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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...
Last Sunday we packed up the maximum our Corsa E could handle (volumetrically speaking) and headed to Wowo. Jeremy described this as “not like normal camping, more like the Soho House of family campsites”. Every pitch has a fire pit. It...
I'm waiting for the bubbles to dissipate, the vibration to reduce. I'm like a soda that never goes flat.
Pleading, 1984 by Jeff WallSafety without aliveness is deadening; aliveness without safety is disorienting. You can tell where you have room to grow by examining your relationship and asking yourself what you’re more afraid to expect:...
I wanted to build a SOC agent. Nothing exotic. Something that picks up an alert, investigates it across the tools we already run, and tells me what it found. And for the workflows where it wants to change something - update a WAF rule,...
Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. ***Let's have some more nostalgia.It's a, "Spectacular 150th anniversary special!"It's amazing to think it means that, with this...