Mary Kidd

This is the post that set me off, the funny part being the op may actually be a real person. Maybe it’s more that Threads aesthetic is AI slop

Threads is a living example of endless bot shitposts and nothing replies. It is Moltbook disguised as Twitter.

The website for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is completely scrubbed and gone! They didn't even leave a legacy statement.

everything but the hegel

The shadows the hanging pieces cast were the best part

RSS was one of the best internet technologies and they just can't stop trying to kill it i hate this timeline

The most beautiful font is Times New Roman italicized!!!

How Ruby Went Off the Rails What happened to RubyGems, Bundler, and the Open Source drama that controls the internet infrastructure.

New: the world of Ruby has gone completely off the rails over the past few weeks. Developers suddenly locked out, corporate pressure, and claims of a "hostile takeover" of one of the most critical pieces of infrastructure for the internet we all rely on everyday
www.404media.co/how-ruby-wen...

Three hand-beaded 1-cm strawberry charms

Lucky charms

My employer New York Public Radio just announced that it is offering @onthemedia.bsky.social, @radiolab.bsky.social, and other programs to at-risk public radio stations for free! More info: current.org/2025/09/wnyc...

There should be entire MLIS sections dedicated to teaching students breathing techniques before opening up their first 100k line logfile

This beaded tomato slice doesn’t look like a tomato at all. Persimmon meets watermelon? I’m feeling more confident in diverging from the YouTube tutorial I’m following but realizing fruit pallets are hard to get right with little glass pixels.

Screenshot of Ratfactor's Illustrated Guide to Folding Fitted Sheets, ft an illustration of a purple sheet as the grim reaper

A fantastic Web 1.0-style how-to: ratfactor.com/cards/fitted...

Taught myself to make little beaded fruits like this little cara cara slice. A way to distract from endless scrolling (while watching TV 😝)

And in case it's of interest, I taught a whole Spring 2024 class about Local Media, and I've got an open-access website (as I do for all of my classes :)

localmedia.wordsinspace.net/spring2024/

Public transit is (or *can* be) efficient and sustainable and delightful and popular!

I hope they unite the south/north ferry routes so you don’t need to transfer to get from south Brooklyn to Queens!

one day it will be mine

Hi after forever Eileen! 🙂‍↔️🙂‍↔️🙂‍↔️

Excited to finally announce the release of my first ever book, and the first ever book from we here press. It is a pocket-size guide to my archival theories and experiences in the form of essays- some you may have heard in part as lectures, some which are unpublished until now.

www.weherepress.org

Swallowed an entire star anise?!

Sweet and Salty Frozen Grapes

It's hot and muggy in Toronto and the only things I want to eat are frozen

cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1027...

The highlight that the Internet Archive preserving Flash is starting to get "but flash was awful" comments but I can't hear you over the sound of 600 cooking games.

archive.org/details/soft...

Archivists Let You Now Read Some of the First Ever Reviews of Mario and Zelda Preservationists at the Video Game History Foundation purchased the rights to Computer Entertainer, the first video game magazine ever written and uploaded it for free.

Archivists Let You Now Read Some of the First Ever Reviews of Mario and Zelda

🔗 www.404media.co/computer-ent...

i kind of miss my twitter pals and banter. bluesky is like transferring to a new school in a new state

An assortment of six brightly colored issue of nest magazine — some with aberrantly cut edges, some with ornamented covers…

A pink magazine cover depicting bananas and cherries with a tongue dispenser affixed

A red and white striped cover, with the words warp and wood, with a green mesh overlay

A red magazine cover with a fabric band wrapped around it

I had forgotten that nest magazine of the early aughts was such a fascinating physical object.

Relatedly, it breaks my ❤️ + 🧠 to think that the monsters destroying our nation at this very minute — they’re currently 🪓 public media + transportation — are devoid of + disinterested in creativity

ngl i love it when my parents comment on my tiktok content

Stock image of a stack of blue rolling shopping baskets.

10 Things I Hate About You

Happy start of Taurus season

The mental fortitude required to eat an apple in the long car ride and hold the sticky core in between thumb and pointer finger until the next trash can.