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[event] my bearblog creations

ava's blog · 2mo

img { image-rendering: pixelated; border-radius: 0!important; } As part of the Grizzly Gazette event, I thought I'd made some buttons, a forum signature, and a little joke...

Star Wars: A New Hope (1977)

The Kid is 7 now so it is the final time to present him the oryginal Star Wars. Well, the enhanced version.. but Original! I explicitly forbidden him from watching a lot of...

nude. ascending staircase

Tulips · 2mo

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The internet is awesome

Will RC · 2mo

I read this short post from the folkmoss over on Bear Blog the other day, and the sentiment really stuck with me. It’s not the internet you hate, it’s social media. The internet...

Carnaval in the Sierras Chicas

Over a long weekend, between February 14-16, the 19th Tricota Cultural took place in Villa Ani Mi, a small village just north of where I’m currently living. As part of the local...

XVII: Arrival of Candide and His Valet at El Dorado, and What They Saw There

lettrss.com · 2mo

“You see,” said Cacambo to Candide, as soon as they had reached the frontiers of the Oreillons, “that this hemisphere is not better than the others, take my word for it; let us...

“Trim Silence”: Threat or menace?

Coyote Tracks · 2mo

While I don’t think Apple Podcasts itself has a “trim silence” feature, it’s popular in a bunch of podcast players. Overcast probably kicked it off with its “Smart Speed”...

Sorry folks, you can't avoid AI

I'm on Mastodon, aka the Fediverse. A big reason people are there is because they do not like the big tech, corporate, algorithmic social media platforms, and they want more...

Adding Messaging to My Blog Was My Best Idea Ever

A few months ago I added a widget to this website that lets anyone quickly and anonymously message me. I had very little idea how that would actually go at the time, but since...

El giro conservador,

por Elvira Navarro

The Machinery of Shallow Triumphs: The Structural Disinformation of Prestige Journalism

Cafe Bedouin · 2mo

When omission becomes disinformation: (1) available at publication time, (2) changes analytical meaning of reported facts, (3) outlet’s authority means most readers stop there....

My stance on AI

Artificial intelligence is science fiction. No one has ever created "intelligence" in the form of a computer program. And it is debatable that anyone ever will. When people say...

1994: Cool Site of the Day and the rise of curated web design

Cybercultural · 2mo

Cool Site of the Day; screenshot via ​Megan Sapnar Ankerson. On August 10, 1994, a 33-year old web enthusiast named Glenn Davis posted the following announcement to a UseNet...

Kopi pagi ini adalah dari Family Mart

Gentle Sunday · 2mo

Baru saja berakhir libur panjang, tapi buat saya rasanya kayak dikejar setan. Sebelum liburan tim kami menyelesaikan program pelatihan yang jadi agenda besar awal tahun (tapi...

HAPPY HOUR AT TURIN’S JUMPING JESTER

retiredmartin · 2mo

February 2026. Turin. You left us in M** Bun at 6pm after a very late lunch, largely liquid, and it was time for an early night back at I Reali and a catch up on our respective...

feb 6th was a good day for post-punk

earlier this month, two post-punk albums were released on the same day. so i'm gonna be writing my thoughts about them. mizantrop - she past away title track for this album...

I miss thinking hard

kiko.io · 2mo

This text accurately reflects the main problem with AI: We are gradually losing our cognitive abilities, because we are ceasing to train our biggest muscle: the brain. “Vibe...

Kyoto Imperial Palace・京都御所

Red and white Ume plum blossoms in bloom in the gardens of Kyoto's Imperial Palace. 京都御所の庭園に咲く紅白の梅の花。

Grammarly Is a Cheating Machine

Daily Nous · 2mo

Grammarly is sometimes thought by instructors to be a relatively benign writing tool app, akin to a sophisticated spelling and grammar checker. Bits of Grammarly screenshots...

Diagnoses

noahie.xyz · 2mo

Life has been good, but there’s still so much looming in the background. I’ve been starting to feel a lull in my ability to write these entries. If anything, I think it’s just...

"Two ways of doing (almost) the same"

Manu Mateos · 2mo

En ale, today una reflexión sobre cómo dos switches para deshabilitar las funciones de inteligencia artificial en dos programas pueden expresar cosas totalmente distintas.

Whistling in the Dark

Stephan Max · 2mo

Going Home/Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9 by Albie Sachs; recording by Warrick Swinney When Dr. Phokeng Setai—one of six curators of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art...

Weekly Notes: WFH Mode, Olympics Nights, and F1 Is Back (Week 7, 2026)

CybersecKyle · 2mo

Yesterday was a busy Monday so yet again, I am writing these notes on Tuesday. But hey, better late than never, right? Let’s dive into the weekly notes for week 7 of 2026! The...

🔭 The Record Essay

foofaraw · 2mo

Back when I had a record player. HSS-CRCK-POP!“No!” my little sister shouts. It's her room and she's scared. “Last one,” I lie, cross-legged on a Garfield-colored rag rug. I...

Word search puzzle #1

I wanted to do something fun like a game, so I decided to do a word search puzzle, I love solving puzzles but I've never created one myself so I thought it would be...

GUI > CLI

LostFocus · 2mo

I know this might be slightly controversial for my fellow developers, but: I tend to prefer a (good) GUI over the CLI. Git? Please, hand me a pretty client with colorful lines...

0001-Beginning of word-vomit

Sigmarootpi · 2mo

In my previous post, I talked about word-vomit series where I expressed my desire to make a routine of writing a post every single day. Ofcourse these posts will not be as good...

