david wolfpaw • 17 Jan 2025 • Reading time: 6 minsI missed a week! I was really not feeling it last week, but now this week I’ve been sick, bleh. Congestion and sinus pressure suuuuck.
I made two shorts around not having the energy to do more, and while that may seem like an oxymoron, I did also skip plenty of days as well. That’s what I get for not filming and editing in advance!
This week I’ll spend more focus in the newsletter on shares. I have more videos than normal since it covers two weeks. I haven’t done as much reading, as I’ve been figuring out (with a ton of help from my friend Jo) some self hosting reading apps. I have been wanting to improve my article archiving and reading experience, and I’m slowly testing things out.
If you want to check out my shorts, I’ve embedded two of the recent ones below, and I have more on my channel. Longer form videos to come!
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A simple idea that is often flipped on it’s head: instead of degrading the experience for those who have less, start with something that works and add to it for those who have more.
Honestly surprised that she was still alive, but good fucking riddance.
This will go perfectly well. For Facebook as a company at least.
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I would also offer death some coffee if they came to collect me at home.
And as a counterpoint, it’s hard to get a 30 year old console to properly render on emulators.
I love Mt Kanjon’s clips. Simple, but detailed tips on practicing art, and creating your own style and habits for drawing.
I have this sudden urge to play solitaire…
This was a funny bit, made even better with Only Jerry art
Don’t judge me! I’ve been doing this for the past year or so and it’s my favorite way to fall asleep. Of course, I was a kid who regularly fell asleep to Nightmare on Elm Street sooooo…
I made an obtuse joke when I first shared this, but I can make the joke more directly here: Finally, a Ro who isn’t a jackass. Also it is just a good story about familial support.
Jacob Geller has this way of weaving together disparate media and ideas into one coherent story.
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“You have to make a movement irresistible.”
“If you’re not having fun fighting fascism, you’re doing something wrong.”
I love watching folks make miniatures! I wish that he did youtube videos of it, but I realize that’s a whole other skill of its own.
As users, we generally like just being served up content that we like. As creators, we have to work to please an algorithm more than pleasing actual people.
This guy was so awful, and unsurprisingly that means that some people treat him like a god who had power over our political system.
Yes, social media, including and especially sites like Facebook, helped make The Insurrection a thing. And yet they got away with it.
If you made it this far, why not share this newsletter with a friend? Or share with me some of the things that you found that you liked this week. Either way, I’m thrilled!