# #xa #xa (news sources) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover #xa #xa. Page: Feed: --- ## [Three(ish) Weeks In Spain](https://danq.me/2026/08/23/three-weeks-in-spain/) _2026-08-23 · Dan Q · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles Ruth , JTA , the kids and I are all back in the UK 1 after a three week period during which some or all of us were consistently in Spain. The whole adventure was the kind of masterpiece of epic planning that only Ruth could have pulled off, and it worked spectacularly 2 . I wasn’t around for the first week of the trip, but continued working from home (with the dog, pictured) as… ## [Welcoming the Sri Lankan Government to Have I Been Pwned](https://www.troyhunt.com/welcoming-the-sri-lankan-government-to-have-i-been-pwned/) _2026-08-23 · Troy Hunt · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles Today, we welcome the 48th government onboarded to Have I Been Pwned’s free gov service: Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka CERT now has access to monitor Sri Lankan government domains against the data in HIBP, helping identify exposed government accounts and respond when they appear in new data breaches. As with the other governments already using the service, this is about using breach data… ## [How to fit Qwen3.8-27B into 16GB of VRAM and run it on a single RTX 3080 card: the best quantizations and Llama.cpp flags I've found](https://www.autodidacts.io/how-to-fit-qwen3-8-27b-into-16gb-vram-run-with-llama-cpp-rtx-3080-flags-quantizations/) _2026-08-23 · The Autodidacts · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles Despite being a notorious AI skeptic , when Qwen3.8-27B came out, I spent several afternoons trying to get it to run on a 16gb Nvidia card with halfway decent results. Eventually I did, and this is how. Note: This is the sequel to the nearly-identical saga of trying to get Qwen3.6 to run on the same hardware. Step 1: Lower Your Expectations The cool kids are all running dual RTX… ## [The IndieWeb Is Punk Manifesto You don’t need a deal with a label. You don’t need a platform’s blessing. All you need...](https://www.patrickrhone.net/17683-2/) _2026-08-23 · Rhoneisms · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles The IndieWeb Is Punk Manifesto You don’t need a deal with a label. You don’t need a platform’s blessing. All you need is an out of tune guitar you can barely play, or a free text editor and a hosting bill. That’s it. That’s the whole scene. What we believe in. ## [The Circle Of Influence](https://zellwk.com/blog/circle-of-influence/) _2026-08-23 · Zell Liew · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles Many of us tend to worry or are concerned about things that we have no influence over. Such as: What laws are passed in the country How the president decides to act Whether people actually truly understand us It’s a waste to put our energy there — because we can change nothing about it. (Since we have zero influence there). What we can do is to put our energy and emphasis on… ## [My Bullet Journal Setup - Personal (August 2026)](https://noisydeadlines.net/my-bullet-journal-setup-personal-august-2026?pk_campaign=rss-feed) _2026-08-23 · Noisy Deadlines · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles I started a personal Bullet Journal in June 2026, so it’s been a little bit over 2 months. I read the book “The Bullet Journal Method” by Ryder Carroll and watched some online videos. This is the second time I’ve tried Bullet Journaling, the first time was roughly a year ago. As I wrote in this post I’ve been drawn to paper more and more lately. I followed the basic Bullet… ## [twenty: bees! I have been remiss in posting BEEEEEssssss](https://angrybunnyman.com/twenty-bees-i-have-been-remiss-in-posting-beeeeessssss/) _2026-08-23 · Portrait of the Man as a... · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles Portrait of a BEEEEEEE A B M ## [The Blade Runner Ad-blimp](https://site-of-curiosities.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-blade-runner-ad-blimp.html) _2026-08-23 · Ye-Olde-Site-of-Curiosities · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles This is one of those iconic scenes from the original Blade Runner and one of my favorite. The sights and sounds of this video are outstanding. I need to make another run through the film and take a few more screenshots of my favorites. The many aspects of the iconic Blade Runner blimp advertising, and an out-of-this-world job. Adam Savage's Blade Runner Blimp Replica! 