Wed Feb 25
My iPhone 5s is still working since 2017. It really screams a smol phone1 since it can be held easily with my small hands. Intended as a free phone for Broreleice 1's now-deactivated postpaid plan (from a local mobile network), it was my first smartphone in my lifetime. That phone can be used for calling and texting...
Good grief, I'm thinking and talking about AI too much. Sorry about that. I, too, am exhausted by it and after this, I will try my very best to stfu about it in public channels. In response to Re: No AI Badges, I learned that people are creating an /ai slash page for their sites (source: The /ai 'manifesto'). I...
Forwarding port 80 or 22 from Vagrant virtual machines to their host system is fairly simple. Piping non-privileged ports outside the VM–from, say, a development HTTP server–requires not much extra work. Yet, it’s not always obvious how to do this. In this post, I explain how a Jekyll development HTTP server running...
I have dedicated substantial amounts of time moderating communities on the internet. One of the duties I fulfil at Stoat has been to moderate content, and in doing so I’ve seen a great number of horrific things. The sort of things that no person should have to see, but which nonetheless must be seen in pursuit of...
#podcast #ArteDegenerado #ElSueñodelArtistaBlog #HistoriadelArte #inoclastas #destrucciondeArte Han pasado unos días desde que publicamos el nuevo episodio «El Chivo Expiatorio del Arte» en El Sueño del Artista, ya son 7 episodios de esta II temporada y cómo ya viene siendo costumbre dejamos algunas palabras acerca...
A thoughtful essay by Nick Heer as a sidebar to the annual Apple/Six Colors report card, in which he proposes this simple framework: In short, the way I think about software quality is the amount of meaningful problems. […] There are problems in Finder — resizing columns, renaming or deleting files synced with a...
Book review: Tiny Moments of Joy I’ve read Tiny Moments of Joy by George Penney. This book is the culmination of the “tiny moments of joy” the author shares online everyday: people watching vignettes that capture moments observed while roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand. I was already following her on the Fediverse for...
I collect cool, interesting links spread all over the web and share them here in daily posts. Hope you enjoy! More of them in the archive. Samsung unveils Galaxy S26 series. The main new feature unrelated to AI is the Galaxy S26 Ultra's “Privacy Screen,” which obscures the screen at wider angles, on demand. Even...
This is just a quick list of my most recent faves, as I've realized I'm using a bunch of new things recently. Nothing new on my phone (iOS), but plenty of new discoveries for Linux and the Boox Palma. Enjoy! FontsFor the longest time I used Pixel Operator and Illusion Book everywhere I could. When I switched to...
Candide and Martin went in a gondola on the Brenta, and arrived at the palace of the noble Signor Pococurante. The gardens, laid out with taste, were adorned with fine marble statues. The palace was beautifully built. The master of the house was a man of sixty, and very rich. He received the two travellers with...
"Meretrici de' luoghi publici" (Prostitutes of public places) from the "Habiti Antichi e Moderni", published by Cesare Vecellio, 1590.
Seeing Mt. Fuji when I pass by on the Shinkansen never fails to excite. And this location crossing the Fuji River is my favorite place to shoot. 新幹線で通り過ぎるときに富士山を見ると、何度見ても感動する。そして富士川を渡るこの場所は、私のお気に入りの撮影場所だ。
Let’s talk about something I read today which was genuinely unsettling. Apparently, according to this food magazine, if your spices are older than six months, you should throw them out. Six months. Six. Months. Seriously? The Italian seasoning I bought when my ex was still just a boyfriend outlived my entire...
In this post I'm trying something different. Instead of writing about my ideas, I'm asking you a question—a tough, Aether-Mug-style question!—for you to discuss with other readers in the comments section below. Several people have told me that they don't know of any other places on the internet to read and talk...
Replied to Tuta Calendar Thunderbird Integration by Nicholas A. Ferrell AlternativeTo reported that email provider Tuta has released mail and calendar add-ons for Thunderbird... Tuta Calendar’s Thunderbird plugin opens Tuta in a webapp in Thunderbird. With my set-up at least, I cannot stay signed in. That is a bit...
