• I am strangely calm heading in to Trump’s second term. We know his game. We know he’s evil. There’s nothing to be “afraid” of, because fear is best-suited to the unknown. We know him. We’re not afraid. We’re aware. …

• 🔗 We Don’t Need More Cynics. We Need More Builders. Liked this piece by Joan Westenberg. I occasionally see this cynicism myself, which is frustraiting as they usually come from builders. Surely they know how much harder it is to come up …

• I added a new blog post: Share Your Praise & Why It Matters ✍️ How being featured in a blogpost made me reflect on showing praise to others and how often we neglect this. https://gobino.be/share-your-praise-why-it-matters/ …

• Current status: Coffee before work

• @hjalm I had to. It came through my RSS reader, which no one but me owns! The truth of it all was too much to keep in 😁

• I’ve done sketches for the Sketch-a-Day app since January 6. Here they are for the month of January.

• 🖊️ I just posted a new article to krrd.ing! Lou Plummer - omg.lol Interview Series https://krrd.ing/posts/lou-plummer-omglol-interview-1/

• Cunk on Life, 2024 - ★★★★

• We went to a public library program tonight on how to make a custom recipe book. It was kind of a cross between scrapbooking and collage making but with cookbooks. (I assume. I’ve never collaged or scrapbooked.) I drew inspiration from …

• @matthewcassinelli I continue to think the stock market was a bad idea. Just in general.

• Marginalia Search recently moved to a new domain and got a bit of a facelift. If you haven’t checked out this indie web search engine yet, now’s a great time to give it a try. Not sure what you’re looking for? Head over to the explore page …

• I’ve seen a fox yesterday evening - I was never this close to one!

• Yep

• Look, I get it. You thought what you posted was innocuous. Still, did you stop to think about everyone who has ever lived and how it could make them feel?

• 🪦 I wish we had the financial resources to move to Canada but I’m saving up for the day I can dance on his grave like a drag queen at a discotheque

• Derek Thompson’s interrogation into adult loneliness corresponds with a wavelength that connects to what’s going on politically, with capitalism/branding, and probably the future of the human race. It’s an astounding change in our species. …

• I’m sad to share that nu baby was lethargic and weak today, didn’t come out of the nest today, only rarely cheeping. E held out hope while I braced for loss. Noticing the smallness of passing life and its clarity, like a glass marble in …

• Trying out adding audio narration to a blog post, but not sure I’ve quite got it right. The audio button works, but I have <{{ with .Params.audio }} {{ end }}> visibly wrapped around it. Tried to follow instructions on @help page. …

• Improve your notes (and your life) with two-word phrases

• My daughter’s English class this semester is called Literature of Black Joy. Here’s the books for it. I’ll be adding these to my own reading list when she’s done with them.

• Year in books for 2024

• @jsonbecker I'm collecting personal websites that highlight their authors' creative output in my ta-da channel on Are.na. You might find something you like there. I also curate another channel featuring all the websites mentioned in my …

• Why aren’t we talking about the real reason male college enrollment is dropping? As someone who is deep into college enrollment thinking I found this fascinating. Especially important to think about as the enrollment cliff approaches this …

• Hormonal IUD side effects

• I just looked through all my old blog post ideas and drafts. There are some fun ideas I forgot about in there. There is one titled “Demustyfication” that has been a draft for a long time. I just can’t seem to get it where I want it, but it …

• I just made peanut butter and strawberry preserve sandwiches using leftover pancakes. And they were good. Please clap.

• Learnt a valuable lesson today, which I will share with you via another King DerpCats most wondrous meme gen’rat’r.

• For New Years Eve dinner, I’ll be smoking a pork shoulder, and serving it with cornbread, black-eyed peas, and traditional southern collard greens.

• My word for 2025: Joy omrrc.com

• Spur of the moment night mode shot while up in the mountains near Blue Ridge.

• the unknown is the only true hope for a brighter future

• I hate Twitter with the white-hot intensity of ten thousand suns. Bluesky is very different: I only hate it with the white-hot intensity of a thousand suns.

