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CompleteTheHaiga is a haiku, senryu and tanka prompt project with images created by Josiah. All haiku by Cendrine Marrouat. Source
As you read this SGDQ 2026 is on its last day, and as always there have been a number of interesting runs, including last night a full deathless run of arcade Ghosts ‘n Goblins: it’s always good to see a player make flying monkeys out of...
Mocking old people is like booby trapping the rollercoaster you're queued to ride.
It’s not like I don’t have a VPN, but it’s not like I always have that shit on either. If BlueSky is going to comply in advance with the Texas government’s threat of internet censorship, I’m just not going to open it. Like, oh no, less...
Thanks to Paul from Defiant Sloth for bringing two more video rental shops to my attention—I literally just learned about The Video Shop Mpls yesterday. And thanks to Robert Birming for encouraging the JulyReply challenge. — My husband...
I've already shared why I'm building Stiva as an antidote to information overload, and why I chose a one-time purchase model instead of yet another subscription. But beyond the core philosophy, I want to be transparent about what you...
Ok I am finally sitting my ass down and writing this blog 3 months late lol. Back in April I went on a week long trip to Ireland with my family and it was also my first time in Europe. My parents went to Ireland about 8 years ago and...
For over two centuries, enslaved people across North America risked everything to escape bondage, and slaveholders had a ready tool to try to stop them: the local newspaper. As print publications spread through American towns and cities...
While I do grieve the world I grew up in, I also feel a compulsion to try to understand the one we are living in now. Thus I took the trouble to read and summarize here the recent biography of Elon Musk and the remarkable book Careless...
For decades, Japan’s convenience stores have been admired for, well, their convenience. By being sweetly attuned to utilitarian consumer needs, the ubiquitous 24/7 conbini has spread across Japan, achieving an unparalleled density that...
A white bindweed flower has opened in the yard—morning glory enough for a sky more white than blue. Wild garlic heads have almost all straightened up and begun to split open.
One of my favourite people on social media is Darth. Darth takes an annual hibernation, in which time they do not post or, presumably, read.I’d love to say that I have not posted anything for months with the same level of intention, but...
In an abstract entitled, “Statistical dust and sweeping claims about maternal warmth,” John Richters and Everett Waters write: Alley and colleagues draw on mediation analyses of longitudinal data from Millennium Cohort Study to argue...
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