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artlung

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Website fixer · IndieWebber · Comics maker · Bodysurfer · Blogger · Toy and robot collector · CSS Battler · San Diego · Peace, love, resistance

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DON CHEADLE ON A BED OF RICE!

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Web renaissance is here if you want it.

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As an older person I have a hard time with blanket slogans. But the thing we call "ICE:" United States Immigration & Customs Enforcement not doing a good job: it kills people and kidnaps. Started in 2003. End it NOW. Tell your senators and reps and everyone to spread the word.

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“Wrongful death” is a useful term in USA 2025.

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Front End Study Hall, the informal zoom I proctor where we talk and stuff, will return just before the New Year. You are welcome to join. Bring a bug or HTML you want to understand better: we’ll hash it out together! https://events.indieweb.org/2025/12/front-end-study-hall-043-zJJyii5mHGEY

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I was out in the water while they were putting up and decorating the Christmas tree in funky Ocean Beach ( ) and as usual it leans a bit; in the bg, waves crash into the (retired, long story) pier. Thanks Ocean Beach Community Foundation for arboreal joy!

Wide shot of the Christmas tree with a cherry picker visible with two people decorating the tree in it. A few onlookers visible, and the works is surrounded by yellow tape. In the background is the OB pier and breaking waves. And a thin palm tree trunk is in front of the Christmas tree mid-image.

Wide shot of the Christmas tree with a cherry picker visible with two people decorating the tree in it. A few onlookers visible, and the works is surrounded by yellow tape. In the background is the OB pier and breaking waves. And a thin palm tree trunk is in front of the Christmas tree mid-image.
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Getting started with Create Day and already chatted on Zoom or in etherpad or in IRC with folks having fun improving their personal websites!

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If you know about the topic of what constitutes valid in and feeds I invite you to weigh in on this StackOverflow question, whose answers are out of date. Feel free to amplify this message. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1140307/what-are-the-valid-html-tags-in-rss-feeds

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“Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues” https://www.cloudflarestatus.com

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In the last week I've chatted about BBS history, FidoNet, and Radio with fellow folks. Meshtatic reminds me of all 3. I think I'm understanding it as: a radio, non-cell, non-internet, low power device communications medium, with software apps as endpoint. https://meshtastic.org/docs/introduction/

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@octothorpes Looks like because of the url structure I chose only my first entry shows up on the site; despite each one having a distinct octo:octothorpes prompt value.

https://octothorp.es/domains/https%3A%2F%2Fartlung.com

Full list is https://artlung.com/weird-web-october/

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I demand my “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” gosh darn it. This ain’t it.

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Love Online by Guy starts with the chime for a 2000 era Mac. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFsFnjwQaT0

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“If you are watching the this, you are most likely a real estate professional…” begins an Instagram ad whose account owner I block immediately.

Sorry about that ad spend.

(I am have never been and will not be a real estate professional)

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the fabulous most groovy bellbottoms! BELLBOTTOMS! (dang I love this mix, perfect for a flying day) https://artlung.com/mixtapes/2025/

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I wonder if soft core pornographic chat will be the thing that saves the economics of the b.s. machines.

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On the Halloween theme, here’s a Bauhaus logo. Band and art movement alike, but I was playing “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” as I coded it in https://codepen.io/artlung/full/emJRmqo

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    @JessTheUnstill my father has a coat with the Berlin Brigade patch (a descendant of this patch) on his army winter coat. He was stationed there after his tour as a medic in Vietnam briefly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Brigade

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    “Well Coach Z, that all depends, can you get your green mittens on a fish-eye lens?”

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    It made sense on a playlist of obscura, outtakes, novelties and bootlegs. https://artlung.com/mixtapes/2014-mixalicious

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    I will mourn those who I feel grief over.

    You can't demand I mourn.

    You may request basic respect for the dead.

    You can't demand I respect a legacy I find invidious.

    You can't demand I ignore the words of the dead.

    If you can demand my feelings and thoughts be "correct," you are authoritarian.

