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May 2026. Congleton. I’d walked east from Congleton station, along the canal, west along the disused railway line, and now after Bass in the Throstle’s Nest it was a walk past the cemetery into town. I must stop reading gravestones; to...
Some of the tech giants for the past few years have tried hard to kill the most important tool of the web, links. AI companies have stolen content from the web without ever asking for permission just to wrap it into the soulless chats...
Code isn’t just a way to implement a design, it’s a way to find one. With an interface, you have to use it, feel it, interact with it, and poke at it to see the relationships between things. Change X, see Y react. If it doesn’t feel...
A very enjoyable day spent dodging the rain and shooting the drifting action from the Gassed on Track event at Silverstone. This is part two (of three), part one images can be viewed on this post Images shot with OM1-II, 40-150 f/2.8 &...
Valor sentimental (Affeksjonsverdi) es un drama noruego dirigido por Joachim Trier y premiado en la última edición de los Oscars como Mejor Película Internacional. Joachim Trier nos cuenta la historia de la familia de un director de...
I've read less this week than the prior one. I was catching up on a lot of recorded talks from re:publica 26, which I couldn't attend (those talks will get their own post!). I was also a tad busy with meeting people and doing the ring...
Imagen: Fabricio Trujillo Joe Bloggs se sentó frente a su portátil nuevo, pulsó el botón de encendido y esperó. Le había costado una buena suma, pero bien lo merecía: había tenido su dispositivo anterior durante casi seis meses....
I have this love/hate relationship with LGBT fiction. Either it's too sugary sweet for me, or so bitter and miserable that I want to lie in bed with the covers pulled over my head and not turn another page. I was trying to describe this...
We encounter charts, graphics, and statistics, and rather than interrogating them, we fold them into what we already believe, rarely stopping to ask what's actually being measured, or whether the official interpretation is the only one....
1st June - 7th June The cabbage tree in the garden has begun to flower; the bees are beyond excited. I am grateful for the rain because it dampens the powerful stench of cat piss emanating from the tree. I don't know how Aotearoans cope!...
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Paper Magic is notoriously untimeable with its ten APNAP windows per turn, plus two more APNAP widows for every spell or ability, including for triggered abilities. That’s why this is a variant. For the kitchen table. Not Comp REL....
A week in which some things happen and some things do not happen, much like other weeks. Current situation: Not pictured: The 3 different kinds of beef jerky we just got at Buc-ee’s. The pain of having children who become driving...
When I moved to Newcastle, as a student, back in 1986, I was introduced to many new things. So many new things. Different folk. Different accents. Different backgrounds. People from the south! But, as well as all the eye-opening things...
Why does everyone in #F1 love #Monaco? It's by far the most BORING race on the calendar. Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by email, or leave a comment.
A sosit vremea ca băncile și nu numai să își lanseze sau să își facă aplicațiile publice și pentru alte sisteme de operare în afară de iOS și Android. Pentru că nu există numai iOS și Android, altele sunt mult mai securizate și mult mai...
Last week, because of a combination of bad planning (my bad) and endless delays (Deutsche Bahn’s bad), I arrive very late in a hotel in Berlin. I had to ring the doorbell. The guy at the reception started giggling the moment I came in,...
The Master wakes to a pager. Coffee is ready. Apprentice: “Master, who created the drift?” Master: “Which drift?” Apprentice: “The bucket tag — live state ≠ terraform config in git.” Master: “Show me the chain.” They follow: pipeline →...
For this entry in the series, I have picked a traditional song from Heperus (Ήπειρος), the northwestern part of mainland Greece. Traditional Heperotic music is renowned for its laments: slow-paced songs that revolve around themes of...
Checking how ZFS compares against ext4 for my NAS, with an encrypted RAID1 array.
Hermann Hesse looking serious. CC BY-SA 3.0 NL image courtesy Dutch National Archives and Wikimedia Commons. Two weeks away from the ol’ blog felt especially long, trapped as I was in a van with people half my age who were shit-talking...
Liked Personal Search Engines by Jason J. Gullickson (mr's Preposter.us Blog) A Personal Search Engine (PSE) is a search engine that specializes in your interests. It provides personalized search results by indexing only the things you...
I first had trouble displaying the symbols Spencer-Brown uses for his Laws of Form when I wanted to include them in my essay on femininity and death. I wrote the paper in Google Docs, so using LaTeX wasn't an option, and the...
