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• Post #3882941

  Hell can never be too full to exclude one more hypocrite.

• Post #3882940

  What’s a Matter, you? I sort out a long-running Apple Home issue with a garage-door sensor and now understand much more about Thread. @sixcolors https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/07/pulling-the-thread-to-know-if-my-garage-door-is-closed/

• Post #3709564

  Via @sixcolors@zeppelin.flights, news of WhatCable, the answer to all Mac owners’ prayers about figuring ports and cable capabilities! At last! https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/07/whatcable-gives-you-the-download-on-your-usb-cables/ Both a free and pro tier: https://www.whatcable.uk/

• Post #3706462

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@TWiT/116885424357171230 I was a guest this week subbing for @film_girl@mastodon.social! I did not pick up the Swift slack.

• Post #3680879

  “Trans people are fleeing red states for Seattle. The city can't keep up.” Donate to Traction! On the ground help for trans people coming to my fair city! https://givebutter.com/traction2026 They have desperate need of funding to keep this help going! I gave—please consider helping these vulnerable human beings. https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/trans-people-are-fleeing-red-states-for-seattle-the-city-cant-keep-up/

• Post #2863080

  A crow came up to me with a look in its eye while I was walking. I paused. “Can I help you?” It hopped off, not far off. I cross the street. It flew over, not hostile. “What’s up? Do you want something?” It cocked its head. I checked my pockets. I found a key ring and removed the keys.

• Post #2863079

  A mailing list has 10 to 20 times the impact per subscriber/follower than social media. That said, I have 20 times more followers than subscribers so the impact is often similar!

• Post #2863078

  I took a walk yesterday at what must have been baby o’clock: every single baby and toddler was out with their parents. Must have been the end of Uniform Nap Time, which we observe in the Socialist State of Seattle.

• Post #2863077

  I have tried to not make my feed an infinite scroll of this, but here is a reminder: That One Matt Bors Comic is an anthology of Matt, writers and cartoonists, and randos from the internet who are/have riffed on “we should improve society somewhat.” https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/glennf/that-one-matt-bors-comic

• Post #2863076

  If you’re in the Columbus, Ohio, area, make a trip to the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum on May 23 for its grand gallery re-opening! Chris Ware headlines, plus a new permanent exhibition on—surprise!—the Story of Comics. Yours truly has a video in this that runs perpetually. https://library.osu.edu/site/cartoons/2026/04/28/billy-ireland-cartoon-library-museum-reopens-may-23/

• Post #2863075

  All the Bluesky bubble people showing their whole ass, as their comments reveal the paucity of who they follow. The bubble is inside yourself. Also, grow up; it is just a fancy CB radio, not the future of humanity. Unless you’re on X, which is a network of Nazi walkie-talkies.

• Post #2863074

  Join @mattbors on Wednesday at 10 am PT/1 pm ET for an AMA about Toxic Avenger, The Nib, being a tiny publisher, comics journalism, and our upcoming That One Matt Bors Comic book. Click through to get a Reddit reminder. https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/1tlok0t/matt_bors_toxic_avenger_justice_warriors_improve/

• Post #2863073

  I’m unfollowing everyone who is trying to create Internet Main Characters. It isn’t healthy (unless they are politicians or people with political power and even then not rally), and I pledge to stop doing it to avoid being a hypocrite.

• Post #2863072

  The Pope wrote “fly from AI, you fools.”

• Post #2863071

  Join @mattbors May 27 at 10 am PT/1pm ET on Reddit to Ask Matt Anything about cartooning, running the Nib, writing Toxic Avenger, the decline of alt-weeklies, what’s it like to have a meme take over your cartoon, etc. https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/1tlok0t/matt_bors_toxic_avenger_justice_warriors_improve/

• Post #2863070

  I just discovered a new* way of adding emoji to Messages on an iPhone or iPad! And wrote that up plus many other ways to incorporate the tiny stories that are those symbols. @sixcolors https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/05/orange-you-glad-i-didnt-say-emoji/ *Apple introduced 10 years ago in iOS 10

• Post #2863069

  A Gadwall

• Post #2559293

  Every extreme religious leader in every denomination and sect gathers power to hide scrutiny of their physical abuse of others. https://apple.news/A2MP__9dbSOe0wc7wdUV-9w

• Post #2539013

  I forgot that I forgot about RSS, which has once again become part of my daily life. https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/05/how-i-restarted-using-rss-and-actually-noticed/

• Post #2489914

  Have you ever heard “we should improve society somewhat” used as a conversation stopper? Or as an ironic rejoinder to someone claiming we must be perfect to achieve any change? Have I got a book for you: That One Matt Bors Comic, now on Kickstarter! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/glennf/that-one-matt-bors-comic?ref=3glvj0 Why do a book about a single comic—nay, a single panel of a single comic? To examine how a phrase becomes a meme, how artists aren’t paid when that happens, how memes an...

• Post #2470669

  For those those who get a baffling “joke” in their Christmas cracker about vampires: https://glennf.medium.com/dont-coffin-me-it-s-crackers-8dd43faa42d1

• Post #2328724

  Mister Plimsoll, my Mac disk-approaching-full monitoring app (free, in beta), now supports Pushover notifications. https://misterplimsoll.app

• Post #2285900

  I had a wonderful, terrible, magnificent idea, and @mattbors was up for it. We launch That One Matt Bors Comic on Kickstarter on May 12. Sign up at Kickstarter for an alert! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/glennf/that-one-matt-bors-comic?ref=7bn16k (Media, see https://thatonemattborscomic.com/press.html)

• Post #1938073

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@campuscodi/116506790225207872 Jeeves has retired to the Junior Ganymede Club.

• Post #1842530

  I am gingerly posting my first Mac app—it's a simple gap-filling (and free) app still in beta that just alerts you via floating window, email, or iMessage (or all three) when a monitored drive (internal or external) exceeds a percentage full you set. I couldn't find any utility that did more than a pop-up alert. https://www.misterplimsoll.app

• Post #1691444

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@gregpak/116462715392847141 Join us for CANCEL TOWN

• Post #1664681

  Dogs and mail apps have the same short sweetness to them: we love them, they don’t stay with us forever, and then they’re gone. MailMaven is my new best friend. I hope it remains so for a long time to come. My review @sixcolors https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/04/mailmaven-review-an-email-nerds-best-friend/

• Post #1581353

  Last 24 hours to pledge for a copy of “Flong Time, No See,” my new book, or get unique letterpress and printing artifacts! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/glennf/flong-time-no-see?ref=aj65aw The book is about printing history through the lens of technology and often-forgotten people who did the work.

• Post #1339669

  I was going to sell our old, not-yet-beater, but not-great-mileage Honda Fit to buy a used Nissan Leaf. But then our older kid needs a car for summer work (unusual for them), so despite them being a better driver than me, I didn’t want to give them a new-ish car, particularly because it will involve driving to a mountaineering camp (if they get the job)! So I’m about to go test ride a new electric bike instead! WA state offers a rebate lottery, and I got picked—$300 credit!

• Post #1261635

  RE: https://scholar.social/@electricarchaeo/116403935190726666 All quotes you get from Chinese printers tell you that you have to clear the censor. Not just political: sometimes it’s about depictions of violence, inclusion of LGBTQIA themes, references to certain kinds of technology. I don’t print my books in China, reason 3 of many.