If anyone wants help with this, I recommend the app “One sec.”, which I use on Reddit, Instagram and here. It allows me 5 min of scrolling before intervening, where I have those apps locked for an hour (you can adjust the timing however you want). It’s been a godsend. one-sec.app/localized-fi...

Honestly my favourite work from 2025, and it was a random MS paint challenge #pixelart

I feel like "Business Center" is a better euphemism for "toilets" than "Restrooms".

The news didn't tell you what happened in the world in 2025. fixthenews.com/p/the-teleme...

Worried about AI going off the rails (in the many ways it could) and don't know what can be done about it? Nicky Case's "AI Safety for Fleshy Humans" is a remarkably accessible yet comprehensive dive into the topic: aisafety.dance

Just gonna say this again for games sphere cus we get the same question: Networking doesn't mean schmoozing up to famous people, it means making friends with your peers. Then in 10 years, 20, one of you might be famous? And sure you're still helping each other cus well yeah friends. Make. Friends.

welcome to the Second Annual Bluesky Christmas Eve Snowball Fight! please drop a take in the replies and I or someone else will be along to belligerently interpret whatever you said in the worst possible light

I want 2026 to be the year where we collectively stop rewarding negativity. Stop bringing others down to bring yourself up. Stop bringing attention to genuinely awful people. Stop ignoring people bringing positive changes to the world. We need more kindness and empathy. I’m dead serious

🧵 As 2025 draws to a close we’re continuing our tradition of gathering our favourite stories of the year, this time with a twist, 9 themes over 9 days, 11 stories in each. 1st stop in this whistle-stop tour of 2025: 'Health & Safety' (and obviously we're not just talking OH&S box-ticking here).

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

Outstanding news! www.fastcompany.com/91461983/ind...

Reminding everyone for no particular reason that Section 230 is one of the last things standing between free speech online and Trump having control over everything you see and say on the internet

Happy December! 🌲❄️ #pixelart "Arrived well after dark last night—at end of my reserves. Climb up mountainside much more arduous than anticipated. For now, given run of castle library and told to spend day resting and recovering."

heyyyy @kickstarterunited.org GOT THAT CONTRACT put the whole thing online too, bless ’em

Remember when the internet wasn't awful? We can go back to that. Some friends and I have released the Resonant Computing Manifesto: a call to bring back such a time, to see if we can bring back a world where technology works for us, rather than against us. resonantcomputing.org

One of the biggest drivers of high housing costs is that a small, highly motivated group of incumbent homeowners block new housing in their neighborhoods and almost no one is organized to push back. Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance. Be a housing fan.

What happens when you make bus travel free throughout your city? Iowa City can tell you. They scrapped bus fares in 2023 and delivered a measurable mode shift: residents drove 2.9 million fewer kilometres and annual emissions fell by 24,000 tonnes of CO₂. The policy continues. tinyurl.com/25dygah5

The Institute of Museum and Library Services, the federal agency that provides funding for America's libraries, has announced it is reinstating all grants it had previously terminated, including those to libraries and library organizations across the U.S. Read more: https://bit.ly/4496W4V

What happens when you make childcare free and universal? New Mexico are about to find out, having recently become the first US state to do so. This new move eliminates income tests and co-pays, raises wages for educators and will save some families more than $12,000 a year. tinyurl.com/23up3oa4

Celebrate Cyber Monday the traditional way: a/s/l?

@hankgreen.bsky.social In your recent video (about boomer presidents) you asked what the next story is. This made me think of my father who has been thinking and writing about that for the last 40 years. You might appreciate his recent work: co-evolving.context.org/p/foundation...

New positive ways are emerging! We need to seek them out, support them and promote them. While it's still important to resist the bad things, it's even more important to fan the flames of the good things that will replace them!

We did something different with the credits for Demonschool. We used this format: name, title, lengthy description of what they did. Often you see credits in games where you don't know what the credited developer was actually responsible for. We wanted to give people proper, actual credit.

