Sunday, October 18, 2026
Bubbles Weekly
The week's most voted posts, updated every Sunday.
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https://bubbles.town/static/bubbles_1200x630.png While reading 6 Months of Bubbles by Gordon, I started wondering to myself how I'd change bubbles to make it easier to discover fresher and more niche content, while still providing the "best" posts for easy reading. Here's how…
Fresh Bubbles
First time in a Weekly. Five or more votes in the last 7 days.
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…
Crafts
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A few weeks ago Lisa and I made some heftier handmade paper, and experimented with pressing previously carved lino blocks into the still-wet pulp.Today I took…
Culture
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Looking for a world of like, yet lost minds
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Daniel Tilles at Notes From Poland: A sign installed to warn the public about damage caused by beavers has been destroyed by the beavers themselves, according…
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It is already not easy to be a human. Now add AI. Fernando Borretti: Humans are social animals who can only flourish in the society of other humans. We care,…
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If global large-scale human communication continues to be concentrated within large social media platforms and content providers like YouTube, human languages…
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I once asked a specialist in a particularly obscure mathematical subdiscipline how many people in the world could understand her work. “Maybe 20 or 30,” she…
Gaming
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It’s been… a while since the last time I made a spaceship. The last one was all the way back in 2024. Modeling spaceships is one of those things I always want…
Life
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Over the weekend, John Gruber posted a piece titled “X Once Again Marks the Spot”. He announced this on Mastodon by saying “I’m sure this one won’t make anyone…
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I had some interesting experiences with friends during the summer. The nudity was unexpected.
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The GNOME Foundation seems to be ...kind of a train wreck. And that makes me sad because it represents such a vibrant group of people who make cool shit and…
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There are times at my age when I look back and wonder, "What if?" Don't get me wrong, there are a plethora of things in the span of my 60 years that I am…
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Around half of us have hemorrhoids, yet it's still a sore subject. Here are my thoughts, plus some butt-ons to show we stand united.
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The time has come to address the elephant in the comments. Whenever my blog hits a place with a comments section the most predictable comment I see — besides…
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Jesus fuck. The three children killed were aged five, eight and 11. A seven-year-old and a 54-year-old teacher were taken to a hospital in a critical…
Politics
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politics
Science
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o-craven-canto:Alternate timeline in which all Greek and Latin roots are swapped:catastrophe -> contraversecephalopod -> capitopedchlorophyll ->…
Tech
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I made a tiny e-readerI saw this video a while ago and it absolutely ticked all my weird boxes.It's smallIt's pretty DIYIt's cheapI get to learn something…
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heya! every now and then, I'll see a post complaining about how narrow the focus of the small/indie web is. today, that was this post, by Yunzi, where they…
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The IndieWeb's pro-human, anti-genAI consensus has met its own infrastructure: Aaron Parecki, co-founder and the movement's 'single point of Aaron,' now…
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A (well-folded) love letter to the Weird World Wide Web: my entry for day 14 of Weird Web October is "Origami". Go play with virtual paper!
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Developers suck at writing documentation. We like to say RTFM but often there ain't no FM to R. At best we have a half-arsed collection of notes, some obsolete…
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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…
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If you spend a lot of time on places like Bearblog, Ooh Directory, and Bubbles Town, you run into a few common themes in blogging. One of them that…
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I try to avoid writing about AI when I can because I know all of us are already drowning in it. Stick with me here, because there is a point to this and…
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Since IMDb forced users to login to see user reviews, I think it is time for another platform to gain consensus on the quality of media.Potential Alternatives:…
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Blur, the NFT marketplace that overtook OpenSea in trading volume shortly after its 2022 launch, announced it will shut down its website in a month. They also…
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goatsandgangsters:an interesting linguistics find! so I’m reading this text from 1908 and it keeps referencing “hp” in the context of “not being at full hp”…
Writing
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lordsausage:shoutout to the words “overmorrow” and “ereyesterday”. english losing these words was stupid. “the day after tomorrow” “the day before yesterday”…
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Fiction and Philsophy self-help
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A few months ago, I was at a coffee shop for a small event I put together. A reading party where only 2 people showed up. Still, we had a fantastic time…
Still Bubbling
Already featured in a Weekly before. Five or more votes in the last 7 days.
Tiny Bubbles
Fresh posts with 3-4 votes in the last 7 days.