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    If you consider yourself a member of the and use a static site generator which one(s) do you use? Doing some wiki gardening category-wise and want to document what we're missing since we get a fair number of questions about choosing and using SSGs. Thanks! https://indieweb.org/Category:SSG

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    Here's me repurposing some very old files, revisiting mixtapes, cassettes and simulating cassette tape covers using . is the best. https://codepen.io/artlung/full/JoYQoZZ

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    Managed to take photos of some of my cassette covers. Slotted them into the certain ratio and they work okay. Setting initial rotation needs adjustment. https://codepen.io/artlung/full/XJXbGjR

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    My wife and I have gotten into the habit of asking each other at dinner what was the best thing that happened to each other that day. She now likes this tradition so much she's expanded it into three things, which I contend makes the whole thing more of a mental exercise, but I usually manage. I have found though that it makes me take closer note of the good things that happen during the day, so I'm not left with "uh...." when it's my turn. It also helps punctuate the positive at a time when there's a whole lot of the opposite.

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    @briankrebs When I was still a stepfather the tradition was "highs and lows" - share the best thing(s) and the worst thing(s) that day. A great way to reflect and learn.

    @ethanschoonover@mastodon.social avatar ethanschoonover , to random

    finally took a few minutes to solve a real world UI problem

    collection of usb chargers on a table, some black, some white, each with a prominent diy label stuck on listing the wattage of the charger.
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    @ethanschoonover This makes me feel guilty that I have not done this and then angry that it's not already done for me.

    @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar molly0xfff , to random

    nothing is certain except death, taxes, and tech bros trying to reinvent something they spent 10 minutes learning about

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    @molly0xfff In a talk by Marc Sageman many many years ago about psychology of 9/11 attackers he mentioned disproportionate number of engineers among them. Said mindset of ENG was to ignore centuries of scholarship on Koran in favor of rereading from first principles. Compared them to early 20th C anarchists (think WWI) also including many engineers. Talk at Navy War College I think. I may be slightly mischaracterizing but that's my hazy recollection.

    @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar molly0xfff , to random

    every time someone calls me "anti-crypto" i think this

    anyway these are in the store now lol

    https://store.mollywhite.net/

    Two stickers, one each combining Bigfoot and Mothman with the "Anti Crypto Cryptid Club" design

    Two stickers, one each combining Bigfoot and Mothman with the "Anti Crypto Cryptid Club" design
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    @molly0xfff You may also enjoy Monica Gallagher's comics cryptids - e.g. https://www.instagram.com/p/C_YmXKaPbGb/

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    The creator of the the West Wing TV series, Aaron Sorkin, rewrites the script for the end of the Biden administration and suggests Democrats nominate a Republican to beat Donald Trump. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/21/opinion/biden-west-wing-aaron-sorkin.html?unlocked_article_code=1.800.mJpZ.eTOV3Li2kEkN&smid=url-share

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    @w7voa how neat must feel to get one’s perverted fan fiction published in the paper of record

    @Jennifer@bookstodon.com avatar Jennifer , to random

    Holy shit. Thanks @pluralistic now I don't want to fly anymore 😱

    Boeing's 787 "Dreamliner" is manufactured ... in a non-union shop in Charleston, South Carolina. At that shop, there is a cage full of defective parts that have been pulled from production because they are not airworthy.

    Hundreds of parts from that Material Review Segregation Area (MRSA) were secretly pulled from that cage and installed on aircraft that are currently flying the world's skies.

    https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/01/boeing-boeing/#mrsa

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    @Jennifer @pluralistic YIKES! It's fitting that Material Review Segregation Area shares its abbreviation with a deadly hard to treat infection: "Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus."

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    @Jennifer @pluralistic attached a comment "Nothing good has the acronym 'MRSA.'"! :-)

    @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar molly0xfff , to random

    If you've ever found yourself missing the "good old days" of the , what is it that you miss? (Interpret "it" broadly: specific websites? types of activities? feelings? etc.) And approximately when were those good old days?

    No wrong answers — I'm working on an article and wanted to get some outside thoughts.

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    @molly0xfff I’ve been following RSS decades . A Life Well Wasted updated after a 9 year hiatus. Dooce died and won’t be updating. I miss creators who died or quit or who went 410 Gone. But we are living the good old days today. We live in an Eternal September of new stuff on the web. As long as people make www that lasts and is not stuck in Orkut or G+ or MySpace or Vine or Ello these are the good old days. I like that people who forgot can remember that the web we own is the best web.