@DJFogbound

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Thought follower, Dunning Kruger expert, professional bloviator, amateur musician and photographer. Hiding under an atmospheric river in the PNW.
“This study shows that…. nostalgia evoked by Studio Ghibli films significantly foster a sense of exploration and calm in life, as well as a feeling of mastery and skill, and purpose and meaning, hence ultimately contributing positively to one’s overall happiness in life. https://games.jmir.org/2025/1/e76522 #art

Are folks still using Flickr? Is it a nice place to be in — no algorithms, no AI slop? Would you recommend it?

Thinking of reviving my long dead account 🤔

(Boost for reach, please)

I feel like schools should do more to warn people about gateway crafts.

I started doing some embroidery, it's not too expensive, it doesn't take up too much space. Then I got a second-hand sewing machine, pretty versatile and that should be me sorted right?

NO! It is not enough! YouTube is aggressively pushing me knitting and crochet content. I was seriously considering getting a loom and learning to weave. A LOOM!!

Be careful out there kids. Before you know it you might be spinning your own wool!

#Crafting #MastodonCrafts #Sewing #Crochet #Knitting

Do any of these sound familiar?? You may have developed a tech-induced mental or behaviour disorder. Here’s our list of 30+ we’ve theorised might exist. See if you agree :)
https://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/intermental/
the AI industry is going to have us maintaining the current gaming PCs like Cuban cars

Right off the bat: I loved the #BadBunny halftime show.
Yeah, I could do without some of the over-the-top sexy shit — but let’s be real, that’s his bread and butter. I’m not excusing it, just saying: if that’s all you saw, you missed the whole damn point.

From the very first image — people cutting sugar cane — this was political as hell. Sugar cane isn’t some random aesthetic. It’s the industrial agriculture imposed by the United States after they took over Puerto Rico in 1898. That was the moment communal farming was destroyed and Puerto Ricans were forced into brutal export agriculture for U.S. profit. That history matters.

The entire performance was an homage to the island I grew up in. The neighborhoods, the sounds, the colors, the references — there’s so much nostalgia packed in there I honestly can’t even list it all. They went down the fucking list. Every Puerto Rican I know was watching this with tears in their eyes.

And maybe most important of all: he did the whole thing in Spanish. At a time when Spanish has basically been criminalized — when people are afraid to speak it in public, afraid of having the “wrong” accent, especially after years of Trump-era racism — that alone is a massive political act.

I need to rewatch it because there’s so much going on, but I wanted to put this out there now. Because I already know a lot of people aren’t going to get it at first glance.

But make no mistake: this wasn’t just a halftime show.
It was a huge cultural and political moment — and for Puerto Ricans especially, it meant a hell of a lot.

¡Pa'lante!🇵🇷✊

We had a beautiful, heavy fog for New Year’s Eve in the Seattle area last night.

I keep watching people who used to write 10,000-word explorations of complex topics now produce dozens of disconnected fragments per day, each optimized for immediate engagement.

It's like watching someone who composed symphonies decide to only make ringtones.

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-case-for-blogging-in-the-ruins/

The Case for Blogging in the Ruins

In 1751, Denis Diderot began publishing his Encyclopédie, a project that would eventually span 28 volumes and take more than two decades to complete. The French government banned it twice. The Catholic Church condemned it, Diderot's collaborators abandoned him, his publisher secretly censored entries behind his back, and he worked

Westenberg.
End-stage capitalism neatly summarized in one sentence.
Once again, Cory Doctorow makes some excellent points about AI: https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble/#u-washington
Pluralistic: The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (05 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow