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Social Digest 2025.07.13-2025.07.19

This week was brimming with activity on and off the fediverse.
Pink roses grow in a garden.

This week was brimming with activity on and off the fediverse.

The last day of Halifax Mural Festival was Sunday, and Celestine and I started our day by stopping at one of the sites, where one artist was finishing a piece.

A mural artist works on the bottom left corner of a piece. A woman can be seen with her upper face obscured by a bird with a long beak on the left. More abstract painting has been done on the right.
A woman with a disconnected head smiles in a sketch painted over an advertisement for Gritty to Pretty.
A mural has a metal chair sitting in front of it. The mural has a woman with her eyes closed and butterflies at three spots.
A mural features stylized images of ducks, a dog, a bull, a boat, and seaside buildings.
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This sphinx moth caught my eye when walking along Spring Garden yesterday.

A sphinx moth rests on a window of a store.
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I went to the East Coast Kite Festival Sunday with my family. Spider-Man was there struggling to get his kite to fly. Celestine’s $1.50 Miraculous kite held up well.

A butterfly kite and a Miraculous kite fly on a blue sky in the foreground. In the distance another butterfly kite can be seen.
Two pairs of adults and kids walk off to either side of the shot of a hill where many people are flying kites.
A person in a Spider-Man costume flies a kite at a site filled with other people flying their own kites.
In this shot the viewer can see a kite string leading to a Miraculous kite by a hill where many other kites are flying.
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We stopped in at the Public Gardens on Sunday and the roses were particularly nice.

Red roses grow up around a lamp post.
Pink roses grow in a garden.
A pink-purple rose with darker unopened blossoms surrounding it.
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I’ve played Pokémon Go nearly daily for 9 years. It was so exciting to have an augmented reality game from the Ingress developers that plugged into my childhood love of the Pokémon franchise. I think the game had some significant stumbles, such as never making raids fun, and rolling back the accessibility of remote raids, but I enjoyed much of the time I played during those years. I’m finally ready to step away from the game as a daily habit.

A Pokémon Go screenshot showing an avatar with shoulder-length red hair standing holding a pokeball beside a Charcadet. The user has reached level 43.
A screenshot from Pokémon Go showing 23,549.2 km walked, 52,323 Pokémon caught, and a start date if July 13, 2016.

I think locking so much behind the unfun raids has bogged down my enjoyment of the game and the new ownership of the developers doesn’t seem ready to correct for that.I’ll probably play again in bursts if there are connections to mainline Pokémon games, or if they shift away from raids eventually, but Pikmin Bloom will be my only daily mobile game going forward.

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Comic Book Club published a podcast episode of Alex’s recent discussion of the history of Archie Comics. It’s not exhaustive, but definitely worth listening to.

A cover of an Archie comic with Betty, Archie, and Veronica sitting at Pop's. Veronica drinks from a float while the other two look at each other.
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Since AEW’s All In on Saturday night I’ve been basking in the afterglow of one of the most satisfying wrestling experiences I’ve had in years. Hangman Adam Page’s redemption has been so great to experience and having him once again be the Men’s World Champion feels right now that AEW has fully restored the feeling.

His entrance was just a hair shy of the highs of the phenomenal one before he defeated Kenny Omega to become champion the first time.

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I took a walk down my favorite shaded path on my lunch break.

A selfie of person with shoulder-length red hair and glasses taken on a path through trees with a neon triangle filter applied.
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Celestine snuck Bulbasaur into her bag to take to camp today and decided it was safe to bring her out on the bus.

A child holds a Bulbasaur stuffie in the back seat of a bus.
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This groundhog was resting by the baseball field when I was on my afternoon walk.

A groundhog lies on grass by a baseball field.
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Venture Maidens is a long-running D&D actual play podcast that has been one of my favorites for years. They’ve just started a new arc —using the Tales of the Valiant D&D variant— that’s a great jumping on point for new listeners.

“Venture Maidens is a femme-forged actual play stream and podcast.”

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