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Hi Crowd! Today the USA turns 250 years old. Our relationship has always been a bit complicated. I recognize that the divide between what the United States of America promised to be and what it’s become is far wider than many want to...
I came across this funny series of posts by Quailblog and thought it’d be funny to reply with a bird picture of my own
Hi everyone. I’m joining #WeekendCoffeeShare again. It’s nearly 10PM as I start typing this post and I’ll soon need to brush my teeth, but I’ll finish this post before going off to bed. I just had my cup of green tea. If you’d like...
National identity is the result of a personal and unstable alchemical mixing of history, myth, social conditioning, and imagined landscape. This is not some fixed point, but rather a disputed, illusory, and ever mutable interpretation of...
(note: this post uses <details> and <summary> tags. If you're viewing in a reader that doesn't support this, click here to open in a browser.) A riddle is like a puzzle, except it's purely for the benefit of the person telling the...
Your Hexcrawl is Too RealisticAn average adult can see 3 miles away on an unobstructed horizon. That same adult takes about 1 hour to walk that same 3 mile distance. I learned these facts because they’re frequently invoked to justify the...
Happy birthday, America! 🇺🇸 When I see someone waving a flag today, I regret that my first wary instinct is to suspect they may actually hate our country. They might claim to appreciate specific parts, so long as those parts precisely...
Robert is a brilliant organiser of the blogging community. I love him for that. A month ago, he suggested I join the Junited campaign and spend the whole of June recommending other authors’ posts. The campaign was brilliant and I’m glad...
Read the full post at - James Baldwin on America I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. James Baldwin
I know the popular thing (if you watch the news and look at much social media) is to hate on America. We are pretty polarized as a nation. I get that. But, I've seen enough of the world to know that this is still the best place to live...
The domed round shield from my Patreon! I will have updates on this and my other shields soon. I now own an Indian copy of a Greek kopis “cleaver” (pl. kopides, from the verb koptein “to split, hew”), a type of forward-curved sword or...
Cool people and nice views, lots of things to like in Bergamo. Photos taken on Saturday, 04 Jul 2026
Went to Legoland! It was hot! I took my sweet little Olympus Pen FV there with a roll of Lucky C200, the Chinese made colour film. I know it’s yet again more half-frame stuff but I just wanted something I could take lots of shots with...
I can’t believe it’s been a few years since I built the French Republican Calendar web application and explained how it works in a blog post, which is really part of the series on the art of time-keeping. However, I was not exactly...
In 1914 the Department of the Interior, through the Bureau of Reclamation, investigated the possibilities of developing the Columbia River. Thousands of arid but potentially fertile acres needed only water to become the Imperial Valley...