Ooh, Sufjan’s are so good! I bet you’ll like Rosie. She and Sufjan have worked together.

Haven’t listened to much holiday music yet, so fixing that with the new Ben Folds, Sleigher. Next up: Scala & Kolacny Brothers, December; and Rosie Thomas, A Very Rosie Christmas. What’s on your list?

Friend used a new-to-me phrase for the holiday blahs that’s perfect: “blah humbug” 😂

★ I screen printed some stuff

Mutemath/Paul Meany released Distance, an acoustic EP of some songs from the vault. Very chill.

In that vein, I recommend this album by Resistance Revival Chorus

Another thing I did during IndieWebCamp San Diego’s Create Day was add a page with food and drink recommendations. This morning I added an emoji before each one as a quick indicator of the type of food. I like that it adds some color and variety to a page of mostly text.

This is cool! I don’t think it’s correct that Webmention requires a permalink for each post; sending a fragment link as the source URL should work. The verification step should be per-media-type, so receivers could verify that text/plain example differently than a text/html document.

For IndieWebCamp San Diego’s Create Day, I worked on cleaning up some code for indiewebify.me and pushed it to a branch on my GitHub.

The readme there has more details, but this is basically an in-progress update to use the SlimPHP framework. It is probably only about 30% complete, but some parts of it are functional. Pushing this to Github will make it easier for the community to collaborate on and decide how to move forward.

I appreciate The Birthday Massacre’s consistency in their album covers. #purple

TIL the term “smishing” (SMS phishing) while looking up info on those spam text messages claiming to be from the USPS about a missed package. Never click the links in those, of course. You can also report them to the postal inspector.

Checking out a new podcast, Public Health is Dead. Sounds promising so far.

“Public Health is Dead is a forward-thinking autopsy on how we’ve f*cked up in public health. How do we prepare for future pandemics while we’re already in the thick of one? And how do we reinvent systems that place some of us closer to death?”

I’m down. Get me off these Discords, give me those old-timey unread topic notifications. 😆

During yesterday’s IndieWeb Create Day, I got inspired by Reilly’s progress adding tags to his posts. I finally set up my Tags page and linked up the tags at the bottom of each post.

I couldn’t resist adding a bit of random HTML tag fun at the top of that page, too. Let me know your favorite HTML tag and I might add it to the rotation.

Listened to: Conspirituality #229: Stanford Has Fallen. This was a good dive into Jay Bhattacharya, Covid contrarians, and the symposium they held at Stanford.

Want to read: We Want Them Infected: How the failed quest for herd immunity led doctors to embrace the anti-vaccine movement and blinded Americans to the threat of COVID by Jonathan Howard (ISBN 9781959346036)

via “Stanford Has Fallen”, episode #229 in Conspirituality podcast

★ Day trip to my first IndieWebCamp in Berlin

I’m attending (virtually) Tales from the Crips November 8, 2024 at 8:00PM Eastern

This dance/aerial art show sounds great: Tales from the Crips, Reimagined Fairy Tales with a Disabled Lens. Nov 8 + 9, 2024, 8pm EST.

“This show was inspired by “Disfigured” by Amanda Leduc who we’re honored is flying from Toronto to come to this performance and give an opening reading to invite us into reimagining diverse voices within classic fairy tales. We are reimagining Snow White and Endo (disabled comrade), Mulan, Maiden (without hands), Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, and Little Mermaid. We invite the audience to join us with live music, aerial art, and more!”

There’s a livestream, tickets are free/sliding scale (suggested $35), and if you attend in person, masks are mandatory.