There's a new "create a pass" feature in Apple Wallet for iOS 27, and I just used it to add library cards, with barcodes. Here are the instructions from Apple's website for how to create a pass in Wallet. support.apple.com/guide/iphon... The "standard" template works well for library cards.

Opinion | After all, if it can happen to Yosemite National Park, one of the crown jewels of our National Park system, no place is safe. cal.news/4yRabuD 📝 Mark Butler 📸 Miguel Gutierrez Jr.

And why not. 😄 https://www.space.com/astronomy/asteroids/astronomers-just-named-an-asteroid-after-weird-al-yankovic

Astronomers just named an asteroid after 'Weird Al' Yankovic

Asteroid Alyankovic was discovered in 1981 and resides in the main belt of asteroids found between Mars and Jupiter.

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You're Very Talented. 🛒 My kid encourages people without realizing it. #KidStories #Journaling #Talent #SliceOfLife #Blogging #BlogPost blog.shannonkay.com/2026/09-2...

You're Very Talented

I picked my daughter(Beatrix, age 7) up from her school play rehearsal and took her to the grocery store with me. I had parked next to the cart return area, and Beatrix was excited to help return the cart before getting into the car. After we got into our car, but before I’d started to drive away, a store employee came to collect the carts in the return area. Beatrix watched through the car window while this young man lined the carts up and stacked them together. 🛒 “He’s doing a cool trick,” She said. “He’s very talented!” She said...

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Safari crashed. I probably should've closed some tabs anyway.

Today I learned that my local public library serves their website from the library building! 📚🛜💕

Mute Filters A whole bunch of improvements here: - mutes now work across paired profiles - mute keywords, hashtags, and domains - easier to start a mute from the timeline - time limits for all mute types - disable reposts per person

This is about yesterday, but it rained a little bit again today. Rain in September blog.shannonkay.com/2026/09-0... #Rain #Blogging #BlogPost #Weather #Rainbow #RainInCalifornia #September #Journal

Rain in September

A tropical storm passing by has given us rain today, in Southern California in September. Rain in September is unprecedented, and we won’t leave home again until it stops.  I had been warned of potential rain today, but based on the forecast, it looked like it wouldn’t start until the afternoon. When I woke up for church this morning, it was already rainy. The sidewalks outside were completely wet.  It was raining lightly when I walked out to my car, but raining much harder by the time I got to church for choir warmup.  By the time I got home,...

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Problem: Too many open browser tabs. Solution: Putting them all into my self-hosted Readeck or Linkding or subscribing in NetNewsWire with self-hosted FreshRSS. #TooManyTabs #SmallWeb #Readeck #Linkding #SelfHosting #FreshRSS #NetNewsWire

Did you know about the special characters for degrees° Fahrenheit and Celsius, ℉ and ℃ ? blog.shannonkay.com/2026/08-2... #Degrees #Unicode #BlogPost #Blogging #Blaugust

Writing Weather With Special Characters for Degrees

Recently, I was entering the weather for a blog post. I just type my weather in manually when I want to include it. It was for a review of a book that took place in a region where they use Celsius, so I decided to include my current weather in Fahrenheit and Celsius. In the Apple Weather app, I tapped the option to change between Fahrenheit and Celsius. It was then that I noticed that ℉ and ℃ were not just a regular F and C with the degree° sign symbol, but their own unicode special character. Degree Characters Degree...

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Happy Birthday, Mary Shelley! Born on this day in 1797 🫀

Our school district started 2 weeks earlier than last year. It's been about 99℉ / 37℃ all week. My elementary kids had to eat lunch inside, and school pickup traffic is at rainy day levels.

As many mourn the loss of beloved icon and sibling in Christ Dolly Parton, we're revisiting this interview with the Rev. Dr. Theresa Cho and the Rev. Sam Lundquist of St. John's Presbyterian Church where "Dolly Church" is an annual celebration: pcusa.org/news-storyte... #PCUSA #DollyParton #Worship

As a tribute to Dolly, why not donate a book? Leave one is a free library. Give one to a friend or neighbor or child. Buy one for a teacher’s wishlist. If you have book donation ideas, add them to this thread. Dolly would love to see people getting books!

