Super disappointed that #FinchApp decided to take a sponsor for their monthly event this month.

For those unfamiliar, Finch is a wellness app in which you care for/partner with a virtual pet bird in the shared interest of your mental wellness. They guide you through activities: meditations, expressing gratitude, breathing exercises, and staying connected with friends.

Every month, they have a themed event. If I recall, some of the recent themes have been springtime, bookish, and bohemian. During those months, the items your birb (as the pets are called) collects are related to the theme. Recently, they've even added a story you can play through around the theme.

This month, the theme is Supergirl, which seems different from past themes (even the Wizard of Oz one, which as I reflect is similar). The Supergirl logo is all over everything, and she is the main character in the story.

One would hope a mental health app put out by a public benefit corporation would be safe from ads but apparently not. 😞

I read a wonderful and inspiring article by @brennan about alternative internet protocols. https://brennan.day/gemini-gophers-and-fingers-oh-my-alternative-internets-beyond-https/

How can such a seemingly dry subject *be* inspiring? I remember the wonder of the early internet. The feeling of finding someone with a common interest and learning all the cool things they wanted to share. The feeling of discovering cool and weird art. The obscurity of it all, when everything new and cool felt like finding buried treasure. The idea of stripping away the parts that have enabled it to become a weird authoritarian shopping mall in the last decade or so to get back to that is intensely appealing.

The sad part is that I *like* a lot of the tech that enabled that transformation, but I'd also give it all up to get back to the people, the weirdness, and the fun.

The article inspired me to install bombadillo and poke around to see what I can find.

Just learned that the entire run of Punk Planet is archived on Archive.org, and I am very happy about it: https://archive.org/details/punkplanet?tab=collection

This command will download every issue (without any of the extra stuff) with the Internet Archive CLI (installable with `brew install internetarchive` and probably some other ways):

```
ia download --search 'collection:punkplanet' --glob="*.pdf" --exclude="*_text*"
```

This is going to be useful to a tiny cross-section of people, but here we go…

If you happen to have a web site built using @eleventy, use @FreeTube, and want to publish a list of your subscriptions to your site, I built a solution for that. Read about it and reuse it on your own site: https://devon.lol/blog/automating-my-youtube-channel-list/

I created my first TTRPG as an entry to this year's one-page RPG jam! It's free to download, so if you get a chance to try it, please let me know what you think. (I know it isn't great, so I'd welcome constructive criticism.)

Read about it: https://devon.lol/blog/rideshare-renegades/

or skip straight to downloading: https://raddevon.itch.io/rideshare-renegades