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1376 was a time of unrest in England under King Edward III. The court was considered corrupt, the wealth gap was increasing, the common people felt oppressed, taxation to support Edward's wars with France were leading to defeats, the...
EMILY MCCARTHY: Thirty-Two Years of World Cup Magic. “It may be, along with that first summer of Pokémon GO, the closest we’ll ever get to attaining world peace.
An open letter requesting an official open-source UPI client independent of proprietary platform attestation.
I love going on bikepacking trips. I often find myself daydreaming about going back out, not long after returning from one. But I have had enough suffering on trips lately. I've been thinking about how to have more fun. You know who has...
As Socialist Worker editor Tomáš Tengely-Evans has had to cover more than their share of imperialist conflict and the threat of such conflict. In the last few years we've seen war in the Middle East, genocide in Palestine, a bloody...
I like bowling. I haven't been in over a decade, but it's probably my second favorite 3D physics game after Katamari Damacy. I wish I could bowl more often. But as much as I enjoy the physical act of bowling, I think the scoring system...
We spend a lot of time talking about crises as if they’re sudden events, they rarely are. From an #OMN perspective, crises are the outcome of decades of accumulated social, political, economic and technological choices. The challenge...
As with seemingly every other man my age, I've taken up running to stay fit. Your metabolism slows as you age and what used to come for free with youth now takes time and deliberate effort to maintain. I don't care for the running, but...
The cold burned the thighs marked by crescent moons. 12 winters have since passed from this ones nameday, each moon fusing into an amalgamation of petals and thorns. I was fairly young when I had my “darkest” moment in life. The toll of...
Marcel Duchamp, Study for Prière de Toucher, 1947, plaster cast in a little box, collection Philadelphia Museum, a 1997 gift of Enrico Donati I kept thinking about Jasper Johns’s plaster casts while seeing the Duchamp show at MoMA, maybe...
I am over here all-but-audibly cheering at points in Donny’s latest post. One of the things I appreciate about him is, because he has talked to actual people in the actual world, he has little patience for online bluster. He’s giving...
[I was recently invited by Écotone - Espace d'expérimentation to be part of their Terrains Vacants residency. I was also asked to write a brief summary, as follows.] The first thing I noticed was how quiet it was (during the first...
File this in the bucket of items requiring "slow thinking" ala Kahneman.There is an active outbreak of the Cyclospora parasite in multiple U.S. states, which the formidable epidemiologists at the CDC are investigating. I featured their...
This comic was originally funded by members of my Patreon, to whom I am endlessly grateful. If you like it and want to see more, why not become a member yourself? The post Greebo Chapter 7: Showdown, Part 2 appeared first on Other...
Sometimes strange things occur accidentally. The other night I cooked a meal that was technically vegan - without even realising it!There's no way I'd have done this deliberately, unless it was for some sort of project or challenge, and...