Bubbles Weekly

Responding to readers who invoke Christianity to defend exclusion, I argue that the Gospels consistently welcome lepers, foreigners, sinners, and…

Heather Burns: I cannot tell you how much it disgusts me that so much of the archival footage from September 11 has now been age-gated and restricted as…

I'll admit to being the kind of person who gets irrationally tilted when I see people bringing self-censorship practices from TikTok or Instagram to other…

There have been several posts on here lately lecturing people on how to write and on literacy.1 I’m throwing my own dumb opinion into the fire here and saying:…

Speaking of being on the internet and finding things that make you go, “Hey! It’s not just me!” I scrolled across this skeet from Tyler Gaw: I just dug to the…

At the start of this year, I was showing my dad a video of me and my (new friend at that point) best friend singing together. I was so excited that I had found…

Hey, Bear. I have returned from the basement. It was chill and smooth run. Didn't lose a single drone, the fresh guy who was with me also didn't lose one. The…

This is the sixth post in my 'hitting the digital brakes'-series. These are the previous posts in this series: 1. the joys of imperfection  2. Do we really…

When you load up someone's old saves, you can't help but think...

Commenting on an article about disability.

Venting about my recent termination.

If you ever wondered how the UK is leaning politically, then the events of this weekend would give you a pretty good idea of where it is. On Saturday, an army…

Australia’s Labor governments are a mixed bag when it comes to digital infrastructure and legislation. They introduced the teen “social media” ban that experts…

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It's our best hope for a vibrant and open internet.

I imagine everyone here has received an unsolicited message telling them that their tax is overdue and that they urgently need to visit…

Reddit used to be a good source to find real recommendations. Well, not anymore. Years ago, I used to append "reddit" to my search queries to find real…

No one, not even Google, knows when a site is indexed or not. Thankfully there are other search engines out there.

Bottom Scores from Website Scans Introduction Yeah, that image doesn’t paint a pretty picture, does it? Those are a selection of the bottom sores. There…

I don't mean in a linguistic sense, as recent Beartroversy would protest, but quite literally. Your blog is hard to read. It physically strains my eyes to even…

The subject of using AI for blog posts is one that keeps coming up, whether it's writing posts entirely or "just" proof-reading. Readers, generally, don't like…

Because they're spying on us, that's why.

I signed up for a Mastodon account recently, forgot about it, then came back yesterday to have a nose about. Had a look at the trending section and here's what…

Gamer Nexus YouTube channel claims that LG Smart TVs are spying on their users even in standby mode. They record audio & video playing on TV, capture ambient…

How a bug in my own CI/CD accidentally uncovered a novel vulnerability in NeoCities: ScreenJesus, the undocumented screenshot bot behind thumbnail previews,…

Overviews of the very many snippets of code that were once commonly included on websites to address specific cases with certain technologies, browsers,…

When I started programming, my whole day revolved around development. I’d wake up, write code, and go to sleep. And that’s how it was day in and day out. My…

Apple recently announced an upcoming feature for their new Apple Watches called “Audio Intelligence,” which will always be listening to and transcribing…

A year ago I went all in on Apple—6 TB of iCloud, Reminders instead of Things, the whole ecosystem. Twelve months later, I’m back on Dropbox, running Omarchy…

After a year of work, hundreds of commits, 5 generations of pull requests, dozens of tests, rewriting part of Anubis in Rust, the first compiler bug of my…

I don’t know why my brain decided 3 minutes after putting my head on the pillow the other night, to suddenly start thinking about dragons, but it did.…