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This is a really great video production, and macarbe as hell. Story by the Evan Royalty channel. Written by Evan Muir and directed by Stephen Hancock.

First part in a series by Dougie Corrado.

If you have a Microsoft 365 Family subscription, you probably got an email notifiying you of a 30% price increase. This is a con and you don't have to pay it. The truth is, you are being silently upgraded to a higher subscription tier with the same name. The new tier includes Copilot AI integration, and that's what you are being charged for on the sly. To avoid the price increase, you can opt out of Copilot integration. Instructions inside.

Tuskfish 2.1 is a feature release that adds an extensible system for creating and managing blocks (the equivalent of 'widgets' in Wordpress or 'modules' in Joomla). Three block types ship by default: A Spotlight block for highlighting a particular piece of content, and 'Recent Content' block that lists the last X pieces of content filtered by tag and type, and custom HTML blocks. The code base has been updated to use recent language features. The minimum PHP version is now 8.3.

The first creepypasta, from 2001? I'm not sure, but this might be the story that started the genre. This production by The Dark Somnium.

This is a really engaging tale and well told. Story by the Dougie Corrado channel. Told by Sam. They should get Sam to do a few more, he's quite good.

A great dark government conspiracy tale. Story by The Dark Somnium.

A curated collection of spooky stories from the internet. Finding great stories is like panning for gold—you have to sift through a lot of dirt to uncover the gems, but the effort is worth it when you do. Happily, I've done the digging for you. Enjoy.

Stories are by the indicated author/channel.

I thought I had the flu. But on day 5 I opened a fresh bag of coffee beans and stuck my nose in which is normally an "invigorating" experience. It was like the bag was empty. I couldn't smell anything. After a few moments wondering what the hell was wrong with my coffee, I did a RAT test and found a very, very faint positive.

I started wondering if it knocks out your smell completely, or if it's somehow selective, and could this be used as some kind of proxy diagnostic tool? Anyway, after going through the kitchen draw, this is what I can and can't smell...

I was tempted to call this the "2025 update" but since I usually take leave in December and spend most of it tinkering, quite likely I'll do some of this before new year or at least by the end of January. The next Tuskfish CMS release will be version 2.1. Core functionality will remain unchanged, but I will add support for blocks, and if I can sort out a couple of issues, native multilanguage. Not a crappy hacked up multilanguage, but one that is baked into the core and seamless. I'll be making use of some of the more recent language features in PHP, which will raise the minimum version required to PHP 8.3. Please note that the contemporary versions of PHP are now V8.3 and V8.4, with V8.2 now end of life.