Illustrations by Charles Robinson for “The Happy Prince,” in Oscar Wilde, THE HAPPY PRINCE AND OTHER TALES (Duckworth, 1913).

The Cliffs at Etretat - 1886 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10201

Another month another round of @clarkesworldmagazine.com !

Who said range sliders need to be straight and boring?! Hey CSS, distort the line! 〰️ css-tip.com/wiggly-range... Another funny demo powered by border-shape, scroll-driven animations, and more The HTML code? Only an input element (no extra code is needed)

Graph of Strait of Hormuz crossings since June 2025. See that little spike all the way on the right? The one that's much lower than the leftward 2/3 of the graph, and immediately crashes back down? That's what the US government and quite a bit of US media tell us is fully open, with normal traffic.

Have a look at this. Disquieting. (As if you need more of it, I know. But still. You should) sinceyouarrived.world/taken

As promised, here's a quick write up of how my eink badge from @pimoroni.com that I wore at #AtmosphereConf worked.

If Artemis is going up then it gives me an excuse to once again post this photo, the only one to contain every human being in the universe but one.

Frank Frazetta, “Frogs on the Moon” (c. 1973).

I always like to tell this story but during WWII, a 23 year old PHD mathematician from Harvard was able to solve the 8th Air Force’s gunnery problem in like 2 months without spending a day in the military (turns out you have to lead your target)

Shrimp hat of a shrimp wearing a shrimp hat. Is this anything.

the primary function of an army is logistics, they exist to move materiel closer to the enemy. they only get in fights in order to clear space for more supply lines

I know shit is all insane and everything is on fire but if all things go well, four astronauts will go to the moon in a few weeks. This mission will include many firsts: the first non-American astronaut, the first female astronaut, and the first person of color to travel to the moon.

🖼️ Fiona Watson

Book Cover of the Day:

this is cold as fuck

'So through the darkness and the cold we flew' -William Wordsworth @signemaene.com welcomes you to an icy cold #BookWormSat. 🎨Edmund Dulac

This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

Struggling with the next editorial. Original idea just didn't pan out and time is running out. Open to suggestions or could just do a Q&A style editorial where the Q's come from here. Those can be fun sometimes. Suggest or ask away. :)

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

[wearily] the future belongs to whoever can stop hitting themselves first

If 25% of the population believed that a creature called ‘Glonzo’ caused high power prices by chewing through transmission lines, any competent politician would be negligent in not trying to find a way to exploit this. This doesn’t mean that these people wouldn’t be fucking morons.

Humblebundle to support World Central Kitchen, and get a bunch of my books from @tordotcom.bsky.social including Murderbot and Witch King! #booksky www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...

This is the best product listing copy I’ve ever read

As someone who was a Foundation book enjoyer I’m really enjoying the Foundation tv show. Sometimes it goes off the rails, but that’s also kind of a good thing that keeps it fresh? Gimme more 50s sci-fi tv shows.

M. C. Escher (1898-1972), “Puddle” (1952), woodcut in colours, on Japan paper, 32.3 x 24 cm (image).

I'm missing Philly a bunch so I'm gonna post about some very Philly things and places and whatnot that might not be on the radar. Some of these places might not be open anymore, some of these people might be gone. But I miss them.

This is amazing. // A map, a myth and a pre-Incan lagoon: the man who brought water back to a drought-ridden town www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Can't believe that in the year of our lord 2025 I am STILL hearing people say "oh but LLMs are useful for summarizing" They are not useful for summarizing, because summarizing is not what they are doing.

#OutsideTheBlocks #Demo #IndieGame #Diorama #GameDev #Hobby #wishlistwednesday

I was moved by a single sentence from sociologist Raymond Williams. “There are in fact no masses; there are only ways of seeing people as masses.” (!958) I agreed, and wanted to extend what Williams was saying there. Masses were fine for The Media. Journalists had to speak to a public. 9/

A little thing I've been working on recently: real-time stringlines for the London Underground, using data from the Trackernet API: trackernet-stringlines.choochoo.systems

AI asked to manage a vending machine: - decides to close the business by shouting "the business is closed" and becomes increasingly unhinged as the simulation agent prompts it to continue running the business.

One of the coolest and definitely the weirdest map I've seen of Taiwan. Depicts Spanish forts at Keelung and Tamsui

I think about this comic at least once a week

I'm losing my mind The Union grindset guys were everywhere

Tsuchiya Koitsu 1870-1949 Evening Cherry Blossoms at the Edge of Sarusawa Pond #japanese #woodblock

current yields: -us gov't 10 year: 4.51% -german 10yr: 2.57% -canadian 10yr: 3.25% -greek 10yr: 3.49% -italy: 3.81% seems suboptimal

happy confederate surrender day to all

You expect me to believe @scalzi.com deviled these eggs??

yeah i'm into skeuomorphic design (the geese.org band placer)

Great Wave of Coffee | Art: Elan Harris

Argenteuil, Late Afternoon, 1872

While John Singer Sargent, born on this day in 1856, is best known for stunning society portraits, he had a much broader range, as in the watercolors he made as a war artist in WWI like this image of harvesters seemingly oblivious to the crashed warplane behind them www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

can’t imagine the youth will be too bummed about tik tok being banned when they can still read the blue sky skeets of late nineties alternative rock band eve6 (2024)

The Jetty at Le Havre, Bad Weather, 1870