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Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :) The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used > neal.fun/size-of-life/

What radicalized me? Probably System of a Down when I was 11.

I initially read this link preview as The White House being the media offender of the week, which made sense to me. 🤷‍♂️

2025 Tenkara Angler Kebari Swap Recap #tenkara #flyfishing #flytying

Now she's back in the Atmosphere With blobs and records in her relay Hey hey yeah Tell me, DID you fall for a PDS? DID you make it to the data repo to see the records all labeled? Where alt-text isn't overrated? And did you miss me while you were looking for your handle out there?

The amount of people warning us that we have to do everyone in our power to fight fascism while simultaneously telling us it’s too difficult to leave Substack is astounding.

Dark patterns are alive and well on Shopify. Three times in the last three months I've thought I was making a one-time purchase, but learned a month later I had made a recurring subscription purchase and I had to contact support to cancel.

Thanksgiving holiday week. Lots of family time! cagrimmett.com/2025/11/30/w...

I love this store map at Bruised Apple Books.

You can kind of cosplay the Witcher with Zbiotics at a party: Drink a little vial then RAGE.

I made red curry soup with leftover turkey. Nice change in flavor profile from yesterday.

The past couple years I’ve written this post at the end of December as kind of a year-end recap. This year I thought I’d change it up and do it on Thanksgiving instead. cagrimmett.com/2025/11/27/1...

Turkey is spatchcocked and dry brining, cocktail syrup made, green bean casserole assembled, and gravy is on the stove.

The only thing you need to buy on Black Friday is Leave Me Alone so you can unsubscribe from all the mailing lists that spam you this week. leavemealone.com

Black Friday deals are getting out of hand. Who is going to buy lab tests from Quest on Black Friday?

Life update: cagrimmett.com/2025/11/23/m...

Came home to a package full of flies from the Tenkara Angler kebari swap. Really beautiful, inspiring flies in the puck. All of them, including the ones not pictured are wonderful.

My son and I stumbled upon a cool book about infrastructure for kids at the local library this week: Peeking Under the City. cagrimmett.com/2025/11/19/p...

It was a joy to catch up with CFS Member @cagrimmett.com to learn more about the creative craft that enhances his #flyfishing practice: #flytying, #woodworking, boat building, and more. Thanks, Chuck! www.currentflowstate.com/cfs-member-p...

Tenkara Angler Fall 2025 Kebari Swap Let’s do a Community Kebari Swap! #tenkara #flyfishing #kebari

#IndieWeb Carnival September submission, Second Person Birds. cagrimmett.com/2025/09/08/i...

Life update: cagrimmett.com/2025/09/07/w...

This is the kind of AI use I prefer: Fast information processing on something that would be very tedious and not fun for a human. Writing a custom parsing script for different episodes would be tedious and fragile, too. Keep the fun creation for humans, leave tedious processing to the bots.

I love this. Great use of AI, and I want it for all podcasts I listen to. www.3books.net

atproto account future = google account today one account, login for all apps, store all your data in one place, control what apps can do with your identity this is the dream

So has anyone witnessed trout eating the spotted lanternflies yet? #flyfishing

There's an @pp For That

This is why a lot of kids stop reading. We force "nutritious" books down their throats, instead of indulging them wildly on books they enjoy. Also, the fun and subversively silly books seem to evaporate in upper grade levels. If books taste like oatmeal, a wise person will play video games.

An integral part of getting a CSA (veggie share) is freezing/preserving what you won't use that week. We've been getting lots of celery and carrots, so I chopped them up and froze packs for soup this winter.

Taking shelter from the rain.

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Private group newsletters where the readers are the writers too. Pretty cool. I’d love to join one! letterclub.org

Enter an address, get a 3D file to print or order. I love this. Helps make the world more independently accessible to the blind and partially sighted. touch-mapper.org/en/

This resonates with me. I’m having trouble finding new non-fantasy sci-fi to read these days, too. I’ll have to dig more into smaller, boutique publishers. Any recommendations? tracydurnell.com/2025/08/09/w...

Teaching the little guy how to check the water temp. #flyfishing

Upper West branch of the Croton is getting cold water releases from the reservoir and is running at 58F a mile downstream. Thank goodness! #flyfishing

We need the SEO Rapper to come out of retirement and make a Vibe Coding video to the tune of Design Coding.

These cool nights have been so nice. 55F this morning.

Chatting with GPT-5 is, in fact, like talking with a PhD—it recites lots of quotes and states complete fabrications with utter confidence!

Can Bluesky say every word in the dictionary? I dunno but I plan to find out! I made a website that tracks every single word said on bluesky (as of yesterday).

The insect holocaust. My composite illustration, from my forthcoming book Streams: An Illustrated Guide, Yale University Press, 2026. 🧪🌿🌎 #sciart #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #insects #InsectHolocaust

My reading has somehow swung back from physical books to ebooks again this month. I guess it is because I wanted to read something I didn't have a physical copy of and I didn't want to wait for it, then I started reading other things I already had on my Kindle.

Charlie (4yo) and I saw a Cybertruck on the way back from pickup today. Charlie: “I HATE those!” Me: “Why?” Charlie: “Because they look like rocks ALL THE TIME!”

Bookmarking for future use. www.dumbpipe.dev

A vision for community-hosted Web 2.0 utilities. www.drewlyton.com/story/the-fu...

Weekly update: cagrimmett.com/2025/07/27/w...

Extremely important, if buried in a footnote, point from @bcdreyer.social: Language usage can’t, and shouldn’t, be justified by historical usage. Language is a tool that is used in the present to convey meaning to living humans. cc: the federal judiciary benjamindreyer.substack.com/p/a-word-abo...

Why I 🧡 the web. drawafish.com Just draw the fish. Trust me. 🐟