reclaim the web.
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In my 2nd ever post on this blog - 2 years ago! - I wrote about tending to my music collection, so on the anniversary of that post I figure now is a good time…
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My wife and I recently went on a 7 week holiday around Europe. Although we each took a massive backpack, we wanted to travel fairly lightly. I took a single…
Writing
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Book review for The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann. I rated it 5 stars. The Wager is a non-fiction book covering the improbable…
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