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When it comes to poetry, my relationship with revising my own work has changed over the years. When I first started, I drafted on paper--usually whatever was at hand, which would have been the backs of leftover handouts and lined...
This year, animal rights activists in Oregon tried to get a petition on the ballot that would extend the state's animal cruelty laws to all animals, including those in the wild or being farmed for agriculture. That description may or may...
A series of images from yesterday afternoon... As if frozen in time, and in the act of disappearing through the seemingly-solid-but-actually-transparent wall here at the far end of Fort Mason where the old wharves sit watching the old...
Quick mission to the Farm Pond and three carp landed, including double #14 - a long, lean fully scaled mirror - scraped in at 10lb 0oz.
Right, now I've really got to photograph the other two bags, as it won't be over 'till they sing, and Rack Toy Month is fast approaching, with plenty to amuse and entertain, or at least add to the whole! In the meantime, the last of the...
On July 30, 1937, the NKVD issued Order No. 00447, signed by Stalin and NKVD chief Nikolai Yezhov, which mandated the round-up of “ex-kulaks” and other “anti-Soviet elements,” including former officials of the Tsarist regime and former...
Image was taken with a Fujifilm X-E5 and XF 23mm f/2.0 WR lens
Perfume PosseOud by Mona di Orio Les Nombres d’Or Woo Hoo Posse! Continuing the month of trawling through my lovely husband Jin’s fragrant wardrobe today. This was the most expensive bottle I’d ever purchased at the time. It was Jin’s...
Thursday 30th July 2026 More miscellany from the past month…. A ride on the 77 It’s been a few years since I’d travelled on Stagecoach’s spectacular scenic circular route 77/77A in the Lake District so was pleased to make another journey...
As I finally got this website under my name instead of a Bear Blog derivative, traffic has shot up. So hello to the people who navigated the blog portion. And you may be asking yourself: Why the freak is someone doing a daily blog in...
I don’t like this game. I read a book this afternoon that had potential genAI flags. Nothing I found definitive… but the creeping doubt undermined my reading experience. It doesn’t even matter if I can’t tell the difference for sure —...
1. India is not likely to find success by regulating hardware because (i) such regulations will be hard to enforce in practice and in principle, (ii) the regulatory regime could set up a new license raj, and (iii) the regulations will...
🍿 The Dink (2026) was a goofy blast. I knew absolutely nothing about pickleball beforehand and know marginally more having seen the movie. It still seems kind of dumb — why don’t they just take up badminton? — and therefore the perfect...
I froze the moment before the resolution, but the world kept going.
OpenAI last week: Last week, Hugging Face disclosed a new kind of security incident after they detected and contained an AI agent that compromised their infrastructure, something we expect to become more commonplace with the...