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@frankhecker.comOct 8, 2026, 1:38 PM

Remembering #Cohost, day 8: I meant for this to be a week, but here's one final link, in which I recap my journey through the world of computing from my college days through to the birth of the World Wide Web. frankhecker.com/2023/10/28/r...

Left: Texas Instruments Silent 700 terminal. Center: Wang 2200 Basic Computer. Right: Removable Disk Pack with transparent transportation cylinder in background.
@frankhecker.comOct 7, 2026, 3:13 PM

Remembering #Cohost, day 7: Besides the stories themselves, I'm interested in how the #yuri genre came to be & how it intersects with Japanese society & culture. Hence this, in which I try to summarize 100+ years of yuri & proto-yuri history in a few thousand words. frankhecker.com/2023/09/02/n...

Covers of manga and other works mentioned in the post. Left to right, top to bottom: Yellow Rose (from Hana monogatari), Rose of Versailles, Sailor Moon, Maria Watches Over Us, Kiss and White Lily for My Dearest Girl, Kase-san and Shortcake, Bloom Into You, The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady, Otherside Picnic, Yuri Is My Job!, How Do We Relationship?, I Married My Best Friend to Shut My Parents Up
@frankhecker.comOct 6, 2026, 2:42 PM

Remembering #Cohost, day 6: You should write a book. Not because anyone will buy & read it (they won't), but because it's fun & you'll learn a lot. If you're too easily distracted to start writing a book, let alone finish it, here's my advice on how to do it anyway. frankhecker.com/2023/06/16/h...

A photograph of four copies of two books, arranged to show their front and back covers. Left to right: Back and front covers of the book "That Type of Girl: Notes on Takako Shimura's Sweet Blue Flowers,” by Frank Hecker, and front and back covers of the Japanese translation, 『そ⁠っち系のひと:志村貴子「青い花」に関する考察』 (Sotchi-kei no hito: Shimura Takako Aoi hana ni kansuru kousatsu). The front and back covers feature watercolor paintings of blue flowers.
@frankhecker.comOct 5, 2026, 3:05 PM

Remembering #Cohost, day 5: I used to have a social media account with only 2 followers. It was great for posting off-the-cuff thoughts, some of which I later turned into posts, including this one on the ending of a film I love, Alice Wu's The Half of It. frankhecker.com/2023/06/09/t...

In one of the final scenes in the film The Half of It, Ellie (left) stands in an almost empty street and leans on her bicycle while facing Aster (right), who stands in the same street on the other side of the yellow double line. The double yellow line runs straight down the middle of the screen, separating the two, until it hits the vanishing point
@inkandtrade.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 2:10 PM

How to Become a Vacation Rental Co-Host: A 243-Page Short-Term Rental Business Playbook #strbusiness #vacationrentalhost #cohost #passiveincome #rentalproperty #hospitality #smallbusiness
👉https://inkandtrade.etsy.com/listing/4583452309/short-term-rental-co-host-guide-ebook

@fremen5.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 11:19 PM

A thread of some cohost classics

#eggbug #cohost

@frankhecker.comOct 4, 2026, 2:31 PM

Remembering #Cohost, day 4: Now for something completely different, with an example of my obsession with log-normal and power law distributions and how small differences in people's talents and luck get magnified into large differences in people's success. frankhecker.com/2023/02/26/i...

Distribution of Patreon earnings vs. earnings rank; high earners are to the left. Adapted from Hecker, “Distribution of Earnings Among Patreon Projects Charging by the Month.” Right: The probability of earning more than a certain amount; high earners are to the right. Adapted from Sornette, et al., “The fair reward problem: the illusion of success and how to solve it.”
@frankhecker.comOct 3, 2026, 1:58 PM

Remembering #Cohost, day 3: This was my contribution to helping rescue Yasujirō Ozu from the hands of critics who see him primarily as an auteur and formalist, neglecting the Ozu who created mass-market "home dramas", including one with significant queer subtext. frankhecker.com/2023/01/01/o...

