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Written by Glenn Fleishman on 2025-01-24 at 17:32

I picture this as generally useful for purposes in which a little more weight is better than a dead battery. But, also, I can imagine vehicles or equipment in which it might take 30+ minutes to disassemble to a location where you could place this case, making it impossible to disable AirTag tracking on something expensive.

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Written by Glenn Fleishman on 2025-01-24 at 17:31

An intriguing concept from ElevationLab: a beautiful hack of an AirTag case that gives you an estimated 10 years between battery changes! My review at Macworld: https://www.macworld.com/article/2565766/elevation-lab-timecapsule-10-year-battery-case-review-everlasting-airtag-life.html

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Written by Glenn Fleishman on 2025-01-21 at 20:58

It’s not a department. It’s not funny. It’s not even legally constituted. And they will face incredible pushback from nearly every Republican member of Congress, because any cut they propose will impact one of their districts or states.

They do this because they think they can own the libs and dispirit people while experiencing the only kind of joy they can: at the expense of others.

https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/113868338244463518

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Written by Glenn Fleishman on 2025-01-21 at 03:27

Hug everyone who needs a hug for the next four years (if they want a hug)

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Written by Glenn Fleishman on 2025-01-20 at 19:02

With threatened tariffs deferred (at least), I’m indefinitely extending a 10% discount on How Comics Were Made with the code OCANADA at checkout. Take 10% off print copies shipped to any country. (The book was printed and is warehoused in Canada.)

https://zeppelin.flights/@glennf/113816764394545490

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Written by Glenn Fleishman on 2025-01-20 at 00:28

Cryogenics likely won’t work in the foreseeable future. If you wanted a live backup running of humanity to restart it in the event of a catastrophe and had no ethics (or believed the survival of humanity should exceed all moral considerations), how would you do it?

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Written by Glenn Fleishman on 2025-01-17 at 18:48

Time to tap the “Do Not Build the Torment Nexus” sign again.

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Written by Glenn Fleishman on 2025-01-16 at 21:37

This is how I guard my flong.

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Written by Glenn Fleishman on 2025-01-16 at 16:31

This morning, I’m still the same Old Glenn.

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Written by Glenn Fleishman on 2025-01-16 at 07:07

My milkshake duck tattoo is shaping up really well. The tattoo artist says it’s about 14 1/2 more minutes before it’s done!

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Written by Glenn Fleishman on 2025-01-16 at 07:05

Still on my couch.

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Written by Glenn Fleishman on 2025-01-15 at 23:30

Have made the decision to delete my Instagram account soon. I already ditched Facebook and Threads (both of which I was using minimally, really for promotion). Instagram hurts, because of all the Meta products, it remained a bright spot in connecting with friends of 40 years and friends of 4 months. But Big Tech ruins everything and I don’t want to be personally connected to Meta or Zuckerberg.

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Written by Glenn Fleishman on 2025-01-14 at 18:57

Extremely pleased to give a talk on Feb. 12, 2025 at 9 am PST, on how newspaper comics were given their color to the Color Studies group at the Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine. These talks are free and not recorded. Sign up for access at https://www.chstm.org/group/color-studies

A chapter of my How Comics Were Made book on the Ben Day tinting process will be distributed as part of the talk.

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Written by Glenn Fleishman on 2025-01-13 at 17:57

Get 10% off with coupon code OCANADA through Wednesday! I then need to stop taking orders, as the book is warehoused in Canada, until the tariff situation becomes clear. https://zeppelin.flights/@glennf/113816764394545490

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Written by Glenn Fleishman on 2025-01-13 at 00:27

You can get 10% through tomorrow with code OCANADA at checkout! https://howcomicsweremade.com/order

The book was printed and is warehoused in Canada, so I’ll suspend sales after Tuesday for at least a week until it’s clear what or if tariffs from Canada->the U.S. area. I wouldn’t want a buyer to get stuck with a customs bill—nor to have unknown expenses to get the book to you.

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Written by Glenn Fleishman on 2025-01-12 at 22:06

I had a wonderful time talking to Geoff Grogan for his Blockhead podcast about the history of how comic strips were printed, drawn from my research for How Comics Were Made. Great questions, great personal experiences shared by him! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/glenn-fleishman-how-comics-were-made/id1440223132?i=1000683689985

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Written by Glenn Fleishman on 2025-01-12 at 18:19

May I humbly suggest that for the comics-and-history buff in your life, my book about how newspaper cartoons were made—including never-before-printed Doonesbury and Peanuts printing artifacts—would be a great gift? https://glog.glennf.com/hcwm-store/how-comics-were-made

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Written by Glenn Fleishman on 2025-01-12 at 01:50

I’m a printing and comics historian & technology journalist. My latest book is How Comics Were Made, available now in a Kickstarter special edition and in June 2025 in bookstores worldwide (Andrews McMeel Publishing). I write the Mac 911 column at Macworld and contribute regularly to TidBITS. I write how-to ebooks for Take Control Books. My passions are type, comics, and historical mysteries. Book: https://howcomicsweremade.com/ Blog: https://glog.glennf.com/ (new intro due to new instance!)

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Written by Glenn Fleishman on 2025-01-12 at 00:00

Also, huge thanks to @leo and @TWiT for hosting me for this long with all my posts and nonsense!

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Written by Glenn Fleishman on 2025-01-11 at 23:22

Hello! I’ve moved to a new server run by @incomparable at zeppelin.flights! All my old posts remain at @glennf@twit.social.

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