Bubbles Briefing

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…

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

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…

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…

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…

Attention minions raising smaller minions:Have you ever noticed something... off... about Peppa Pig's nose?…

Some random ramble about starting to write a blogpost only to realize it could end up as something different and maybe better too.

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…

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…

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…

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

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…

Photos of animals at the Indianapolis Zoo.

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…

You are not stuck. You are moving fast in a direction you never chose.

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…

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…

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…

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

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…

Things I read recently

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…

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…

Roll a D6.

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…

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…

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.