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It is time for the faithful to take back their churches from the usurper priests and pastors who divide and disempower the congregation. Its time to stop the state from shifting power, control and resources to subjects at the expense of the church, and this with the complicity of the ecclesiastical authorities. It is the saints who have the rights to the nation and to the other political jurisdictions, not the ecclesiastical authorities and not the state. It is the saints...
In case you were wondering, my wife and I are unaffected by the flooding that happened in Indianapolis over the weekend. We live far enough west of the White River in this city that the rising waters couldn’t touch us. We live on a tributary to the White River called Williams Creek. I walked out my back door Friday afternoon (before peak water level) and made this photo. This is as high as I’ve ever seen the creek — but it’s still probably 25 feet below us in a ravine....
Martin Freeman is one of my favorite actors to have come out of the last
Wow, it's the site's 54 millionth hit. These "hits" aren't a measure of humans visiting pages; that count would be much lower. It's just requests to the website: every time a robot visits some page, the count goes up. If a human views a page that contains a dozen graphics, those graphics cause another dozen hits. So "a million hits" isn't as impressive as it sounds. But hits are easy to measure so that's what I measure. We can take a look at the log: 3.235.215.92 - -...
The reason I post so many quotes from literature is to show that the desire to escape is neither uncommon nor certifiable. On the contrary, it’s perfectly normal and has been with us since, oh, around the time of the industrial revolution. But I’m sure that’s just a coincidence. Here are some diary entries from 1909, written when W. N. P. Barbellion was but 19 years old. He wanted to escape the career chosen for him by his father (“journalism,” which actually meant the...
Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 27th April 2026 I know we go on and on about Chile on this blog, but to be honest Costa Rica might be our next big obsession, given the glut of excellent bands appearing from this tropical little paradise of death. The latest offering is the debut full length from Candarian, called ‘Trepanación’, and it is out now through Me Saco Un Ojo Records and Memento Mori. It promises much in the way of deathly, bestial and filthy death metal,...
How many posts do you think it takes to qualify as a series? If it's just two, then I guess we could consider this post the second in a series in which I check out extremely popular manga only to find out that it's not really for me, following last month's post on Blue Lock. This time it's Sumiko Arai's The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All, AKA "the Green Yuri", based on its distinctive green covers and Arai's use of that same particular shade of green as an...
I noticed the commenting feature was broken on my last post, but I've fixed it now. So, did I accomplish everything I set out to do yesterday? Let's see! Take my digicam out on a walk and try to snap some photos of interesting things I see. - I unfortunately didn't do this because it was just too hot outside. I forgot that we're in the middle of a heat wave, and it was 95 degrees (F) here but felt like 104. I did take Ranni to the park around 9:00am, but even then it was...
I looked up to see a familiar face. For a moment, however, I couldn't place it, but then recognized my friend who I'd not seen since he was five-years-old."I recognize you!" I blurted before his name came back to me. He was standing with his mom, pressed into her legs shyly, a posture I didn't recall from a couple years ago when we had seen one another almost every day. But, of course, he would feel that way. For a young child, two years is a very long time, long enough to...
When the Virginia Supreme Court nullified the May referendum approving new congressional maps, it did not end mid-decade redistricting in Virginia. It extended it into the next legislative session where the assembly will likely vote again to draw new maps, triggering another referendum. Compared to Youngkin’s 2% margin of victory, May’s 3% suggests that voters will approve another amendment, establishing new congressional districts for 2028. After the 2030 census,...
IntroductionWilliam O'Reilly, Nicola Morrison, Rachel Reeves, Anna Lora-Wainwright, Neri Oxman, John Hattie, Susannah Dickinson, Claudine Gay, Jason Arday. All 9 of these people were accused of cheating in academia. Claudine Gay and Jason Arday were harassed into resignation. The other 7 were white. Simon Goldhill was a world leading classicist at the University of Cambridge before resigning in disgrace following sexual misconduct allegations. Dr. Peter Hutchinson is a...
🎩 IndieNews: Burgeon Lab: Naty's Tech Log Writing about Hugo, web dev, open source & IndieWeb experiments Dozenial Dragons 🙘 an experiment in pixels and words 🙚 HTML Day San Diego 2026 by Joe Crawford Things we talked about and learned and made 😎 some explore-worthy things!
So I attendance at this game: Larry Fitzgerald, Michael Phelps, Devin Booker, Dunn, Britney Griner, and a few other suns players were in attendance to play tribute to Diana’s 20 year career. So many sports icons. It was amazing. The game was tight all the way to the end and Thomas got a steal and made a wild 3 pointer to get within 1 point with 6 seconds left. It was a tough loss to watch for Diana Taurasi. And us. This post **(The Phoenix Mercury and Diana Taurasi)** was...
