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This is from yesterday morning's walk. It's cloudy today. The two guys installing the shower left around noon yesterday. One is supposed to be back today to do some more drywall work. Made some progress on the new house yesterday. We...
If you had to buy only one ebook, I would recommend this one: 50 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die. Coming in at just over forty thousand pages, it has the following: Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women Austen, Jane: Pride and...
Huge thanks to the fabulous Ollie Fox for today’s guest blog – featuring a cute and horny connection between a human and one of Death’s Sentries, in which the sentry – Zed – discovers a whole new kind of pleasure. One that I know many of...
The most human thing about us has always been our urge to build sanctuaries. Now coders, neuroscientists, and AI are helping us build them inside the machine — and the results are stranger and more tender than you'd expect.
May 8, 2026
There were 42 principal masonry forts and dozens of smaller batteries built as part of the U.S. “Third System” of coastal defense between 1816 and 1867 to protect major harbors. You know many of them as they are preserved as state or NPS...
How about this great assemblage of nine Italian torpedo boats passing the Ponte Girevole in Taranto between the Mar Grande and Mar Piccolo in the spring of 1960? Leading the parade is the 130-ton, 114-foot Motor Gunboat 485, with other...
In the Newsletter this weekAnalysis: EU rail ticketing reform proposal is out next week: this is what to look out forBullshit Meter, retrospective: Berlin-Warszawa with FlixtrainGood week: Record PKP IC fleet for the summer seasonBad...
Cloudflare laid off more than 1,100 people yesterday, around 20% of the company. The announcement, titled ‘Building for the Future’, explains the cuts by noting that internal AI use is up 600% in three months and the company needs to...