Zotero 8 is out. It includes a new Add Citation system and tab-based notes that might -- might -- make me stop using Zettlr.
When the chief suspect in the disappearance of Áróra's sister is found dead, and Áróra's new financial investigation leads to the street where her sister was last seen, she is drawn into a shocking case that threatens everything This is the final part of a five book series that I've been reading now since 2022,...
After writing last week’s post about the start of Ramadan and Chinese New Year, I expected to hear from people asking why I didn’t include the further coincidence of Ash Wednesday. I was surprised that the only such feedback I got was an email from TJ Luoma. It makes sense that Lent would be on TJ’s mind—it’s a big...
Today the thermometer read 70 degrees Fahrenheit (21°C) and I took the long way home to hit the park. ⊕Currently Listening: MEEK “Fabulous”Reply via email
What’s going on elsewhere… “Aristotle told us there were five senses. But he also told us the world was made up of five elements and we no longer believe that” — Barry Smith on how we may have over 20 different senses and how they are interrelated A cryptic crossword puzzle for philosophers — by Joe Slater “The...
Where The Dark Stands Still by A. B. Poranek, in short, is a very lovely book for lovers of romantic fantasy genre. It's a single book that tells a single story, and it feels very nice to get back into reading with something not so demanting (unlike the "7 tome volumes + prequel 3 tomes and sequel 4 tomes and...
Nothing on the internet is private. We all know that. But to what extent is it not private? And are we powerless to do anything about it? I personally don't know. But I'm sure it's something we should all look into and inform ourselves on, instead of just burying our heads in the sand while Big Tech seruptisiouly...
Dear Ciara, There is a sun shower. Through the window at work, I watch the individual droplets catch and refract the light. I love the colours, the little sparkles of blue and pink. And now—a rainbow. I see it above the building, cutting across the sky like a flock of multicoloured birds. I imagine them as herons or...
The Pattern That Demands Explanation For roughly three thousand years, each major technology of knowledge externalization — oral formulaic composition, writing, apprenticeship, formal pedagogy, digital demonstration — has provoked the same institutional response: practitioners of the prior mode declared that “real”...
My mind is currently stuck on if I should pre-order a Pebble Round 2 smart watch. I love a good smart watch but most I’ve tried haven’t lasted more than a year and a half so I’m hesitant to try again…
Sorry for another late post. It has been a busy week again plus I have just been taking a break from the internet. As a result, I haven’t been writing as much. The vibe A “touch grass” week in the best way. Less internet, more real life: catching up with a friend, upgrading a couple comfort essentials at home, and...
(A series in which I ramble some personal perspective on ICYDAK's "30 Proven Tactics to Resist Authoritarianism in Daily Life," because most of this stuff is just default daily life to me.) ICYDAK: 30 Proven Tactics to Resist Authoritarianism in Everyday Life #1: know your rights #2: secure your communications #3:...
Currently I mostly do some Homelab stuff, riding my bicyle and enjoying my life in general. By day I work as a Kubernetes and Go Engineer at x-cellent. You might even spot me on their website, too. By night I mostly tinker with my Homelab. If the weather is great there is a high chance I am riding my bicycle right...
(image courtesy of Homutan) as my first full day here draws to a close, i did not expect the medical curtains of my room to swing shut to hide a cascade of sudden tears. not tears of fear, exactly; although a fear of the future and all of it's uncertain depths is still very much lying in wait. as much as i mask it,...
This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts I’ve read from the past month covering arts & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, hauntology, anarchism, utopianism, the gothic, neo-fabulism, and the Weird - all discovered through my RSS feed reader...
Welcome to a special edition of Review of Links, as we run through the Best of 2025—better late then never, as they say...A boring list of our straight top ten is freely available for all, but if you want commentary, honorable mentions, and the most anticipated of 2026, you’re going to have to cough up that cold...
stupid snow falls still winter is a juicy fart dropped upon my head Send me an email Latest 3 posts 25 Feb, 2026 Haiku for an Endless Winter 25 Feb, 2026 Haiku for the Dog In My Bed 24 Feb, 2026 Haiku for Writing Haiku Older Posts I'd Like You to See 05 Nov, 2024 Election Night, Anxiety Night 03 Jul, 2024 Every...
