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Bird photography is like real-life Pokémon (Antonio Santos)
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I’m just starting out with bird photography, and I’ve compiled a short-list of birds I want to take photos of, to have some sort of goal when I’m out there and what to look out for. It also helps if I have a few birds I’ve looked up to be able to say “oh cool, that’s a gray…

Fresh Bubbles

First time in a Briefing. Two or more votes in the last 24 hours.

Art

  1. Retro Slide — A Fujifilm Recipe for 5th-Gen (X-Trans V) Cameras (FUJI X WEEKLY)
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    This new Fujifilm Recipe began with a stack of slides. Some were mine from the late-1990’s and early-2000’s (captured on Kodak Elite Chrome 100 and Elite…

  2. My day as an "AI artist" (A Lovely Harmless Monster – Blog)
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    When I was in high school, I had the bright idea that I could save a screenshot of a Winamp MilkDrop visualizer in progress, and post it to my DeviantArt…

Life

  1. A Small Wooden Teardrop (My Garfunkel Library)
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    My sticky notes from Black Bag, by Luke Kennard: A boy in a girl's bathroom: Her soap appears to have been carved raw out of the side of a cliff; shampoo and…

  2. Everything hinges on strength (Jem's field notes)
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    I had a quick flick through the 50+ drafts dating back to 2013 sat in the back-end this morning and spotted one near the top entitled ‘West Midlands Autumn Cup…

  3. This Tiny White Ball on a Thread is a Carnivore (Outside My Window)
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    10 August 2026 In August in southwestern PA you may notice a tiny white ball floating above the trail, maybe at eye level. If you walk into it you discover the…

  4. i'm a farming sim fanatic (stitching)
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    On August 5th, 2024, Fields of Mistria entered early access on Steam. I am a SUCKER for farming sims - give me the same setup where I move onto a dilapidated…

  5. Heatwave No. ??? (Online Goddess)
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    I think I’ve lost count of how many we’ve had now. When I started writing this, it was 3pm and 30°C (86°F for you folks across the pond). There’s the lightest…

Politics

  1. A collection of assorted thoughts on “Tech sucks: You have to vote with your wallet, or nothing will change” (creolened.com)
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    Andreas over on 82MHz has written about how you can’t expect giant tech companies to change if you keep buying their products: Tech sucks: You have to vote…

Science

  1. Inverse differential equations (John D. Cook)
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    In science and engineering classes, you might describe a system using Newton’s laws and end up with a differential equation. You then solve the differential…

Tech

  1. My Homelab Got Hacked - A Postmortem (Phunky Cafe)
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    A postmortem on the hack of my self-hosted Forgejo instance and a reminder to patch your software.

  2. Don’t Lock User Data Behind Paywalls (Online Goddess)
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    I have a pet peeve when it comes to apps with any kind of paywall. I appreciate developers need to earn a living and have no qualms paying for the hard work…

Still Bubbling

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

  1. Bubbles.town (anderegg.ca)
    15 ▲
  2. Against Doomerism (Terence Eden)
    18 ▲
  3. Bring Back the Paragraph (Arhan's Blog)
    15 ▲
  4. They don’t make ’em like Sublime Text anymore (David Bushell)
    22 ▲
  5. Clicks have killed the Inverted Pyramid (Gordon Meyer)
    13 ▲

Tiny Bubbles

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