1.NowYou take your time with the cleanup. Heavy machinery sparking in the dusty nebula. Great tubes sucking galactic slurry into density accelerators, the remains of the Crion system. Green interstellar glow-lights illuminate the sides of your Spidercraft: the gaudy text “Clifford’s Cosmic Catastrophe Mitigation”...

Monthly reflection and outlook. September was an emotional roller coaster.The highs were high and the lows were low. Let's reflect. + I got hired. I worked at a restaurant for two days. I learned a lot about myself (good and bad). I'm also proud of myself for pushing myself to try something new in an unfamiliar...

a half-assed review"> Are you ready for the session? Let yourself be hypnotized and immerse yourself in the dazzling world of Moka Efti, known from the series Babylon Berlin. As a journalist, you follow the clues to a mysterious case at the famous nightclub. But can you trust your memories? So I just finished...

Born on this day in 1920 was Walter Matthau (who was not, as he liked to claim, born Walter Foghorn Matuschanskyasky, but plain Walter John Matthow). With his hangdog face and wisecracking cynicism, he was the perfect foil to his friend Jack Lemmon, with whom he made ten films. Here is my favourite Matthau anecdote:...

Happy Spooky Season! Here are a few photos from my phone from the last month with neither rhyme nor reason to the theme. Thanks for reading this post via RSS! Let me know your thoughts by sending me an email: rss@thomasrigby.com.

Google’s new arrangement for installing unverified apps on Android takes effect this Thursday (Oct. 1st) here in Brazil. Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand are also among the first countries to be affected. F-Droid and other free and/or Google-independent initiatives have been raising a ruckus over the changes. They...

The October issue of Foofaraw Zine is here! Download below or read in our purpose built ebook reader. Of course, all stories will be published for free on the web throughout the month, but paid supporters receive a PDF/EPUB with all of the month's stories at the beginning of the month, along with a few other...

A cubelet is a shared deck for Magic where you can play any card facedown as a land. Sometimes the advice for cubelets is to stick to three or four archetypes but here’s a template for a full ten-archetype cubelet. Put in twenty “mega-glue” cards that are each good in exactly four archetypes each (for example five...

INDEX · 02 Relic Self-imposed constraint: Use only the letters of the word inside a 2-inch square to illustrate its meaning Hongdian Black Forest fountain pen, EF, black ink on 120 gsm paper

Check out As in guillotine... for more. NOTE: Things are finally starting to stabilize after a chaotic summer bled into September, which ended on a high note with good news on a couple of fronts, including a new gig! More on that another time, but there’s a little hint in the Bonus section. _ONE In the Library Ebook...

We are at midterm at Spartanburg Methodist College--which means it's Fall Break today and tomorrow. My spouse and I will have a day of working on different projects: he's putting polyurethane on the sanded hardwood floors in the fixer-upper house in S'burg, and I have various appointments today (dermatologist, hair,...

My relationship with Mastodon has been somewhat tumultuous over the years, until I eventually stepped down from Fosstodon around 18 months ago. I have to say, it was the right decision. I don't miss running Fosstodon one bit. But since then, I've found myself less and less engaged in the Fediverse. Mainly because...

Post-mortem of “Colombia 2026 Election: Falsification Matrix” (registered 2026-01-26,building on “A Constraint Story: Why Colombia’s Election Defies Standard Forecasting,”2026-01-17). Scored 2026-08-18 against the matrix’s own pre-registered thresholds.Mechanical resolution first; interpretation separated and...

This site is the most fun I've had in a while. Destroy any website! https://destroy.spritefusion.com/ Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by email, or leave a comment.

What I think of the new(-ish) desktop mode, after a week of use.