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Content warning: Major spoilers for First, Do No Harm. Discussion of self-harm, suicidal thoughts, sexual assault, transphobia, body dysphoria and serious bodily injury A friend recommended First, Do No Harm to me and said it was perfect...
➜ on Monday D’s 6 week summer break from school officially started and I felt like I needed a plan to fill our days at home together. so I got a subscription to thelittleartistsroom (which I wanted to try for years already!). ➜ we also...
The vast majority of translation programs need a network connection. This one doesn't.
1990 Clockwize Platform: Amstrad CPC (possibly ZX Spectrum too) Next into the Games That Weren’t archives is an Amstrad CPC game that never was, called Storm Force. The game was a RNLI simulation which had graphics created by Lee Burns...
As some of you may have seen on social media recently, an enjoyable reread of Anri Yasuda’s excellent Beauty Matters: Modern Japanese Literature and the Question of Aesthetics – 1890-1930 had me caving in once again and reaching for my...
Personal notes for week 30 of 2026
I didn't want to read this book, and had resisted doing so for a long, long time. My wife read it many years ago, and loved it, and kept telling me that I should read it. But I had seen the 1993 movie so many times that I felt the book...
Paolo Lazzarotti (Italy), “Complete Rainbow” Good morning sinners. My problem, apparently, is that I’m interested in too many things. In fact, someone made a point of writing to my office a few weeks ago specifically to tell me that my...
Duncan Rawlinson photographed this view of the Thousand Islands Bridge spanning the St. Lawrence River between Ontario and New York. The long exposure technique smooths the water into a glassy plane that mirrors the bridge’s illuminated...
The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen published 1938 This picture is Boredom, 1935 Alexander Deineka – I don’t believe Portia would have worn such a low-cut dress, BUT her elbows feature a surprising amount in the book, and there are...
Streetnames by Elo is a fascinating interactive map which colours streets according to how highly the internet rates the people, places or things they are named after. The map combines OpenStreetMap's `name:etymology:wikidata` tags with...
The Glider is a modern marvel. Belfast's metro-like bus-with-notions runs transversely across the city, from west to east, passing plenty of the city's beer destinations on the way. A new curiosity has arrived at the eastern G1 terminus...
If I (as user Alice) open a sessions of any AI (and choose your poison here) then type into it a unique statement of fact that neither the internet, nor anybody else in the universe knows. Then, at another computer, in another town or...
There is a particular kind of essay that business audiences have been reading for over twenty years now. It observes that the Code of Hammurabi put builders to death for shoddy work; it observes that modern bankers are paid bonuses for...