This month's IndieWeb Book Club selection is "Understanding Comics" by @scottmccloud.bsky.social Thanks to @artlung.com for picking this title! I am re-reading the book, and posted a bit about it on my blog today: nicks.im/posts/2025-u...

The Mamdani political sign generator is kinda fun https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/for.html

First person plural "omniscient" as a narrative tool has my brain racing to wonder about the rules and gotchas inherent in the system. It has me thinking again about the novelty of the Borg from Star Trek. What if the singularity was just "everyone*" (* almost everyone on earth) Networks are neat.

Calling all web developers! Browsers are all meeting up next week (www.w3.org/events/tpac/...). I want your voice to be heard! Tell me your biggest problems, and tell me what you want to see from the platform. What problems are tough to solve, but could be easier?

@fractalkitty.com and @susanmyrland.bsky.social !

It took me about three months to get here but... Here's a 🪶 for (nearly) every species of bird, with colors extracted from wikipedia descriptions. 10,151 species. #dataviz #birds #data

I just saw an Instagram ad saying that THIS “AI” could help me see the trends about trading memecoins. The worst MadLibs output ever.

I also want a trillion dollars and can assure the US government it will be put to good use.

Here's an interesting new study exploring whether LLMs are able to understand the narrative sequencing of comics and... even the best AI models are *terrible* at it for pretty much all tasks that were analyzed aclanthology.org/2025.finding...

I AM STILL REELING FROM A POL MENTIONING EUGENE DEBS IN A VICTORY SPEECH. Is this real life? It’s US history baby! UNION YES.

“what pundits forget is, by the midterms, the ballroom will be complete.”

Eugene Debs has a posse. Mayor Mamdani. Keep hope alive!

Somos más Americanos

“I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.” -- Eugene Debs

26 billionaires spent over $22 million to beat Zohran Mamdani. Why? Because regular people came together around an agenda that prioritized making life easier for more people. It beat big money. That is how we win.

Eugene Debs has a posse. Mayor Mamdani. Keep hope alive!

i hope this election cycle empowers everyone the next time a centrist liberal says to drop pro-trans and pro-immigrant rhetoric to enthusiastically tell them to shut the fuck up

Mamdani has now gotten more votes than 1/4 of the members of the United States Senate did when they got elected. The political power being channeled here is immense.

I invited visitors to my site to add emoji hearts to a page with a click. Here is a time-lapse of their clicks during October 2025. #WeirdWebOctober artlung.com/videos/reels...

There is no excuse for a bookseller to misspell Salman Rushdie as (the fishier) Salmon Rushdie in the subject of that sales email.

I wrote a "slashpage" on how I use and do not use "AI" artlung.com/ai/

"these new CSS features are not quite baseline yet" is the same as "these new CSS features are not baseline" "quite" and "yet" are weasel words.

I like this and I don't think I have seen it before. YES START A COMPUTER CLUB IN YR OWN TOWN startacomputer.club ( via @meadowhawkz.bsky.social )

I am the host for #IndieWeb Book Club this month! November 2025. The book is Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics and if you’ve not read it—or if you have!—I encourage you to give it a read and post about it on your own site. Questions? Reach out to me! artlung.com/understandin...

Philip K. Dick gets it right again. Let's hear it for the vague blurs!

That time Stevie read Tricky Dick for filth... 🗣It's not too cool to be ridiculed, but you brought this upon yourself....

The world will always need funky condemnations of bad US Presidents. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeach...

Thinking of the comforting voice of Vin Scully on the radio in my family's orange VW bug driving around Echo Park and later Alhambra. Years later: Koreatown and Cheviot Hills. I am not always an Angeleno; I am usually a San Diegan. But somehow I am never not an Angeleno. I love L.A.

Do you read comics on a computer? .cbz, .cbr, .cbt, .cb7, .cba I'm building a bit of comic book tooling for myself. I'd like to chat about what, if anything, you'd want from .cb* tools. First #Ruby gems and CLI. Later, macOS app. There's probably no business model here. I just want it for myself.

A great piece of advice I saw was look at art you don’t like with the same eye as art that you do like. What don’t you like about it? What were the decisions made that led to this unappealing art? This is all valuable info.

"My Grandma would want me to fight them." I have loved Lynda Barry cartoons for 40 years. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/o...

Thinking about whether the world might want an internet bot that just posts "I hear full self driving is just a year away" every day, forever.

Hey, I run an #affirmations bot! Check it out. Might be your jam if you need a periodic pick-me-up. Sorta #recovery and sorta #MentalHealth. Follow @thisbot.day !

In these turbulent times—while the galaxy reels from crisis to crisis—sometimes the only way forward… is sideways, into Star Wars canon. A timeline of every Star Wars show, charted in story-order from the dawn of the Republic to the First Order. #DarthJarJar #StarWars #MayThe4th #Andor #dataviz

“Do you sing like Olive Oyl on purpose?”

I am the host for #IndieWeb Book Club this month! November 2025. The book is Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics and if you’ve not read it—or if you have!—I encourage you to give it a read and post about it on your own site. Questions? Reach out to me! artlung.com/understandin...

With my final #WeirdWebOctober entry, I wrap up the prior 30 entries with a gallery of what I made. What a journey it's been! Walk a spooky ghost through the gallery! artlung.com/wwo/31/

Last call! #IndieWebCarnival for October 2025 ends tonight. The topic this month: “ego”. Get your posts to me by email, Mastodon, or here on Bluesky. #Blogging #Writing

With my final #WeirdWebOctober entry, I wrap up the prior 30 entries with a gallery of what I made. What a journey it's been! Walk a spooky ghost through the gallery! artlung.com/wwo/31/

ISO/IEC 15445:2000 HTML (Weird Web October 2025 #30) artlung.com/wwo/30/ In which I write a page with a very old #HTML DOCTYPE. Go make a web page. #WeirdWebOctober

friendship is the microstructure of solidarity. AI companionship is an opiate of the masses.

Front End Study Hall. Thursday (subject to time zone). We come to work & talk #CSS & #HTML! Held on Zoom, camera optional; it works best when people come with a #WebPage itch we can try to scratch as a collective group of minds! Come hither, make a web! #IndieWeb events.indieweb.org/2025/10/fron...

October is more a Halloween month, less a "snow & snowflakes" time but that did not keep me from writing a #VanillaJS snowflake generator for #WeirdWebOctober artlung.com/wwo/29/

folks just putting it in the newspaper that they got mad

The Power Fantasy of Superman is you still have a staff job on a newspaper.

NotJannet Design #Transformers #Soundwave. Alt mode - Time Travelling Police Box. This is my own design that I've infrequently worked on since starting it over 10 years ago. The most recent update changed it from an OC to Soundwave. Still needs tweaking, but I'm happy with the look. #3dprinting

Uber for The Big Lie.

Front End Study Hall. Thursday (subject to time zone). We come to work & talk #CSS & #HTML! Held on Zoom, camera optional; it works best when people come with a #WebPage itch we can try to scratch as a collective group of minds! Come hither, make a web! #IndieWeb events.indieweb.org/2025/10/fron...

Screw you Apple autocorrect for changing “Trumbo” (as in Dalton) to “Trump.”