Here's sending very Happy Birthday greetings to bttmbiker from Room 434!

Hope you’re having a nice day!

www.bearhotel.net/434

@supersocky.bsky.social but there's so much to do there!

@itstheraybear.bsky.social ohh goodluck

Why My WordPress? Most WordPress plugins are built to grow your audience. I’ve been going in the opposite direction for years: building tools not to increase reach, but for personal reasons: to stay connected to people I care about, to keep memories that would otherwise scatter, to own the data that documents my own life. That work has added up to something I’d call a coherent vision. And now, with my.wordpress.net, I believe I have contributed to tearing down one of the last walls that have been blocking people from joining me in this experience. ## The wall I have created many of the plugins I’m going to describe already some while ago. They’ve found an audience, but admittedly inside a bubble: people who already had a WordPress, or were technical enough to spin one up just to try something. But I believe the personal use of WordPress goes beyond people who already use WordPress today. It is not well known that WordPress is a pretty good platform to run just for your own or your small social circle’s benefit. Your free WordPress without setup at my.wordpress.net To try a plugin that makes WordPress personally useful, you first need a WordPress. And setting one up means finding a host, picking a domain, making decisions about a site you’re not even sure you want yet. That’s a publishing commitment, and most people won’t make it just to see if a feed reader or a personal CRM might be useful to them. That’s the wall I kept running into. And that’s why I built my.wordpress.net: a complete WordPress that runs in your browser, no sign-up, no hosting plan, no domain needed. It just behaves like a normal WordPress: you change something, you come back tomorrow, it’s still there. Persistent, and private by default. (This is built on WordPress Playground just with much of the developer-facing complexity removed, playground.wordpress.net will remain.) ## What your personal WordPress can do Once you have a WordPress that’s yours rather than your audience’s, a whole different set of questions becomes interesting. **Keeping memories.** When our first child was born, we wanted to keep a diary. We wanted more than just collecting the photos and videos, we wanted to have a place where we could also write down the stories, the funny things they say, messages in a bottle to them later on. A private blog was the perfect solution for that. And later, with Enable Mastodon Apps, we started using a nice mobile Mastodon app to do it, and grandparents to follow along, who would have thought of that? **Gathering memories.** My daughter had a ski day recently. Photos came in from several different group chats: parents, the teachers. Before Chat to Blog, I would have to save them each and reupload them to my WordPress. But since I can now privately connect it to Beeper (a messaging client that can talk to Signal, Whatsapp, etc) and allows me to put the media directly into a new post and the media library, without any forwarding or downloading. The chat messages can disappear someday and it won’t matter, I still have the blog post. **Staying in touch.** There are people in my life I genuinely care about, where things have faded a little; not because either of us stopped caring, but just because everyone has a busy life. Sometimes all it would take is a reminder to send a quick hello. Personal CRM turns WordPress into a private contact directory for the people who matter to you. Combined with Keeping Contact, it tracks when you last reached out and reminds you when it’s been too long. It’s not a sales tool. It’s just the nudge to actually do it. **What are you reading?** The Friends plugin makes WordPress a feed reader: follow RSS feeds, Atom feeds, ActivityPub accounts. Everything you chose to follow in one timeline, without any algorithm deciding what to surface. Friends 4.0 added three themes: a Google Reader-style interface with keyboard shortcuts (for those who never quite got over losing it in 2013), a Mastodon-style view for people already at home in the Fediverse, and a Block Theme option that integrates with your site’s own design. On a hosted WordPress, you can also participate in the Fediverse directly: follow and be followed, post to your own site and have it federate to Mastodon; and with Enable Mastodon Apps, you can use any Mastodon client to do it. Themes for your Friends Plugin **What articles did you save and actually read?** Post Collection clips articles from the web into your WordPress. Send to E-Reader routes them to your Tolino or Kobo, Kindle or Pocketbook, so the things you saved are the things you actually end up reading, just maybe on a different device on which you saved them. **Keeping family history.** I’ve always enjoyed hearing the little anecdotes from my family, but I wish I’d have a better memory for them. Thus I started keeping a private family wiki where the we collaborate in maintaining a Wikipedia for our family. It feels great to have this family chronicle to pass on. **Longevity.** Right now, in my family, I am the most technical person. What will happen to all those memories in our WordPress? To make sure all those stories can persist, I created Static Archive which turns backups into easily accessible treasure troves. It works by keeping an HTML copy of your posts (and wiki pages) with inline media in your uploads folder, automatically updated every time you publish. It’s not a typical static site generator, it just quietly maintains an archive that is always current. **What do you want to ask your own data?** The AI Assistant empowers you to modify your WordPress through chat. It can create or modify plugins to your liking, theme your site, interact with plugins through abilities that they provide. It pulls AI into your WordPress instead of interacting with it from the outside. This supports local models (for example through LM Studio) as well as OpenAI and Anthropic if you can provide an API key. When announcing My WordPress and also inside my.wordpress.net, we’re using the metaphor of an app because they work like a web app, just hosted on your own WordPress. For the technically inclined: they are indeed plugins, but sometimes multiple working together, installed already configured through a blueprint. The My Apps plugin in action, making it easy to go into your different installed apps ## What this is really about WordPress is a widely available piece of open source software: you have a vast choice of hosts, or you can even install it on your local NAS ( they usually already allow to install WordPress easily). While there are many tools that you can already self-host, each needs individual knowledge to set them up correctly. WordPress can be this one platform that can run all your apps, making it much more accessible. The plugins I mentioned before share a few things in common. Your data lives on your WordPress: contacts, reading lists, saved articles, conversation history. They are not locked into someone else’s service where maybe you can get them out with a data export request, in a format of their choice. But instead, everything lives in one place, and you (or a plugin) can combine it however you want, without involving anyone else. You can modify your WordPress like you want: have plugins created for your needs, modify existing ones to your liking. With AI this is now becoming much more feasible for anyone. And finally, this is all free and open source. No subscriptions, no per-user fees. You can run the software yourself, for as long as you want. ## Getting Started my.wordpress.net can be your starting point. It has its limitations and you might outgrow them. Because it’s a browser-based WordPress, it can reach out to the web to fetch feeds, clip articles, call APIs. But the web can’t reach in: ActivityPub federation, being followed by others, multi-device access: these need a reachable server. But that’s just a natural progression: You start in the browser, discover what you actually want from a personal WordPress, and transfer to a webhost when the networked features become worth it. And if you already have a WordPress, all of this is for you too. Skip my.wordpress.net and proceed to taking back the web for yourself straight away.