I woke up to my alarm for getting the kids ready for school on Tuesday morning, and sincerely believed it was Saturday. #Blogging #Blaugust

Back to School

My kids have already been in school for a week because the school board decided to start the year two weeks earlier than last year, just stealing two weeks of the summer break that we can never get back. They started school(2nd, 4th, and 9th grades) last Thursday. Yes, the first day of school was a Thursday. And then had a complete 5-day week this week. Longest week ever! I’m glad it’s Friday! I woke up to my alarm for getting the kids ready for school on Tuesday morning, and sincerely believed it was Saturday. It was unquestionably Saturday in...

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Today, while browsing through the Way Back Machine on Internet Archive, I stumbled upon an old website that I had made. This was almost certainly my first "professional" website, and I believe I made it in the year 2000 when I was sixteen. blog.shannonkay.com/2026/08-1... #OldWeb #Blaugust

Just noticed while visiting a Wordpress blog that #Gravatar has profile pages. I'm updating my gravatar profile page with current links because it shows if I comment on a Wordpress.com blog. Might be an ok "link tree" alternative for some? There's a custom domain option. Interesting.

The perfect storm was created with The Beths playing on my husband's birthday right in our own county. We didn't even have to drive to Los Angeles! #TheBeths #Concerts #LiveMusic #BlogPost #Blaugust #Blogging

The Beths Concert

We saw The Beths in concert. After seeing The Beths twice in 2023, we’ve had tickets to two other concerts that we didn’t make it to because of complications with our kids. This year, the perfect storm was created with The Beths playing on my husband, Jerrod,’s birthday right in our own county. We didn’t even have to drive to Los Angeles! For merch, we both got Straight Line Was a Lie t-shirts, and I got a tote bag and sticker! We took a selfie before the show started. It was actually a double headliner show show with Beach Bunny,...

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Happy HTML Day! Maybe you don't have time to write a whole HTML document today. That's ok. Let's write the HTML for a link! Link to your website or any website you want. <a href="https://make.yourownwebsite.org">Make Your Own Website</a> #HTMLDay2026 #HTML #HTMLDay #SmallWeb #Websites

Happy 35th birthday to the World Wide Web! And to the first website; Published August 6, 1991. #WWW35 #WWW #WorldWideWeb #InternetHistory

I read that today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury's short story, There Will Come Soft Rains. Yes, it is today. > "Today is August 4, 2026," said a second voice from the kitchen ceiling, "in the city of Allendale, California." www.libraryofshortstories.com...

There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury

“Today is Mr. Featherstone’s birthday. Today is the anniversary of Tilita’s marriage. Insurance is payable, as are the water, gas, and light bills.”

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Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

Just a reminder: at #Ebooks Direct, our #Summer #Reading #Sale (with all our ebooks hilariously discounted) is still on! Drop by and take advantage of us. 😃 ebooks.direct/pages/our-su...

"This is so whimsy" My daughter, age 15.

Since people won't stop reposting this, I am forced to join the chorus of people repeating that this entire site is AI-generated

@laperry2.bsky.social · 3mo ago

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yeah it LOOKS great but in reality it's like 70 degrees all the time and every cafe serves the best coffee you've ever had

alix e. harrow@alixeharrow.bsky.social · 3mo ago

still okay i guess. if this is your kind of thing

Again, I'm testing out @leaflet.pub. The first test was published as a one-off "Looseleaf" document. This time I set up a "Publication". I was happy to try out the custom domain support.

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Testing out leaflet.pub and comparing it to other free options for website and blog hosting.

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Testing out @leaflet.pub. It's pretty interesting and different from what I was expecting.

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Testing out leaflet.pub and comparing it to other free options for website and blog hosting.

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My parents are about to throw away an Apple II Plus in the DFW area that was working when last booted in the early 90s. Anyone into retro computers have an idea of how I would match it with an interested hobbyist?

New Kindles now require EPUB3 files via the "Send-to-Kindle" service, causing MOBI usage to decline. However, PG wants to keep supporting readers with older Kindle devices. We are hosting a two-question survey to see if users still need them to provide MOBI files. forms.gle/nU4cREmuxdHA... 2/2

Do you use the “older Kindles” link at Project Gutenberg?

MOBI (Mobipocket, labeled as “older Kindles” on our download pages) was introduced in 2007. A couple of years later, Amazon launched an advanced version of MOBI and called it KF8 or AZW3 (it’s the do...

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