An Antibubble appearing in soapy water An Antibubble appearing in soapy water (Credit Science News). This is a sphere of liquid, inside a skin of air, inside a liquid again. Back in 2003 Scientists discovered these can be formed within certain styles of Belgian Beer. These are curious, because unlike regular bubbles...
Let me start with the thing nobody on the left wants to admit, because admitting it means owning part of the catastrophe we're currently living through. The Democrats did this. Not entirely, not exclusively, and most probably, not intentionally, but they did it. They handed a fragile, exhausted, inflation-battered,...
Some RSS feeds are fantastic but far too noisy to add to most RSS readers directly. Without serious filtering, you'd get swamped with more posts than you could possibly read, while missing the hidden gems. I built Scour specifically because I wanted to find the great articles I was missing in noisy feeds like these,...
“There is no pit you cannot climb out of provided you make the right effort at the right place… do the next thing with diligence and devotion.” In recent seasons of being, I have had occasion to reflect on the utterly improbable trajectory of my life, plotted not by planning but by living. We long to be given the...
The weather in the northeast was hard to pass up this week. Felt spoiled. Here are some things I was grateful for this past week: The smell of old shops and blooming flowers in Georgetown Finding a really good book Gyros Tour guides at museums Live music Public transit Note: this was actually posted March 1st, I...
So a few weeks ago I started running Desktop Heroes on a secondary PC I had (a three-generation-old gaming PC) because I snagged it for a pittance and wanted to see what all the fuss was about with those types of games. I usually don’t get idle games. I always thought people who bought “Football Manager” games...
Yesterday I learned about a letter that hundreds of Christian leaders and scholars had signed which calls for resistance to a cruel and oppressive government and urges all to follow the teachings and example of Jesus Christ. The letter is called “A Call to Christians in a Crisis of Faith and Democracy” and I...
Today was a peaceful day. The reason was the finalisation of the scientific package, which I need to use to work on a short research project. The confusion was between two choices: an open-source package, OpenFoam, and a commercial one, COMSOL. Both are known to be very good at studying fluid physics. However, since...
The most popular link last time was the Amazon van on the Broomway, with this Ask Polly column second. One of the best things I've read about AI in a long while: A.I. Isn't People. Related: a while ago a frustrated friend venting to me about bad AI usage in her workplace said the phrase "it's not even actual AI,...
Finding the Right Meditation Without Getting Lost Along the Way mtift Wed, 02/25/2026 - 08:13 Someone told me recently that he had been going through a difficult period. He said he had probably heard my voice more than his wife’s because some days he listens to two or three episodes of my meditation podcast, Pretty...
February 25, 2026 Last October, I wrote about Carrot Weather's limited data sources. In that post, I mentioned my love for Carrot Weather, but noted that the available weather sources weren't accurate for central New Jersey, and that The Weather Channel and Weatherbit were the most reliable sources for my region. I...
February 2026. Stonnall. A rare new GBG pub double, and just a 20 minute stroll from Lazy Hill in the West Midlands down to Stonnall over the Staffs border. I am delighted to find I know nothing about Stonnall (pop. 1,546) so I use AI. Chat GPT tells me it’s the 3,756th dullest town on earth, but that may be an...
Klimatminister Romina Pourmokhtari (L) vill avskaffa ett av de mest omstridda klimatmålen—det så kallade transportmålet—och i stället införa ett annat mål. Hon dömer ut det nuvarande målet som orealistiskt. Pourmokhtari anser att det nuvarande målet »har brister och fokuserar väldigt mycket på vad som inte ska...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop It's been a few days since I posted the fruits of this manic project's labor, so please enjoy! Mon 02/23/2026 - Salazzle On Monday I learned about Salazzle and I gotta say, this one is skirting dangerously close to "If this were digimon, the next...