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These clouds look like they’re in a hurry though, to be honest, I can’t remember if they were moving fast or not.
Today is the day I got a second chance when the surgeon—this time last year—removed a foot of colon in order to exercise a small cancerous growth. I am eternally thankful to be one of the lucky ones. Things could have gone oh so...
Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. ***Image by Tumisufrom PixabayCan it be true?Can there really be a human left on the planet Earth who doesn't know what the purpose...
On Below Deck Med season 11 episode 12: Aesha's bachelorette party; a call for help from Max's estranged father; and the return of Nathan, who we learned was arrested for domestic violence against Gael.
My blogging journey has seen a lot of ups and downs. I started with Google’s Blogger then switched to WordPress and now I’m using Zola for this blog. I’m writing this post for AuguStory by Robert Birming. 2013 - 2017 I started blogging...
Among the correspondence I engaged in following my blog post about my (boring) polyamory were a few examples of people being concerned about the equality of our arrangement: how we keep things “fair”1. By way of example, let’s take a...
The Colorvent Calendar is Colorverse’s own take on an advent calendar, with 24 unique 15ml bottles. These sets are available now and limited, so be sure to order yours to ensure that you have it for the beginning of “Inkvent”/”Colorvent”...
Prior Solar Cycle — First Cycle, Second Cycle. When last we left, I’d managed to just industrialize Hygiea (after getting Frederika a few years prior), and acquired patents so that I perform my next industrialization without crippling my...
From Empire of the Winds: The Global Role of Asia’s Great Archipelago, by Philip Bowring (I.B. Tauris, 2018), Kindle pp. 92-93: Local rulers imported Indian practices as a means of strengthening their own power. They used kingship...
Source composition and averages. I'm proud to announce Bagaço v3, the third version of the largest European Portuguese pretraining dataset for large language models. Why a new version? After my work on Ginjinha, one thing became pretty...
For July’s Curious Reading Club interview, I spoke with Susana M. Morris—the author of the fascinating Octavia Butler biography Positive Obsession. Her research and understanding of Butler is both excellent and inviting; not taking the...
Woolly rhinoceros, Coelodonta antiquitatisThe Woolly rhinoceros, Coelodonta antiquitatis, was one of the great lumbering herbivores of Pleistocene Eurasia. Its range stretched across northern Asia and Europe, where it occupied the cold,...
A thoughtful moment in the Arrange Displays pop-up in macOS’s Settings when you choose to designate a screen to be a primary screen: It not only shows a nice preview of where your menu is going to land, but also changes the shape of the...
In my quest to try all soft serves from a local bakery, today I got their August Raspberry and Lemon verbena flavour. (Note: this was in the middle of the day. I was off work sick due to what turned out to be a wisdom tooth infection and...
Classic Traveller is a great game to use for horror! And it's a very violent game so maybe you want some panic rules for firefights! PanicPanic can be caused by stress or horror. When a referee feels it is warranted a player must make a...