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🔖 Read Hope, Not Optimism by Cory Doctorow. Hope is the necessary, but insufficient, precondition for survival. This left me feeling the best about the possibilities for this world that I’ve felt in a long time.
A shower tapering off into birdsong. The tulip tree sapling in my yard dances in a light breeze, beads of rain sliding across its leaves but holding on. The sky darkens for another shower.
I have good news! Volume 4 of my indie recs zine is finally published, and it got featured on the front page of ZinesForever! You can check out the new issue plus all previously published issues at my ZinesForever profile. I debated...
Bald eagles were very nearly extinct when I was a boy. The first one I saw in wild was under a bridge in my 20s. Now they have become so common as to become destructive pests in the marina. This bird was less damaging (1" = 1' scale...
Been thinking about this for a while but the last few days have got me really questioning if I have the skills or the know how to continue doing what I do or at least the level I am doing. As a media officer, club photographer and...
Every day without work is full of judgement. No money made, nothing proved. Who are these writers who sit and read and write for years without feeling guilty? Who pays the mortgage while they refine their sentences? I miss my mother,...
It’s a terrible pity a book that goes so rough on the male lead (with numerous scenes of torment and bondage!) absolutely fails to be able to imagine a world where the female lead doesn’t need to be humbled and submit. This is a problem...
Merriam Webster defines ombre as: "having colors or tones that shade into each other." I define it as "soooo pretttttty." Here, why don't I just show you? (By Sugablossom Cakes) That's ombre. Isn't it gorgeous? What I didn't realize...
Well, this was a productive week… end. The week as a whole was not particularly inspiring or meaningful (I won an award of sorts at work, and to be honest I… just wanted to get to Friday), but I finally teed up and actually did a bunch...
On 2 August 1833, the famous entertainment venue, Vauxhall Gardens, had its most successful day when an astonishing 133,278 people arrived to visit its paths being noted for romantic assignations, watching tightrope walkers, hot-air...
Once again Maxine and I went to the ‘New Wine’ church festival at Shepton Mallet. There were over 12,000 people camping on the Bath & West Showground near Shepton Mallet, Somerset, in the south-west of the UK. Weather was good again –...
The weekend of June 25-26 featured the EU FFXIV Fanfest in Berlin. Here, we got the newest info drop on the Evercold expansion, including the reveal of the new Tank job! I’m going to quickly go over all the important highlights of the...
August is here. Man, how quickly this year seems to have gone by, looking back. On Friday I went to the rooftop to do some stargazing. It was a clear sky (very pleasant weather), and I used an app called Stellarium to keep track of...
If your pub is painted mostly grey or has an industrial look, it probably feels old-fashioned. The best modern pubs are just Victorian enough. These thoughts were prompted by The Crown Inn in Stockport, of course, but also by The Kings...