Hey Los Angeles, please consider leaving a public comment on CF #25-0600 urging them to reverse the proposed cut to the Department of Disability and also add a line item funding prevention, treatment, education, and support services for Long COVID.


I came across someone who has scans of the Cornerstone Festival programs on Flickr. This will be a fun nostalgia trip for me. First year I attended and the last.



My friend Joe wrote some good reflections about one year of the Front End Study Hall meetups.

If you’re interested in HTML/CSS, this is the place to be. It’s a fun, supportive group of people meeting every couple weeks. Join an upcoming one!


Congratulations to Joe Crawford for a year of organizing the Front End Study Hall meetups! Here’s a little badge:

badge with a colored ring, bottom half of ring is orange, upper half is yellow (both are IndieWeb colors). Text 'One Year of Keeping it FrESH' curves around the top, a large number 1 in the middle, and text at the bottom: 'Awarded to artlung.com April 24, 2025 for one year of organizing Front End Study Hall'

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Want to read: The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin (ISBN 9780356504902)


Currently reading: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (ISBN 9780593321218)


Finished reading: The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin (ISBN 9780316229265)


The Internet Used to Be a Place (YouTube, runtime 24:34)


🎶 New Ronnie Martin music: Consume Like A Moth What Is Dear


Want to read: Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams (ISBN 9781250391230)


I’m pissed off. “tHe lAw AnD OrDeR pArtY” said they’re ignoring the Supreme Court’s order to return Abrego Garcia to the US. They kidnapped him from his wife and kid and sold him off to a torture prison in El Salvador. They can do this to anyone and it’s your word against theirs. No due process.


I am currently safe from the SoCal earthquake. Definitely felt it, but no damage.

USGS: 5.2 magnitude near Julian, CA


Coachella does a pretty good job with these YouTube livestreams. Watching the replay of Jimmy Eat World now and looking forward to Darkside later. https://coachella.com/youtube-livestream.


🎶 Odesza + Severance? Yes, please. Music To Refine To: A Remix Companion To Severance


Another great read from Julia Doubleday on understanding the eugenics in RFK’s “MAHA” movement:

“It’s critical for people to learn the internal logic of MAHA in order to effectively organize against it, because if you are critical of anti-vaxxers while adopting some of their talking points and central concepts, you ultimately boost their world view. You may be up to date on your vaccines, but do you sneer at the idea that you could end up with Long COVID? Do you refuse to mask because you assume every person harmed by COVID is inferior to you, with your superior eating habits and commitment to the gym? Do you ignore advocates who organize for institutional mitigations like better quality indoor air, because you believe that people who die from COVID don’t really matter the way you do?”

Gauntlet News, RFK Jr.’s ‘MAHA’ movement doesn't want to eliminate chronic illness. They want to eliminate the chronically ill.



Hahah, I was just reminded of this interaction on Twitter with Phil Vischer, the creator of VeggieTales. I wanted to make a copy for posterity:

Keith Andrew: “Good God man, what kind of woke idiot have you devolved into. What’s next? Trans Veggie Tales where Veggies come out as fruit?”

Phil Vischer: “Botanically speaking, cucumbers and tomatoes are, in fact, fruit. Sorry about that.”

Screenshot on Reddit