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Professor Kees Groenendijk, Radboud University, Emeritus and Professor Elspeth Guild, University of Liverpool Photo credit: Dietmar Rabich / Wikimedia Commons / “Münster, Stadtweinhaus, Beflaggung Ukraine und EU -- 2022 -- 0219” / CC...
If I think about what I like and dislike about the internet, contrasting what I find pleasant or productive with what I find unpleasant or unproductive, I can’t escape the conclusion that debating strangers stands out as the principal...
CultureIt doesn't take much browsing of (non-5e) tabletop roleplaying hobby spaces online to see that much of the conversation on games is centred around rules, how to use them, the differences in rules between one game on another,...
For years, I had one simple rule for my home network: keep it simple. As our family’s dependence on reliable internet grew – for working from home, streaming TV, online gaming and, back then, homework – I deliberately removed complexity...
When I started writing down my thoughts, I worried that someone would read them. The purpose of writing and publishing in public was that I wanted people to read them. This conflict raged constantly in my head. I wanted attention. I...
In security we like to say that the problems live in the gaps between systems. Each system, on its own, is usually coherent. It has a threat model, invariants, and someone who owns it. The seam between two systems is owned by nobody, and...
Micropub test of creating an h-entry with categories. This post should have two categories, test1 and test2
Micropub test of creating a basic h-entry
View fullsize View fullsize Robert Duxbury paints watercolours that refuse to behave like watercolours.The Melbourne-based painter works with brooding colour palettes and soft-edged figures that feel lifted from Pre-Raphaelite canvases,...
Prairiewolf - Zone PoemsHey hey, Prairiewolf’s latest/greatest LP is out NOW. Zone Poems! You can order it on vinyl or double CD, or stream it wherever. Very proud of this one, and very grateful that Jeremy and Stefan have taken me along...
Chained Salps are pelagic tunicates. They’re colonies of individuals, each with a nerve bundle visible through its transparent wall. This is only the second one I’ve seen here.
We all have our reasons for blogging. It might be... ...part of a strategy to promote products or services. ...for personal pleasure with readers being a nice bonus. ...to make ourselves a name and grow the list of followers. And...
The latest anti-feature from Automattic—now infecting Gravatar. Photo by: Unattributed, License: Copyright Unattributed. Licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. Happily Imperfect posted Bye bye Gravatar a short while ago, and I...
I wasn't expected to post after the Apple Hide My Email case post today, but then I scrolled my feed and ran into this. If you've been following along, I've been covering Warner Bros Sale since Netflix first started to buy Warner Bros. —...
After some giving it a ton of thought over the last week, I am proud to say that SuperPod Saga is officially back! Due to some creative differences between me and the Super Ghost crew, I have decided to step away and allow them to work...