404 ## [Surveillance Fashion, for Cars](https://www.someweekendreading.blog/car-surv/) _2026-08-22 · Some Weekend Reading · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles Remember when we wrote about the surveillance cameras tracking pretty much every car? Remember when we wrote about the anti-surveillance fashion that makes ugly sweaters diverting cameras? Now imagine both at the same time. Anti-Surveillance Wraps for Cars Here on this Crummy Little Blog That Nobody Reads (CLBTNR), we’re not fans of fashion. (It’s a Nerd Tribe thing.) But then… ## [Souping up my blog](https://qtea.me/posts/souping-up-my-blog/) _2026-08-22 · tea☆ · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles For a long time I thought it’d be nice if there was a simple way for people to interact with my posts. When you write something it’s nice to know that someone took the time to read what you wrote and maybe even got some enjoyment out of it. I’m glad for those who let me know on Bluesky or Fedi \<3 Bear Blog has an unintrusive upvote button at the end of each post. But I’m not… ## [Browse ThreatCrush Modules (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/H9J90FmwbIAQ) _2026-08-22 · **Sponsored**_ Install community-built security modules to extend real-time threat intelligence and monitoring ## [Some App-to-Camera Recipe Transfer Protocol Issues + Instagram Really Sucks](https://fujixweekly.com/2026/08/22/some-app-to-camera-recipe-transfer-protocol-issues-instagram-really-sucks/) _2026-08-22 · FUJI X WEEKLY · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles When I launched the new App-to-Camera Recipe Transfer Protocol (ATC RTP) in the Fuji X Weekly App a few days ago, which allows you to send Fujifilm Recipes from the App to your camera, I said, “I do anticipate some bug reports, and hopefully they’re all very minor.” So far, they’ve all been pretty minor, but I think you should be aware of them. First, if you have an older iPhone… ## [My homeserver is new again...](https://solariz.de/posts/26/homeserver-replaced/) _2026-08-22 · Blog on solariz.de - Tech & Thoughts · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles As written last month in My homeserver is dying in slow motion it just crashed again a day after. Of course while I was in Paris for the EWC so no chance to fix it. In an impulse I decided against another DIY build PC as homeserver and settled with the Aoostar WTR Pro which is a really compact 4-Bay NAS. Aoostar WTR Pro - a NAS? Yes and no. It is basically marketed as a NAS but… ## [The Future of Single-Player Final Fantasy](https://blog.curiousquail.com/the-future-of-single-player-final-fantasy/) _2026-08-22 · quailblog · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles What if we retired the 'should it be fantasy or science fiction' argument and did something different? There's a bot on Bluesky called NESBot that posts links to resetera threads and one that caught my (and a lot of people's eyes) yesterday was this: Ever since Final Fantasy VII released and hit cultural paydirt, this question of "Should FF be more fantasy or science fiction"… ## [On English churches (part 5) - St James’ (sort of)](https://yunzi.co.uk/on-english-churches-part-5-st-james-sort-of/) _2026-08-22 · Yunzi's Blog · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles St James' Church in Tedstone Delemere Herefordshire We are the Village Green Preservation Society (Ooh, ooh, ooh) The Kinks - The Village Green Preservation Society. When researching churches, sites like National Churches Trust and Churches Conservation Trust and indeed the churches themselves, make it very clear they want people to visit, to sign the visitor book and perhaps… ## [Stop Trying to Distinguish AI-Generated Writing From Human Writing Because You Can’t](https://journal.james-zhan.com/ai-writing/) _2026-08-22 · James Zhan in real life. · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles I was just attending a virtual academic conference, where, frustratingly and annoyingly, 9 out of 10 sessions were about AI. But then, in one of the sessions that discussed human writing vs AI writing, I saw this slide: Human Writing (good) Machine Writing (or bad human writing) Idiosyncratic Cliched Circumlocutory Direct (in an obvious way) “Messy” Smooth and superficial Subtle… ## [Football is back but my enthusiasm is not](https://hailsandales.com/posts/football-is-back-but-my-enthusiasm-is-not) _2026-08-22 · Hails and Ales · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles I’ve been a fan of football (soccer) for almost as long as I remember. I remember going to my first match at Anfield when I was seven years old in 1997. A pretty dull 0-0 draw from what I recall. Despite the scoreline I was hooked. The atmosphere. The excitement. The chips with my Dad on the walk home. I loved it. I’ve been a fan ever since. Although I haven’t been to a Premier… ## [Lo-fi lowlife - D. 7](https://arsoncafe.blogspot.com/2026/08/lo-fi-lowlife-d-7.html) _2026-08-22 · Arson Cafe · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles Continuing a series of short playlists started about seven years ago. Back then a solo venture, now as a sequence of tracks discussed within a close circle, actively brainstorming the next selection while the music plays. Void of strict genre direction. No links, imagine this given to you in secret in an old, folded piece of paper. Does it even mean anything, or is it just… ## [re: re: things to do after your dad dies](https://s0ykaf.bearblog.dev/re-re-things-to-do-after-your-dad-dies/) _2026-08-22 · got a head full of spiders · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles I'm not fully sure if that's how the title should be since I've never done a post like this before, but fuck it. We'll do it live. I first saw Absurd Pirate's post a few days back, which then led me to Chloe's post . Similar to AP it made me want to share my own experience about losing my dad, because I haven't really talked about it properly in the five years since it happened.… ## [Hand cramps](https://nullish.smol.pub/hand-cramps) _2026-08-22 · nullish · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles It's so easy for a healthy habit to get derailed by a consumerist impulse. A while ago I started journaling, and things were good. I like the Field Notes pocket notebooks, and I've been using them for a long time. I had a small surplus in a drawer, waiting to be used. Pocket notebooks are handy, and if you're in the habit of carrying a pen, then it only makes sense to carry a… ## [Unfortunately Frequently Asked Questions About Transphobic Pinball Events](https://posts.arborelia.net/unfortunately-frequently-asked-questions-about-transphobic-pinball-events/) _2026-08-22 · arborelia · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles Yes, that's my chest in the header image. No, the cut of my T-shirt isn't flattering. When I wrote the post Six Months After OBX , I put together this separate post of spicy answers to the kinds of questions people have been asking, but decided to only post it if things got worse. Things got worse. I will not go into detail on that yet, so I can let victims speak first. The IFPA… ## [International money transfers (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/DuNEK6722jV8) _2026-08-22 · **Sponsored**_ Send money to other countries and manage multi‑currency balances online. ## [Still a Member of the Cancer Tribe](https://www.beginningwithi.com/2026/08/22/still-a-member-of-the-cancer-tribe/) _2026-08-21 · Countries Beginning with I · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles August, 2024: I’m coming up on the tenth anniversary of when I was diagnosed with breast cancer, and nine years since active treatment (surgery, chemo, radiation) ended. Since then I’ve been taking tamoxifen to suppress estrogen in my body because mine was a hormone-sensitive cancer. In the early months and years, I feared that I … Continue reading Still a Member of the Cancer… ## [The 'Yeah' Heard Round My World](https://blog.curiousquail.com/the-yeah-heard-round-my-world/) _2026-08-21 · quailblog · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles Collective Soul Unlocking A Core Memory Photo unrelated. Trying to get the studio all packed up and cleaned out but also going through the photo backlog. Here's Kindy. My partner Della's music shuffle library is truly a gift . She has effectively every song she owns on shuffle at any given time so it's not uncommon to just randomly hear Ani DiFranco followed by 2Pac, then a… ## [On values, morals, and doing business](https://manuelmoreale.com/thoughts/on-values-morals-and-doing-business) _2026-08-21 · Manuel Moreale · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles I caught wind of the news that MacStories is back posting on X, the “everything platform”, and that seems to have caused some backlash. I am not a reader of MacStories (because tools are tools and I don’t read about new computers the same way I don’t read about new washing machines) and I’m also not on X. So why do I even care about this news? Well, the short answer is that I… ## [NO THANK YOU.](https://jsrn.net/personal/2026/08/21/no-thank-you.html) _2026-08-21 · jsrn.net · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles We recently came across your site — the personal website of a real human being. That’s exactly the kind of real-human personal blog we built ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ for — an AI content team that keeps creating for you. Tell it what to make — newsletters, videos, podcasts, or articles — and how often; it researches fresh sources, picks what matters, and produces editable content on schedule, so… ## [Small Car Dreams](https://bez-lightyear.bearblog.dev/small-car-dreams/) _2026-08-21 · Bez Lightyear · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles Last night I had the most vivid dream. I had travelled to a large house with my son with the express purpose of him purchasing a Smart ForTwo car off the occupier. We looked around the car and it seemed okay, so my son went inside to pay the guy the £350 asking price. I sat in the driver's seat and checked out the instrument panel, which was a cardboard box with a piece of paper… ## [My e-reader made me a worse reader](https://sylvia.studio/my-e-reader-made-me-a-worse-reader) _2026-08-21 · Sylvia's Studio · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles This is the third installment of my series called Hitting the Digital Brakes, where I explore my journey into the use of technology and on ditching some aspects of it now. The first post in the series was about the joys of imperfection and in the second post I asked if we really need the latest tech . This week I've purposely put aside the e-reader I use at home, the Pocketbook… ## [I'm making CalAction free to use](https://mijndertstuij.nl/posts/making-calaction-free/) _2026-08-21 · Mijndert Stuij · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles Since launching CalAction , I always struggled with the idea of the in-app purchase. I'm a firm believer in the idea that software should be free to use, and that people should be able to use all of it without any barriers. I also believe that people should get the opportunity to support the development of software they use and like, within their own means. I no longer think the… ## [Is the LLM smart or are you not?](https://blog.troed.se/posts/the-anchoring-effect-and-cognitive-simplicity/) _2026-08-21 · Things I couldn't find elsewhere · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles -“I don't understand how you can pretend that simple next-token prediction models can do what humans brains can!” I hear this a lot - and to me it sounds like pushback against how Large Language Models (LLMs) keep making advancements. But here is a different perspective: Maybe it's less about LLMs being “smart” in a human sense and more about the fact that we vastly overestimate… ## [I'm being radicalised and that's a good thing](https://marcg.net/im-being-radicalised-and-thats-a-good-thing/) _2026-08-21 · Marc Gilbert · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles I’ve been on a bender lately of reading books about gender, specifically a lot on the experience of women in society, and it’s radicalising me in the best way possible. Many years ago, during my trip through Europe in the summertime, I was lucky enough to spend some time with a wonderful woman who was a fairly dedicated feminist. This person taught me a lot at the time in my… ## [This Guy Made an ASCII Cyberpunk City Using HTML and JavaScript](https://kaigulliksen.com/blog/this-guy-made-an-ascii-cyberpunk-city-using-html-and-javascript/) _2026-08-21 · Kai Gulliksen · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles This is absolutely amazing. A Walkable ASCII Cyberpunk City in One HTML File ## [Reach prospects with real signals (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/3RV77sIxZUzO) _2026-08-21 · **Sponsored**_ Find prospects talking about your problem and get context-backed moments to engage ## [The public service in France is broken](https://topopa.bearblog.dev/the-public-service-in-france-is-broken/) _2026-08-21 · Topopa · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles I've been trying to get back to school for more than a year now. Actually, before I even left my former school, I was researching apprenticeship or scholarship opportunities. How many attempts did I even make to this point? Ok, let's add a bit of context first: I went back to school as an adult learner for an apprenticeship on how to be a lab tech. The program was supposed to be… ## [I now play Big Walk every Thursday](https://blog.lauramichet.com/i-now-play-big-walk-every-thursday/) _2026-08-21 · Laura Michet · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles I now play Big Walk once a week. I like playing it this slowly! I find that every time we pick it up, we see an incredibly dense selection of wild stuff. Having that concentrated to one day a week isn't bad. Today we experienced an unusually dense selection of bizarre happenings. We completed two major objectives, which is a pretty big jump in Puzzle Velocity, for us. We… ## [Wasps](https://www.gordonmclean.co.uk/2026/08/21/wasps/) _2026-08-21 · Happily Imperfect · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles It’ll be wasp season soon —he says, well aware that the very idea of “seasons” is an increasingly futile one— and so any slight buzzing has me frantically scanning for something, anything, I can use as a weapon. I