20 years ago today.

For the last two weeks, a Sicilian Redditor named ItalianSausage2023 has been digitizing classic musical SNL performances from their own VHS collection. The audio and video quality's great, better than most copies of these recordings online—if they exist at all. www.reddit.com/user/Italian...

makeup artists and hair stylists, pee elsewhere

The surprise at the end of Cabel's talk was a personal highlight of 12 years of running XOXO, a secret quietly hiding on stage for the entire festival. Nobody knew what was coming but @cabel.panic.com, @andymcmillan.com, me, and venue/event staff. It was a surprise even to all the other speakers.

speaking of bad opsec, here's Epstein in 2007 reporting to Yahoo support that his accounts were hacked, revealing his super-strong passwords in the process

this is who runs this account

i have questions about saturday's scheduled activities at my grandmother's nursing home

IT'S HERE!

the one time "make the logo bigger" would have been good advice

online reviews of every skilled nursing facility: ★★★★★ this place saved my mom’s life, thanks to Esmerelda for being a second mother to me ☠️ this place killed my dad, the staff made him sleep in his own feces and beat him nightly, it should be shut down by the health dept and burned to the ground

This has been the most stressful two weeks of my life, and lemme tell you, looking at the internet has not exactly helped lower my blood pressure.

open a terminal and type `ssh tiny.christmas`

Lazy Sunday debuted 20 years ago tonight.

Hands-on reviews of the new Commodore 64 Ultimate are starting to come in, and I'm suddenly feeling VERY good about my preorder. It consolidates every great homebrew hardware improvement for the C64 into one machine. Even the packaging is well done, a faithful update to the original.

Please enjoy my top 10 free browser games of 2025: 1. Type Help william-rous.itch.io/type-help 2. Dragonsweeper danielben.itch.io/dragonsweeper/ 3. Clues by Sam cluesbysam.com 4. Stimulation Clicker neal.fun/stimulation-... 5. The Collector split82.itch.io/the-collector

I knew scammers were ripping off @simonegiertz.bsky.social's edge-piece puzzles with cheap low-quality bootlegs, but I just saw a new low on TikTok: I got an ad using her own stolen video to advertise their shitty knockoff. When you click the "Shop Now" link, it goes to their store with the fake.

Bending Spoons' spending spree continues with Eventbrite in an all-cash $500M deal, after buying Vimeo and Harvest earlier this year, with a $1.5B AOL acquisition still pending. (They also bought Meetup, WeTransfer, Brightcove, Issuu, and Hopin last year!)

"Another volumetric display! This one does away with the wildly spinning arrays of LEDs, instead using projection mapping onto a point cloud etched inside a block of glass." And yes, you can play DOOM on it. youtu.be/wrfBjRp61iY

Shopify's admin has been down for hours on one of the biggest shopping days of the year. Shopify stores are still running and taking orders, but we can't sign in to enable discounts, see the orders, or fulfill shipments. Fun! shopstatus.shopifyapps.com

My Feedly Pro annual subscription finally expired, so I switched to @inoreader.com on @molly.wiki's recommendation. It does everything Feedly did but better, without shoving unwanted AI features and ads for creepy corporate surveillance/threat intelligence services down my throat. Recommended!

"We are so hungry for conflict that we turn something as boring as Wikipedia into a part of the culture war." If you saw that clip of Jimmy Wales walking out of an interview, or just care at all about Wikipedia, @hankgreen.bsky.social provides some useful context. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zi0...

@molleindustria.org saw this and thought of you

Here's one for the internet olds: looking back at the curious case of Kaycee Nicole, the 1999-2001 internet hoax that duped a bunch of protobloggers. www.switchboardmagazine.com/monthly/the-...

