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@reckless.bsky.social @davidpierce.xyz You mentioned sandwiches on the pod and I thought, classic XKCD time, xkcd.com/149/

Do not watch tonight’s State of the Union. Low ratings wound him. Let’s make this the least-watched SotU address ever.

Craig Lee (@cell911@pixelfed.social) Got home from work just in time to catch the Moon with Mercury. #IndigoApp continues to amaze. Night mode rested on my mailbox for steadiness. Better than anything I could get with my M43 camera in th...

The view from near Jacksonville, Fla. pixelfed.social/p/cell911/92...

Ss;wr

@alainpoupart.bsky.social Late listen to Friday’s collective, Mandich would be on my Dolphins TE Mt. Rushmore.

Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism

Here's an explainer for "No, I won't go read your Substack." www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

My dad's old Mazda B-2something would be nice.

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

In case you somehow haven't seen or heard this yet... www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWKS...

Yes, the GOP controls Congress. That's why it's key to show Congress COULD stop the madness. And it's not just the DHS bill. Congress could repeal the prior multi-year $75b for DHS; set up a special investigative committee (cf. Watergate); amend the Insurrection Act; etc.

I see that ICE now has a verified presence on Bluesky. See ya elsewhere (I'm not hard to find). Remember, you don’t really know who owns Bluesky and some techbroligarch could boot you at any time. You could also be silenced en masse right before an election. Do you have “social media ‘go’ bag”?

I've replayed this like at least 10 times already today.

I read 21 books in 2025. Learn more about them on my blog. craigdidit.com/2026/01/book...

Top 10 Headlines of 2025 - WRUF 98.1 FM | 850 AM | 103.7 HD2 ESPN These were the 10 most-read student-authored stories on WRUF.com during 2025, ranked by total pageviews.

After building the WUFT year-in-review stories, I built a similar story on WRUF for its Top 10, including building the rankings from the analytics. www.wruf.com/headlines/20...

The Biggest Stories of 2025 Our editors' selections for the biggest news stories covered by WUFT in 2025.

I pitched in with @wuft.org and shepherded some year-in-review content from its newsletter to its website. (Post 2 of 2) www.wuft.org/2026-01-07/t...

Top 10 Headlines of 2025 The most-read stories on WUFT.org during 2025, ranked by total pageviews.

I pitched in with @wuft.org and shepherded some year-in-review content from its newsletter to its website. (Post 1 of 2) www.wuft.org/2026-01-06/t...

Wrote on my blog (something I don't do enough of) about my 2025 year in photos (something I didn't do enough of that year either). craigdidit.com/2026/01/phot...

Undercover for the holidays: Some of our favorite spy novels : Sources & Methods What's more thrilling than a great... thriller? As national security buffs, we have thoughts.Host Mary Louise Kelly chats with national security correspondent Greg Myre and books and culture reporter ...

If you're into spy novels, I highly recommend this conversational podcast episode from @npr.org #sourcessandmethods. I picked up three new-to-me authors for my reading list. www.npr.org/transcripts/...

Remember when there used to be like 10 New Year's Day Bowl Games because ABC, NBC, and CBS all had rights and you had to channel hop? (And the Orange Bowl was played at it's rightful time at night.)

Friendly reminder on this arbitrary Gregorian boundary event that you don’t really know who owns Bluesky and that some techbroligarch could boot you at any time. Do you have “social media ‘go’ bag”?

Amazing.

Regarding commercial-supported streaming. That's a great argument for owning physical media of things you like. And also a spot where in the past a discussion of Cranz's Plex server would have commenced.

This is something we all can help with. Help publishers connect their feeds to readers. Help develop their independence from big tech.

Once again, telling me that I need to pay attention to the encroaching fascism—and doing it FROM YOUR SUBSTACK—is telling me you’re not willing to do the work you’re asking everyone else to do.

Jan Brady? Laurie Partridge? And somewhere the Ginger vs Mary Ann chorus is warming up.

Semi-regular reminder that you don’t really know who owns Bluesky and that some techbroligarch could boot you at any time. Do you have “social media ‘go’ bag”?

How about starting by getting the heck out of the Substack Nazi bar?

#UCF in all black on a sunny Florida afternoon again. 🤦‍♂️ Let’s hope they don’t melt in the second half again like before. #ChargeOn #GKCO

LETTER FROM THE EDITORS: IU fires student media director after he refused to censor the IDS Indiana University directed the IDS to stop printing news.

Very sad to see what’s happening at Indiana. The school has decided it wanted to muzzle its student newspaper to only print fluffy campus life stories in special sections. When they pushed back, the school cut all print funding and fired their staff director
www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

He could have nipped this in the bud by actually prosecuting some financial criminals around 2010.

How do you spell success? Jeffrey Zeldman Presents Personal site of author, designer, Automattician, and A List Apart founder & publisher Jeffrey Zeldman. Teaching and writing about web design and web standards since 1995. Also featuring “My Glamorous...

Working in tech means being comfortable with change and uncertainty. Successfully working in tech means not letting change and uncertainty paralyze you.

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