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Top Bubble

man. (Brennan Kenneth Brown)
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man is not a certain breed of anonymous, nihilistic blogger who mistakes callousness for wisdom and detachment for depth. man is different. man is better.

Fresh Bubbles

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

Art

  1. A Bit More Interesting Information About Jay Maisel, His Gear And How He Used It (The Wandering Lensman)
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    Jay Maisel with his Nikon D3s and 28-300mm lens, his favorite kit. (Click to enlarge)Photo by Randy Duchaine (Fair Use)In my last post I extolled the talent…

Culture

  1. I was unstoried (unstory)
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    On Unstory: Nihilism, Smallweb Discourse, & the Value of Expression https://trialandfailure.net/on-unstory-nihilism-smallweb-discourse-the-value-of-expression/…

  2. non-politicised latin american folk status (ℓσяιs' cσяηεя •ᴗ•)
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    to me, it's very interesting that some latin american folk are not politicised. like, what d'ya mean you grew up in a colonised place that underwent at least…

  3. On building a worm detector (Ben's Ecology Blog)
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    The next frontier in worm research is to be able to visualise (map) the locations of worms, in-situ, and if possible, at the paddock scale. We know so much…

Life

  1. the unstory situation (candyether.space)
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    so if you didnt happen to see what happened in the blogospherei was yelled at again by someone i sorta looked up toat least this time it (probably) wasnt my…

  2. You Pig! (Cake Wrecks)
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    Attention minions raising smaller minions:Have you ever noticed something... off... about Peppa Pig's nose?…

  3. When a blogpost eats another (Joel Chrono)
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    Some random ramble about starting to write a blogpost only to realize it could end up as something different and maybe better too.

  4. A Profile in Style with Janice of the Vivienne Files (Kaijuville)
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    Today’s interview is the first I have yet conducted with a professional blogger. I’m not going to assume anything about what you picture when I say that! But…

  5. I need to stop looking up reviews for everything I buy (Nate.spot)
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    I found a funky little used bookstore in my hometown recently. It might be my new favorite. There's a big sci-fi section which has a great selection of those…

  6. the uncool cool curve you're not allowed to talk about being ahead of if you want to stay cool (cool is overrated) (drmollytov)
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    Went down this rabbit hole during lunch: The Guardian: Our lives and identities have moved online - and it's driving us insane Eugene Healey: Post-luxury…

  7. Ashtray (unstory)
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    Going black and white. Just need a new iPhone to properly document this bullshit. Sponsors, do your fucking thing.

  8. This Blog In September 2001: Day Twenty-Five. (feeling listless)
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    Theatre 'The Frieze' reviews Jeremy Deller's The Battle of Orgreave. One of the pivotal moments of the 1984/85 miner's strike was recreated in the style of…

  9. I love the zoo (Down the Road)
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    Photos of animals at the Indianapolis Zoo.

  10. Shine a Light (Maps Mania)
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    There are plenty of maps that show you where the world's lighthouses are. Lighthouses, live does something much more interesting: it shows you how they…

  11. Whose definition? (Matt Rutherford)
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    You are not stuck. You are moving fast in a direction you never chose.

  12. Your Body Of Work Thinks Back At You (Photoni.st)
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    I’ve been taking photos of benches for years. Sometimes on purpose because I find them intriguing and I have an thing for objects designed for people but…

  13. The Day the Old Me Died (Ham 'N Eggs- by Brigid Hannon)
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    On the day the old me died, I ate an egg salad sandwich for breakfast. I had been craving one, it had been my 10th wedding anniversary, my husband had been…

  14. My Morning Routine & Why You Might Want to Adopt It. (The Art of Doing Stuff)
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    2026 UPDATE: I wrote this post in 2019, two days after becoming a Morning Person. I had plans. I had advice. I had apparently undergone a complete personality…

Music

  1. Air Theramin (NomadWarMachine)
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    Today’s TDC says We love this Air Theremin a lot. Do something, play with it, record yourself making sounds and share it with us.  Have fun! Here’s mine

Nature

  1. Ice and fire: volcanic glaciers (VolcanoCafe)
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    It is a truth universally acknowledged that any Icelandic volcano in possession of magma must be in want of an eruption. However little known the feelings and…

Tech

  1. Muse, Too, Will Probably Be Put Out to Pasture (Eshu Marneedi)
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    Hayden Field, reporting for The Verge: We seem to be entering into an AI agent renaissance. Meta’s new consumer-facing AI agent, Muse, topped the App Store…

  2. Year of Desktop Linux (@gurupanguji)
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    With Muse confirmed to give everyone a Virtual Machine on the cloud, we can now confidently say, 2026 is the year of desktop Linux. I’ve seen a couple of posts…

  3. A SKILL.md for commenting on Hacker News (lcamtuf’s thing)
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    Roll a D6.

  4. IndieWeb link sharing - which method do you prefer? (Michael Harley)
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    Link sharing is a fundamental piece of the IndieWeb. It's a kindness we show to other bloggers and sites. We share things we find good or interesting so that…

Writing

  1. 1Picture1000Words Contest (@iamgregb)
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    I participated in yet another writing contest called 1Picture1000Words:They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Look at this picture.Write 1,000 words…

  2. The three most painful sensations known to science: Childbirth. Stubbing your pinkie toe. Sending a link to somethin... (Contrariwise the Wizardly)
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    The three most painful sensations known to science: Childbirth. Stubbing your pinkie toe. Sending a link to something you made and being left on read.

Still Bubbling

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

  1. Why is Hacker News like that? (Drew DeVault)
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  2. Free clown (unstory)
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  3. Why is the human body so crap except for the liver? (DYNOMIGHT)
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  4. Start using your hands (a sort of manifesto on crafting) (Sylvia’s Studio)
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  5. How to copy URLs of multiple Firefox tabs without installing an extension (The Autodidacts)
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  6. Foreign Journaling (Writing things down)
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Tiny Bubbles

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