Saturday, July 18, 2026
Bubbles Briefing
The most voted posts on Bubbles, updated once a day.
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The latest anti-feature from Automattic—now infecting Gravatar. Photo by: Unattributed, License: Copyright Unattributed. Licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. Happily Imperfect posted Bye bye Gravatar a short while ago, and I have to say, I've had a similar thought about…
Fresh Bubbles
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Culture
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There has been some talk, even from those unsympathetic to Nigel Farage, that the candidacy of Count Binface, the highest-profile opponent to the Reform leader…
Life
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I'm not pretentious when it comes to coffee. I like it slightly weak and bitter with a ton of milk or cream in it, and that's it. Go to any cafe in America and…
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Sometimes our online friends are more real than our "IRL" friends.
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My workplace is starting to drink the kool-aid and I went through one of those boring and cringe presentations, for the sake of y'all, hope you're happy!
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Special interests are the most easily depathologized facet of autism, but they can still make one's life more difficult than it needs to be. Recently, a…
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Happy World Emoji Day! 🎉 It’s celebrated on 17th July because that’s the date shown on the calendar emoji. 📅 To mark the occasion, a fun one: lots of people…
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I’ve had my Gravatar account for a long time —18th January 2017, something I managed to find by exporting my data and querying the JSON file included (which…
Tech
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As somebody who writes a lot, I've always been interested in personal knowledge management systems and note-taking apps. But what do these frameworks and…
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The recent fiasco involving Linus Torvalds running Linux like the privileged man that he is and entirely missing the central points of the arguments made by…
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Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay Introduction A few years back I became interested in the idea of getting a smartwatch. However, what I found when I started…
Still Bubbling
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Tiny Bubbles
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