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"Well, who ya gonna believe me or your own eyes?” - Chico Marx

Hi all 👋 I’m Steve aka RobotWig. I'm a freelance creative & miniature photographer based in the UK. I’m very passionate about my work. All my miniature photos are made using practical FX, real lighting, figures & miniature sets. If you love movies give me a follow 🙏 #introduction #photography

📝 AI purveyors: “Nice system you got there, would be a shame if anyone hacked into it with AI. Better get some AI to protect yourself.” blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/ai-secu...

"It’s a great business to be in, if you think about it. You sell a tool for security exploits and you sell the self-same tool for protection against said exploits. Everybody wins!” blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/ai-secu...

This should honestly be a legal requirement for discontinued products.

Let’s do something constructive and something creative today to spite those who suck.

get a blog

It’s weirdly straightforward to create something “simulating” (well, kind of) orbiting bodies. You can bet had 2025 browser tech had been around when I was in the 5th grade my science project would’ve been building a solar system in HTML + CSS. codepen.io/artlung/pen/...

Luther Heggs and Elmer Weems will both return in Avengers: Doomsday.

ICE shot and killed a woman on camera today. We all saw the video. The Trump administration is lying.

Instagram is NOT free.

Shouldn't there be about ten gazillion state hearings by now

San Diego Homebrew Website Club is back on after a (checks notes) 5 year hiatus. Who can even remember why we paused? Oh right: *waves around at world on fire*. Hope to see you in February. events.indieweb.org/2026/02/home... #SanDiego #IndieWeb

But this also ties in with the sustainability efforts of shadow libraries, as I was writing about the other day. eve.gd/2026/01/01/t...

The first internet message was sent from UCLA fifty-six years ago 🌐 Watch PBS SoCal's "Lost L.A." host Nathan Masters visit UCLA Library Special Collections with internet pioneer, Prof. Leonard Kleinrock to see the logbook firsthand: www.pbssocal.org/shows/lost-l... @uclasamueli.bsky.social

McCoy doesn't use transporters because he won't accept their cookies.

Random book fact: Cory Doctorow’s book Enshittification has 82 holds on 15 copies in the San Diego Public Library system. @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy

folks, if you’ve read yours and can donate it to a branch, well add it and get it out to that holds queue!

There is one good website and it’s Metafilter.

Random book fact: Cory Doctorow’s book Enshittification has 82 holds on 15 copies in the San Diego Public Library system. @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy

Next week on 7 Jan 2025 there'll be a 6pm Pacific Homebrew Website Club hosted by the #IndieWeb - if you have questions about websites, POSSE, PESOS and quitting silos or anything else webby, we will have thoughts. events.indieweb.org/2026/01/home...

The Brazen Illegality of Trump’s Venezuela Operation: A scholar of international law on the implications of the U.S. arrest of President Nicolás Maduro. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Early Commodore Amiga demo on the BBC www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tl60...

All US “brexit”-style scenarios suffer from the plot hole that the US federal government has nuclear weapons. Ask any country with a belligerent nuclear power neighbor how they like it.

all this is both foolish and unnecessary

Black's Beach, La Jolla #KingTides 1/3/26

Okay, I will preface this with the GIGANTIC disclaimer that I promise I know how this looks, and I *swear* this is not personally motivated: If you have an old #LiveJournal account, and it has things you still care about in it, download it or import it to Dreamwidth SOON. Details:

Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s appearance of pain seems commensurate with his fascist toadyism. Keep calling your reps to tell them this President deserves impeachment. Again. www.flickr.com/photos/white...

Watching Sorcerer to see what 2-1/2 years dead Bill Friedkin thinks about the news of the day. Sorcerer is a 40-year old movie and tells more truth about the violence and futility of imperial oil adventure than the Washington Post.

“and when the band plays `Hail to the Chief’—ooh, they point the cannon at you”

Idiot Junta.

Atrocity after atrocity. My country’s political system can’t check and balance it. It needs to.

Added artlung.com/top4/ from @artlung.com to the Top Four directory. 🎬 Documentaries 1. The Sweatbox 2. Jodorowsky's Dune 3. Persistence of Vision 4. Beauty is Embarrassing What is your Top 4? #top4 #topfour #indieweb #smallweb

Next week on 7 Jan 2025 there'll be a 6pm Pacific Homebrew Website Club hosted by the #IndieWeb - if you have questions about websites, POSSE, PESOS and quitting silos or anything else webby, we will have thoughts. events.indieweb.org/2026/01/home...

I decided to add a “top4” page -- it features a few lists of favorites. I like an open-ended list that can be peculiarly specific. artlung.com/top4/ @topfour.net

artlung.com/pfp/ collects my avatar icons. 20 years worth or so. Ordering them I will save for another day. “/pfp” is the path for this according to slashpages.net but I’ve not seen anyone else with such a page other than the 1 example. #smallWeb #indieWeb

relevant -- 99percentinvisible.org/episode/621-...

Watching a documentary film called “Secret Mall Apartment” at the recommendation of @ghostsb4breakfast.bsky.social’s Patreon post and it’s absolutely flooring me. Seek it out.

This future mostly sucks with many minuses in the minus column but Tig Notaro and Rebecca Romijn and George Takei on a Star Trek float at the Rose Parade is in the offsetting plus column. Happy New Year!

Here’s how 2025 ended up. artlung.com/mixtapes/2025/

I started my mixtape for 2026. I collect songs. Heard over radio.garden, read about on friends blogs, culled from my own tastes, from tv and film soundtracks. Every year a bit different. I appreciate but don’t like algorithmic decisions. Be human. Keep an ear out. artlung.com/mixtapes/2026/

I started my mixtape for 2026. I collect songs. Heard over radio.garden, read about on friends blogs, culled from my own tastes, from tv and film soundtracks. Every year a bit different. I appreciate but don’t like algorithmic decisions. Be human. Keep an ear out. artlung.com/mixtapes/2026/

@cassidoo.co gist.github.com/artlung/b299... ~ What better time than New Year’s Eve than to do interview questions. Happy New Year!

AI summaries are vomit in a tasty casserole suit.

"forlorn somnambulistic maniacal In the dark"

Apropos of nothing, any director who can make Rocket Raccoon, Metamorpho, Starro the Conqueror, Mantis, and Polka-Dot Man work on film ought to be given the benefit of the doubt.

Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague somehow both flattened and inspired me. Go make a film.

Isiah Whitlock Jr, best known for his role as Clay Davis on “The Wire,” has died. He was 71

Terrific #IndieWeb #FrontEnd Study Hall today. HTML, CSS: way better!, write JavaScript only when necessary. "RSS" interop promising; needs "ACID test". QOTD: "The shorter the code the fewer places for bugs to hide" @tantek.com.web.brid.gy indieweb.org/events/2025-... Next FrESH in 2 weeks.