This is amazing. A Gmail-like interface for searching the Epstein emails released by Congress. jmail.world

If you've been a fan of SIFT or if you're wondering how to bring AI into the classroom in a way that promotes critical reasoning rather than undermines it, this post is for you.

Doomscrolling is an attempt to binge-watch the current season of our shared reality. You're tapping into the instinct that if you just keep reading, you'll find out how the story goes! That's not how reality works, though; it happens on its own schedule and no amount of scrolling will speed it up.

Happy November! 🌞🌲 #pixelart "Have just discovered beautiful lake. Will camp briefly and adjust to rising elevation’s impact on breathing and stamina. Lake providing abundant fish and aquatic vegetables to smoke and store in preparation for ascent beyond tree line."

Folks, if you are hungry, please contact your local Sikh gurdwara. Or just show up for langar, which most gurdwaras do several times a week, for a free meal. Lots also do weekly or monthly drives giving out groceries. No conversion necessary. Feeding anyone who is hungry is a key part of Sikhism.

The average American uses enough water for 800,000 chatbot prompts. per day. That seems insane because normally we don't think about the amount of water it takes to make a single sheet of paper or (if you're in for a wild ride) to produce a hamburger or pair of jeans.

Yes, excellent point. Mikie Sherrill's use of the "liberty and prosperity" slogan is really important. It captures this emerging Dem politics of the Trump 2.0 era very well.

Repair Video xkcd.com/3163/

ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections

I do think the idea of "run charismatic candidates" is underrated as a strategy. Especially on the presidential level it's a good predictor of Democratic success.

VOTE VOTE VOTE! Today's the day, USA! Your local representatives can make a huge difference. Ultimately we must do more than just vote, but we can't afford to do less. ❤️

if there was a rich person with the will, you could build the most incredible news organization that has ever existed just from the wreckage of this year alone.

If you are (or work for) a politician and have questions about how to use YouTube well, please ask.

"The Little Bird", with my VFX work, just won Best Student Film at the Poulsbo Film Festival! It's coming to the Bainbridge Island Film Festival next, if you're in the area: bifilmfest2025.eventive.org/films/68d3f0...

This is why I regularly let people know how awesome I think they are. We often think that awesome people must naturally know they’re awesome, but they don’t. And letting them know could be the little push that they really needed that day.

I feel like I say this every year but I really need people to hear it. Halloween is the best American holiday. Just kids outside welcomed into their world, marching around together, showing off their costumes to the elderly, parents meeting parents, neighbors catching up with neighbors.

It’s still remarkable that Disney produced - and released - this segment in 1940. A horror short that should rank with its Universal monster movie contemporaries… The animation is lush and experimental, and really shows off the Disney special animated effects team…

no matter what, everybody has got to get out there and vote! complacency is never an option!

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation. Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

We voted today! Don't forget your patriotic duty, whenever you can vote in your region. Oh, and if you can't vote by mail, agitate with your local government to make it possible! 🗳️✨

The Seattle Blender Users Group made a movie for the 48 Hour Film Project this year, and I did some of the VFX! I hereby present Little Faustian Library: www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7_L... Content warning: comic gore.

Great post here from @mikecaulfield.bsky.social on what this means. mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/the-video-...

Elaborating b/c there's a lot of misunderstanding on this. Insurrection Act does nothing except you can then use soldiers as cops. They can enforce laws, but they're the same old laws. It doesn't suspend the Constitution. No martial law, no closing courts, no removing state officials, none of that.

Seems like we're always arguing in circles these days! What we need is a map to keep from getting lost in our debates. My cousin, Bruce, is making a tool for creating such maps, and it's ready to use! www.howtruthful.com

Telling moment: I was walking back from the rally, but a couple miles from it, carrying nothing but my gigantic American flag. An eight year old on his bike sees me with it and yells "No Kings!!" with absolute conviction. My friends, they have lost the flag.

What I have seen at these No Kings protests is some of the most authentic belief in the idea of America that I have seen in my life. Irony and academic detachment has been the disease, what people call cringe is the cure.