In a scene from the Yasujirō Ozu film Early Summer, Noriko (left, partially out of frame) and her father (right) listen as grand-uncle asks her, “Some women don’t want to get married. Are you one of them?”
@stormbot.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 4:56 PM

Tomorrow, kangaroo rat remembred. #cohost

@frankhecker.comOct 2, 2026, 1:41 PM

I should add that the comments on this post and others were also rescued from #Cohost. One of my favorite parts of the Cohost experience was getting thoughtful comments from people who followed me and whom I followed in turn, including in particular @mightfo.bsky.social. 2/2

@frankhecker.comOct 2, 2026, 1:41 PM

Remembering #Cohost, day 2: Another one of my favorite posts rescued from Cohost and now on my website. This one is about the girls and young women who worked (and work) in textile mills and, like many of my Cohost posts, has a connection to the #yuri genre. frankhecker.com/2022/12/07/o... 1/

Top left: Workers at a power loom in England, 1835. Top right: Two young women working in a spinning mill in Japan, 1900. Bottom left; A young girl working in a cotton mill in North Carolina, 1909. Bottom right; Two young women working in a cotton mill in Bangladesh, 2018.
@amyuncut.bsky.socialOct 1, 2026, 6:24 PM

LOVE HONK #cohost

@frankhecker.comOct 1, 2026, 2:23 PM

Today's ex-#Cohost post came about when I wondered why people were so obsessed with fictional magic and magicians in recent decades, and relatively uninterested in the real magic that real people have created over the past 200+ years. frankhecker.com/2022/11/03/r... 2/2

Left: In an illustration from the manga Witch Hat Atelier, the young witch Coco explains how to create a magic spell by drawing a diagram. Right: A Feynman diagram showing a neutron (composed of one up quark and two down quarks) decaying into a proton (composed of two up quarks and one down quark) and a weak boson, which then in turn decays into an electron and an electron antineutrino.
@frankhecker.comOct 1, 2026, 2:23 PM

Remembering #Cohost: Today is the 2-year anniversary of the day that the most fun site I've ever written for stopped allowing people to post to it. In remembrance of it, for the next few days I'll be posting some of my favorite bits of writing I did on the site (now hosted on my own website). 1/

A plushie of Eggbug, the mascot of the social media site Cohost, in front of a bookshelf of poetry books. Eggbug is a bug shaped like an egg, purple with silver wings, six short black legs, two round black eyes, and an ambiguous smile on its face.
@saphire.dragon.style.ap.brid.gySep 27, 2026, 5:17 PM

Every so often I open up the archived version of @junebug cohost post about old and still running webcomics and just get a nice chuckle out of it

Wonder if there's a longer or updated version anywhere? Hm

... The Freefall one though, rude!

#webcomics #cohost

@larsthegunslinger.bsky.socialSep 26, 2026, 4:58 AM

its a friday night and i wanna say hi and see how everyone is doing. come stop by and tell me how your week went?

#kindness #calm #cohost #chill

www.twitch.tv/larsthegunsl...

@ceresultra.bsky.socialSep 23, 2026, 4:30 PM

I was digging through my commons box for a deck I'm putting together, and found this old card. I didn't realize that mtg had put a tribute to the late Ryan Reynolds in the game as far back as Scourge. #RiP #RyanReynolds #heisonlycarbonnow #cohost #mtg #magicthegathering #eggbug

A picture of a magic the gathering card from the deck Master game magic the gathering on a bedspread with lines of dots. An egg bug plush from the website cohost is looking down at the card. 

Carbonize {2}{R}
Instant
Carbonize deals 3 damage to target creature or player. That creature can't be regenerated this turn. If the creature would be put into a graveyard this turn, remove it from the game instead. Illustrated by Alex Horley-Orlandelli

The art of the card is a bird skeleton that has clearly just been incinerated moments before.
@sarahspeakscali.bsky.socialSep 17, 2026, 6:44 AM

A few amazing moments and #Highlights from the 9/5/26 #CoHost #Protest with Teal Shark on TikTok #1stAmendmentRights #USPolitics Find Teal Shark direct link in my bio.

@meimeimeixie.purplepanda.gaySep 7, 2026, 2:36 AM

remember that we once chosted

#cohost