this is all I care to know about today's scheduled rapture #rapture #adblock #rapturetok #indieweb

You can read this as a companion piece to my article for @newpublic.org. There, I go in-depth about what the indie web is & how you can get started, plus some fun and useful links to explore that piece is here: newpublic.substack.com/p/the-handma...

Interviewing indie web folk about the web revival, unrotting your brain, and their favourite places to hang out online #indieweb #substack #writingcommunity #brainrot #techwriting

a wild dive into how SEO strategies like aggressive backlinking are used to weaponise outdated content for the AI era #aislop #ai #investigativejournalism #writingcommunity brittannica.substack.com/p/the-algori...

tinyurl.com/5acekt2d Some of us are cutting carbs and doing 5am runs like we’re trying to summon a demon. Have we completely lost the plot? Is the Great Lock-In the end of the line for fitness challenges? #greatlockin #tiktok #gymspo #lockin2025 #writingcommunity #amwriting #substack #indieweb

Doomscrolling get you down? The indie web is the way out. Here you’ll find sites that aren’t built for views or profits, by creators who are embracing what made the world wide web beautiful and exciting in the first place. @chezpanique.bsky.social has a list of her favorites to get you started.

This just in: smelling like a human being is now an act of rebellion #dystopia #dystopiannews #resist

honored (hyperventilating, sweating, screaming) for this chat with Alexandra on the topic of indie/small web!! lots of amazing peeps mentioned - take a read

I've recently gotten excited about using Leaflet.pub & have fallen down some delightful, old-school web holes via pages there like it's 1999. Back to the basics!

My favorite collab this summer—read on to find out where the cool kids are hanging out online #indieweb #smallweb #webdev #nostalgia #amwriting #writingcommunity #gamedev

my friend was 10 years ahead of the curve in 2015 when he took his library copy of Dostoyevsky's War and Peace to the beach, to "pick up chicks" (in his own words) #wapo #amwriting #performativemasculinity

In fact, if you look up "synergy" in the dictionary you'll find this as an example #indiedev #indieweb #writingcommunity #amwriting #substack

RIP Tom Lehrer, the mathematician-musician who wrote some of the jauntiest, most hummable earworms about mutually assured destruction; who quit in protest when Kissinger got the Nobel Prize in '73; who lived to be 97 and see most of his cursed prophecies come true #RIP #tomlehrer #musicsky

On the off-chance that trying to sustain a train of thought for longer than 10 seconds feels like chasing globs of mercury across an ever-tilting floor. If you wanna beat the constant churn of the algorithm. blogtherapy.substack.com/p/cultivate-... #indieweb #substack #writingcommunity #amwriting

in today's edition of Untested: making a top-secret font from scratch, the goofy occult teachings of Thelema, and a quiet song about nothing #writingcommunity #amwriting #indiedev #indieauthor #fonts #fontmaking #indieweb

Reclaiming your attention span can look different for different people, but here are some suggestions #digitaldetox #touchgrass #indieweb #indiedev #altweb

wondering what being dogpilled looks like? I eavesdropped on neighbour's kid's bday party—without wanting to, it was outside my window—and learned that we say hi to our dog the way most people talk to babies. with big, sweet voices full of love and awe. #dogsky #dogsofbluesky #dogpilled

My friend is building a very cool game and you should absolutely check it out #indiedev #indiegaming #indieweb #devlog #devsky #gamesky

I'm beginning to think I don't understand art (gasp) because here I was last night, watching Jozef van Wissem and Jim Jarmusch jam out dissonantly on two electric guitars for 20 mins of pure noise, their backs to the audience, and all I could do was laugh uncomprehendingly #artsky #philistine

but also beaver is a fish in the Catholic Church so it's not like they're toooootally opposed to loopholes

use cases for this gem of a writing app, accumulated over 6 years and a few thousand users coming soon to an Apple AppStore near YOU #indiedev #amwriting #writingcommunity #writersky

no spoilers please, but...in Bunny by Mona Awad, is the Bunnies' Creative Process just, kind of, badly prompted generative AI? #LitSky #BookBky💙📚 #GenAI #Showerthoughts #amreading

so proud that my article for Portugal Decoded is live! trust me, it gets...personal. I also touch on expat psychology a little and what we can really expect from our adoptive countries #portugal #expat #introvert #psychsky #usexpat portugaldecoded.substack.com/p/how-to-soc...

