☕ teablog: Whittard, Afternoon (❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️) https://spencergreenhalgh.com/myself/2025-12-06-i-was/

Because I only use Mastodon as an extension of a POSSE setup, I missed the rollout of quote posts, but I’m thrilled that (as I expected) they’re a simple syntax translated by the Masto software into a specific presentation. Means that I can probably build it into a POSSE workflow somehow.

My spouse asked last night what that morning’s advent calendar tea had been. It had been a long day, so I couldn’t remember at first, and that short exchange entirely justified the 45 minutes I’d spent on Monday building a new “teablog” content type onto my Hugo site.

🔗 linkblog: AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone https://spencergreenhalgh.com/myself/2025-12-05-this-sucksand/

☕ teablog: Whittard, Piccadilly Blend (❤️❤️🖤🖤🖤) https://spencergreenhalgh.com/myself/2025-12-05-this-one/

☕ teablog: The Republic of Tea, S'mores (❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️) https://spencergreenhalgh.com/myself/2025-12-04-the-secret/

🔗 linkblog: Grok Says It Would Kill Every Jewish Person on the Planet to Save Elon Musk https://spencergreenhalgh.com/communities/2025-12-04-wait-what/

🔗 linkblog: Elon Musk's Grok AI Is Doxxing Home Addresses of Everyday People https://spencergreenhalgh.com/communities/2025-12-04-surely-elon/

Même quand il fait -3, ça fait du bien, un vélotaf après une semaine et demie de pause.

☕ teablog: Whittard, English Rose (❤️❤️❤️🖤🖤) https://spencergreenhalgh.com/myself/2025-12-04-i-dont/

🔗 linkblog: Pentagon watchdog finds Hegseth risked the safety of U.S. forces with use of Signal https://spencergreenhalgh.com/communities/2025-12-03-things-are/

🔗 linkblog: Anyone can try to edit Grokipedia 0.2 but Grok is running the show https://spencergreenhalgh.com/communities/2025-12-03-very-helpful/

☕ teablog: Whittard, vanilla chai (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤) https://spencergreenhalgh.com/myself/2025-12-03-i-was/

Worms Whamageddon

Current mood: Going through Cory Doctorow’s year-end book review summary and reserving more titles from my local library than I have time to read.

🔗 linkblog: Trump Calls Somalis ‘Garbage’ He Doesn’t Want in the Country https://spencergreenhalgh.com/communities/2025-12-02-bookmarking-this/

🔗 linkblog: 'Franklin' publisher slams Hegseth for his post of the turtle firing on drug boats https://spencergreenhalgh.com/communities/2025-12-02-good-on/

☕ teablog: Whittard, English Breakfast (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤) https://spencergreenhalgh.com/myself/2025-12-02-i-take/

I promise that I understand all the reasons for different approaches to winter weather, but I will also never stop being angry that my university keeps holding classes on days my kid’s school is canceled.

📚 bookblog: Satellite Sam and the Limestone Caves of Fire (❤️❤️❤️🖤🖤) https://spencergreenhalgh.com/myself/2025-12-01-still-appreciate/

December 1st means it’s time to add all the SomaFM Christmas stations to my internet radio client and try once again to broaden my listening beyond a handful of Alsatian stations (même si DKL a une webradio Noël que je devrais aussi ajouter).

🔗 linkblog: Flock Uses Overseas Gig Workers to Build its Surveillance AI https://spencergreenhalgh.com/communities/2025-12-01-flock-continues/

📚 bookblog: Satellite Sam, Volume 2 (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤) https://spencergreenhalgh.com/myself/2025-12-01-so-this/

My university just parted ways with our football coach for undesirable results despite the investment of millions of dollars, so I wonder if they’ll be willing to do the same for all the AI initiatives they’ve recently announced.

