[SC 2.4.4] Standing on the shoulders of giants
I wrote an article on combining a few older techniques with newer CSS features. I'm pretty proud of this one, but it's also definitely standing on the shoulders of giants.
Why ghosts wear clothes or white sheets instead of appearing in the nude
Here's your Halloween link 🎃
How Gothic Architecture Became Spooky
And another 👻
The Sad Case of the Tech T-Shirt (Fashion and Programming, part ii)
"There definitely is a wrong outfit, but there isn’t even a ‘right’ outfit. No matter what we wear, someone might get distracted."
Fujian Tulou, the Hakka Walled Villages
I just think this is neat!
The Thought Experiments That Fray the Fabric of Space-Time
Warning that this has full screen animation on scroll. That said, it's some good content if you can tolerate that.
A Book from the Sky
Art is so cool.
Scientists Revived a Pig's Brain Nearly a Whole Hour After It Died
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Why play a fascist? Unpacking the hideousness of the Space Marine
An essay on Warhammer 40k that cites both bell hooks and Ursula Le Guin? Holy crap. h/t Ethan.
EXCLUSIVE: Google charity program gifted years of free ads to prominent anti-trans organizations
The purpose of a system is what it does.
Microsoft fires employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza
Genocide doesn't mean shit to Microsoft if there's Azure contracts on the line.
Scientists May Have Finally Found the Origin of One of History’s Most Important Inventions
I too am a grooved roller.
Comic Sans Got the Last Laugh
Vindication.
‘Fandom has toxified the world’: Watchmen author Alan Moore on superheroes, Comicsgate and Trump
Good on The Guardian to let sorcerers use the Culture column like this.
We Are Living in a Golden Age of Apples
APPLE SCIENCE
“Not Medically Necessary”: Inside the Company Helping America’s Biggest Health Insurers Deny Coverage for Care
If corporations are people EviCore deserves the chair.
Pasilalinic-sympathetic compass
I played bass for The Etheric Escargotic Fluid.
If I had the power I’d destroy the whole thing’: what went wrong with the ghost town of Disney-style castles?
What a weird, sad, surreal mess.
The truth behind Lee Sklar's custom 'producer's switch'
This is a good one to remember for my next design review.
Meet ‘Luce’: The Vatican’s cartoon mascot for Jubilee 2025
Related, Mondo Mascots is blessedly operating at full power on Bluesky.
Among the world’s smallest vertebrates: a new miniaturized flea-toad (Brachycephalidae) from the Atlantic rainforest
New tiny toad just dropped.
'Alien' signal decoded
This is so dang cool.
AI bullshit: