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The LGBT community is mourning the loss of two queer icons in two days: Dolly Parton, the honorary drag queen and fierce voice for tolerance, and Tim Curry, whose arch performance as Frank N Furter in Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975,...
The battle of France is over. I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin. Winston Churchill - June 18th 1940 Churchill’s famous speech on the 18th June in 1940 came a few short weeks after the British Expeditionary forces...
Qwen3.8 27B benchmarked on a Mac Studio M3 Ultra: Ollama and llama.cpp numbers, the 1-bit quant tested, RAM math, and the hardware that actually fits.
Some weeks back, in midsummer, I sat at my worktable as night drew to an end, when sunrise broke out magnificently in my window wall (see photo #1 in my 8/25 posting “Where I live”) and filled me with joy at the gift of a new day. Also...
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Oh man, did I enjoy this "choose your own adventure" (COYA) book. If you're a regular reader, you may recall my previous reviews in this genre, but this new volume is the best one yet. Yes, it's a new volume. The publisher, Chooseco, is...
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Dolly Parton, pop culture titan of the 20th and early 21st Century, has sadly passed away at the age of 80.Parton was born in 1946 in Tennessee and became one of the United States's best-known country singers. She was known for her...
If you disagree with the powers that be, that are poisoning your food, your water and air for money, bombing children and waging war around the world, trying to surveil and control every aspect of your life, they gonna call you violent...
Charulata(The Lonely Wife) is my favourite film from the great Indian director Satyajit Ray. With the exception of directors such as Hitchcock, Chaplin, Kurosawa and Bergman, very few film directors have ever had as much control over...
How many Halloween cardigans does a goth librarian need?
Some more links today! Two new links here, but the others are from my shared Raindrop folder. I decided I'm going to empty that one out and forget about doing a "post roll-off". Why People Quit Blogging | Unattributed via Bubbles TIL:...
If a subscription-based app requires a login just to look at it, I delete it. If a website requires me to disable my ad blocker before I’ve even seen it, I move on. #LifeIsTooShort
More scenes from the Lower Salmon and Snake: tawny grass, jagged stone, sparse trees, hazy air and a blessed ribbon of water were very much the themes of this summer float. This section of river alternates between gentler, though still...
Molly Templeton writes Perhaps We Could Find Some New Book Topics to Argue About covering DNFing, reading the classics, are audiobooks books, 'performative' reading, gendering books, and genres. But the article doesn't actually propose...