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• 2025-10-19 📝 status.drafts

  podiboq @ Mastodon: My Drafts action allowing you to post to status.omg.lol was updated : the action will now post the complete draft, and will not only accept one or two lines as before.

  actions.getdrafts.com/a/2DT

  📝 if you want to post to status.lol (and mastodon) using drafts, this is a great action to do so. just input your omg.lol username and api key the first time the action is used.

• 2025-10-18 🧸 toys

  🧸 talking about pokémon, and shared interests, instead of buying the game i'm going to buy some plush toys for the baby now.

• 2025-10-18 🔗 Gotta Share 'Em All

  Myke Hurley @ theenthusiast.net: In thinking about and looking forward to playing Pokémon Legends Z-A, I’ve been thinking about the things Sophia [Myke's daughter] may be interested in. I have no idea where her passions will lie, but I know I’ll do all I can to be interested in and care about what she does, so we can share some things together.

  But I also realised that before she’s able to make those decisions on her own, I can introduce her to some of the things I care about. Right now she’s a big fan of plush toys — and guess what the Pokémon Company makes a billion of.

  I bought her three Pokémon so she could make the choice for her first starter: Pikachu, Eevee, and Bulbasaur. The first two are the franchise favourites. It’s been interesting to me as I’ve grown up to see how Eevee caught on with people to sit alongside the powerhouse of Pikachu. I had to give her the chance to choose Bulbasaur too — maybe she would also want to make sure she was well prepared.

  Unsurprisingly, when presented with her three choices, she gravitated to Eevee. That pocket monster is undeniable. But while Eevee is the first choice, the other two will remain on her team.

  Pokémon is a very special thing to me. It’s been a part of my life for over 25 years. I can’t even imagine how amazing it would be if I got the chance to make it a part of my daughter’s life.

  i like reading about myke's life as a dad because he's a little ahead of me, becoming a parent five months earlier than us.

  introducing our son to the things we care about still seems to be so far away, but at the same time, time flies.

• 2025-10-18 😈 pokémon

  😈 can't believe i'm actually thinking about getting the new pokémon z-a game. i'm a fan of pokémon but i'm afraid to say the last game i played of the franchise was 'crystal' in – *checks notes* – 2002(!)

• 2025-10-16 🤠 a quiet rebellion against noise

  inspired by david johnson's post 'what does ai make of me', i wanted to know what chatgpt writes about me. i asked it to crawl this site thoroughly – because on the first try it didn't – and to 'give me a 1000 character summary of the person that pzumk is' and this was the answer (4o) gave me:

  pzumk is a mid-30s creator from Hamburg with a deep affection for minimalism, analogue aesthetics, and personal control over his digital space. His site blends photography, short reflections, and bits of tech curiosity, revealing someone who values authenticity over polish. He shoots primarily on iPhone, often in monochrome, favoring mood and texture over spectacle. He’s tech-savvy but not obsessed—interested in clean, independent tools like BearBlog or Mastodon, deliberately distant from algorithm-driven platforms. His posts balance introspection, humor, and a mild disdain for pretense; he’s blunt yet reflective, with a fondness for simplicity that extends into both language and design. You sense a perfectionist who prefers to publish slowly but intentionally, caring more about process than performance. Offline, he lives a grounded life—job outside tech, a family, newborn child—but keeps a creative pulse alive through photography and writing. His online persona feels like a quiet rebellion against noise: small, personal, honest.

  my first thought was that it's pretty impressive, but i figured it's not. it's essentially just what i asked for – a (glorified) summary of what i published about me on various pages of this blog.

  afterwards i (used a new (4o) chat and) asked chatgpt for a summary of the person that i am, based on what it knows about me. as expected, it knows and remembers quite a lot. i'm usually using the 'more about you'-personalisation too, a feature which i had cleared before the prompt. if i didn't, it would've just repeated what i put in there.

  You are a highly reflective and organized individual with a strong sense of responsibility and family commitment. You value knowledge, curiosity, and precision, often double-checking details to ensure correctness. Professionally, you are experienced, having built a long career as a redacted and now navigating transitions thoughtfully, including planning your parental leave and new employment. Health and self-improvement are important to you, as seen in your goal to manage weight and control impulsive habits. You have a deep interest in media and culture, particularly Star Wars, following storylines closely and understanding continuity. Your personal life shows strong bonds with family and your partner, and you approach life with a structured, analytical mindset, blending practical action with careful planning, while maintaining warmth, curiosity, and a subtle sense of humor.

  while it's not wrong, not everything is 100 % right. for example, i'm already on my parental leave, the planning happened 6 months ago. details chatgpt would've known if i hadn't removed it from the 'more about me' field.

• 2025-10-16 🍿 spin-off

  🍿 after watching the star wars episodes i-ix, we're now going into the first spin-off, rogue one, continuing our watch-through to prepare for the tv shows.

• 2025-10-16 📷 trees

  

• 2025-10-14 👨‍💻 cssgpt

  👨‍💻 i didn’t know any css before customising my bearblog. most of the code was written by chatgpt, but since it made so many mistakes, i still ended up learning a lot!

• 2025-10-14 🐻 bearblog

  🐻 well, just 8 days after this status, most post have been moved from pika to bearblog. so much for me 'not having any free time'.

• 2025-10-12 🍿 episode ix

  🍿 Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker

  Rated ★★½☆☆ on Letterboxd.