PSA: Your SQLite Connection Pool Might Be Ruining Your Write Performance

Evan Schwartz · 2mo

Update (Feb 18, 2026): After a productive discussion on Reddit and additional benchmarking, I found that the solutions I originally proposed (batched writes or using a...

Storytelling and the Art of Tenderness: Olga Tokarczuk’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

“Tenderness is the most modest form of love. It is the kind of love that does not appear in the scriptures or the gospels, no one swears by it, no one cites it… It appears...

Celebrating the Flower Gods (贺花神) – Spring Gala Festival 2026

Drama Tea · 2mo

Admittedly, this isn’t a typical Chinese drama post (but it has CDrama actors!), but I was so wowed by the Spring Gala Festival 5-minute performance, 贺花神, that I had to share it...

Ice Crusher No. 21

Chris Glass · 2mo

Been thinking about ice a lot lately — more than I'd like to be honest. ⊕Currently Listening: Steely Dan “Dirty Work”Reply via email

Book Review — The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean

Thomas Rigby · 2mo

I devoured this said V.E. Schwab in a jacket quote either carefully written or carefully chosen because it references consuming. There is a secret race of creatures, the...

Gabriel Bella — an unknown painter

The paintings of Gabriel Bella are well-known and often used, but very little is known about Gabriel Bella.

Learning. Again. And Again.

Last week, I saw a message from December 18th in our team’s Slack channel. It mentioned a minor bug that affects only a few users. The team responded, “Let me create a ticket,...

Switch between open windows in an application

February 17, 2026 I've often wondered if there was a way to switch between windows within the same application without using the Window menu. Fortunately, I just learned that...

De digitale coalitieplannen: gaat het ook echt gebeuren?

In het eerdere stuk Digitaal zoet en zuur in het coalitieakkoord schreef ik over de bemoedigende en minder bemoedigende stukken van de coalitieplannen. En er staan mooie...

Emacs: confirm package bugs with –init-directory

Protesilaos · 2mo

Much of the maintenance work I do for my packages involves correspondence with users about potential bugs. Sometimes, a user will encounter a problem that I cannot reproduce on...

Yes VPN, no printer

Previously. A monk asked the master: “Why can I not reach the printer?” The master replied: “Because you are still connected to the mountain.” The monk disconnected from the...

We’ve Been Doing Business Wrong

Arcana Labs · 2mo

For some reason, after spending the best part of a decade in the tech industry, I’ve begun to feel a certain kind of way about the state of enterprise in the highly...

Notes on clarifying man pages

Julia Evans · 2mo

Hello! After spending some time working on the Git man pages last year, I’ve been thinking a little more about what makes a good man page. I’ve spent a lot of time writing cheat...

Mole for macOS: It's a keeper

dmpop · 2mo

Yesterday, I discovered Mole. Running this deep clean and optimization command-line tool for the fist time reclaimed ~25GB storage space and removed a lot of junk. I also like...

一次在日本看感冒的经历

日々精進 · 2mo

病来如山倒 从寒稽古回来隔一天早上起来感觉嗓子很痛,电热毯的温度让我一度以为是干燥导致的。喝了水之后也并没有缓解,我轻而易举地接受了自己又感冒了的事实,这应该是我最近一年里至少第三次感冒了。...

Vuelve Micromanía

Desde el pasado fin de semana se puede reservar o hacer una suscripción a la nueva época de la revista Micromanía. El retorno de la clásica revista de videojuegos se produce...

European alternatives to US apps and services

Wordius · 2mo

Those I use are starred. They are not recommendations as it is too soon, but that may change over time. Note that some suggestions are not necessarily Europe based, but let’s...

On Half-Earth Socialism

Luke's Notes · 2mo

On the book Half-Earth Socialism, an advocacy of a utopian ecological society that can stop the catastrophe of climate change. Lots of big problems hang over humans and other...

Good Linux compatible USB-C Travel Hub with PD

solariz.de · 2mo

Not an lenghy Article, just posting my findings for whoever may need it. The Hardware: i-tec USB-C 4K Metall Nano Docking Station Named by the bulky name i-tec USB-C 4K Metall...

Anubis v1.25.0: Necron

Xe Iaso · 2mo

Hey all, I'm sure you've all been aware that things have been slowing down a little with Anubis development, and I want to apologize for that. A lot has been going on in my life...

🎛️ Taking control

I have been building a GNU/Linux native Kodi remote control. As I could not find one. Using BeeWare Toga, Kodi JSON-RPC API and some experimenting, I built an open source Python...

digital detox day 7/30

Days without turning off site blockers: 1 Took a long, long walk and felt a lot better. Also went to the library to take out three books. Reading is very calming for me. It also...

Pluribus & Alienation

Joarvarndt · 2mo

This post contains spoilers for Apple TV’s Pluribus, a really great show that you should ideally watch without having read anything about it. Pluribus — the newest show by Vince...

Moving to BearBlog

Hi, Lycaina is here!From today on I'm moving from Blogger to BearBlog: NEW LINK I've been painfully reminded that Google has a monopoly on so much online, and additionally they...

This Is the Meat Department

Despite all these attempts to start swinging the pendulum in the other direction, I am really struggling with my work environment lately. And by lately I mean the last three or...

I Hear YouTube Is Down

Unlike Alphabet, I have never run the world’s largest video hosting service. I am, however, the administrator of two of the internet’s most popular websites (you’re reading one,...

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Lent 2026 Day 0 - The Plan

Dallineation · 2mo

I observed Lent for the first time last year. I am not Catholic, but it was an overwhelmingly positive experience for me and I have been looking forward to doing it again this...
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