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British commentators on infrastructure have spoken about overcentralization in their country, often also related to other state capacity issues. This led to a false belief that the United Kingdom (or just England) is too centralized, and...
Es gibt wenig was mir so schlechte Laune macht wie Pedanterie, und aus irgendeinem mir unbekannten Grund fällt mir in den letzten Tagen sehr viel auf, was ich als pedantisch empfinde. Mit Pedanterie meine ich nicht, etwas Genau zu...
Über das Privileg, weniger funktionieren zu müssen. Foto: Die Farbe Blau / @einschwarzesmeer.bsky.social Folgende Sache ist mir neulich aus dem Kopf gefallen, die mich zuerst glücklich, dann nachdenklich und schlussendlich ein kleines...
“Ultimately there are people who want to live, not in a world of reconciliation, but in a world without repercussions… ,,, It takes a lot to “cut a parent (or a sibling) off.” Usually it’s a question of safety, whether psychological or...
What’s your favorite song about patience? I am not patient. I am more patient than I used to be for sure, but my default is not to wait, is to do the thing. Unless there is thinking involved, in which case I have a tendency to over think...
Heute Vormittag habe ich meine Mutter dabei erwischt, wie sie die alte blaue Wolldecke im Wohnzimmer zusammenlegen wollte. Fünfzehn Minuten lang glättete sie jede Kante, strich den Stoff glatt, faltete ihn zur Hälfte, schüttelte den Kopf...
Donald Trump doesn't seem to understand that the Great Lakes, with the exception of Superior, were named for native tribes and that those names are fixed by international agreement. They are not subject to change by the whim of a...
Starting Over With the PiSince Oct of last year, I haven’t had time to reinstate my self-hosted apps like Calibre, Miniflux, Navidrome, etc on my little Pi homelab. During this time, I missed using Navidrome the most (I resorted to...
CHE reports on the letter here; I’ve sent CHE the following letter to the editor: I signed two earlier letters defending the academic freedom rights of Nathan Cofnas, since the principles of academic freedom encompass racist scholarship,...
Estar fotografando a tanto tempo e não ter mídia social a mais de dois anos significa que eu raramente posto as fotos que eu faço em algum lugar e muito menos as pessoas ficam sabendo o que eu fiz de foto. E depois de muito tempo...
August 2026. Manchester. Your traditional contractually obligated “first game at the Etihad” post you’ve no interest in. AFC Bournemouth at a traditional time, too, 2pm on a Sunday. The August fixture traditionally finds me scrabbling...
This mornings lunar eclipse about 04:30. It took me until about 14:30 to try and process the blown out highlights, and recover an absolute turd of an image. It's not too bad. Though I'm not going to look at anybody else's or I'll end up...
topgrade — a command-line tool that upgrades everything you have installed on your macOS machine with a single command. System updates, Node, Rust, and Homebrew are all upgraded in one fell swoop by running topgrade. How very convenient!
Rachelle and I are really good at watching TV and we have opinions about what we watch. Here are our favorite TV and movies from 2026 so far. You can see my rating scale here. The ratings are mostly about how much we enjoyed it and have...
Just a quick note to say that you are allowed to overnight chicks and ducklings through the mail in order to ship them from hatcheries to buyers, but when your “overnight” turns into “four days later,” you end up with a box of dead...
“A small programme with a large international reach has bucked the trend of closures across the arts and humanities.” Over the summer, administration of the University of Dundee announced a plan to cut costs by, among other things, no...
Whenever you watch a video on YouTube now, you will likely get an advert for a scammy product. In the past few weeks I've seen: A Tai Chi training program that promises to get you ripped like someone on steroids a superhero in 20 days....
Sophia kicked off her birthday celebrations with a candle making class and I won't bury the lede, it was delightful.Currently Listening: Harry Styles “Sunflower, Vol. 6”Reply via email
The best thing that happened this week It's been a while since I wrote these. I went away for vacation, celebrated my birthday and then I had to get back to work. In the meantime though, and that's by far the best thing that's happened...
M-am uitat la clipul lui Cristi și Ralu, în care povesteau despre o problemă cu geamul vecinului lor. Am devenit curios despre ce spune legea în despre această „problemă” pe care o au muți oameni în România și legea chiar este concret...
I don't like to boast, but yesterday Lichfield, according to the Met Office, was the wettest place in the country, with 52.8mm of rain – that's two inches in the old money – falling in a four-hour period in the morning. I can't say I'm...
On the usual whim of the moment I decide to viva and beer. It’s been two weeks so I feel compelled to go. The beer is $0.75 a cheap draft beer. The ride takes about 15 minutes in a tuktuk. Costs a little over $1. Viva Beer and me And...
I’m bored. And I don’t really know what to do about it. I’ve been writing software for about thirty-five years. I’ve been getting paid for writing software for almost thirty years. In February I realised that what I did had fundamentally...
This is the fourth post in my series called Hitting the Digital Brakes, where I explore my journey into my use of technology to ditching some aspects of it now. The first post in the series was about the joys of imperfection and in the...