Joe Crawford
Website fixer · IndieWebber · Comics maker · Bodysurfer · Blogger · Toy robot collector · CSS Battler · San Diego · Peace, love, resistance
artlung.com
- Web renaissance is here if you want it.
- ...that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
- Go watch Network and The Post and All The President's Men and Spotlight and Broadcast News and The Wire (S05) and The Insider and Frost/Nixon and The Killing Fields. Journalism means something and rich people are killing it as much as they can.
- Yes I'll amplify the words of Bill Kristol if they advocate for ABOLISHING ICE. It's said "politics makes strange bedfellows." I'm interested in a better metaphor. Rats on sinking ships and ports in storms bum me out even more than bedfellows.
- At tonight's San Diego #IndieWeb Homebrew Website Club I blogged. It's maudlin but when I read it back to myself I felt alright about it. There's so much to be done. artlung.com/blog/2026/02...
- The Internet I was promised in 1998 was disintermediated. In 2016? So many middlewares! each extracts 30% or so. Work to tell those middles to chill the eff out is politics.
- As an older person I reserve the right type the year wrong, obviously. 2026 I guess is the current year.
- The perspective of animators on the deprecation of Animate (formerly Flash) is pretty interesting. www.cartoonbrew.com/tools/adobe-... ~ @cartoonbrew.bsky.social
- I sure do miss Lanyrd.
- hey a reminder to those of you who might be interested in #mentalHealth #affirmations type writing on the daily, I run @thisbot.day and you're welcome to follow here or on Mastodon. And give me a holler if you're curious about it. Lots of ways public and private to reach me.
- “Hey Trashcan where you going boy!? Your eyes are feet apart!”