not Bunny by Mona Awad roasting one of my favourite singer-songwriters of all time aka Joanna Newsom #booksky #blueskyreads #horrorsky #booklover

consider Mango #dogsofbluesky #dogpics #pupsky #fruitsky #dogphotos

Keeping a visual diary will be the summer reset to end all summer resets. The ultimate way to romanticise your life. You’ll feel like an artist every day. You’ll finally fix your busted attention span. blogtherapy.substack.com/p/10-illustr...

love them, they make the best fresh hot cups of STFU

the rise of #AI #therapy is one more symptom of our current convenience culture—a bandaid at best and at worst a source of active harm unleashed on already vulnerable and under-resourced groups #substack #techsky #chatgpt #psychsky

#weirdsky #latenightread all the way from author name (sorry Dick Egg!) to the topic

I'm getting douche chills. These people are finally saying the quiet part out loud and it can't be ignored anymore

daguerrotype me like one of your French girls

for the longest time this man was visibly blasted to high heaven while in office, in public, at events etc and no one in the media said anything...smh

but baby I'm a #romantic at heart #girlboss #writersky

have these people never seen a horror movie? what is going on in their shiny, rich, little heads? that's how you get WHACKED by the bad guy in the mask but I would LOVE to see a horror movie like this

Fizzy is the new and improved "write as you speak". It's the tone of voice of my favourite essay writers and one I feel is so specifically #Substack —excitable, expansive, unpunctuated but never incoherent, always in the know #writing #writersky

#psychology #mentalhealth #psychscisky #journorequest Therapists of Bluesky, what do y'all think about #AI #therapy chatbots? Are they truly helpful? Good/bad in a moment of crisis? What kind of issues (if any) would you recommend them for? Here to stay or nay? I'm keen to hear your thoughts.

ah yes, asking the crystal ball what the crystal ball will likely be able to do in the next five years. highlights include: recommending meth to recovering addicts, summarising docs until it goes off-piste and starts hallucinating and *checks notes* control your sex toys

TOTAL LIES and PROPAGANDA. I actually use my hound to hunt #obviously #vintage #veggiesky #cartoons

I couldn't stop thinking about how Fervour handles mental illness: as a story characters tell about each other, never disclosing about themselves. This mirrors the dynamics of dysfunctional families (and of the family at its core) where unreliable narrators abound #booksky #bookreview #mentalhealth

found a solution to my two big problems in life: needing a reliable source of mustard with me at all times, and time-blindness #tech #techsky #cuttingedge #dijon

Just finished FERVOUR by Toby Lloyd and I CAN'T STOP TALKING ABOUT IT. I usually love to harp on about #books that piss me off, so it's a delight to be unable to shut up about one I loved. There is family dysfunction, Jewish mysticism, teen angst and even a hint of #darkacademia —so much to love

Tried it first with Pnoot, but when that didn't work, I reverse-engineered Phlam using Crud2 and a demo version of Gronut

There's so many different flavours of meme in this digital idea soup...

news, who? THIS is the internet I want to be on today #trishapaytas #conclave #trishapaytasbaby #babypope

Can confirm Porto os affected. Businesses closed and everyone is in the streets trying to figure out what happened & if their phones work. Restaurants operating in the dark, cafes closing early. Partner left the cowork without paying - owner said no need & good luck, shook his hand

I mean, duh? exactly no one should be surprised if/when this turns out to be true. it's not like #Trusk fanboys will care either way 🤦

Gotta get movin But my feet are under a dog I pulled one out and he LEANED INTO the other one 🥺🥺🥺

anyone else act like a different person when they speak a different language? asking for a friend... #langsky #linguist #multilingual #psychsky

total tangent, but is it just me or is Everich Rose just a good name for an influencer's kid? #influencersnark #chaucer #linguistsofbluesky