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Try staying still and "doing nothing" when your head is a beehive of thoughts, ideas, emotions, intentions, and desires. Sadly, I often end up scrolling. It gives the illusion of "stopping", but it doesn't help the beehive. So I have a...
I love cats! I used to have two, Pixie and Prosit (the Swedish equivalent to saying "bless you" when someone sneezes), a long time ago. It was before mobile photography had become a thing. These days I'm taking pictures of others' cats...
A photo from 2020, apparently showing an inter-dimensional portal opening up over Kips Bay: Or maybe it’s the fluorescent light fixture behind me, reflected off the window glass.
Please click on this link for my YouTube and Substack reviews of: the entirety of the Jovoy range, vintage Davidoff Zino, Guerlain Absolus Allegoria Florabloom, Estee Lauder Bronze Goddess (2026), The Lab Co Violet Riot, Zadig & Voltaire...
Athas is a world of intrigue and treachery, of shady deals and secretive organizations. In short, it’s a rogue’s paradise. There are three Rogue hero paths BardsA member of a bizarre class of entertainers and storytellers prized by the...
I recently (26th-28th June 2026) went on a three day climbing trip to Hampi and this is my day to day log of a small set of things that happened. Find day 1 here. Onto day 2: Promises. At their core they are born out of an evolutionary...
Back home to Maynooth, just in time for another Saturday update of activity at the Open Journal of Astrophysics. Since the last update we have published a further nine papers, bringing the number in Volume 9 (2026) to 145 and the total...
People sometimes ask why I use the hashtag #deathcult. It isn’t just a provocative label, it is to name the dominant political and economic logic that has shaped the last forty years. By #deathcult, I mean the era of #neoliberalism: a...
after dinner last nightI went back to the shop and got the 3rd and final coat of shellac on the back. That dried quickly so I got one coat on the front. Went looking for the pics I plan to put in this frame and nada. Couldn't find them...
A Texas flag and an American flag flap in the wind outside of 2525 Stemmons Freeway in Dallas. The post One Star/Fifty Stars appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.
A week ago, I'd be doing the last tasks to get ready for Music Week: the cleaning, the final shopping, he laundry, some cooking. I was grateful to have so much in place--food in the fridge, clean clothes--because the pace of Music Week...
Once again, I got one of these mails from WordpreSs — they’ve determined that this blog is a “commercial site”. They did this once before, and I said “er, no”, and then they went “OK, you’re right”. Then a few days later, unrelatedly: I...
I finally unpacked my OSRIC 3.0 books. Both portrait and landscape versions turned out great. PDFs are free on DriveThruRPG (player guide, gamemaster guide), while offset print versions can be purchased directly from Mythmere Games....
I want to start off by saying I don’t know much about soccer or as I think most of the rest of the world calls it football. But with the World Cup back in the United States I thought this would be a nice opportunity to talk about my time...
This is worse than a game of whack-a-mole. – Judge Katherine Failla Ashley Madison (#571) Is this an Ashley Madison for gay men? …Goose [is] a [new] dating and friendship app for gay men with the slogan “for the boys,” which allows users...