Part of my weekend included a little glowforge project, a little lantern! Bonus points if you can guess the band it’s associated with!

Little reminder that I have a website with a massive archive of artwork, links to all my stuff, an RSS feed, and an email newsletter!

Incredible

Want to short-circuit a gaslighter? Here’s how. PS: You’ll see a few videos about this from me, it’s a big biiiig topic. #weneedtotalk #communicationskills

This is really neat, and I think they solved the problem in a cool way. For me, I don’t want my chats backed up to an external server. Especially anything that I couldn’t self host. Going through a vicious legal discovery process really changed all this for me. #infosec #privacy 1/3

I will absolutely not hesitate to join a suit if they steal We Need to Talk. It didn’t appear to be in the below suit given that it was released this year, but I’m keeping an eye out.

Submitted a short horror story I’ve worked on for a few months to @3lobedmag.com! It’s cosmic horror with maternal trauma, and includes tentacles and other requisite gross but very fun stuff.

hornet photo study

Hey the world can really suck sometimes but I did download Hollow Knight Silksong last night and it’s incredible. Also, my dogs are cute

Is the chat getting out of hand? Here are some ways to stop it from spiraling. #weneedtotalk #communicationskills

Ooooh passive aggressiveness at work is my favorite topic to talk about. Here’s (just a few ways on) how to handle it. #weneedtotalk #communicationskills

Trying rsync on locally encrypted drives instead of relying on iCloud for encrypted backups. Anyone else done this? At this point, I’d rather be responsible for my data as it’s hard to trust other orgs anymore. See: See: Apple/UK on encryption, Meta’s random acct deletion, etc. #infosec #privacy

Driving through this was the perfect cap to an incredibly tumultuous time in my life. Say what you will about signs, but it was so bright, so beautiful. Seeing it gave me hope for the future and the life I’m building.

Did they drop out right before ethics 101?

What do you do when someone hijacks your meetings? I get this request a lot. #WeNeedToTalk #CommunicationSkills

* new friend-o

How to say no, guilt-free. #WeNeedtoTalk #CommunicationSkills

I’m not sure what hurt worse, the accuracy of this or my back

PSA: none of my works will feature AI art, including my books. I’ll draw the cover myself or hire someone.

New from me: Safety Not Guaranteed: The Myth of Data Anonymization. Think your data’s safe because it’s been anonymized? Think again. It can be deanonymized. And AI may be helping. Friend link follows: stribs.medium.com/safety-not-g...

Nerds will see this and say “Hell yeah”

How to dismantle a bad faith argument #weNeedtoTalk #communicationSkills

Via Variety: 'Guillermo del Toro refused to make #Frankenstein with too much visual effects and green screens: "I want real sets."' variety.com/2025/film/fe...

I can’t wait for all the Spirit Halloweens that will set up shop in stores that used to be Targets. That’ll be the day.

Recently adopted a 90 pound behemoth who is *such* a sweet spirit. He’s finally opening up, too, after nearly 3 weeks of shyness. He takes toys and treats now and he plays so well with his sister, a 60 pound tank.

And you can also choose to set this as your default setting:

Meow Wolf, Denver CO

AI weirdos can pry em dashes and sparkle emojis from my cold, dead hands

The folks at TJ’s can be Predator-level brutal

Unreal how true this is

It Follows. I really just want it for the clamshell kindle phone thing.

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

Today’s Glassholes deserve to be treated with the same contempt as the last ones.

I made biscuits! One of two, maybe three things* I claim from my Southern Heritage ™ (You can't get good biscuits out of the south unless you use this one brand, and someone was kind enough to gift me some.) * The others: Y'all, ain't.

Energy usage is the same whether they’re deleted or not. Deleting them would actually use more energy. Is this real life??

This week: Nice Weather, my coaching practice, relaunches. Here’s some art I made to support it!

This might be my favorite Lebowski meme

Look you just have to make the cool weird shit that excites you. You must. In this world besieged by bland, scrubbed boring, computer slop, you must. Make the thing you’re embarrassed to make, the thing that feels “too much” because otherwise we get drowned in a sea of cowardly work made by a button

An update from us here at PBS 💙

If the thought of using a cloud that’s owned by companies that suck up to tyrants bugs you, maybe you can try building your own. I did just that and made a guide. joshuagraves.me/knowledge/jo...

Hello a pop-tart is a ravioli Thank you for your attention to this matter

I made a little update to the site, better typography (hiii Roslindale Condensed!) and some other tweaks no one but me will notice, but you'll enjoy them.

God help me I signed up for TikTok www.tiktok.com/@itsniceweat...

behold the "HTML bomb" It's a counterattack for AI companies that persistently scrape and rescrape your web site, even when you tell them not to when a scraper grabs it, it becomes a 10-gig HTML page and 💣 goes the scraper Item #6 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter: buttondown.com/clivethompso...

@tinylongwing.bsky.social btw! I made a shirt 😊 joshuagraves.me/making/art/b...

Do you have someone at work who's making ludicrous requests, like they're wanting to put missiles on your roof or nuclear reactors on the moon? Here's how to handle that. vimeo.com/1107837994?s...

This is very good. www.404media.co/the-medias-p...

I'm going to tell you exactly how to write a book. Do you see that impenetrable brick wall ahead of you? You're going to ram your head into it until long book is long.