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Finished reading Bonhoeffer today.
We all know the routine. A superhero movie comes out and struggles so people ask, "Are superhero movies done for? Do people have superhero fatigue?" or, if the lead is female, "Why don't lady heroes sell?" even though flicks with dudes...
As expected, we lost little Batman last night. I kept an eye on him on the critter cam and knew he was gone when I used the camera to chase out the raccoons in a kibble tray nearby, and there was no movement. He is now buried under where...
Okay, last post for today, I pinky promise. Sort of as a followup to what I just posted, I wanted to talk about some issues I have with other people’s rhetoric in general. I am not completely innocent of these either! But it’s worth...
Markdown has become a convenient working format for AI, but it is missing a review layer. MarkLeft keeps Markdown as the editable source, renders it as a document, stores comments inside it, and asks AI to append suggestions instead of...
“Are you wearing the—” Mirage is the name of the dress, Dior Haute Couture F/W 26-27 via Yahoo “The airbrushed T-shirt version of the 1974 artwork Lynda Benglis ran as a two-page advertisement in Artforum that sparked an editorial...
This guitar is still looking for a new home. My skills as a player are sadly lacking, perhaps because I spend so much time building guitars at the expense of time devoted to practising, but I've posted a short clip to YouTube anyway to...
ZFS includes inline compression, meaning files are compressed and decompressed on the fly. While you might expect this to reduce IO performance, it’s been proven to improve throughput by reducing the amount of expensive reads required,...
I’m a day late for a Music Monday, but I had to share this! Drumeo is such a fun channel for learning drums, and the drum theory behind popular songs. My favourite series involves the team playing the melody and vocals for a drummer,...
Perfume PosseMusette’s Midsummer Musings My fabulous Posse! I was going to start this Musing by complaining about the extreme heat… but it’s GAWN! From temps that were flirting with triple digits, it’s now a very manageable 70s-80! and I...
There's a shortage on the deck on Below Deck Med season 11 episode 9, and it's not just of brains or leadership or an understanding of contraception and the work required to raise a human if you don't use it.
Disclaimer, this post won’t make much sense unless you’re fairly involved in niche internet drama. If your argument is so weak when you feel threatened when someone says something that is true, but contradicts you, you are the problem....
Today was much cooler, with possible rain, so I didn’t need to water the garden today. I did get a harvest, though. This time, from the opposite end of the row. These are the Viking potatoes. Not as many as when I harvested from the...
AuthorqntmOverview(from back cover)An antimeme is an idea with self-censoring properties; an idea which, by its intrinsic nature, discourages or prevents people from spreading it.Antimemes are real. Think of any piece of information...
Peggy is recovering from a breakdown when she and her maid Griselda kill Peggy’s husband and go on the run. They get molested by a policeman in exchange for help escaping, and make it to a shanty town run by evil queen Edith Massey....