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Joe Crawford
@artlung.com
Website fixer · IndieWebber · Comics maker · Bodysurfer · Blogger · Toy robot collector · CSS Battler · San Diego · Peace, love, resistance

https://artlung.com/
“We’re not hitchhiking anymore, we’re riding!”
December 29, 2025 at 10:07 PM
San Diego River glassy this morning. 44°F air temperature. Eastbound trolley traveling above reflected in it.
December 29, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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If you lived here, you'd be home now.
December 17, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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This is great, "Why one small American town won’t stop stoning its residents to death," a story where Isaac Chotiner interviews the guy who administers the lottery from "The Lottery"

archiveofourown.org/works/733964...
Why one small American town won’t stop stoning its residents to death - Anonymous - The Lottery - Shirley Jackson [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
archiveofourown.org
December 28, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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( a bit related maybe is the idea of a "stochastic gong show"? www.interfluidity.com/v2/8331.html )
interfluidity » Fix the Senate III: Stochastic Gong Show
www.interfluidity.com
December 28, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Bardot is the most transfixing aspect of LE MEPRIS, not due to what the American distributors would have you believe (see image in the comments) but because she finds a palpable beauty in sadness and is arguably the best, maybe even most iconic, conduit for Godard’s cynicism on screen.

RIP
December 28, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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if you want to get shit done, rather than a “strong man”, instead of autocracy, have you considered a democratically elected unicameral legislature which directly appoints and can remove the executive?
December 28, 2025 at 4:52 PM
BROTHERS, SISTERS / WE DON'T NEED THAT FASCIST GROOVE THANG
December 28, 2025 at 4:23 PM
For want of a nail "Buckaroo Banzai Against the World Crime League" was lost. In this essay I will illustrate...
December 28, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Every time I rewatch The Holdovers it becomes more important to me as a movie and as a crucial Christmas movie. Captures well the downbeat interregnum of late December.
December 27, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Front End Study Hall, the informal zoom I proctor where we talk #CSS and #webdev stuff, will return just before the New Year. You are welcome to join. Bring a bug or HTML you want to understand better: we’ll hash it out together! events.indieweb.org/2025/12/fron... #indieWeb
Front End Study Hall #043
events.indieweb.org
December 22, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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"You have to use AI."

...why?
December 12, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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The SFWA wants to hear your writing on the implications of LLMs for writing and culture. There is a survey with essay questions.

Write to them. It's how humans communicate thoughts and emotions.

www.sfwa.org/sfwa-survey-...
SFWA Survey on LLM Use in Industry - SFWA - The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association
Thank you for participating in this survey. The data collected here is preliminary, not definitive, but it will help to […]
www.sfwa.org
December 23, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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#IndieWeb Homebrew Website Club Pacific tomorrow (Tuesday) at 6pm. Normally Wednesday, it's Tuesday because of Christmas Eve. Come share the delight and dread of personal websites in Zoom. It'll be mellow, but productivity *could* occur. events.indieweb.org/2025/12/home...
Homebrew Website Club - Pacific
events.indieweb.org
December 22, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Big news: I have a book coming out in 2026, and it now has a cover which I can share with you guys. Entitled GIANT MONSTER MOVIES: 100 YEARS OF BIG-SCREEN BEHEMOTHS, it consists of 92 film reviews of every giant monster movie ever, from 1925's THE LOST WORLD to 2024's GODZILLA X KONG: NEW EMPIRE.
December 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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If you get a new sketchbook as a present and feel precious about it because you're afraid of "ruining" it or "messing it up", here's a trick I always do now: leave the first page blank, use it last, so when you open the sketchbook, it still feels 'pristine'
December 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I missed whatever point it was that Rebecca Black went from “unfair punchline” to “rather impressive performer” youtu.be/3sni1ckbBqw
Rebecca Black covers Addison Rae’s ‘Fame is a Gun’ for Like A Version
YouTube video by triple j
youtu.be
December 23, 2025 at 1:18 AM
#IndieWeb Homebrew Website Club Pacific tomorrow (Tuesday) at 6pm. Normally Wednesday, it's Tuesday because of Christmas Eve. Come share the delight and dread of personal websites in Zoom. It'll be mellow, but productivity *could* occur. events.indieweb.org/2025/12/home...
Homebrew Website Club - Pacific
events.indieweb.org
December 22, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Front End Study Hall, the informal zoom I proctor where we talk #CSS and #webdev stuff, will return just before the New Year. You are welcome to join. Bring a bug or HTML you want to understand better: we’ll hash it out together! events.indieweb.org/2025/12/fron... #indieWeb
Front End Study Hall #043
events.indieweb.org
December 22, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.
December 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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If you like my work but don't want to work that hard to see it, feel free to subscribe to my mailing list. You'll get a free Hurricane Vendetta comic with it.

www.lovejoolz.com/mailing-list/
Mailing List — Love, Joolz
www.lovejoolz.com
September 30, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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"I’m thrilled to read that AI may be able to translate whale song or read charred papyri scrolls. But write emails because that’s hard? Generate pictures of Yoda and Harry Potter sharing a milkshake with a heart-shaped crazy straw? Do your own dirty work."

-interview with Nick Mamatas
Interview with Nick Mamatas
Shakespeare, the tech set, the publishing biz
ivygrimes.substack.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:06 PM
podcasts aren’t the problem as such… but they’re not helping
December 20, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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The most wonderful.
December 20, 2025 at 1:19 PM