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Wow, Longhorns starting really strong. 🏈

Lots of new books and films in the public domain today! Including the first version of Mickey Mouse with white gloves in The Opry House, available on the Internet Archive.

Hi All! 🤗 And then, one cold evening in December, my car broke down. In the middle of the intersection, right when the traffic lights turned green and I was about to leave. The engine, which had been turned off by the start-stop system, suddenly wouldn’t start again. Each tu...

Hi All! 🤗 And then, one cold evening in December, my car broke down. In the middle of the intersection, right when the traffic lights turned green and I was about to leave. The engine, which had been turned off by the start-stop system, suddenly wouldn’t start again. Each tu...

If you've signed up for Bluesky, you've signed up for offloadable moderation. By now a lot of people have been lured to Bluesky with a mistaken impression of what they're in for. Foundationally, the reason Bluesky was launched in the first place was out of a desire to do less moderation, and so Bluesky's approach to moderation is all about creating excuses for offloading responsibility. This approach has predictable consequences. Spelling all this out is unfortunately necessary because of ...

Love this post from Allen Pike, about magic and the seemingly impossible accomplishments just being a lot of work and planning:

The pianist whose fingers seem supernaturally nimble, the presenter whose message seems viscerally compelling, and the artist whose paintings seem impossibly realistic all wield the same magic: they’ve invested more time than you’d expect.

I wrote a few blog posts in WordLand this morning because it was convenient. It's good the same way I like to use a twitter-like app to write first drafts, when all I have to type into is my iPad. I've also started using it on my desktop for short things, but I just wrote and edited a complete blog post, a response to something Krugman wrote, about how gambling is destroying sports. And what for? It's like what Marge said at the end of Fargo. "There's more to life than a little money, you know." It feels like they're feeding the NBA into a wood chipper. What comes out the other side won't imho be recognizable as sport. And here you are, and it's a beautiful day.

I've got so much new stuff stacked up, on its way out. Hold onto your hats.

I've archived December in the GitHub repo, in OPML, as usual.

Welcome to a brand new year. The best one ever. 😄

Happy new year! I just sent an email with no subject line… Amateur hour over here as we start 2025. Hope it’s not a preview of what the rest of the year will be like.

Starting 2025 as I mean to continue …with a cat on my lap.

Athbhliain faoi mhaise daoibh go léir a chairde!

Retired jerseys at Frost Bank Center. Last game of 2024, Spurs vs. Clippers. 🏀

Last 2024 #donation request: please #donate to any/all tonight!I donated to these, pick ones that resonate with you:@ACLU@NAACP@InternetArchive@Wikipedia@PPact@Mozilla**@EFF@CalAcademy@deYoungMuseum@Exploratorium@MontereyAq@SFMOMA@SFParksAlliance**Disclosure: I work for @Mozilla, on & with open web standards & communities @indiewebcamp @microformats @W3C @WHATWG supported by @Firefox to provide a more human-centric, private, and secure web for all users.Previously: https://tantek.com/2019/365/t1/today-donate-renew-arts-science

I posted this on Threads, and thought it should also be on my blog. :-)

I don't want to be critical of anyone in the WordPress world, there's already a lot of that going around. I want to be off on the side, seeing the immense value of the platform, and things we can do with it that aren't possible any other way.

Toward that end, I want to say -- for a product that is so incredibly useful for writers, not much attention has been paid to how writers work. We can do a lot better, imho.

Again, not meant to be in any way personal. It's just the way it happened.

Nowhere Bookshop. 📚

Hotel Emma at the Pearl. Spending the day in San Antonio.