Played a fun game of āis this cute or have I fallen too far down the vintage Northern Reflections collection rabbit holeā this morning.
I’ve posted before about having aphantasia, in that I always thought “picture this” was a metaphor; I can’t call up images of things in my mind, and when I close my eyes I just see the back of my eyes.
However I definitely miss people when I haven’t seen them for a bit. The person who describes people as no longer existing when they’re not around, that’s very strange to me.
Some People Canāt See Mental Images. The Consequences Are Profound. āI do not miss people when they are not there. My children and grandchildren are dear to me, in a muffled way.ā https://kottke.org/25/11/meet-the-aphantasics-those-who-cant-see-mental-images
Raise your hand if you expected 9/11 to be the example of unforeseen risk in this project management course
Hey New York Times, I invented something I think you’ll be really interested in.
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ā The New York Times ([@nytimes.com](http://nytimes.com)) Oct 16, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I went to unsubscribe from a newsletter and got a āyou have been unsubscribedā confirmation from Blogger in this, the year 2025.
Londonās Design Museum proudly presents in collaboration with la CineĢmatheĢque francĢ§aise, … Wes Anderson: The Archives, an intimate look at some of the papers and props from some of our favorite films, shedding light on the process and the man behind the lens.
-via Design Milk
This is completely useless, unsuitable for most reasons that people require monitors, and I love it:
Boox is debuting its first desktop monitor featuring a color E Ink screen. The new version of the Boox Mira Pro carries over the same functionality as the black-and-white version that launched in 2023, but using the same E Ink color display technology found in devices like the Kindle Colorsoft.
Boox launches its first color E Ink monitor via the Verge
The new Homestar Runner video is about how much better the internet was when it was all websites, which obviously I agree with.
Back to the Crazebox!
(via Homestarrunner.com, celebrating 25 dot coms)
I donāt know how people manage having more than one plant. Iāve typically only kept one and it occupied like 10% of my brain space. But Iāve recently been gifted two more plants and now all I can think about is keeping my plant babies alive. ARE YOU OKAY PLANT BABIES. šŖ“
I Didnāt Think Things Would Get This Chaotic When We Elected President Donkey Kong
I Didnāt Think Things Would Get This Chaotic When We Elected President Donkey Kong
Same with President Donkey Kongās press conferences. Reporter asks a gotcha question? Barrel. Someone wants to know what heās doing about the price of eggs? Barrel. Softball from a friendly reporter? Barrel, barrel, barrel.
(via McSweeneys and kottke.org)
Insane People Actually Think Canadians are Stealing from the US
This is actually crazy.
Canadian details the hate she experiences living in the U.S.
A Canadian working in health care in the U.S. shared a disturbing incident she faced in the operating room amid a discussion on the tariff war. … The neuroscientist described how she was in the middle of surgery when she “outed” herself as a Canadian during a conversation about tariffs.
This is a neuroscientist working with a nurse.
(S)he says, ‘You guys have been stealing from us for years, and it’s about time that someone stepped in and stopped it.’ And I was shocked," she alleged. “Stealing? She thought the Canadians are stealing from Americans.” … “What I took from that is what she meant was all she wants to be left alone, as in, she doesn’t want foreigners around her,” she explained. “And she thinks that she’s due all this money because Canadians have stolen from her, and not the oligarchs, not the billionaires, not the system ā it’s the Canadians.”
These people are in a cult. There’s no other explanation. I bet you any money they didn’t think about Canada for even 10 minutes a day before they elected their current dictator. And now all of a sudden a nurse is shaking and crying in an operating room because the Canadians have stolen from her and she thinks tariffs will fix it?
I have no idea what to do with this information.
(Article via blog.to)
I think I'm just over social media
When I first got on Bluesky I was really stoked. It felt like old internet Twitter. It was friendly and exciting and fun to engage with.
Then it got more popular, and started feeling a little more like twitter in the middle years. People seemed more interested in gathering followers, increasing engagement through “starter packs”, and more businesses got on board. It was still fun, it still felt like a cool place to be on the internet, but the shine was starting to wear off for me.
And then, within the last couple of weeks, it began to feel like Twitter of a couple of years ago. As in, Twitter as it was right before it got sold. I was seeing a huge increase in followers - I’ve always been a micro-presence on the internet (and let me be clear, I still was/am, but having over 500 followers felt extremely weird to me). I actually didn’t like the feeling of having more followers, it didn’t jive with where I’m at with my internet presence these days.
More than my issues with my own personal profile, it started to feel as though most posts I saw were about self-promotion. Artists I follow were promoting stores and sales, and I was hardly seeing any actual art. There were more political posts (and don’t get me wrong, in this climate if you have a platform, speaking out is definitely a Good Thing. It was just a vibe shift.). I also started seeing things like Wordle scores in my feed, which I had joked would be the signifier of an established Bluesky. I had worked really hard to create a feed of comedians and artists that brought me joy, but all of a sudden it just felt like… being on social media. And I realized, I hadn’t missed that at all.
So, sort of unceremoniously, I’ve decided I probably won’t be posting there any more. I didn’t delete my account or anything. I still like the idea of Bluesky, and it’s not their fault I wasn’t having fun on the platform any more. But, I exported all my posts, and I think I’ll just be posting here from now on.
This is definitely a me-thing. I think I like just putting my thoughts in my own little sphere, and not having people really engage with them at all. I like the sort of return to a livejournal-esque internet that I find with blogging. I post when I want, I don’t if I don’t want to. I don’t feel pressure to engage with anyone or respond to things.
Honestly, I think I’m just over social media.
