Extraordinary art history study of a painting of a Black Jamaican man from the 18th century

W.H. Auden's 1948 gay erotic poem. NSFW.

Fun new Bluesky firehose visualization

New computer controlled plotter with a fully controllable z-axis so you can use paint, variable pressure on pens, etc

Exciting news, vector tile data is live from OpenStreetMap!

Surprisingly technical article on how you can customize a Llama model to your specifciations

Third party site with a database of 52,000 starter packs

New global warming emissions dashboard from Planet Labs imagery of methane, etc

Notes on early LGBT community online, including my old home of soc.motss

After partial failure a radio makes its first transmission in 43 years

Butt interview with an activist in the nation of Georgia. (One mild NSFW picture.)

Usenet still exists and lately the amount of traffic is growing enormously

Fighting climate change with Planet Labs satellites detecting methane emissions

A creative new programming font inspired by the aesthetics of the game Stray

Local singer in Grass Valley, also an ally to LGBTQ youth and just a lovely person

A "show me top links" based on your Mastodon and Bluesky feeds

Details on how a linkblog is implemented

Interesting story of Republican strategists starting a deceptive pair of blogs to influence local newspaper coverage

Radio receiver for $50 is open

Te Pāti Māori interrupts a vote on an anti-Māori bill

A tool kind of like rsync but using ZFS snapshots and other features to manage files

The coding marketing is silly but a high quality display with extra features like a KVM seems really nice

Detailed explanation of why California takes so long to count ballots

2024 election voting depicted as piles of grains of sand, effective at showing individual and collective

A popular RSS feed reader

Remarkable 1896 book of art prints

A feature rich background noise generator, makes calm sounds of rain or quiet conversation or other sonic wallpaper

1 second from every prestige film remastered by Criterion

A simple framework for hosting bots on the Fediverse

Weird phenomenon: gas lift chairs generate an EMI speak when you sit or stand which can cause a monitor to momentarily blank out

Bizarre oil platform city in the middle of the Caspian Sea

Most of the components in the social media system are federated, except the view application

Wacky natural phenomenon, kind of slowly creepy

Sweet story of tracking down someone from a fantastic 1979 photo

HTTPS as metal song

The bizarre USB-C behavior of a popular Chinese handheld gaming / emulation console

Ryan considers options for the future of a useful bit of social media glue