« L'amérique pleure » comme hymne contre le Black Friday https://spencergreenhalgh.com/communities/lam%C3%A9rique-pleure-comme-hymne-contre-le-black-friday/

the simple joy of picking out 'bag your own' Pokémon cards with kiddo https://spencergreenhalgh.com/relationships/the-simple-joy-of-picking-out-bag-your-own-pok%C3%A9mon-cards-with-kiddo/

☕ teablog: Whittard, Christmas Tea (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤) https://spencergreenhalgh.com/myself/2025-12-01-okay-ive/

🔗 linkblog: During Advent, immigrant congregations find hope shadowed by fear https://spencergreenhalgh.com/communities/2025-12-01-powerful-read/

📚 bookblog: The Lonesome Death of Satellite Sam (❤️❤️❤️🖤🖤) https://spencergreenhalgh.com/myself/2025-11-30-i-keep/

📚 bookblog: We Stand On Guard (❤️❤️❤️🖤🖤) https://spencergreenhalgh.com/myself/2025-11-29-look-now/

📚 bookblog: Butcher Baker the Righteous Maker (❤️❤️🖤🖤🖤) https://spencergreenhalgh.com/myself/2025-11-29-this-was/

📚 bookblog: A. D. After Death (❤️❤️❤️🖤🖤) https://spencergreenhalgh.com/myself/2025-11-29-this-comic/

📚 bookblog: 3rd, 4th Nephi: A Brief Theological Introduction (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤) https://spencergreenhalgh.com/communities/2025-11-29-this-book/

Still trying to figure out a replacement bike after my main commuter was declared unsafe by the U.S. government. Juggling price, geometry, maintenance, practicality, and everything else.

📚 bookblog: Alex + Ada, Volume 3 (❤️❤️❤️🖤🖤) https://spencergreenhalgh.com/myself/2025-11-28-this-series/

📚 bookblog: Alex + Ada, Volume 2 (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤) https://spencergreenhalgh.com/myself/2025-11-28-okay-once/

📚 bookblog: Alex + Ada, Volume 1 (❤️❤️❤️🖤🖤) https://spencergreenhalgh.com/myself/2025-11-28-i-read/

Very nearly discarded a custom bookmark given away at my grandfather’s funeral when preparing to sell some books, and now I feel a great moral weight to clearing my bookshelves.

🔗 linkblog: Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says Steam should drop its ‘Made with AI’ tags https://spencergreenhalgh.com/communities/2025-11-28-if-one/

🔗 linkblog: Pluralistic: (Digital) Elbows Up (28 Nov 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow https://spencergreenhalgh.com/communities/2025-11-28-some-real/

📚 bookblog: Helaman: A Brief Theological Introduction (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤) https://spencergreenhalgh.com/communities/2025-11-27-this-book/

🔗 linkblog: OpenAI says dead teen violated TOS when he used ChatGPT to plan suicide https://spencergreenhalgh.com/communities/2025-11-26-i-genuinely/

“Don’t listen to Daddy, he’s being meta at you again.”

🔗 linkblog: UK among first universities to collaborate with Microsoft on AI https://spencergreenhalgh.com/work/2025-11-25-this-just/

Il m’arrive de devoir chercher un nouveau vélo, mais il paraît qu’on oublie que les grands aussi ont envie d’être vélotaffeur. Si je faisais quelques centimètres de moins, tout serait bien plus facile.

organizing feeds by genre, not content https://spencergreenhalgh.com/myself/organizing-feeds-by-genre-not-content/

Chaque année, ça brise le cœur d’entendre « Black Friday » sur la radio francophone.

Black Friday is one of the worst things to ever happen to our world, but if I had to suddenly consider finding an expensive replacement for the bike I use to regularly commute to work, I guess I’m glad the choice came up this week?

Thinking about how I don’t know much about the Great Recession because I lived in a Mormon missionary bubble during that time—and about how during that time, I was supervised by a recently retired high-ranking Fannie Mae executive.

🔗 linkblog: Rad Power Bikes’ batteries are a fire risk and shouldn’t be used, CPSC warns https://spencergreenhalgh.com/myself/2025-11-24-dammit-now/