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zeldman @zeldman.bsky.social · 18h

While Hitler plotted and Europe crumbled, a motley crew of mathematicians, philosophers, architects, and economists met weekly to invent Computer Science. Mark Bernstein mines this forgotten history for lessons that just might save today’s web from its worst impulses.  alistapart.com/article/desi...

Designing Amiable Web Spaces: Lessons from Vienna's Café Culture

Explore the impact of amiability in web interactions and learn from the history of Vienna Circle's collaborative spirit in dealing with disagreements.

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Stephanie Booth @stephtara.bsky.social · 13h

I need to get back into markdown. Used it a lot in the beginning (when it came out) but then the markdown parser on my blog broke and I stopped… it was a problem for years, had posts in raw markdown and nothing seemed to be able to fix the markdown interpreter. Will give it another go!

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Stephanie Booth @stephtara.bsky.social · 14h

scripting.com/2025/10/13/1... POSSE or PESOS, that is the question…
#indieweb
@scripting.com

Scripting News: The web crashes

Dave Winer, OG blogger, podcaster, developed first apps in many categories. Old enough to know better. It's even worse than it appears.

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Stephanie Booth @stephtara.bsky.social · 14h

developer.wordpress.com/docs/mcp/pro...

Essential Prompts for Using WordPress.com MCP Tools

Explore effective prompts for managing your WordPress.com MCP tools, covering site configuration, user management, and content analysis.

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zeldman @zeldman.bsky.social · 20h

The most reliable way to have positive impact in the design and development community—or any community—is to write the articles and books you wish somebody else had already written.

Remkus de Vries @remkusdevries.com · 3d

I created the course I wish existed 10 years ago
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I Created The Course I Wish Existed 10 Years Ago

After 20+ years of working with WordPress, building, optimizing, securing, scaling, and fixing sites others gave up on, I’ve finally put everything I know about performance into one course. It’s called Make WordPress Fast. And today, the prelaunch is open. This is the first course I’ve ever released, and I didn’t want it to be […]

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 19h

"Here's the Truth About Trump's 'Peace Plan' for Gaza"

The US allowed Netanyahu to create four key loopholes in the deal to ensure Israel can continue its Gaza genocide - regardless of the 'ceasefire' deal.

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Here's the Truth About Trump's 'Peace Plan' for Gaza

The US allowed Netanyahu to create four key loopholes in the deal to ensure Israel can continue its Gaza genocide – regardless of the 'ceasefire' agreement.

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Stephanie Booth @stephtara.bsky.social · 1d

Heavens, having to juggle Outlook work calendar and personal Google calendar is a pain when you can’t edit gcal events in Outlook anymore… :’-(

Stephanie Booth @stephtara.bsky.social · 1d

Réflexion relancée sur « habiter ensemble façon Maison des Babayagas ». Objectif: petit immeuble avec apparts et jardin; trouver groupe clé d’acheteuses (acheteurs?), déterminer structure (fondation? Association? Coopérative?)
Plusieurs biens intéressants sur le marché vaudois déjà là, étonnant!

Stephanie Booth @stephtara.bsky.social · 1d

overcast.fm/+ABJSkl2tbDI @scripting.com hadn’t heard this one! Ok, I’m sold on the checkboxes. True that when I post links (something I do now in Openvibe or FB/LI) I could do it from my blog and have it dispatch (deal with char limits elegantly?) + editable summary of day links on blog?

WordLand, the timeline and checkboxes — Scripting News podcast — Overcast

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 1d

watching the government's social media accounts spit out groyper stuff on main this whole last year, this is how i imagined the behind the scenes chats were going

Politico @politico.com · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

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Ben Werdmuller @werd.io · 1d

Last week I was delighted to give a keynote talk to open #FediForum, the conference about building the open social web. It's about the real threats we're facing, why open alternatives matter so much right now - and the questions we can ask ourselves to make our work really matter.

