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‘The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician,’ wrote Hippocrates. Even in Greek times opinions about medicine were mixed; the word pharmakos meant both remedy and poison – ‘kill’ and ‘cure’ were apparently...
How can it already be August? Unrelatedly: how can it still be summer? Another sweltering week. It’s such a relief to have an air-conditioned office building to work from. Oh, except the building was unexpectedly closed all week so I had...
I've been looking for a portable Walkman cassette player on and off for the last few years, whenever I'm reminded that the evils of wage labor have rewarded me with the joy of eating delivery pizzas without needing to skip meals. I have...
A slower reading month but I've been loving my journey back into the weird world of PKD! The post Reading Roundup: July 2026 appeared first on The Wallflower Digest.
The reduction process has begun. The first part was that ridiculous basement. So much crap. The main pieces are sorted. Now the difficult process of removing items that may potentially have an emotional element to them - it’s sometimes a...
In the early 1930s, as fascism in Germany grew from strength to strength, the great Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky wrote a series of pamphlets and articles to explain the nature of fascism and to argue for a working class strategy...
August 2, 2026 Yes, I never post on Sundays. But I’ve had an idea kicking around in my head for a few weeks, and I wanted to put it into words. This helps me clarify my thoughts, and feedback from you helps me refine my ideas! We’re...
The skyline of modern Shanghai is something of a wonder – it’s like a mix of Bladerunner, Ghost in the Shell and The Fifth Element combined, even though that fairly lazy simile doesn’t do it justice (I shouldn’t really imagine the...
Our review of Those Who Are About To Die: Gladiators and the Roman Mind, by Harry Sidebottom, first published in August 2025. An exuberant jumble sale of a book, stuffed full of gladiator rememorabilia and random facts of Roman life.If...
I know I’m ostentatiously late to this understanding, but boy, Tailscale is pretty cool. I had been tinkering with making Navidrome available via Synology’s reverse proxy, kept failing to get it working, and finally just installed the...
I came across this ten-year-old mix by Time Is Away on NTS this week, half of whose similar tracks I’d heard before, and I’d wanted to hear them together somehow: If I’m in London before it ends I’d like to have a look at their...
Content Warning: Graphic description of a fentanyl overdose. I get my lunch from the same deli every day. Today, I step up to the counter, look straight into the face of the nice guy who weighs my hot bar container Monday through Friday...
import { Image } from "astro:assets"; import january from "@images/posts/lifenotes-50/january.png"; ✨ Highlights Started the year with my family in Devon 💛 Found a new daycare for Juno 🐾 Got a new film camera 📸 🎮 Played/Read/Watched...
Several years ago we were walking through a garden center and noticed they had some hibiscus plants. My girlfriend loves their flowers, and I like them too, so we picked it up. As a bonus, it is a hardy variety, so we have it planted in...
I love YouTube, I confess I love watching dozens, if not hundreds, of channels regularly. Despite its many flaws, and the numerous qualms and criticisms you could have with its parent company, it has been a beacon of creativity and...