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a website, betrayed by god. queer xvx. free palestine. [he/him] https://stillness.digital && https://strange.website && https://henry.codes

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henry ✷ @strange.website · Jan 7

new year, new website :) with thy surest steel gathered to thy side, turn to face these new nightmares, these...True Terrors (of the New Dark Web)

plenty to do but i'm thrilled to publish this 🤍 thanks a lot if you end up taking a look, but hark! go heedfully:

scroll with caution & with care!

Henry From Online

The personal site & portfolio of creative web developer Henry from Online

henry.codes

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henry ✷ @strange.website · 48m

aaaah can't wait to see you again :')

henry ✷ @strange.website · 50m

AAAA it's all coming together do NOT judge me

henry ✷ @strange.website · 54m

oh I'm thrilled to hear you'll be in attendance :D be stoked to meet you 🥹

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they let me back in

henry ✷ @strange.website · Jan 17

just found out they’ve named an entire train station after the bear. fundamentally unserious country

The London Underground Paddington Station, men

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henry ✷ @strange.website · 2h

okay it's a good start. now let's do a silly one

henry ✷ @strange.website · 2h

I'm gonna freak out

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Dave Letorey @letorey.co.uk · 2h

So many folk on their way to @webdevconf.com and I’m one of them

See you all soon

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henry ✷ @strange.website · 2h

masterpiece :')

henry ✷ @strange.website · 2h

Salma we are gonna have words

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henry ✷ @strange.website · 2h

your check is in the mail ;)

henry ✷ @strange.website · 2h

reply to this with yr cool or very uncool personal site, i’m wrapping up my slides for @webdevconf.com tomorrow and need a few more examples :)

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Michael Kibedi @uxmichael.co · 22h

This Friday. Bristol. There still a few tickets left 🏃🏾💨

My talk? “Death, and how tech forgot about mortality”

webdevconf.com

WDC2025 - October 10 2025, Watershed, Bristol, UK

WDC is the web conference based in Bristol, taking place in autumn each year. With great speakers and attendees alike.

webdevconf.com

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henry ✷ @strange.website · 1d

common folk proverb: the early bird gets the worm 😌

the kwisatz haderach: the. WHAT

Timothee Chalamet as the Bene Gesserit chosen one from Dune, utterly beside himself at the news described in OP.

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henry ✷ @strange.website · 1d

okay SPEAK on it 💥

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Katie Sylor-Miller @ksylor.bsky.social · 1d

The best JavaScript is the JavaScript you never write

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henry ✷ @strange.website · 1d

using 4 lines of CSS to fix a full-sprint JS bug

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poetic.now ✷ @poetic.now · May 13

“distant regard”, by tony hoagland

#poetrysky

Distant Regard,
by Tony Hoagland

If I knew I would be dead by this time next year
I believe I would spend the months from now till then
writing thank-you notes to strangers and acquaintances,

telling them, “You really were a great travel agent,”
Or “I never got the taste of your kisses out of my mouth.”
Or “Watching you walk across the room was part of my destination.”

It would be the equivalent, I think,
of leaving a chocolate wrapped in shiny foil
on the pillow of a guest in a hotel–

“Hotel of earth, where we resided for some years together,”
I start to say, before I realize it is a terrible cliche, and stop,
and then go on, forgiving myself in a mere split second

because now that I’m dying, I just go
forward like water, flowing around obstacles
and second thoughts, not getting snagged, just continuing

with my long list of thank-yous,
which seems to naturally expand
to include sunlight and wind,

and the aspen trees which gleam and shimmer in the yard
as if grateful for being soaked last night
by the irrigation system

invented by an individual
to whom I am quietly grateful.
Outside it is autumn, the philosophical season,

when cold air sharpens the intellect;
the hills are red and copper in their shaggy majesty.
The clouds blow overhead like governments and years.

It took me a long time to understand the phrase “distant regard,”
but I am grateful for it now,
and I am grateful for my heart,

that turned out to be good, after all;
and grateful for my mind,
to which, in retrospect, I can see

I have never been sufficiently kind.

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henry ✷ @strange.website · 1d

A necromancer skeleton lich king sort of fantasy character raising his arms powerfully and casting a spell, presumably the skeleton divine death blast mentioned in the quoted post.

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henry ✷ @strange.website · 1d

i've got a little worm in my brain that crosses its arms angrily every time AFI releases a record that isn't Sing The Sorrow, but i'm really loving the new release. it's fairly obvious davey & co have had Bauhaus on repeat but like. as a lover of both AFI & old-school goth rock, it works for me

The cover of AFI's new record, Silver Bleeds The Black Sun, which is a soft pink field with a black icon of a wavey sun in the middle. The sun icon is distorted and warped to the side by a sort of solar flare effect.

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Jake Lazaroff @jakelazaroff.com · 1d

two years of death, destruction, misery at the hands of a state that has repeatedly and explicitly confirmed its intent is ethnic cleansing and genocide. what israel has done in our name is an absolute shanda. free palestine.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 1d

Two years since October 7, 2023. Here are the numbers that show what Israel has done to Gaza—a thread 🧵

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 2d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 2d

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henry ✷ @strange.website · 2d

copilot suggestions. you come into my home uninvited, and tell me how I should arrange my react component? what a fool you are. skeleton divine death blast

henry ✷ @strange.website · 2d

why chase this fool’s dream of falling in love, super-colliding your heart with another’s; the desperate, mad craving to truly know another, to truly be understood (to be adored nevertheless for it!). why spur such cataclysmic emotion? there are unit tests to be written. there are standups to attend

henry ✷ @strange.website · 2d

i have this dream of pushing my chair back from my desk, the casters sinking stubbornly into the dust & dirt of a great field of bluestem & california brome that had been sighing just behind me, unnoticed this whole time. i'll push back, stand slow and turn, and i swear i'll never Read A Post again

henry ✷ @strange.website · 2d

i SAID,

Andy Bell @bell.bz · 2d

this is why we use VPNs to get around the "online safety" bill

this is why we oppose digital IDs

these third party providers cannot be trusted

Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs

An “unauthorized party” may have accessed the names of users, the last four digits of credit card numbers, and more.