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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
This is a YA novel only available in Dutch. The title means something like 'out of the blue' or 'out of nowhere'. My Aline Sax completionism has failed me this time. I think this is her only non-historical title, and I really disliked it. The plot sounded mysterious: a girl wakes up at an airport, memory gone. There are only a few dozen others there and the windows are blacked out. In a meeting it's explained that the apocalypse has happened, the air is toxic and causes...
A mixed set of links from my trying to catch up after more travels - for still more, check out the chonky set from last week found here or the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Bloggie-nominated. Originally inspired by weaver.skepti.ch, delinked by request. Afraid of Encounters gives us Indonesian TTRPG Blogwagon Crow’s Corner posts Viennese Games in the 2026 One Page RPG Jam Patchwork Paladin shares Reading in the Dark Throne of Salt writes 4 Roads to...
It turns out that the real secret to longevity is to live in an area with poor record keeping. Something is very wrong with modern longevity is a nice New Yorker piece questioning the whole “Blue Zone” idea. Our tendency to fetishize faraway lands, trying to unearth their secrets to slow aging, can seem strange when one considers that wealthy Americans already live into their eighties and nineties. Scientists have reliable data for octogenarians and nonagenarians—one...
Don’t you want to play something nice? Do you wanna forget that summer is almost over, meaning that the heatwaves will end finally but also it will be time to go back to work? Do you wanna be a cute ghost running around in a ghost town, completing tasks and solving problems? Well do I have the game for you. Little Troubles in Spooky town is an absurdly cute experience, where you wanna help everyone. To do so, you can collect items, but also change your appareance. Do you...
I behold London; a Human awful wonder of God! William Blake (1757-1827), Jerusalem
I'm apparently doing it wrong. According to Andrej Karpathy, There's a new kind of coding I call 'vibe coding', where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists. You just talk to the AI and the app appears. That sounds way too California to me, too much prompt-and-pray. I'm not going to kick back, grab a kombucha, and tell my model to `Create me an SaaS app, bro`. What I do is more akin to `Dialectical Software Engineering`,...
It was good fun last week to share my experience of unpacking my new book, The Spiritual Imagination of C.S. Lewis. The front-porch video got a few thousand spins on social media and hundreds of comments from friends. It was … Continue reading →
I’ve been sharing notebook images from this blog on Pinterest for quite a while (as well as re-posting lots of other people’s notebook images). Over time, I’ve built up a surprisingly large following there, but in recent months I’ve noticed that a particular image of mine seems to have gone viral! The photo in question … Continue reading My Notebooks Have Become a Meme →
This week I kicked off our Hanakai sponsorship drive for 2026, and shared an exciting new stretch goal — if we can raise another $15k for this year, we’ll be able to pay an honorarium to our active maintainers.The response so far has been encouraging! We got a slew of new individual sponsors (thank you everyone!) and that’s given us some good initial progress towards that goal. Look out for tomorrow’s post on the Hanakai site for more on this, including first featured...