I wrote about living with the chronic, debilitating anxiety that made me a "problem child" as kid, about trying to understand what anxiety is an adult, and how I discovered that it might be like prayer johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/line

Please boost because damn the job market is tough out there right now. The good news is, Temporal is hiring 😎 Come work with me! Staff Developer Advocate roles in the US and India, plus a bunch of others at: temporal.io/careers

New 💅 based on this awesome early 18th c. English Delft (tin-enamel). The distinctive color palette of blue, red and green is called Bristol, though it was also made in London. This vessel was found at George Washington Birthplace, and was likely used by the Washington family. #maniarchaeology

cartoonists handing the same 5 dollar bill around the Small Press Expo but it's the entire economy somehow

New on Niche Musems: my write-up of a visit to the Musical Museum in Brentford, London... player pianos, self-playing violins, and orchestrions! www.niche-museums.com/115

Hey could someone at Disney draft a statement I can give my 3 year old about why we can’t watch Bluey today because I had to cancel our subscription, I feel like I shouldn’t have to take the fall for this

🌈 This is such a joyful article 💧 Carefully scooping out the earth where ponds used to be and letting the old, old soil underneath naturally sprout aquatic plants from long-buried seeds as the rains fill them in 🌱 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Covid & Flu shots in Portland, no prescription needed (LeCare pharmacy)

all streaming services eventually stress me out or betray me EXCEPT @dropout.tv which is 100% blessed and perfect 🙏

Every single time a form of UBI is implemented, it is successful.

[sigh] here we go again Once again, Colossal Biosciences is tech bro grift and journalists don’t need to reprint their press releases uncritically (and they only claim they’ve made Nicobar pigeon germ cells!) They will not ever produce a live dodo www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

I’ve found my next spot - at Temporal, where I’m delighted to be leading community outreach on @webchick.bsky.social’s team. I wanted my next role to continue the pattern of working with folks I have a lot of respect for in the ecosystem, on technologies that users actually enjoy <3

oh right, I can’t actually order cute clothes from the UK anymore 🫠

Do you have experience with leadership and growing communities? We are hiring! 👇

Okay but seriously this plagues me daily and I’m desperate

a quick PSA

Happy Saturday, friends!

Portland friends! Go to the next installment of the Cloud Native Meetup to hear the Apple Container Framework&Tooling crew's Eric Ernst AND @kelseyhightower.com's talk in one night. WHEW! In Seattle and want to train down with me? DM September 18th @ 5pm www.meetup.com/cloud-native...

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

Another September, another deluge of social media posts from PNWers convinced they have fiddle, wolf, or recluse spider infestations. Comrades. It's just giant house spider mating season. You don't have an infestation. They've been there the whole time. Now they are risking death for girlfriends

guyyyssss this is NOT a drill 🚨 Popcorn in a Pickle is back at Trader Joe’s 🥒 😭

This is absolutely batshit and amazing. I didn’t even know that some ant species have to mate with a different species to produce workers (!!!) but they are literally mating with another species, ripping out their own DNA, and producing a clone of the male they mates with. That is NUTS

Starting a New Job on Monday! Thank you to all for being so thoughtful and supportive throughout the last few months; looking forward to sharing where I’m headed once I arrive there 😋

That's it, today is the right day to celebrate the 5th anniversary of Raised by Wolves.

This Iron Age Levantine seal clearly shows the TARDIS in the vortex on the back. Specifically the Tom Baker title sequence.

✏️ Happy Labor Day! 🖌️ Did you know that AI “art” is labor theft? Hi. I’m a professional traditional artist of over 15 years & I was able to make a decent living until 3 years ago. In May 2023, over 50 of my paintings had been scraped without my consent to fuel AI image generators like Midjourney.

Walk in the woods

A fun (sorta) thing I learned working on this story was that the NYT blamed the 1911 chestnut blight on “general wickedness”, “sinfulness and extravagant living” in a story headlined “ALL CHESTNUT TREES HERE ARE DOOMED”

oh you enjoyed a niche hobby? how's that working out for you right now?

This was pushed out with a rushed security review, a coerced and unwilling engineering team, and in full opposition to our supposed company values. If you don't want it, tell them. Social media and support forums. Leadership won't listen to employees. github.blog/changelog/20...

This is so so so so so good. I'm a huge reader of Butler (and sci-fi dystopia in general). This is a peek into Butler's methods for compiling history and psychology and her vast imagination to create such important works of speculative fiction. And that in the dystopia, she signposts a way forward.

A great article on something I think about a lot: “cross-breeding ancient passive principles with contemporary design tools is one of the most promising paths forward” 🌬️

The mental health benefits of not knowing any history right now must be massive. Moving through your day with total equanimity. What happens next? Who knows? Maybe something good

Rock Looked Way Cooler Wet

Interesting piece comparing the seduction of the LLM to the con of the psychic. softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme...

Highly recommend the architecture critic @katewagner.wehwalt.net on this topic: www.patreon.com/posts/mcmans...

Some 3,300 years ago, an ancient Egyptian artist painted this humorous illustration of a cat herding geese on a flake of limestone. From Deir el-Medina, Thebes, Egypt. 📷 Egyptian Museum, Cairo. #Archaeology

i just keep getting hotter and smarter

"The rise of fascism in the United States convinced the Guthrie family and their associates that the music scene needed a dose of Guthrie’s anti-authoritarian, anti-racist, Nazi-punching ethos." #woodyguthrie #folkmusic #antifascist

Repainting the street mural on a nearby intersection - a 25-year tradition that was one of the first few such examples in Portland. History: www.pdxstreetart.org/articles-all...

I love Terry Gross she is a top ten person

"I need to be good at art to make art therefore I require the image generator" you fool. you utter embarrassment. go make something out of paper clips coward

Reminder that the best conference for understanding generative systems, and how people play them, is full of kind people, online and you can go to it.

Just restocked some of our popular patches! 🐛🦕💕 🛒 shop.fossilforager.art

‘A baby possum is called Matt LeBlanc’ is AI at its finest

The open source trust & safety work ROOST is tackling is essential, and fresh, and quite exciting - rare right now in the industry. Definitely check them out

I guess this is how everyone learns that GitHub has actually been under CoreAI at Microsoft for a while now - since January I think?

“Distracted boyfriend meme”, 1935

This little horror archaeology game is wonderful

Me, a fool: ahh, a relaxing trip to Goodwill to look at vintage goods …oh god … surely that’s not professionally framed AI-art NFTs advertising a failed cryptocurrency