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i've been doing and getting into new things lately. mostly quality of life stuff, and most don't really matter in the grand scheme of things, but they are new to me, so i thought it would be fun to list them down. i got into perfumes....
🌒 I'm doing Blaugust this year. This is 8/? posts in August. Yesterday there was a partial solar eclipse in the UK! I went up to the Bristol Downs, a big grassy area up at the top of the city, after work to try and see it. There ended up...
Student houses are strange ecosystems. Leave a group of young adults unsupervised for long enough and the place begins to generate its own climate. Empty bottles multiply like weeds. Dirty washing forms geological layers. Conversations...
Writers are often accused of playing God. They create people, assign them destinies and, in Shakespeare’s case, have a worrying habit of killing them. MUSE: The Shakespeare Mayhem Musical asks an intriguing question: what if those...
Roden Readers — OK, so I need to retract something from the previous Roden sent just a couple weeks back. The weather in Japan, in AUGUST, has been … SOMEWHAT SANE? A series of typhoons — some glancing off Japan, others smacking it — has...
Greek tragedy usually arrives like a thunderstorm. The audience can see it gathering on the horizon long before the first bolt strikes. Fate approaches with terrifying certainty, and the drama comes from watching people continue walking...
Just before sunset? How could I not, really?
Whenever I start thinking about Women in Translation Month, I take myself off to the study and rummage through my shelves to see what’s lurking at the back, forgotten and waiting to be rediscovered (it can be rather eerie back there…). I...
BDX DROID Green Cresh Star Wars Droid Depot Item No.: ??? Manufacturer: Disney Number: n/a Includes: 3 other droids Action Feature: Hatless - I repeat, hatless Retail: $49.99 $59.99 Availability: May 2026 Appearances: The Mandalorian and...
Duncan Rawlinson created this image using artificial intelligence and digital art techniques. The work shows a fantastical garden where translucent, glass-like plants rise from textured ground in purple, green, coral, and magenta. Orbs...
After a bit of silence here, during which I spent some time relaxing, reading books, and taking a so-called vacation, I'm now picking up where I left off and working on my Kirby plugins. I have a mountain of tasks and ideas piling up.In...
Grief rarely arrives as a single emotion. More often it comes in fragments, flashes and recurring images that surface without warning. Like objects washed ashore after a storm, memories appear unexpectedly, demand attention and then...
In the last post in this series, I talked about the rapid expansion in the availability and use of mathematical and scientific instruments in England in the Early Modern Period. After describing the areas where these new instruments came...
ive been no contact with my ex (out of convenience / awkwardness, not some kind of agreement) for maybe six months now? they got in touch a couple of weeks ago because theyre planning to move to a bigger city to start a stable and well...
This post is from my old "Ask a Frenchman" series, which I'm reviving a little. Today, we're talking about the French and English languages, and diacritics. Today, we’re delving into one of the oddities of the French language: its...