WordPress as a personal tool: for keeping memories, staying in touch, owning your data. No audience required.

a cartoon drawing of a red alarm with the words siren blaring above it Alt: A red siren going wee woo wee woo wee woo wee woo

Commerical break reminder to artists.
POST YOUR WORK SOMEWHERE ELSE TOO!
Social media is great, but everything you post eventually gets lost. Post it on a gallery site where you can tag it so people can find it LONG after you have posted it.
Do not let your work simply blow away in the breeze.

the UK has had some new legislation enacted which improves renters' rights by _a lot_ :

* there are no more fixed rental contracts; everything is done on a rolling basis with a generous multiple-month notice
* no-fault evictions are gone
* after an eviction without reason landlords […]

Gelding himbo strongman vibes, kept together thanks to the @vilaingarconmtl.bsky.social bondage belt in case I get to big 😅

@Frank_NL @Bondagebttmbiker happy birthday!

Guys, I believe there was a "bad ending" in one of the "Batman: Arkham Asylum" games where Batman gets turned into a Titan Henchman himself. But I seem to be unable to find a video of such transformation.

Did I dream this? Does it exist? Do your magic.

@aphyr it's giving red panda sees a pumpkin

[Gymposting]

One of those odd days as strength seemed lower.
Still kept my focus and made sure to work the triceps, but gave shoulders a rest.
Forearms still sore and taking a while to recover.

One of the coolest things about woof.group has been getting to see all these people making art :D

screenshot showing the sharing UI

PSA: If you share a YouTube video using the native share feature it now attaches your user ID (?si=xxxxxx) to the URL automatically.

YT likely does this to growth-hack DMs. When someone clicks on the link, YT starts a DM thread between you two automatically.

If you […]

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Lola's cupcakes charge £50 for this cake, and I thought "f that. Despite not knowing how to make it and having no recipe, im gay, so how hard could it be for me.
And whilst the sponge was a little denser than normal from the liquid, I'm extremely pleased with the results.

A reddish sponge cake with pastel yellow icing leaking from the middle and top, and decorative raspberries on top

Today's little triumph: home made raspberry sponge cake with passion fruit icing.
#domestiCub

Fish fag fetish illustration.

Fetish illustration showing ABDL to heavy rubber.

The artist is called 'MICRO' (Michael Rootes)
But I cannot find any further work by them.
The name Micro is a tad vague to really get a decent search going.
Any further information on them would be fantastic.

@spacepupsilver.com good luck. I tried for 5 minutes with mine putting it up through YouTube podcasts and the amount of flags I got made it impossible.

A logo of a petrol can with the words fetish fuel on it.

HELP!
Do I know anyone who does motion idents? Animated logo stuff.
I'm thinking of putting my podcasts on youtube and I want there to be some motion in it. Animation like this is not my area.
Please recommend if you know someone <3

Got to experience the incredible ropework of @myfroghashat.bsky.social after YEARS of admiration ❤️

Which 📸 is your fav 👀

What do you think, cutie?

[Gymposting]

Pull day,
Back work is definitely limited by grip strength.
Still this ties into focusing on arms for a bit. Can make working forearms/grip part of biceps and shoulder training for a bit.

Movie crossover:

Daredevil wears prada

love Ostroy

A photo of the Black Card Spa entrance at Planet Fitness next to a cooler. The word “Don’t” is visible through the entrance, and over the cooler is the word “hydrate!” making it look like it’s saying “Don’t Hydrate!”

Sure about that, Planet Fitness?

It's odd. I've done nothing big or special. I didn't even take the day off work.
But this feels like one of the best birthdays I've ever had

Happy #Humpday !

[Adult content]

@majinbeeff.bsky.social oh you are serving alright.

@bigboyjoe.bsky.social I'm glad I could help, you're wonderful and you deserve it.

It's my birthday!
So I considered posting a wishlist or something but actually, for a birthday present could you all consider giving a donation to @bigboyjoe.bsky.social's go fund me
https://gofund.me/68d137fd9
Do it for this birthday boy 👉👈🥺