Every once in awhile I remember a really good website from a long time ago and find out that it hasn't fully been archived :( This one is a very good summary of Tufte's principles web.archive.org/web/20151016...

Dabbing is just a way of distracting people while checking to see if your pits smell

This person making very useful 3D printed objects for bikes and homes is low key goated www.youtube.com/@cybercyclis... www.thingiverse.com/CyberCyclist...

"I generally have four or five books open around the house ... they are not books on the same subject. They don’t relate to each other ... and the ideas they present bounce off one another ... in that way, I’m using a kind of primitive hypertext. - Octavia Butler piperhaywood.com/im-using-a-k...

I am so grateful to have been part of the month long Digital Naturalisms Conference in Desa Les, Bali, Indonesia. View my stories and reflections of Dinacon 2025 here, with links to underwater photos and more: paulate.notion.site/Stories-and-...

archive.org/details/1240... Pokemon patented summoning a character and letting it fight another (gamesfray.com/last-week-ni...)

upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co... Cotton plants as imagined and drawn by John Mandeville in the 14th century

www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... Spooky owls 4 u

objects.library.uu.nl/reader/index... Bugis script map of Southeast Asia ca. 1820

I was going to post about how amazing it was that I can now ride from Beacon Hill to South Park to Georgetown to downtown almost entirely in PBLs. But instead I’ll post this picture of a guy who smashed into the bike lane seconds after I rolled through:

read it, sit with it, read it again

🐠🐡I wrote about my experiences exploring the reef as a visually impaired person and making a descriptive diving bell at Dinacon! Check it out! medium.com/@leeborg_/a-...

newsflash you're in indonesia buddy not hawaii

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonp... via paulalavalle.com/commonplace/

collections.mfa.org/objects/2362... Hiroshige prints are beautiful

Haircuts are math Really like the way www.instagram.com/shannelmaria... visualizes haircuts

tessa2.lapl.org/digital/coll... Hand drawn layout of local Trader Joe's store

Overheard on Bad Faith pod convo with Anita Say Chan: using "AB testing" both as literal reference and metaphor for reductive, binary decision-making in the current technocentric political landscape

Hegelian e-bikes

map.pscleanair.gov?lat=47.67683... not sure if this was on purpose but I love the shaky loading icon

100% of the content on the internet is a lie

thebirdmachine.com/collections/... was obsessed with Jay Ryan's art in college. I love how dynamic/cute/weird/colorful it is. (he made the album art for The Mysterious Production of Eggs)

www.engadget.com/my-first-son... I had one of these cassette players as a kid. The design 👩‍🍳😘

"Around 1839, [Walter] Benjamin reports, it was fashionable to walk through the arcades with a turtle on a leash in order to enforce the slow pace really determined looking required." onewaystreet.typepad.com/one_way_stre...

Listen to this peopleplacesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/casio-...

A visual dictionary of 18 different words for “fall” in Javanese journal.isi.ac.id/index.php/dk...

LUA IS 1 INDEXED

Enjoying niche subreddits where I don’t understand the jargon and can pretend I’m reading a sci fi dystopia. “A digital I know told me something that changed my perspective.”

Dreamt that we had a band called Nipples and we recorded remakes of old folk songs. What did we call the album? “Nipple covers” Woke up laughing.

What do you get an immigrant Chinese mother for Mother’s Day who can buy most things she wants but won’t bc she wants to save money? Pls help

I love how the Writers Guild is unapologetic about keeping AI out their part of Hollywood. No dithering about tech manifest destiny. No worrying about the feelings of people who use Chat GPT for their “art”. Just a union of actual working creative people, fighting unabashedly for their livelihoods

can't post video yet, so here is a still of this marionette i made today.

ぼくです

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