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This month saw 75,444 votes cast in 46 local authority contests. All percentages are rounded to the nearest single decimal place. 22 council seats changed hands. For comparison with June's results, see here. Party Number of Candidates...
[In a modern takeover, the criminal is let in AND the owner is locked out.] As a pilot, Ryan Pettit understands that having a single point of failure in an aircraft would be a very bad thing. Through hard experience, he’s now preaching...
Apologies for my slow turnover of blog posts here, which is likely to be ongoing. I’d planned to do a blog cycle about my book Finding Lights in a Dark Age: Sharing Land, Work and Craft, published by Chelsea Green last year, but somehow...
In October 1982, a 23-year-old architecture student left London with a battered BMW motorcycle, a tent, and £2,500 to her name. Two years, four continents and around 35,000 miles later, Elspeth Beard rode back into the city having...
Joel of Far Outliers has posted some excerpts of Mikołaj Gliński’s contribution to a newsletter from Culture.pl, How much Polish is there in Esperanto?; it begins: The Slavic Esperanto lexicon is generally considered to derive from two...
Chasing Daylight, paper collage, 2026 Here are some new experiments in collage art. I managed to find some fun, new materials earlier this week (in addition to those I picked up last week), including a vintage books of plants and a book...
A bunch of things I’ve found on my digital strolls in the past month (which I added to my Tumblr) for your eyes / ears / brain to spend time on (as no longer active on Twitter or on LinkedIn much). LISTEN The latest episode of the...
When I was a teenager, I got gifted a cactus. I didn’t know much about it and had never really had any plants of my own. More than a decade later I looked it up, and it seems I received a cactus of “Mamillaria” family, which is somewhat...
weather: ☀️ h o t critters: seagulls martin can't finish the winds of winter, he's... washing his hair facedown, getting a hot stone massage studying for the bar at the comic store picking up the witchblade compendium watching the game....
There was a bit of confusion, I understand, about July's RPG Blog Carnival, so that Seed of Worlds and Sea of Stars are both hosting it this month. That works just fine for me, because it turns out I have more to offer on the topic. For...
John Herrick unravel the mysteries of elevators.
It's a beach!Blue with white stripes, or white with blue - this umbrella is at the beach for the day.
You’ve spent time in Alaska, thru-hiked the Appalachian trail, and now live in rural Maine (not far from the end of the AT). What’s the most inhospitable place you found yourself? Like, questioning life choices rough. Although we are...
~649 words. ~3 minutes. tags: guix emacs programming This is my submission for Emacs Carnival July 2026. If you don't know what GNU Guix is: It's an advanced package manager and a distribution of the GNU Operating system. With kernel...
From 1987.... Smash Hits, I think... Surprisingly kindly to the new releases, is ShaneHis unnerving laughter is phonetically spelled out - and even commented upon by the laugher.