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Liked Shiki (Anime Review) by Cabbage (Cabbage Sorter) I had Shiki on hold since 2013 ... When I first watched it, I couldn't get past the hair, it was too much. It wasn't just the hairstyles though, I clearly remember feeling overwhelmed by a gazillion characters being introduced at a lightning pace and that was...
NotesThere is something almost absurd in the way British politics often behaves as though replacing the Prime Minister will s
I live in an apartment that first gets heated up on one side before noon, then later from the other side. My kitchen is especially hot each year because it has a huge bay window with no shutters installed. My strategies for keeping cool have been to air out everything at night, and if possible draw in and circulate...
The first world problems have been coming at us hard the past couple of weeks. Amidst the excitement of moving into our new house we started to experience a streak of serial disappointments so consistent that it seems scripted. It started with a load of dishes, the first load in the new house, a milestone. Well,...
One day I will learn to have my camera settings dialed in for action on big parade days. That said, I salvaged more than a handful of snapshots.Reply via email
I had a strange experience this morning. After having our barcodes scanned at Diamond Creek parkrun’s annual Pride event, my friend and I headed straight to D’s athletics event. As we were talking, one of the organisers tapped my friend on the shoulder and asked her to help with what was already under way. I said...
Art, Georgia O’Keeffe believed, springs from “the desire to make the unknown known… and keeping the unknown always beyond you.” We seem to have drifted lightyears away from that motive force, the majority of our epoch’s cultural production aiming to render the market maximally known — its profitably proven...
Did I write anything in the last few days? No. Did I decide to spool up an aggregate site to show me all the stuff I follow on one page because it's too hard to have numerous RSS Feeds proc in a Discord channel? Yes. It has light/dark mode. I'm still messing with how many things show up at once and getting the grid...
The heat and humidity has been unbearable the last week. My back garden weather station has been recording 36c temperatures with dew points reaching 24c. For the UK that is ridiculous. It's actually quite unbearable at times but if it means I get an opportunity for some night time lightning, then I'll just about...
Speaking of remastering (and diacritics), I grabbed my older Medium deep dive called The curious case of the disappearing Polish S, and put it on the new site. It looks so much better than on Medium and while I was at it, I’ve redone all the visuals, and updated it a little bit.) It’s still probably one of my...
What’s something you used to believe as a kid that seems ridiculous now? At first, I figured I’d go with one of the classics. The Easter Bunny. The Tooth Fairy. The idea that if you swallowed a watermelon seed, you’d end up growing a watermelon in your stomach. Which, now that I think about it, feels like it...
Needing an escape from my warm apartment due to the unprecedented heatwave going on in Europe, thanks to global warming, I went to an early evening movie showing in the cool cinema and even treated myself to a slushy! I haven’t drank one since I was a kid. I gave myself two chest freezes by […]
The past two weeks have been full of marching band. We’ve been following our kids attending parades for eight or nine years now, chaperoning for most of those. It’s a fast and furious summer competitive parade season, and they’ve had a blast with it. Jesse and I marched when we grew up. All of our kids have marched....
I'm unsure if everyone is really talking about webmentions or if I'm just noticing them more because I'm working on mine, but it certainly feels like the former.[1] A few weeks ago, I mentioned that my site now supports webmentions. Since then, I've continued to iterate on my implementation, and I think I've finally...
I just added two new themes to my minimalist doric-themes package. doric-tiger is a light theme, while doric-lion is dark. Both use orange and yellow colours. Below are sample screenshots. doric-tiger doric-lion Part of development The new themes will be available in version 1.2.0. I think they already are well...
WTF is up with sugar allergies? Friday evening we were on the patio at our local brewery when my wife overheard a young person expounding to his two friends about how people wear CGMs to manage their sugar allergies. My wife wears a CGM because she has Type 1 diabetes. Sugar allergies are not a thing. That would be...
Leave before locked 28 Jun, 2026 A year and a half after switching from Fusion to FreeCAD, I can confidently say I made the right choice. I tried FreeCAD for the first time a long time ago, but it was too rough to get started with. I’m used to commercial CAD software like Inventor, SolidWorks, and Solid Edge. They...
I recently started getting into 3D printing, but so far I've spent most of my time getting setup and learning the ropes. I've now completed my first little project with the 3D printers and I'm really happy with the result. As a biker of many years I have a number of helmets lying around. This is because you're...
As part of my previous post reverse engineering the Denon XML API I talked about my love for the Golf sound effects in Nintendo Switch Sports, complete with a way to build an ambient soundscape. But where did I get those sound files? There are in-game ambience recordings on YouTube but the sounds are all muddled...
Am făcut-o și pe asta. Sunt un turnător, un trădător sau cum se mai zice. Ce am făcut? Aflați mai jos povestea pe scurt spusă. Am doi vecini, unul are iepuri și celălalt o mică fermă de pui. Vecinul cu iepuri este lipit de casa unde stau, iar celălalt cu mica fermă de pui la două case mai departe. Ziua, cum este...
I'm making progress with GravityLoops, my gravity simulator in Interlisp and LOOPS. There is nothing to see yet but my latest work put in place most of the pieces the program needs to show something on the screen. The major new feature is class UniverseDisplay which will animate in a window the motions of the...
Lag gerade auf dem Sofa und dachte, ich könnte mal versuchen die 1000 Wörter auf dem Handy zu schreiben. Ich habe das lang nicht mehr gemacht, irgendwie ist dieses Gerät zur bloßen Ablenkungsmaschine verkommen, aber es soll mal eine Zeit gegeben haben, zu der ich in der lage war, ewig lange Texte am Handy zu...
