Funniest McSweeney’s piece I’ve read in awhile: The Mastermind Box Cover: What...

Funniest McSweeney’s piece I’ve read in awhile: The Mastermind Box Cover: What the Hell Were They Thinking? “Warmth is for Sorry! This is not a hug. This is a chess clock in a stranger’s living room telling you your parents are getting divorced.”

90 Minutes of Knitting ASMR

From the V&A Museum, here’s a 90-minute video of someone knitting a pair of gloves using a knitting pattern from the 1940s from the museum’s archive. Featuring soft-spoken moments, natural yarn sounds, needles gently tapping, and the soothing rhythm of slow, careful m…

Aging Out of Fucks: The Neuroscience of Why You Suddenly Can’t Pretend...

Aging Out of Fucks: The Neuroscience of Why You Suddenly Can’t Pretend Anymore. “…that point in midlife when your capacity to pretend, perform, and please others starts shorting out like an electrical system that’s finally had enough.”

Re Collections

Angels of Cities On the ground now (context) in Los Angeles (actually San Marino, but all this sprawl is Los Angeles), reminded afresh that I love this place. I just took a walk in 57° weather. It's clear, the sun is up, and the expected high is 82°.  Perfect. I also drove t…

nikitonsky is being grumpy

nikitonsky: List of folders without names, but with sizes. Only at Microsoft Thanks Gamlor for the picture #Microsoft #Sharepoint #Folder

Thread: What was typography like in the Soviet Union? “They did not...

Thread: What was typography like in the Soviet Union? “They did not just have 1 font everyone had to use. As a matter of fact, there were 39.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →

Aiarty Image Matting: The Photo Background Remover That Nails Intricate Pictures

Background removal used to be a niche task reserved for commercial retouchers. Today, it’s rapidly becoming part of every photographer’s workflow, from portrait shooters delivering clean composites to product photographers producing consistent catalog images. Whether you’r…

Stocking Stuffers For The Photographer In Your Life

The holidays are just around the corner, and most of the world is getting into the Christmas spirit of gift-giving. If you’ve got a photographer in your life, we’ve rounded up a selection of some of the best stocking stuffers you can buy for them without spending too much. A…

Top 3 Lenses From 2014 That Time Forgot

The year 2014 saw the launch of various lenses. From iconic DSLR zoom options to some exciting prime lenses for both full-frame and APS-C models. While Canon, Sony, and Nikon each launched some great focal ranges, other brands, such as Tamron, Rokinon, and Sigma, attempted to of…

Fishing

Sublurb

On Mar 30, 2025, Hank Green posted on BlueSky: Some of the critiques I’ve seen [of abundance liberalism] do seem to boil down to the old mainstay of “people should stop wanting the things they want” and I don’t really know how to handle that. “We don’t need more h…

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Location, Location, Location I'm 30 kilofeet above the Missouri River, westbound from IND to DEN, with (United tells me) eight minutes to get from Gate B24 to Gate  . It's blank. Doesn't say. I guess we'll find out. Oh my god! I know Louis CK got canceled and all, but what he s…

New evidence suggests that Neanderthals were making fire in the UK 400,000...

New evidence suggests that Neanderthals were making fire in the UK 400,000 years ago. The previous earliest date of human fire-making was a mere 50,000 years ago. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →

Victorian-Era Mourning Objects From the V&A’s Collection

From the archives of London’s V&A Museum, a selection of items that were used by Victorian-era mourners to remember and pay tribute to loved ones who had died, including jewelry with human hair, black dresses, jet black jewelry, mourning cards, and postmortem photography…

The trailer for It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley, a documentary film about...

The trailer for It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley, a documentary film about the late singer/songwriter. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →

Timothy Snyder: “What comes next? For the Nazis, the deportation and the...

Timothy Snyder: “What comes next? For the Nazis, the deportation and the pogrom of autumn 1938 were steps towards creating a centralised national police agency. In the US, something similar is unfolding with ICE.”

Size of Life, a visual comparison of living things from DNA to...

Size of Life, a visual comparison of living things from DNA to a quaking aspen clone. Lovely illustrations. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →

I hate how good this is: Radiohead sings Santa Claus Is Coming...

I hate how good this is: Radiohead sings Santa Claus Is Coming to Town (There I Ruined It). 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →

What could be more agentic for humans than requesting sites and services to sign a contract saying they respect your privacy for the good of you both?

That’s what MyTerms does. Since I don’t have a photo of my own shot here in the natural world, the AI image above represents the degree of agentic scale MyTerms gives to a human meeting a company they want to respect the human’s privacy requirements and also do business.…

Sony a7V Focusing Errors with Some Lenses: Explained

It finally happened, after a long weekend of shooting with the Sony a7V and both Viltrox and Sony lenses, the purple autofocus error flashed on screen and rendered the camera inoperable for a few power cycles. This issue is similar to one reported when using third-party lenses,…

2000 Words for Japanese Rain

From artist Miya Ando, Water of the Sky, A Dictionary of 2,000 Japanese Rain Words. Through a collection of 2,000 Japanese words, their English interpretations, and 100 drawings, Ando describes the breadth and diversity of rain’s many expressions: when it falls, how it fal…

The loose flap of skin around the elbow is called the what...

The loose flap of skin around the elbow is called the what now?? 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →

nikitonsky is being grumpy

nikitonsky: Good idea! Change button’s label and action just the moment before I am about to click it P.S. Where did contrast go? #Google #Button #Hover #Contrast

The Large Format Camera from Italy That We’re Falling in Love With

"After my friend’s death, I honestly didn’t want to continue anymore," says Andrea Pizzini, the photographer behind one of the most organic photography projects that I've seen in a very long time. "But over the past three years, several friends, artists, and photographers en…

The Vintage Compact Cameras Redditors Can’t Stop Talking About

Compact cameras are pretty important in today's time. They offer the perfect bridge between a cellphone and a camera, and are also far more affordable than most options available. Today, we have selected a few models that are recurring names on Reddit's r/vintagecamera thread. I…