my personal canon
Khamenei is (finally) Dead.
How far back in time can you understand English?
I started struggling by the 1600s but still managed to read... Let me tell you, 1500s Portuguese is so much more far removed than present-day Portuguese than English... What the hell happened.
What's In My Inventory? : Bear Blog Carnival November 2025
Cut up your books
que segunda tela?
BEAR'S PURCHASING POWER PARITY, OR: THANK YOU HERMAN HOLY SHIT
Não é apenas uma fase II
Monthly Rewind: February 2026 | Stephanie Vee
here is why i think you should start a blog
Saving to also send it to my friends.
Standard E-Books
A rant against the smooth life (~kinda)
WHO DO YOU BLOG FOR?
Eu não quero vender nada para ninguém
I hate internal linking – Manu
If you write on the web about anything, please, give me links. I want to be able to click them and discover new websites and keep my web journey going.
How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner - annie's blog
I am crying, laughing, throwing up... This is exactly what it feels like ;_;
How LLMs & Chatbots Are Bad For the Indie Web
Can't deny what is true. I did catch myself thinking about the surfability issue when using chat bots for answers...
Surfability for the indie web can only come from a culture of links that allows you to click around. Reading one response post leads you to another. Opening a personal site leads you to a blogroll or a button wall. Finding a directory lets you discover a whole array of websites to explore. If exploring the indie web is what we want, as opposed to loading one single page as a novelty and then getting sucked back into a billionaire’s feed, then the indie web needs this handcrafted surfability.
Surfability is exactly what we stand to lose to LLMs because LLMs are notorious for separating people from sources.
Generative AI is Built on the Exploitation of the Global South | Stephanie Vee
231. RE: trying to rid myself of material desires
"When it is easy to acquire and easy to discard, commitment starts to feel optional." Oooof
Redes sociais afetam adultos também
Redes sociais são ruins pra adultos tbm :)
A Teoria da Internet Viva
A web está vivona, bem vivona, você só precisa procurar nos cantos certos. Talvez seja até possível dizer que a maior parte da web esteja morta - ou coisa pior - e que o que há de vivo são uns poucos povoamentos humanos, algo meio The Walking Dead2. Se assim for, tudo bem. Ainda há vida e possibilidades de contatos com pessoas incríveis na web. Acho que devemos aproveitar. 😊
why i love my low-traffic blog | Absurd Pirate's Internet Blog
"Quality over quantity" is truly at the core of blogging, totally agree. As to why not journal... Well, it's like wearing clothes. You do it for others, too.
When people like my blog, it's because they've made it to the end of the page. When people email me, it's because they've been somehow positively impacted by what I wrote, so much so they opened up a separate tab or window just to reach out. That means a hell of a lot more to me than comments. That's a REAL thoughtful interaction.
It's a quality over quantity approach.
What's the point of having a low traffic blog?
An honest reflection. It never occurred to me to think about this though. I think I'm just satisfied as is with my blogging habits.
I opened a bookshop. It was the best, worst thing I’ve ever done
Community is what so many of us are lacking in our lives. Our yearning for it is what sends us in our droves to music festivals and overpriced theatres. It’s what we thought we’d found on social media and have since realised we didn’t. And, above all else, it’s what independent bookshops thrive on.
Storage!! | fiddery's blog
SO PRETTY I WANNA THROW UP
RT/Boost/Repost é um componente prejudicial para redes sociais “tranquilas”?
Quem escreve precisa estar o tempo inteiro lendo, consumindo diferentes conteúdos, diferentes pontos de vista sobre uma mesma coisa, e a partir daí é que se torna possível escrever algo rico, que faça sentido nesse mundaréu de letras que nos afoga.
Encarar o repost meramente como algo relacionado a um “campeonato de popularidade” é perder de vista esse importante potencial, que é conhecer pessoas novas a partir de uma referência comum, o que no fim a boa escrita exige.
Quem escreve precisa estar o tempo inteiro lendo, consumindo diferentes conteúdos, diferentes pontos de vista sobre uma mesma coisa, e a partir daí é que se torna possível escrever algo rico, que faça sentido nesse mundaréu de letras que nos afoga.
Encarar o repost meramente como algo relacionado a um “campeonato de popularidade” é perder de vista esse importante potencial, que é conhecer pessoas novas a partir de uma referência comum, o que no fim a boa escrita exige.
Abandonando redes sociais “numéricas”
Eu gosto do status.cafe pela falta de "numerização", é realmente um microblogue onde as pessoas postam seus dias e sentimentos. E nada mais.
when you anthropomorphize llms
What really gets me are the people who aren't even technical writing these dramatic thinkpieces. You know the ones: "AI has reached a new level of judgment..." followed by the same tired predictions about replacing writers and coders we've been hearing for years. It's just clickbait
Everyone should play more games offline
I love this. I recommend this. I feel like with a handheld console it's even better.
i can't stop thinking about goodreads' top 100 (update below!)