Space Battle Lunchtime Vol. 2: A Recipe for Disaster ~ Natalie Riess I read the first Space Battle Lunchtime years ago and thought it was cute. The second volume is just as much fun! It picks up directly after the cliff hanger ending of the first volume and follows the main character as she competes in a...
The list of lagoon settlements before the year 1000, from the "Istoria Veneticorum" by John the Deacon.
I saw a cool text effect on Nikhil’s blog recently, where the big “Hello!” on his website has some rings masking the word “hello” that produce a cool effect, and I thought I’d try to replicate it. Here’s the final result, which I’ll explain further, and I want you to open it and be ready to poke at it and change...
It's been a short while since I last made a release of BlogMore; in fact, the time since the last update might be the longest I've gone between versions since the first release. I think this might mean it is actually more or less feature complete! More or less. Except... I did have to spend a bit of time (and some...
Hey all, a lot of offline stuff happened recently. None of it good news, so I didn't have the energy to create anything new. That being said, I began serializing all my audiobooks onto my podcast for financial supporters because I want to give everyone DRM Free ways to get the audiobooks while supporting me...
I devoured this book. Told from the perspective of a defense attorney, it explores sexual offenses, critiques the legal system, and exposes the immense obstacles victims face in seeking justice, as well as the alarmingly high number of unreported cases. The story is compelling and beautifully written—you feel and...
..might be a tech industry that’s exploiting your loneliness by offering you friends that don’t exist. Mike Monteiro’s Good News
2026-06-27Hello! First, a technical note: I'm using tags now. I've always organized my photos and articles behind the scenes, but I think I'm ready to let readers see the chaos of my photography sorted a different way. Linked at the bottom of every page is my index of tags connecting, like a spiderweb, to every...
Who this is for: Anyone who has stood at the edge of a room wishing it were warmer, livelier, more alive — and suspected they might be the one who could change it but didn’t know how. Useful for parties and dinners, work offsites, group trips, neighborhoods, scenes, and the recurring events people build to...
Tumbleweed es una distribución de GNU/Linux «Rolling Release» o de actualización contínua. Aquí puedes estar al tanto de las últimas novedades. openSUSE Tumbleweed es la versión «rolling release» o de actualización continua de la distribución de GNU/Linux openSUSE. Hagamos un repaso a las novedades que han llegado...
RE: Your shit is unreadable 1. there is enough hate in this world, if I cannot be a solution I won't be part of the problem2. if you don't like it, don't read it, there's plenty of spaces fuming the hate you seek3. I wish you well in whatever hell you are going through in need of validation4. it is OK to be angry,...
Starmer Out, by Toby Buckle. Keir Starmer Proves that Triangulation is a Dead End, by Jamelle Bouie. Níor chóir glacadh leis! Níl maitheas ar bith in their politics for you and me. — Kneecap, Liar’s Tale It’s The Centrism, Stupid, by Katelyn Burns. Starmer’s Resignation And Labour’s Collapse Shows Why Democrats Must...
Emacs is more than just a text editor - it’s a full-fledged programming environment that can be perfectly tailored to your needs. Whether you’re working with Python, C++, Lisp, Rust, or JavaScript, with the right configuration, Emacs transforms into a powerful IDE, offering everything you need for efficient coding:...
.microblog_permalink { color: gray; font-style: italic; } .microblog_divider { color: gray; } ZgotmplZ Occasional Weeknote #30 The Occasional Weeknote seems to be getting every so slightly more occasional with each week that passes. It’s been almost a month since the last one. Sorry? Last week, I had my second ER...
The Group Stage of the 2026 World Cup finished today, so it’s time to mark the homework. Back in the launch post five AI models, a deterministic lookup table, and one football fan predicted the same 72 fixtures before a ball was kicked. I’ve been scoring the results on AIWC26 each day as they came in. I’ve got no...
Dá pra acreditar que já tem 1 ano que eu estou fazendo esse post? Eu também não. Eu não imaginava que ia conseguir levar tão longe esse tipo de post recorrente e que começou como algo bobo, mas que atualmente é o post que eu tenho mais satisfação e que fico mais ansioso em fazer todo mês. Mesmo que eu não poste...
weeknote #26.02 Saturday, 27. Jun, 2026 I played a newly conceptualized live computer sound performance which is titled: "prince lucija: QUANTEAR 07EA". It's purposefully conceptualized as a live improvisation and collage of current and recent material that I've created for either stage art (contemporary...
Can I keep doing this weekly?? let’s see This week I started and finished reading The Odyssey, translated by Emily Wilson. I enjoyed it! Wilson’s translation was easy to read and it was fun to finally see the bits and pieces that I’ve learned via cultural osmosis in the text. There’s a lengthy introduction that...
Roshan: Wikipen [[File:{{#setmainimage:Example clickbait adverts.jpg}}|thumb|Fairly anti-memetic]] [[wikipedia:There Is No Antimemetics Division]] is a famous (in the subculture) book by [[wikipedia:Qntm]] which talks about entities that are imperceivable. These are things so anti-viral (in the memetics) sense that...
June 2026. Armenia. Back in bed from the Southern Armenia 16 hour slog, a 6am alarm on Saturday morning for another early tour was as welcome as a Maidenhead micro closure. But this northern exploration, centred on the lakes and forests, was an essential part of understanding a country that had seemed a little...