• You Don’t Need An Algorithm patrickrhone.net

• DIY: my book about going your own way, and doing it yourself. No matter what. joanwestenberg.gumroad.com/l/gOepf

• Eileen R. Tabios:

• Making “Social” Social Again. Announcing Mozi | by Ev Williams | Dec, 2024 | Medium After a lifetime working at mattering, I realized I had under-invested in what really mattered: Relationships. Consider my interest piqued. …

• Give people something to link to so they can talk about your features and ideas - “Give people something to link to so they can talk about your features and ideas” - I am not overstating it when I say this is the easiest/cheapest tech …

• By consistently working on creating regular content, you can provide context to your audience that takes them on a journey. www.joanwestenberg.com/just-show…

• you can’t beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. and the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. your life is your life. know it while you have it. ~ Bukowski, Charles, The Laughing Heart, Betting on …

• For some light weekend reading, may I suggest this Chris Arnade quartet: Why I Walk How to Walk (12 miles a day) How to Travel Why and how to walk 200 miles The inconsistencies in capitalization are entirely Arnade’s. …

• Michael Oakeshott: "To ask the poet and the artist to provide a programme for political or other social action, or an incentive or an inspiration for such action, is to require them to be false to their own genius and to deprive society of …

• Today I learned that Max canceled Scavengers Reign, a show that was in fact the best thing to come out on TV last year. A pox on HBO/Max and a pox on anyone in the TV industry who doesn’t care about good TV. May YouTubers dance on your …

• I wrote about the (or my) conservative disposition.

• Wendell Berry’s characterization of agrarianism (from his introduction to The Art of Loading Brush): An elated, loving interest in the use and care of the land, and in all the details of the good husbandry of plants and animals. An …

• Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting in 2025

• If your beliefs include or depend on vilifying any one or any thing, it is probably because they can’t stand on their own. Their merit only exists in contrast. (Example, you can like bikes and believe more people should use them without …

• @Annie Generally, I tend to prefer the book over the movie or show. Lessons in Chemistry is a rare exception. I agree on the back and forth between reading and watching!

• Looking at ways to see, scrape, and archive

• Projects like EmojiRain make me glad we have developer-friendly social media platforms again.

• 🔗 Thought Detox Someone on Micro.blog posted a link to this little web-app years ago, where you can write your thoughts and they float away into the ether, never to be seen again. I didn’t grab a link to it at the time, which I regretted. …

• There is a deep connexion between excessively rationalistic thinking and delusion. (Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things)

• 8am, small-stepping forward, yet already ticked some checkboxes today and feeling both productive, surprised and falling for that giggling imposter again. The art of cheating oneself into a certain mood by just cutting tasks small enough. …

• Have you signed up for my no-award winning Moon Monday newsletter? Its motivation was to exist because nothing like it did to capture the world’s march to the Moon. Join the 8,000+ lunatics who subscribed for free because it is easy: …

• Fascinating: public.me/blog (h/t @starrwulfe)

• It’s done! Cyber Burger, the Pico-8 arcade game I’ve been working on for the last few months, is finished and can now be played online in a (desktop) browser. Check it out here.

• Trump Threatens New York Times, Penguin Random House over Critical Coverage. cjr.org

• Donât let your dreams give up on you – Austin Kleon I got rear-ended at a stoplight on the drive out to the Frio Canyon last weekend. Iâm fine, but Iâve spent the week thinking about whiplash. Not just physical whiplash, but spiritual …

• Webmention · Indie Microblogging

• Love this post by Mike Grindle, especially this line: To me, it shows what happens when you regularly write, publish, share and hyperlink into the void that is the web: the void speaks back. Similar things happen to me from time to time, …

• 🤐 Here’s a completely random list of non-partisan words and phrases randomly listed in random order and that have nothing to do with anything anywhere at all. https://mrd.paste.lol/polarization/raw

• It’s been beautiful to me how much I see people reaching out to each other and just metaphorically grabbing hands, connecting, letting each other know they’re not alone. I know there’s a lot of anger and fear - I feel it, too. It just means …

