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I was born and raised in Australia, which has some of the best coffee in the world (I'm not biased, I swear!) so finding good coffee can be a bit of a high bar for me. But Japan doesn't disappoint, and if you know where to look there are...
This morning, after feeding the outside cats, I went to check on the wood pile, and spotted a bunch of squirmy wormies moving about. One of them paused and posed for a photo. They are so frigging cute. I was doing well this morning,...
What is it? An aggregator for non-commercial personal blogs! How does it work? Log in with your Mastodon account and you can upvote (no downvotes) blog entries. There are multiple view types akin to Reddit but unlike reddit, there are no...
The following entries are descriptions I wrote up for a party of characters I used in a Krevborna one-shot adventure in which all members were part of Sir Aubrek Salazar's retinue of "problem solvers." I like how they turned out, so I...
It was today that I found out just how much I’ve contributed to various LLMs. If you hate the way AI writing sounds, you’ll probably hate my books. And the whole em dash thing is seriously my fault. Click here to see how much you taught...
StarringChinatsu Akasaki, Tetsuo Kanao, Hiromu Mineta, Hinata Tadokoro, and ChoOverviewTrust in the Force.Kara and her ragtag Jedi crew seek out to find worthy Jedi to fight against an increasingly powerful warlord.Review Star Wars:...
I’ve been doing so much Emacs writing lately, so I guess it’s time I get my Emacs pinky (which is a form of RSI). I made a quick reference to it three days ago and got a lot of responses. What happened? I started to feel a strain last...
Today I was thinking about a plant. Weird, right? I keep a lot of houseplants, have a number of favorites, and attach deep meaning to a few of them. Of these, my peace lily is perhaps the most meaningful, due to the circumstances around...
Widow's Bay on Apple TV is excellent. Jaws meets Parks And Rec meets The X-Files.
I first learned of Cambridge University sociology professor Jason Arday a few weeks ago when I read an article about his life, career, accusations of plagiarism and alleged fabulist tendencies. I didn’t take the plagiarism accusations...
There's a parasitic marketing technique all over X right now, and I think the fastest way to kill it is to give it a name with adequate stigma attached.Stolen Authority.The name comes from Stolen Valor, which is wearing medals or a...
So there I was, standing in the paper goods aisle of the Piggly Wiggly at 8:45 on a Tuesday evening, having a full-blown crisis over two ply versus three ply. Now, when you’re seven, you think adulthood is going to be magnificent. You...
In an effort to document my life, the things I do throughout the day, and just kind of see where my time goes, I decided to start documenting my routine. Because I’m not working full-time, I have a lot of time where I’m just either doing...
The fireman has left the building.
Portrait of a Budding Marxist Post Nutrition Label Content Type: text Read Time: 7 min Topics: ai, capitalism This is almost certainly hot and mostly incoherent, poorly organized thoughtvomit. The phrase "democratization of art" is a...