This is a Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere (POSSE) test, using EchoFeed to post to Bluesky. Lets see if this triggers once or twice. x-post on: Bluesky
Some people are tired of streaming, says Iskhandar Razak, writing for writing for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). I’m not sure if it’s the actual process of watching, say, a movie online, or having to deal with streaming...
A list of some of the main events of the Lombard conquest of Byzantine Venetia and other parts of Italy.
Many, many years ago, my darling and I planned a long weekend in Hamburg, including a sightseeing bus tour, a harbor cruise, and all the other things you typically do in Germany’s northernmost metro area when you’re there together for...
Hey, you're a fellow CBT enjoyer, right? We're all pretty well-adjusted here, aren't we? Well, it's funny to think about the sort of feedback loop it suggests: our thoughts turn into feelings which turn into behaviors, in turn...
All photos were taken and edited with iPhone 14. Yesterday, I had brunch at Casetta del Divino Zelo1 to celebrate M and J's birthdays. While I ate spaghetti alla puttanesca, they had ravioli and lasagna, respectively. We also tried some...
Esse post é uma maneira de trapacear já que o último post da minha meta inicial ser sobre como eu fiz a meta talvez tenha um pouco de roubo, mas faz parte e temos que seguir com a vida assim mesmo, não é? Mas brincadeiras a parte foi...
I'm far from the first person to say this, but Pokopia is really phenomenally good. It's a voxel building/crafting/nurturing game where you play a Pokemon, Ditto, who has assumed the form of a human Pokemon trainer in order to take care...
A calm and rather cool summer week. Not quite as rainy as forecast but not the hot temperatures of the last few weeks.I didn’t do all that much – slept a lot, futzed around with my websites and learned more about Vietnamese addresses,...
The say ″the hype is real″, but more often than not, the hype is entirely fabricated. The more a product is hyped on Reddit and other places, the greater the chance it’s a marketing psyop. Unless that product happens to be the Uniball...
Over the last several weeks, I’ve been receiving more security bug reports for Perfetto’s trace processor than I ever have before, all of them found by AI. And I’m very happy about it! These are bugs that would almost certainly not have...
2026-06-06（土） 時間：18:30~20:45 地稽古：FM老师・KD老师 心得：上周去东京看比赛所以没有去道场稽古，这次是我时隔 12 天穿上护具，本来还很怕自己手生，结果可能是因为去现场看了很多比赛，对于进攻以及打击的时机都有了更清晰的感知。 轮转稽古的时候打到了几本有效打击，和各位老师稽古的时候明显感觉自己的步法更灵活，并且没有再被吐槽不进攻了。下面来说一下问题。...
Te cuento como ha ido este fin de semana por Londres donde he tenido actividades culturales y eso si, andar mucho y subir muchas escaleras.Formas de patrocinio. Blog danielaragay.net Todos los podcasts: https://aragay.net ·...
I wanted to put my regained attention span to a test: can I, once again, watch complex films? All three Godfather films, played night after night looked like the perfect choice. Those are the most famous films of all time, often called...
It pays to check notifications on your discarded social media every once in a while I guess lmao Because “curious quail” is our band name but also has been my primary online identity since like 2008, if I have an account somewhere and I...
Jamie up and playing around with Escaping Things website Tammy goes on a run 9:00a Depart for Escape Room 9:11a Miromesnil to Stalingrad The Taxidermist — amazing escape room 11:51a Metro from Stalingrad Incredible lunch at Ladurée Walk...
The daily things continue these days here. I love writing them I think. I find the little things I want to carry over to morning coffee. This sometimes senseless life here with no focus. No sense of a thing getting done because they need...
Queer Books and Authors are at a Breaking Point, by Danika Ellis. Colorado Gov. Polis Signs New Conversion Therapy Ban, Defying Supreme Court, by Erin Reed. Also by Erin: Latest Gallup Poll Shows Republicans Will Not Stop With...
Can anyone tell me anything about these? I know almost nothing about them. They were my dad's, but I have no idea when he bought them, why, or how old they are. He passed away six years ago. Mum moved house four years ago, and as part of...
I begin the story in medias res, with a May 27th Facebook comment by Probal Dasgupta on a posting of mine: — PB > AZ: Speaking of the way one pronounces the acronym “AZ”, I’ve been puzzled by the fact that some function words that end in...