• @manton I like Kagi’s capability to create a “lens” to limit search results to a set of websites. Do you know of any way to create a lens for “all sites”? There are cases where I would like to search just this ecosystem and I …

• From @denis - You can bring back anyone from the dead from any era, at any point of their life and for only one day. Who? https://louplummer.lol/ama-what-historical-figure-would-your-bring-back/ #NaBloPoMo #WritingMonth #WeblogPoMoAMA …

• @markstoneman I'd listened to and wrote a blog post about their podcast a couple weeks ago though I was somewhat critical of it. If I'm being honest, I believe the US needs a kind of revolution. Call it evolution, call it deep reform, but …

• Testing is going well.

• The double cluster from Perseus: A pair of open clusters 7000 light years away and consisting of hot blue-white young stars only about 14 million years old. These clusters are blueshifted as they are approaching us at ~40km/s. This image is …

• Writing a random draft of what I think democrats should start doing more but I am going to be vilified for saying so I dont know if I should publish the post lol.

• PSA: Social media privacy and you

• The business of social media is the business of addiction. These are the tobacco companies of our time. At some point in the future… We’ll learn how they knew all along their product was bad for us. Eventually society will shun it as a bad …

• The Importance Of Dopamine

• Linkdump No 29 - 82MHz

• How I teach Eleventy from scratch

• Paolo Amoroso's Journal

• /opinion/harris-easily-beats-trump-on-economic-policy-presidential-election-9067bdc6 wsj.com

• Social skills

• Surfing the (Human-Made) Internet

• I am not fragile. I am one of a species evolved over millennia to be survivors. We have survived every climate and government. We have survived famines and fools. We are adaptable. I live in a time of rapid change and rampant anxiety. Yet I …

• The Christmas Conundrum patrickrhone.net

• First Question of AMA November

• Writing through cringe cygnoir.net

• Writing through cringe: https://www.cygnoir.net/2024/11/01/for-the-first.html

• Current Things: November 2024

• /apps/instant/nearby/index.html?appid=c094cf17f6214c2b9d6f7d77f225cf78&sliderDistance=15&find=1%2520Provincial%2520Ct%252C%2520Saint%2520Louis%252C%2520Missouri%252C%252063122 …

• Japan’s Jimi ‘Mundane’ Halloween Costumes of 2024 spoon-tamago.com

• Interview with my partner @wynlim on her writing (part i) | Launshae's art

• Sharing things inside my shoulder bag

• Phaedra, The lmika Track Arrangement

• A decade ago, I wrote an essay about what seemed to me a strange development: the centrality of literature to many people’s Christian faith. I still think about how odd it is that thousands or even millions of people owe their faith not to …

• Links #132

• An unprofessional blogger

• Imagine being in a gym where accidents happen—maybe a stray elbow here, a bump there. Aurelius notes that in these moments, we don’t hold grudges; we simply acknowledge the mishap as part of the process and remain vigilant without bearing …

• I'm happy to have been included in Manuel Moreale's ongoing People and Blogs series. You can read the interview here. There are 60 other interviews in his ongoing series. There are lots of interesting folks out there publishing blogs.

• One of the PIs in our team said this but I can’t confirm it online - you can add people who are part of another paid Slack plan to your paid workspace without being charged for them via Slack Connect. I’m reading you can add them to a DM or …

• That feeling when you’re cited in the book you’re reading to tell you how to do your job better.

• @Annie I got a new desk but I've been putting off assembling it... 😉

• My novel is back from the beta readers. That means I’m one final read-through away from being ready to start querying agents and bringing book 1 of From the Case Files of an Intuitive Investigator (tentative subtitle) to life. GULP. …

• Looks like I’m spending $2.00 at the half price books store.

• A woman, blogging: this is a political act – Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden

• The growing pains of the renewed small web

• I added my Micro.Masonry plugin to the Micro.blog plugin directory this morning (well, last night and updated this morning). If you’re looking for a nice masonry style layout for your Micro.blog photos page that’s mobile responsive, give it …