Why the open social web matters now

The needs are real – and you have so much power.

werd.io

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Stephanie Booth @stephtara.bsky.social · 2d

overcast.fm/+AAYs-1xlAvI
Fascinating!!

Synthetic Cells: The Next Bioengineering Frontier — Short Wave — Overcast

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Stephanie Booth @stephtara.bsky.social · 2d

Pendant que moi je suis réveillée à 3h du mat’ suite à un rêve peu plaisant où j’avais laissé mourir Quintus sans m’en rendre compte et que Juju fait le tour du quartier, Oscar pionce comme un bienheureux, orteils au vent.

Stephanie Booth @stephtara.bsky.social · 2d

Well, at least one of us is sleeping

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Tormented🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social · 2d

A good piece, with a couple of examples of bad NYT headlines undermining good reporting as a bonus.

The MAGA “influencers” accompanying Noem, & the administration itself, are lying.

Not living in a different reality or having a different view of the facts. Intentionally lying.

Propaganda.

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 3d

Absolutely crucial point here by Greg Sargent. When we don’t call propaganda what it is, we co-produce it, and hasten disaster.
newrepublic.substack.com/p/maga-implo...

MAGA Implodes over Kristi Noem’s “Stare Down” with Man in Chicken Suit

A good New York Times piece on Portland nevertheless demonstrates how the conventions of objective reporting fail to accurately capture the bad faith driving pro-Trump propaganda.

newrepublic.substack.com

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Stephanie Booth @stephtara.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, that sucks!!

Stephanie Booth @stephtara.bsky.social · 2d

Heavens

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 2d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Rue89Lyon @rue89lyon.fr · 2d

Pour comprendre ce qui fait que certaines attaques de 40 personnes, en pleine journée, n'ont abouti à aucune condamnation, nous avons enquêté.

Nous sommes en mesure de révéler que certaines investigations ont, pour plusieurs raisons, été bâclées.

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Stephanie Booth @stephtara.bsky.social · 2d

Stealth replies!

Bluesky @bsky.app · 2d

Quick Tip: Don’t want people getting pinged when you post or reply?

You can turn that off by heading to: Settings → Privacy and Security → Allow others to be notified of your posts and toggling it off.

A screenshot of “Allow others to be notified of your posts” with “No one” selected

Stephanie Booth @stephtara.bsky.social · 2d

With @openvibe.social most of what occupies my timeline is Mastodon and Bluesky, algorithmless afaik — almost no Threads.
And let me tell you, my feed is not less interesting than what I get on Facebook or other algorithm-fueled platforms. Here, time is the algorithm and it works quite well.

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Dave Winer @scripting.com · 2d

I think that has a lot to do with how things are turning out.

Remember it's the tools we made that created this mess.

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Dave Winer @scripting.com · 2d

Working together.

Think about this developers of the web.

How can we pool resources to make the network work better for the people.

Right now we're not working together at all.

Each of us are on our own.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

Living a moral life in an age of bullies requires collective action; it cannot be done alone. Each of us must organize and participate in a vast network of moral resistance. From this solidarity we will grow stronger. This is what our current moment requires.

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Stephanie Booth @stephtara.bsky.social · 2d

A common case of Cyclist’s Wishful Thinking — I get that regularly

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 2d

When Mike Johnson or another national leader repeatedly claims they haven’t seen relevant things in the news, an appropriate reporter reaction would be “Holy cow, how do you not know?!? How can you do your job without knowing what’s happening? What are you doing to fix your ‘not knowing’ problem?”

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2d

I don't understand why U.S. reporters so regularly seem to let politicians get away with 'I haven't seen that' about stuff a) they obviously know and b) is directly relevant to their job. Did they sign some kind of agreement never to ask a follow-up question?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts?

MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know

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Stephanie Booth @stephtara.bsky.social · 2d

What woke me up from the dream was the sudden awful realisation that this wasn’t possible and that he was most certainly dead and that his body had probably started decomposing in that bag and that I should check on him, try and revive him without delay, or wait until morning for the vet… (2/2)

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