Got a call about my car. Over $500 to replace a fan and do an oil change. I fucking hate cars. I get to go from not having any, to not having any money again. I need to find a bearable full time job, this isn't sustainable. Every time I think I can claw back a bit of stability my car freaks out and I'm back to watching my bank account like a hawk. Garbage way to start the morning.
You can download the troff source of Brian Kernighan’s UNIX for Beginners - Second Edition from the Plan 9 archive of the 7th Edition Unix documentation. The Plan 9 people re-packaged the various files as bun archives probably sometime in the 1990s, but you can extract the troff input files and run them through GNU groff today, in the 21st Century.
Start with Chapter 1.Calliope felt the restraints before she even opened her eyes. Without being fully awake, she screamed, or thought she did. Then she heard a gentle female voice over her scream, “Shhhh…do not be afraid. You are safe. You are safe. You are safe.” She didn’t believe it. How could she be safe and restrained? Why was she restrained? Where was she? Questions flooded her mind, but didn’t reach her mouth. “Here, let me remove these.” The same female voice now...
Here it is, world. I am here.Send me, I say to which I know. I say this out loud and to an empty room but to hell with it all!At least I say this for myself. At least I say this here and now because if not now, then when?Right? I am told let the chips fall where they may is an old term that came from lumberjacks.I did a little reasearch on this and for the record, I do not want to act like I knew about this beforehand.I only knew about the saying because I heard someone...
We've seen these dinosaur pencil tops from Depesche already, but not together, so here they are again, and it should be a last time for them, as they're not deserving of one post, let alone the three or four outings they've had, but that's how the cookie's crumbled on this one! Thinking I still needed one, and that this was it, I grabbed this pencil top a while ago now, and took
Like an arrow drawn from its quiver, so were the carach sent forth from their towers of dread iron. And like arrows in flight, so are the carach in their pursuit – singular in their purpose, relentless in their aim, and methodical in their doom. To be carach-marked is to be carrion. Three blood-stained scrolls have been bound together, each describing the carach: Assassins and enforcers who rank among the “servitors of the Galchutt”. THE PAEAN UNTO DEATH This scroll is a...
At least once a year I still get the urge to switch up my tech again. In the past I’ve gone as small as switching tools and as large as switching my entire tech ecosystem. I guess you could say I’m always searching for something with my tech and I’m OK with that. These past few weeks have found me looking again at moving off of Apple. I’ve been eyeing a new Pixel phone (I still say my Pixel 3XL was probably my all-time favorite phone) as well as Linux laptops. It’s...
Like many other German stationery brands, Faber-Castell excels across many price points. The fancier, more expensive, products tend to get most of the press, but if you are a general stationery lover, their lower-priced office and school pens are well worth checking out. The Faber-Castell Poly Flow Fountain Pen is a perfect example. A basic box, with a sticker on the end that matches the pen color. The Poly series of pens features a lightly-textured, but firm, exterior...
And that was that vacation. I had two goals, build a fence, and complete (or atleast make good progress on) my thesis. Managed both quite well, but writing on my thesis really hampered my vacation. Every morning I actually had some motivation to do some chores, organize stuff, clean my fridge, stuff like that, but I always had to prioritize the thesis so I can get it done. It really sucked up most of my motivation, and now I'm starting work already slightly burnt out. No...
Eighty million years ago, long before Texas acquired highways, cattle ranches or the unshakeable belief that everything should be larger there, much of the region lay beneath a warm inland sea.And cruising through those waters was an animal that appears to have taken the entire “bigger in Texas” philosophy rather seriously.Meet Tylosaurus rex, a newly recognized species of giant mosasaur
I keep thinking about this piece by Hugh Howey I linked to. I feel revulsion toward AI-created content. When any piece of art, no matter the format, has the slightest smell of AI, I'm out. It doesn't even matter if any AI was actually used; the mere suggestion of AI is enough. I'm aware this is unfair towards people that happen to talk/write/sound like AI, especially when it's their content AI was trained on. That is, unfortunately, collateral damage. With time, this will...
To quote absolutely no one, piping mistakes happen. A slip of the wrist, a miscommunication, a minor earthquake - for whatever reason, sometimes things go wrong with your order, and that's when many bakers get to practice their most undervalued skill set: sighing a lot and calling their managers.Still, the good news is that professional bakers are, in fact, professionals, meaning these ninja-like icing sleuths can leap into action, repairing even the most heinous of cake...