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PsyPost: Online camming can help men feel more comfortable in their own skin, study suggests
ResearchBuzz: Firehose630 posts last monthPsyPost: Online camming can help men feel more comfortable in their own skin, study suggests. “A new study published in PLOS One has found that many men who use adult webcam platforms, often called ‘camsites,’ come away feeling better about their bodies. These interactive spaces, where viewers can chat…
The Register: Exif marks the spot as fresh version of PNG image standard arrives
ResearchBuzz: Firehose630 posts last monthThe Register: Exif marks the spot as fresh version of PNG image standard arrives. “The World Wide Web consortium has announced the third edition of the specification for the Portable Network Graphics format – or PNG, pronounced ‘ping’, for short. The chair of the W3C working group in charge…
Associated Press: More refunds are being sent to Fortnite players ‘tricked’ into unwanted purchases. How you can apply
ResearchBuzz: Firehose630 posts last monthAssociated Press: More refunds are being sent to Fortnite players ‘tricked’ into unwanted purchases. How you can apply. “The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is sending out the latest round of refunds to consumers it says were ‘tricked’ into purchases they didn’t want from Fortnite maker Epic Games—and eligible players…
Mashable: YouTube is injecting more AI into your recommendations
ResearchBuzz: Firehose630 posts last monthMashable: YouTube is injecting more AI into your recommendations. “As YouTube fills up with more AI videos, the company is also building on its own AI tools, injecting more AI-powered recommendations into its platform for some users.” urgh.
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i.webthings.hub11 posts last month- Quarkdown (github) 📌
Markdown meets the power of LaTeX in this modern typesetting system. And it's free and open source.
- 🌊 sodalite 📌
an open-source, no-fuss downloader with real-time stats and a clean interface. paste a link from a supported service, choose your quality and format, receive the…
The Sheer Unlikeliness Of C B Fry
Cecily105 posts last monthJon Hotten | The Dabbler | 26th June 2014 | U
‘His party trick was to jump backwards onto a mantelpiece from a standing position’. Jon Hotten salutes the incomparable sporting Renaissance man, CB Fry…
John Arlott called him ‘the most variously gifted Englishman of any age,’ and Arlott, conjuring…
The Mind Of A Worm
Cecily105 posts last monthClaire L. Evans | Wild Information | 29th June 2025 | U
Modeling complex horizons, the mind of a worm; quite a bit of personal news.
The woods are still wet from the storm. With each breeze, the trees shudder down…
Processing Cycles
Cecily105 posts last monthErnie Smith | Tedium | 29th June 2025 | U
To quote a modern-day pop poet who has serious trouble avoiding hand injuries: Man, it’s a hot one.
Over the last week or two, the heat on the East Coast has been utterly sweltering with seemingly no end…
Skye's Curator Corner
A smaller but higher traffic list focused on people curating third party posts that I find notable.
The net is healthier when people create meshes of links to other sites. Adding a few related links to a blog post does wonders.
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Blogs
- Web Curios
Welcome to Web Curios, a regular(-ish) newsletterblogtypething all about stuff on the internet that its author finds interesting and thinks you might too.
4 posts last month - Creative Destruction
Thought-provoking reframings and frameworks that help you build a more joyful and regenerative world.
4 posts last month - Cecily
Every day we read hundreds of articles and select the best five for you to enjoy, so you'll always have something to read on the train and interesting things to say at dinner.
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- ResearchBuzz: Firehose
The ResearchBuzz Firehose is regular RB content presented as individual posts. For digest-type posts a couple of times a day, please visit ResearchBuzz.
630 posts last month - Perfect Sentences
Every Sunday, you get a collection of the best sentences I've come across all week. That's pretty much the whole idea. Pay what you want, if you can.
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- Web Wanderings by Cloudhiker
Rediscover the joy of online exploration! Web Wandering shares a hand-picked selection of unique and captivating websites you won't find anywhere else.
1 post last month - Best of the Net
An awards-based anthology designed to grant a platform to a diverse and growing collection of writers and publishers who are building an online literary landscape that seeks to break free of traditional publishing.
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