This is misleading. 1. The opt-out for creators is channel-wide, not per-video. It's available in YouTube Studio right now. 2. The low-res versions aren't going away. YouTube will automatically generate multiple upscaled copies, but you can still choose to view the 144p/240p versions if you want.

for a time, calculators in the shape of floppy disks were a popular promotional item

I have a folder in my feedreader for infrequently-updated feeds. Occasionally, one wakes up from a long nap and surprises me. Today, I saw @tokyohanna.bsky.social posted to her Blogspot for the first time since September 2013. Yet another reason why I love RSS. tokyohanna.blogspot.com

Woah woah woah woah I’m upset the XOXO festival has come to an end too, but we don’t need to send the military in town for that

A followup to my post two weeks ago, I found the couple at the center of the Will Smith AI crowd video. I wanted to know what it was like to find yourselves in the middle of a hypermodern problem: being confused for AI slop. waxy.org/2025/09/inte...

Ha, my son beat Silksong at 1am last night, in 15.5 hours of game time.

After 22 years, Typepad is shutting down with one month's notice. Go back up your old blogs, old-school blogger friends. everything.typepad.com/blog/2025/08...

If you haven't checked in for a while, Internet Roadtrip is finally back in the U.S. after exploring Canada for the last three months, currently puttering around northeast Vermont. neal.fun/internet-roa...

In case you missed it last night, I dug into Will Smith's "fake AI crowd" video. Nearly everyone got this wrong, and the evidence was easy to find… if you're sick enough to watch everything Will Smith posted on social media in the last four months.

You may have seen this story blowing up about Will Smith using AI to generate fake audiences to promote his latest tour, but the truth is more complicated. The audiences are real, but the footage was manipulated: first by Will Smith's team and then, without permission, by YouTube itself.

they should have had marissa mayer redesign it

Deep discounts on Panic's lineup on Steam today, I just completed my collection with Arco and the just-released Herdling.

Less than 1,170 words to go until @avibagla.com's Bluesky tracker has indexed half of the English dictionary. Slip an obscure word or two from the unseen list into your posts today to help it along! www.avibagla.com/blueskydicti...

Can Bluesky say every word in the English dictionary? In the last 24 hours, @avibagla.com's tracked 32% of all dictionary words, over 88k of 274k unique words. www.avibagla.com/blueskydicti...

I'm amazed I've never seen this before: a photo licensing company shaking down someone for hosting an image used in an Open Graph tag.

my 98-year-old grandmother texts me sometimes, always nice to hear from her 🥰

Going through some old boxes, I found our 21-year-old son's first iPad, iPod touch, and iPhone. We powered them up and each one was a time capsule at different ages. It had old Minecraft and Terraria worlds he played with friends, texts/photos/videos, games long since removed from the App Store.

Last 30 hours to back Pet Names! The project ends tomorrow at 5pm PT/8pm ET. If you missed it, I posted a little behind-the-scenes of making the game and the fox plush last month in this thread.

First time I've ever 100%ed a blog post?! Incredibly impressive work by @aresluna.org and @persistent.info, a remarkable mix of writing, design, and engineering.

40 years after he started it, @scottandrew.com finished a text adventure game he began working on at age 14, a collaboration with his teenage self. I just beat "The Plot of the Phantom," and it was charming with several surprising moments. scottandrew.com/blog/2025/06...

Ask MetaFilter was mentioned on Jeopardy last night!? metatalk.metafilter.com/26681/What-i...

It sprawled like this for three miles, through downtown and across the river and back. Tens of thousands of Portlanders of all ages, lots of families, kids, seniors. Cars honking in support. From the Hawthorne Bridge, you could just make out the protest line heading back on the Morrison Bridge.

I went to a birthday party in L.A. around 1994, and Brian Wilson was there, just hanging out by himself. Nobody talking to him, everybody too cool to care. He wandered over to the piano and started playing. Literally nobody except me seemed to notice. He plucked out some chords and wandered off.

My secret hobby is feeding story ideas to the @404media.co crew via Signal group chat. This was one of them!

Pet Names is now live on Kickstarter! The newest game by @pinktigergames.com is a fast, fun party game where you compete to make cute nicknames for other players, with 400 mini-cards inside a custom furry fox plush bag. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ami...

The Tiny Awards are back, and so am I! After a year off, I'll be a judge helping to decide "the best of the small, poetic, creative, handmade web" made in the last 12 months. Nominations open until the end of the month, submit anything you love! tinyawards.net

A local pub trivia group started using ChatGPT for their event posters. I need a drinik.