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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)
    2

    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)
    8

    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)
    2

    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)
    2

    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)
    6

    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)
    3

    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)
    3

    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)
    5

    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)
    2

    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)
    24

    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)
    3

    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…

Writing

  1. Your Book Body-Count Is Worthless (Westenberg.)
    5

    Read Like It Matters (Because It Does)

  2. Library, an adventure (Sylvia's Studio)
    3

    This is a repost of something I wrote on Tumblr in 2011 :)---I have always been an avid reader, even more so as a child. I became a member of the library in…

Still Bubbling

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

  1. Tech sucks: You have to vote with your wallet, or nothing will change (82MHz)
    1
  2. Bubbles.town (anderegg.ca)
    14
  3. Against Doomerism (Terence Eden)
    17
  4. Bring Back the Paragraph (Arhan's Blog)
    15
  5. What Happened to John and Lorena Bobbitt After 1993 (UtterlyInteresting)
    15
  6. They don’t make ’em like Sublime Text anymore (David Bushell)
    22
  7. Clicks have killed the Inverted Pyramid (Gordon Meyer)
    12
  8. Miss Nude World, 1970 to 1975: The Ontario Pageant That Outdid a Prime Minister (UtterlyInteresting)
    9

Tiny Bubbles

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