Tim Bray
Tim Bray
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Web geek and environmentalist with a camera at the bottom left corner of Canada. He/him.
These posts are coming from a member-owned cooperative: https://cosocial.info
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What a charming story.
Even Its Author Is Shocked by How Fans Have Embraced “Heated Rivalry,” the Gay Hockey Romance Series
She Put the Heat in ‘Heated Rivalry’
Thanks to a steamy television adaptation, Rachel Reid’s romance novels about closeted hockey players have become mainstream best-sellers.
“What happened was, a faucet started dripping. And then I managed to route around the malignant machineries of late-stage capitalism. These days, that’s almost always a story worth telling.” 
ongoing by Tim Bray
Humanist Plumbing
I'm old enough to remember the unraveling of the Watergate cover-up, and the Epstein story has a very familiar stench. #USpol
Green light.
#photography
We just transitioned CoSocial from an ad-hoc combine of AWS, OVH, and DO to @npub1c36h...t8sz, see , a Managed Fediverse Hosting outfit. Already feels faster, and should be cheaper too. Self-managed instances are cool but not, I suspect, the general-case future.
FediHost - Managed Fediverse Hosting
RE: 
Big swathes of the #Fediverse are being remorselessly crawled by mindless brute-force bots. If your instance is slow this morning, that’s why. Probably more AI vandalism.
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toot.community
Jorijn Schrijvershof (@jorijn@toot.community)
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Another interesting adventure from the life of a #MastoAdmin: "Where do all these requests come from?"
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Brutal.
Aristotle on Democracy - Existential Comics
Aristotle on Democracy
A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes
Quoth @npub1e0x2...xqda in 
: “But there are an infinite number of things in life that cannot be assigned numeric values”
John, watch out, there’s a major math rat-hole waiting for you: 
(But, nice piece)
Daring Fireball
A Note on Current SMS Marketing Practices
Link to: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/12/15/note-on-sms-marketing
Infinity - Wikipedia
There’s this place we walk by pretty regularly that’s semi-abandoned. The owner replaces parts when they fall off and there are lights at night, but the front and back have been left to return to nature. This chunk of land is worth ~$2.5M Canadian, so an odd situation. Anyhow, I enjoy watching the progress of the informal small-scale rewilding.
#Photography
