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Cameron Cummins-Smith’s grand unifying theory connects the far right’s seemingly disparate obsessions—from trans panic and great replacement theory to anti-feminism and white birth-rate anxiety—into a single ideological system fueled by...
Kieran Healey – a man who does some truly fascinating things with sociology, data visualization, and the intersection between sociology and data visualization – some years ago used the data available from the NYC government’s open-data...
I’m slowly working on two music-related projects.
After my experience with the underwhelming American Girl advent calendar, I wasn't sure if I'd be tempted back to the brand any time soon. However, I'm a sucker for new things, and lately American Girl has decided to do something new....
AI-generated, one-shot from the blog title via Gemini (Nano Banana). × AI-generated, one-shot from the blog title via Gemini (Nano Banana). There’s a version of this story where I move everything to Europe in one go and write a...
Today the Arsenal, the 180-year-old British football club won the Premier League after 22 years. The lesson I took away from it was that it's never ever done.
This Sunday morning I am thinking about multimedia cd-roms by musicians in the 90s and thinking: “did they play Myst?” I do not care about if any musician was actually a gamer, but because I am a huge dork I keep thinking about the band...
Heatwave! ☀️ We’re enjoying some wonderful weather this week and it’s fantastic to get out into it! Bank holiday weekend as well so Monday off 🥳 🏠 More home stuff...
Memorial Day Cabin Weekend You might remember that Patrick’s words for 2026 were “Adjust and Adapt” and mine is “Resilience.” So here was a great chance to put this into practice. Sometimes, your cabin plans are not what your cabin has...
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