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JL George Under Review:The Sea Hides Its Dead. Megan Bontrager. Run for It, July 2026. The premise of Megan Bontrager’s The Sea Hides Its Dead sounds straight out of Lovecraft. A mysterious monolith rises from the sea, bearing traces of...
It is summer now and in a few odd spaces I can smell something that only exists in the margins.Until recently, Queen Anne’s Lace — Daucus carota, a member of the carrot family — was a common weed in the Mississauga area of Ontario. It...
I considered not visiting the Venice Biennale. Like most people, I am revolted by the double standard of the Italian Ministry of Culture (of the whole government actually): Russia bad, Israel friend. This year, as many of you probably...
(Kimberly (she/her) took the express train down the fountain pen/stationery rabbit hole and doesn't want to be rescued. She can be found on Instagram @allthehobbies because there really are many, many hobbies!.)Midway through doing the...
I was perusing the Cake Wrecks Facebook page the other day (where every follower gets a free invisible puppy!!) when I came across a rather unusual request: Ahh, so you want to pop open the hood and take a gander inside the wrecks, is...
Bokosuka Wars does not have a great reputation among retro enthusiasts. In fact, it is considered one of the worst games ever made. Part of that reason is, you need to read the manual to see how everything works. The problem is, even if...
Read the full post at - 40 Little Sayings That Have Held Up Over 40 Years I’ve been around for a full 40 years now. I, like everyone on Earth, still have no real idea about what’s going on here. But! I have been picking up little...
Image: “Mightier Than the Keyboard?” handwritten on a piece of paper with a fountain pen. Photo by: Unattributed, License: Copyright Unattributed. Licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. When I started using Fountain Pens last...
Is there not an end to my many talents? No. Also, there's no start post link for sharing: https://skryblans.com/575-verse-talents Email Me or Contact via Letterbird If you got this far, you may as well click the star below on your way out.
I just heard that David Latchman has been made Vice-Chancellor of the University of London (until 2028). You can read about it here in the Times Higher. What the Times Higher doesn’t discuss (at all) is Latchman’s track-record of...
Still out of town, but nobody's messing with The Odyssey. Fantasia opening night film Her Private Hell opens at Kendall Square. Nicolas Winding Refn's first film in years, it stars Sophie Thatcher as an actress expected to reconcile with...
Long-time reader Antonio R. sent news about FIFA's explanation for why England's extra-time goal against Norway during the World Cup was allowed. For me, FIFA shows how not to use data.Flash back to the quarter-final match between...
Sometimes the "punishment" was more of a restriction. Take the case of Thomas Welford, who sold salted herring. He had a ship docked at Queenshithe filled with salted herring. He was a wholesaler, and sold to retailers called...
Most proprietary AI models from frontier labs seem to have a shelf life of 12 months or less. That is an important issue for serious use, especially since AI models aren't traditional software in the sense that new ve...
A live, zoomable ER diagram of your Laravel app's actual database schema, safe to run in production because it only ever reads structure, never rows. Read more