🔖Read Twenty Rules for the New Escribitionist.

23 and a half-year-old blogging advice that is still pretty solid.

🔖 Read You Can’t Unsubscribe from Grief by Jenessa Abrams (Electric Literature).

This is a gorgeous essay. I really needed it right now.

🔖💬 “Your death matters. You can choose something that will reflect the values and beliefs that you held in your life, and translate them into your death. What you choose to do, is your final act, your final gesture on this earth.” Sarah Chavez, The Order of the Good Death

🔖📚🎭 Read Why We Should Celebrate the 400th Anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio (Literary Hub).

🔖 Read The enshittification of academic social media (The Thesis Whisperer).

🔖 Read Intro to the Web Revival #1: What is the Web Revival?.

Fun to read about all the IndieWeb’s neighbors!

🔖 Read Two Wins for Public Libraries This Week at the Polls by Kelly Jensen (Literary Activism).

Good things are happening but we need to remain vigilant. The people trying to take books out of libraries and take control away from library professionals are immensely well-funded.

🔖 Read:

• What happened to blogging for the hell of it?
• On mobile phones, the small web, and able-bodied privilege
• Follow-up to the phone post & an easy HTML upgrade!

Thanks @gr36 for directing my attention to Whiona!

🔖💻 Read Why the Internet Isn’t Fun Anymore by Kyle Chayka (The New Yorker).

🔖📚 Read A Pennsylvania Public Library Had Funding Cut Because of LGBTQ+ Books. Then, An Olympian Stepped In..

An important reminder from Kelly Jensen about how libraries are on the ballot today in many places.