don’t think I’ve ever told the story of when I was stung. It was, I think, my Mum’s birthday. I can recall helping my Dad organise a surprise holiday for her around… ## [GitHub's growth](https://sals.place/blog/github-growth/) _2026-08-21 · Sal's Blog · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles From GitHub’s blog post, The August 17 outage, and the work ahead : Since April, monthly commits have grown from 1.4 billion to 2.9 billion. Holy shit. That doesn’t look sustainable. And assuming this activity is driven by AI bots rather than growth in paying customers, it’s probably bad news for the bottom line. I guess I echo this guy : I applaud GitHub. However, I think no… ## ["Doorway into Your Attention"](https://thisismylast.bearblog.dev/doorway-into-your-attention/) _2026-08-21 · This Is My Last · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles Ashlie D. Stevens: And increasingly, there is an app for almost every place we eat. The fast-food standards have them, of course, but so do regional chains and neighborhood coffee shops: download this, order ahead, skip the line, collect points, save your usual. The bargain is convenience, and often it genuinely is convenient. But increasingly, buying a sandwich or a cup of… ## ["Materially Generated Using AI"](https://thisismylast.bearblog.dev/materially-generated-using-ai/) _2026-08-21 · This Is My Last · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles Apple Music will be adding labels to songs that are "materially generated using AI" later this year. I hope that customers will be able to filter off these 'songs' easily in all places. ~ Link: Apple Music to Add Labels for AI-Generated Music Later This Year , by Kristin Robinson, Billboard ## [Vibecoding isn't as fun as writing code by hand](https://www.autodidacts.io/vibecoding-isnt-as-fun-as-writing-code-by-hand/) _2026-08-20 · The Autodidacts · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles I like building things: it makes me happy. Learning and discovering things is a close second, but building is more satisfactory. Since I’m not that good at actually, you know, building things, the thrill of “building”, in my case, has mostly come from writing software. Software is one of the easiest ways to create something satisfyingly useful out of nothing. For a long time… ## [Going back for more Vintage Story](https://blog.lauramichet.com/going-back-for-more-vintage-story/) _2026-08-20 · Laura Michet · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles I spent some time checking out Vintage Story again. I've written about it here several times before - looks like I was super into it last January? It's still good! The game has been updated quite a lot since I last sat down with it. One of the bigger updates was the addition of fishing earlier this year. (The update post is pretty wild.) In traditional Vintage Story style, the… ## [deluding myself into thinking mac n cheese is the 2nd healthiest food](https://amytrieslife.com/blog/deluding-myself-into-thinking-mac-n-cheese-is-the-2nd-healthiest-food/) _2026-08-20 · Amy Tries Life · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles Guys this is crazy. On Monday, I dreamt that I searched up the healthiest food on google, and there it was. ## [Meta Figured Out How to Build a Mac App](https://pxlnv.com/linklog/meta-ai-mac-app/) _2026-08-20 · Pixel Envy · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles Zac Hall , 9to5Mac : The new Meta AI desktop app is version 1.0 beta at launch and weighs just 16MB once installed. Based on initial inspection, it runs natively on Apple silicon Macs with macOS 15 or later, using an AppKit and SwiftUI shell with WebKit for richer chat content. In other words, this is not an Electron app or a repackaged iPad release. Meta’s other major Mac app… ## [Handwritten HTML](https://unstory.eu/qno/) _2026-08-20 · unstory · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles It's 2026 and people are shoveling features from AI into their software every day. Barry is excited to share the latest paid feature for the pros in Pika. Hot on the heels of our site-wide Custom Code announcement, we're excited to share that Pika now offers Pika Pro subscribers the ability to add custom code directly into your individual posts and pages. It offers the ability… ## [Neo-Etiquette Basics: The New Rules of Being Human](https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/neo-etiquette-basics-the-new-rules) _2026-08-20 · Westenberg. · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles 🍕 I’m JA Westenberg . I write essays about technology, philosophy, productivity, and what it means to be human. If you like ideas that take their time, you’re in the right place. While you’re here, a few things I’ve built: Kerouac, a