• 2025-10-12 💬 the ceo of rss

  Brent Simmons @ Mastodon: “There is no CEO of RSS.”

• 2025-10-12 🃏 cat
  
• 2025-10-11 🫩 whatsapp

  jeremyburge @ threads: “WhatsApp usernames are on the way, but the top tier feature would be linking two different phone numbers to the same username/account. […]”

  🫩 a top tier whatsapp feature would be feature-parity on all up-to-date versions of whatsapp instead of a/b(/c)-testing audio transcriptions, liquid glass and other design changes.

• 2025-10-11 📷 tower

  

• 2025-10-10 ⛓️‍💥 mastodon

  ⛓️‍💥 today i woke up, wondering if i should switch mastodon servers and leave norden.social for social.lol, since i’m already using ice cubes’ feature to read the additional local timeline.

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  (i have no real interest in changing servers though, the thought just crossed my mind for a minute)

• 2025-10-10 Rediscovering Instapaper
  

  after publishing my /defaults page, i decided to look for a new read-later service because that’s one of the few defaults that were missing from the list – and also from my daily workflow.

  i’ve since been testing safari’s reading list, quiche, matter, folio, and the og read-later app instapaper i deleted from my devices six years ago.

  tiny review of matter & folio

  both apps asked me on launch if i wanted to import from pocket; folio even representing itself as the ‘pocket replacement’, built by pocket’s former head of product. both apps also have a discover section which i don’t want to use. if i had to chose between matter and folio, i’d prefer matter. while, again, both apps are showing the websites with a simplified reading mode, matter looks and feels more polished, and folio weirdly removing all media. matter also has the ability to import rss feeds and forward email newsletters. the app is already a few years old while folio was launched with pocket’s shutdown.

  

  

  

  

  tiny review of quiche & reading list

  built by an indie dev from tokyo, ‘the marie kondo of read-it-later apps’ quiche works a little different. as the app icon predicts, it only shows a single ‘page’ (article/post) to act on. you can either read, archive, or delete it before you can proceed to the next one. nice little app but not exactly how i want to use a read-later app, as it always shows the website and not a simplified reading mode. bonus: no account required. apple’s reading list on the other hand not only doesn’t require an account, but it also doesn’t need a separate app since it’s built into safari. easy to use, but feels a little dull and doesn’t always automatically start the reading mode, showing the website instead, just like quiche does by default. i rarely even remembered that apple’s reading list existed, so i never used it.

  

  

  

  

  small review of instapaper

  marco – now better known for the accidental tech podcast and his podcast app overcast – sold instapaper to betaworks in 2013, a company later acquired by pinterest. when eu’s gdpr came into effect in 2018, pinterest instapaper couldn’t comply with the regulations and shut down for more than two months. i remembered that’s when i stopped using instapaper and read-later-services altogether and started piling up open tabs or messaging myself with the links rather than using a dedicated app. it worked – but it wasn’t great.

  in the past, instapaper has always been one of my favourite apps because it mostly does one job: save a page (and, of course, present a list with saved pages and display the text nicely by removing everything else). the app looks a little old by today’s standards, especially on ios 26, but it still does a great job for saving and reading articles and posts with a distraction-free clean design. it offers features like page summaries, speed reading, and text-to-speech, but they’re tucked away behind a button.

  after logging in using my old account, it showed me a lot of unread articles and posts from 2018. i’d declared bankruptcy on those to start fresh. i realised i was missing the ability to save websites to a proper read-later app for years, i just didn’t know.

  instapaper quickly became my go-to app again.

  

  

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  here’s the mood.camera post by craney, if you’re interested. great review (much better than my read-later app review), and also a great camera app i keep forgetting to use.

• 2025-10-09 🍿 episode viii

  🍿 Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi

  Rated ★★☆☆☆ on Letterboxd.

• 2025-10-09 🚗 volvo
  
• 2025-10-06 🍿 episode vii

  🍿 Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens

  Rated ★★★½☆ on Letterboxd.

• 2025-10-06 🚬 idiot

  🚬 i can’t help it, but if i see you smoking, i immediately think you’re an idiot. and it will take a while before you convince me otherwise.

• 2025-10-06 📷 water
  
• 2025-10-06 🍿 episode iii

  🍿 Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith

  Rated ★★★★☆ on Letterboxd.

• 2025-10-06 📷 processzero
  
• 2025-10-06 🐻 pikabear

  🐻 after spending hours importing everything to pzumk.pika.page, i have now played around with bearblog and what can i say... i'm glad i don't have the free time to move everything again!

• 2025-10-05 🚨 siren

  🚨 last night, warning sirens echoed across hamburg. it turned out to be a technical error but where did the police clarify it? not on any official app or website. no. on twitter. the official apps were 45-60 minutes late and everyone’s (rightfully) pissed off.

• 2025-10-05 🍿 episode ii

  🍿 Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones

  Rated ★★☆☆☆ on Letterboxd.

• 2025-10-04 🥕 weather

  🥕 time flies when you constantly get threatened by your weather app. already 9 years with CARROT! highly recommended if you’ve never used the app before.

  

  

• 2025-10-04 📷 processzero

  

• 2025-10-04 📷 mono

  

• 2025-10-04 🍿 episode i

  🍿 Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace

  Rated ★★★★☆ on Letterboxd.

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