2025-08-23 link dump

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James Dobson, Godfather of Child Abuse, Finally Dies

The radical cleric leaves behind a legacy of sanctified torture, destroyed children and broken families.

this was such a crazy great read. i hope that man is looking up at us and malding at all the celebration we have done in wake of his overdue death.

Digital Frontiers, IndieWeb Cowboys, and A Place Online To Call… — Henry Desroches (11ty Conf 2024)

This was a talk given at the 11ty International Symposium on Making Web Sites Real Good (2024): https://conf.11ty.dev/2024/digital-frontiers-indieweb-cowboys…

a fantastic talk! i loved henry's energy and enthusiasm about indie web protocols and eleventy and all, even if i'm not 100% on board with indie web stuff as it is right now.

Tangerine (Channel Tres Remix) by Aaron Childs on Apple Music

Song · 2018 · Duration 4:54

@ heavenslilylover.bgay.social shared this one in a thread of songs she was listening to, and i'm so glad i gave this one a shot. super smooth, chill, groovy, all of it. can't recommend it highly enough.

Introducing Areal, Are.na’s New Typeface | Are.na Editorial

An interview with Dinamo’s Johannes Breyer on the custom Arial “revival” typeface.

i found this a fascinating read! i've always loved Arial for its simplicity and inoffensive nature, so to see it get a rebirth in the form of Areal is great.

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the bit about was SO cool to me that i immediately implemented it on my site eunoia , and i hope to use it everywhere. such a creative use of media queries and CSS in general.

Not Your Typical Horizontal Rules

— The personal website of Sara Soueidan, inclusive Web UI engineer

i'm very interested in making pseudo-element content images accessible, so i found this a great read! the point about making your own accessible and semantic components and not having to use ones like was especially neat to read about.

Handbrake Preset - Bluesky Videos - EvieVeevee’s Ko-fi Shop

This encoding preset is designed for sharing videos with Bluesky, with the current default PDS (bsky.social) in mind. It outputs 720p video at 30fps,…

i have been using the SHIT out of this! such a handy little preset— i highly suggest you throw the author a couple bucks for this neat little tool :)

una.im | Using color-mix() to create opacity variants

Build an alpha color system without splitting out channels using this one neat trick.

THIS BLEW MY MIND. no more rgba() nonsense!!!

Blaugust #1: Agnes’s Super Duper Unofficial Guide To Multifandom Exchanges

ON FANDOM EXCHANGE NORMS I haven’t been doing fanwork exchanges for very long. I did my first this January, Candy Hearts Exchange, and then immediate…

as someone very much into fandom but very much unfamiliar with the BFE (bangs, fests, exchanges) scene, i found this very insightful! if you're into fandom and also largely unfamiliar with this area of the community, this is a great glossary and introduction!