writing app | Post Through It, a solo microblogging tool | Distributism.ai , my MCP platform | Laterware , all the AI news you need | Studio Self… ## [I think we've got feeds working.](https://stevebarnes.org/blog/1787187777/) _2026-08-20 · Steve Barnes' World Of Happiness · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles After some good old hand-coding, I'm offering an RSS feed with titles and links, along with a JSON Feed feed with full text. You know, I'd never considered feeds essential to a Web home , since the main purpose of building and opening one's home to others is for people to visit it, not for people to receive broadcasts from it. But I've certainly thought feeds were cool since… ## [In Defence of Vent Posting](https://brennan.day/in-defence-of-vent-posting/) _2026-08-19 · brennan.day · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles If you've been on the Internet, you've seen someone venting. The act of sharing anger, sadness, grief—usually with vulnerable, personal details. Almost universally, these get a bad rap. People are often drained, or annoyed, or resentful towards those who vent, and communities go out of their way to prohibit it. Not to pick on 32-bit Café, but they have a detailed section on… ## [“Fun” fact: it took until 2016 for the US national debt to reach $19.6T. That grew by $5.3T in Trump’s first term, $8...](https://honeypot.net/2026/08/19/fun-fact-it-took-until.html) _2026-08-19 · Honeypot.net · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles “Fun” fact: it took until 2016 for the US national debt to reach $19.6T. That grew by $5.3T in Trump’s first term, $8.5T in Biden’s term, then another $4.6T so far under Trump 2. We’ve gone another $20.4T underwater since Obama. No more geriatric leaders with few years ahead of them and no future consequences, please. Sources: fiscaldata.treasury.gov/datasets/…… ## [I'm Upset Again About a Co-Creator of RSS Being Prosecuted For Something Meta Is Doing With Little Consequence](https://blog.curiousquail.com/im-upset-again-about-a-co-creator-of-rss-being-prosecuted-for-something-meta-is-doing-with-little-consequence/) _2026-08-19 · quailblog · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles Also here's a cool unrelated photo of a chipmunk Look at this little guy. They don't know what an AI model is and they're so much better off It’s nothing short of an indictment of our society at large that Aaron Swartz, one of the co-creators of the RSS protocol (among many other things) was effectively assasinated by our legal system for “illegally” downloading about 70… ## [A bramble tour of my garden](https://francescrossley.com/a-bramble-tour-of-my-garden/) _2026-08-19 · What the Fran · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles I hacked some brambles and because not much else in my garden is thriving I thought why not commemorate these absolute troopers. This bramble is trying to avoid being hacked by pretending it is a rose. This bramble gives no shits and is just hanging out. It went up the wall/fence and then just leapt out and grew back down in the air. This bramble is trying to kill me on the… ## [Titans football is back!](https://michaelharley.net/posts/2026/08/19/titans-football-is-back/) _2026-08-19 · Michael Harley · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles Well, not really but almost! It's preseason and I've watched a preseason game! For the past couple years, watching Titans games has been equivalent to self-flagellation. The team has been bad, and there hasn't been much cause for optimism. It's felt like we've been a bad organization. Since 2022, we're tied with the Arizona Cardinals for the worst record in the league with a… ## [museums i recently visited iv](https://blog.sulimans.space/museums-i-recently-visited-iv/) _2026-08-19 · suliman's blog · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles On my last day in Berlin, I went to the second to last museum on my list: the GDR (German Democratic Republic) Museum. 1 This museum was created to commemorate and showcase to future generations how life under the GDR was like which is something it does exceptionally well. This museum is unique among those contemporary history museums I’ve been to so far. It has complete… ## [“Like Them, but Better.” It’s Not.](https://iamgregb.io/like-them-but-better-it-s-not) _2026-08-19 · @iamgregb · Bubbles_ 🫧 Open on Bubbles A social media strategy focused entirely on the competition is in bad taste. There is nothing wrong with highlighting your strengths in comparison to theirs, but it becomes exhausting when that is your entire message. I want to choose your product because of its unique proposition, not because “it’s like … but better.” It eats away at your brand and, honestly, it’s off-putting.…