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Glowbug Tag Archives

2/5/2025 8:59 am

Last night I began the work of adding tag based archives to the blog. For example, my "social post" tag is meant for me to use whenever I write a quick post here which is also sent out to my Bluesky and Mastodon accounts. For that tag specifically the idea is you could have this page bookmarked and basically get a (somewhat) complete feed of my social posts.

The functionality also lays the groundwork for an eventual "photolog" view, where you'd just see a page which are photo posts I made where the photo is the focus.

The functionality has a lot of benefits, and it's been on the backlog for years. I've never gotten around to it. And, the reality is. It isn't complex to add, there isn't a lot of new logic needed. The work breaks down to:

Create the template file
Add a section to the publish code which does the actual publishing and making of files
Add tag archive links to the archive page
Add administration tools for selecting which tags get their own archives

There's obviously more to each step, but that is generally the process.

So, step one. The template is very similar to what I use for the date archives. I just made a few small tweaks and introduced a new template tag for placing the tag name on the page. So the top can say "Posts tagged: [Insert tag]".

Check. Easy.

Step two, adding the section to publishing. This should also be fairly easy, it's basically the same code as I use for date archives. Except... something isn't right. I copied the Dates archive section and went through to modify it. And then when I began testing it wasn't working. I tried to bugfix it for about an hour and couldn't find where my error was. I rolled it back and stopped there for the night.

So, we're on the cusp of adding that functionality to the blog. I'll get back to it tonight, likely. But, not there yet.

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"I Photographed January 6. Trump’s Pardons Can’t Erase What I Saw."

2/5/2025 4:44 pm

This is why I document: America loves to rebrand its sins as myth. In four years, MAGA loyalists have rewritten January 6 from every angle. Rioters have been framed as leftists in disguise, police as “crisis actors,” the attack an FBI setup—or, more outrageously, citizens on a “normal tourist visit.” By 2025, revisionism is big business. Conservative media churns out books, podcasts, and stump speeches recasting insurrection as resurrection. But my images tell another story: they depict a nation in fracture, where well-meaning neighbors and dutiful relatives cling to their “Big Lie” with an unwavering sincerity that doesn’t just reject facts—it inoculates against them, leaving everyone vulnerable to propaganda and less capable of critical thought.

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