Thursday, October 15, 2026
Bubbles Briefing
The most voted posts on Bubbles, updated once a day.
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Someone emailed recently to tell me that they like the idea of Pure Blog, but they thought the admin interface was "really ugly" so they can't use it. Fair enough - beauty is in the eye of the beholder and all that, but I don't think that was a fair evaluation of Pure Blog's…
Fresh Bubbles
First time in a Briefing. Two or more votes in the last 24 hours.
Art
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I’ve been focusing more on street photography this year, and with that, have also been building my collection of photo books for ongoing inspiration. A few…
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Woman with a Parasol – New York, New York In an age of athleisure and other casual clothing, you don’t often see a woman in a white dress complete with a…
Culture
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In Japan, it’s not unusual to see people treating cherished objects with a surprising degree of reverence. Dolls receive memorial services, broken sewing…
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Lately some prominent guys in the tech universe have been loudly proclaiming they’re returning to X, after leaving the platform in semi-protest following the…
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Photo: © Stan B.Do we have to see and hear? Witness and endure? 30,573 lies in his first term alone- a record he's easily surpassed midway through his second…
History
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As a fairly regular 'stone botherer' I'll always try to see some stone circles, burial mounds, landscape features etc when I'm out and about somewhere. This…
Life
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Never thought I'd be shadow banned, or index blocked (or whatever it is Bearblog does) for a post about a man pouring urine into local public infrastructure. I…
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For reasons, I recently went into a part of the city known for particularly confusing and bad parking signs and photographed a bunch of them. Los Angeles has…
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Ripping the band-aid off a topic I’ve avoided writing about directly. But I want to share my experience. Three jewels, three marks, six nails & so forth: how I…
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TFW You take your dog for a walk and find an AirTag on the ground in an ElevationLab TagVault. You’re like: “I know exactly what that is! I have a few of…
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I recently came across this bucket at one of our local coffee shops — a common drop and collection point for free goods, from books and magazines to excess…
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Over years, I’ve been talking photos of random signs that I find interesting. I’m throwing some of them together in this note to create some sort of photo-note.
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sourcewidder writes about how blocking is merely used for disagreement rather than a proper moderation tooland, having been on the other side of that way too…
Politics
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politics
Tech
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As web developers, we’re constantly working with websites with different types of content and ways to craft that content. Whether it’s a handcrafted blog, a…
Still Bubbling
Already featured in a Briefing before. Two or more votes in the last 24 hours.
Tiny Bubbles
Fresh posts with exactly one vote in the last 24 hours.